A 59-year-old woman was killed and the man believed to be responsible for her death was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his apartment, ending an hours-long stand off at an Anaheim senior apartment complex Thursday, April 25, authorities said. Anaheim officers were called to the Tyrol Plaza Senior Apartments, 891 S. State College Blvd., on a report of a shooting about 3:40 p.m., Anaheim police Sgt. Jon McClintock said. The complex sits across the street from Boysen Park. Officers found the victim, 59-year-old Ana Monterrosa of Anaheim, suffering from at least one gunshot wou ..read more

An 18-year-old man was charged this week with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and other felony counts for leading Orange police on a pursuit in a stolen car leading to a crash in Long Beach that ultimately killed his passenger in March, authorities said. Izaiah Joseph Miranda of Santa Ana was then accused of running away from the crash, leaving the passenger, a 15-year-old girl, seriously injured inside the car. The teen, identified as Denisse Pilego Roman, died several days later, Greg Risling, spokesman for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, said. Miranda also faces c ..read more

Q: I am a sitting board member for our HOA and we are coming up next week with our annual board election and a possible change of president (which is badly needed). As of right now, we have only 3 board members present out of 5 due to one moving away and another just resigned. Our sitting president acts like a dictator who demeans and speaks down at others, even other board members like myself. She also seems tied very closely with the property manager and the board secretary. We have a chance at three new board members who could replace either the president or the secretary position. I am con ..read more

A measure of inflation closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained uncomfortably high in March, likely reinforcing the Fed’s reluctance to cut interest rates anytime soon and underscoring a burden for President Joe Biden’s re-election bid. Friday’s report from the government showed that prices rose 0.3% from February to March, the same as in the previous month. It was the third straight month that the index has run at a pace faster than is consistent with the Fed’s 2% inflation target. Measured from a year earlier, prices were up 2.7% in March, up from a 2.5% annual rise in February. After ..read more

Stubborn inflation is likely to mean that the Federal Reserve will wait at least until fall to begin cutting interest rates. Some forecasters think it is possible that policymakers won’t just keep rates “higher for longer,” as investors have been anticipating for several weeks now, but might actually raise them further. “It is a huge shift because all of a sudden ‘higher for longer’ could mean another hike,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG. For now, she said, the Fed is stuck in “monetary policy purgatory.” Consider that the U.S. economy remained resilient early this year, with a str ..read more

A Marine assigned to a helicopter training squadron is dead at Camp Pendleton. A Marine spokesperson with the 3rd Marine Air Wing said the death occurred around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, during “routine military operations.” The cause is under investigation, and the Marine’s identity will not be released until next-of-kin is notified, the 3rd MAW spokesperson said. No further details on how the Marine died were provided. The unit operates at the Camp Pendleton Air Station, but the squadron is part of the 3rd Marine Air Wing located at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. In February, five Mari ..read more

“How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market. The pain: Twenty U.S. cities with the highest home-price-to-income ratios are all in California. The source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a housing affordability yardstick by Construction Coverage, which tracked median home prices divided by the median annual household income for 384 cities including 79 from California. The pinch If going 20 for 20 at the top of this “unaffordability” ranking wasn’t painful enough, look at California’s share of this city-by-city scorecard this way … 93% of the 30 cost ..read more

Senator Bill Dodd, D-Napa, bills himself a moderate with pragmatic priorities. So, it’s puzzling that he’d introduce Senate Bill 1380. SB 1380 would authorize school district boards to deny  charter school applications if it had closed a school within the past five years. It would also gut county education boards’ authority to overrule the local board’s denial. Elected school board members are politicians. They can be beholden to political donors, and sometimes donors’ priorities don’t align with families’ need for better public school options. Taking away oversight over school boards’ de ..read more

For weeks, Maj. James Carley strategized how he and a group of Marines could create chaos and break down security at Camp Pendleton and other Southern California and Arizona bases that belong to the Marine Corps Installations West command. This week their efforts put their fellow Marines to the test for an annual base security exercise, a sort of wargame between good and bad teams to ensure the protection of the bases, critical infrastructure and the residents living on the other side of the military gates and that even if under attack, Marines could be deployed overseas if needed. U.S. Ma ..read more

SACRAMENTO – Modern public-education history is littered with novel education theories that have failed so spectacularly that the terms are now used as pejoratives. For instance, when I was in elementary school in the 1960s, the “New Math” focused on teaching abstractions rather than fundamentals. You can find reams of research documenting its failure decades later, but the evidence was recognized almost immediately. That then-new approach “ignored completely the fact that mathematics is a cumulative development and that it is practically impossible to learn the newer creations if on ..read more