How many black bears there are in California might surprise you - Anaheim news - NewsLocker (2024)

In a state with 40 million people black bear encounters are on the rise. Here’s a look at the amazing Ursus americanus.
Black bear sightings are increasing in California with some bears even coming into homes. Just recently an autopsy of a woman killed in 2023, in Sierra County, revealed it was by a black bear — the first in state history. Black bears have been spotted in North San Diego County, which is rare. Many have been spotted in residential areas of Sierra Madre, Monrovia and

Angels explode for early 8-run lead, hang on to beat Giants

SAN FRANCISCO — There are no ugly victories for the Angels this season.
The Angels aren’t about to apologize for their 8-6 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night, even though they had an eight-run lead in the fourth inning.
Relievers Adam Cimber and Roansy Contreras struggled in the eighth inning, allowing five runs. Closer Carlos Estévez then took care of the ninth to pick up a save in a game when he likely didn’t think he’d be needed.
Eight of the

1 man suspected in LAX fistfight that injured passenger is caught, 2nd man turns himself in

A 38-year-old man suspected of critically assaulting an elderly woman who was checking her baggage curbside at Los Angeles International Airport was taken into custody on Friday, June 14.
Also, police said late Friday night, the second man suspected in the assault turned himself into law enforcement.
It was unclear what he was booked on, and investigators did not provide his name.
Jasan Givens Sr. was taken into custody at Western and Florence avenues around 10:05 a.m. and booked on suspicion of

Dodgers cap comeback on Freddie Freeman’s 8th-inning RBI single

LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman was the most disgruntled .290 hitter in baseball for most of the season’s first two months, searching for a swing that would satisfy his high standards.
He has emerged from the gloom in June and is batting .357 this month after stroking the go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning to give the Dodgers a 4-3, come-from-behind victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night.
The Dodgers’ offense has been all or nothing over the past month. It was

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NBA Finals: Mavericks dominate Game4, avoid being swept by Celtics

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer
DALLAS — Luka Doncic scored 25 of his 29 points in the first half, Kyrie Irving added 21 points and the Dallas Mavericks emphatically extended their season on Friday night, fending off elimination by beating the Boston Celtics, 122-84, in Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
The Mavs’ stars were done by the end of the third quarter, with good reason. It was all Dallas from the outset, the Mavs leading by 13 after one quarter, 26 at halftime and by as many as

LA County firefighter killed in vehicle explosion in Littlerock quarry

A Los Angeles County firefighter was killed on Friday, June 14, when part of a burning front-loader exploded at a Littlerock quarry.
Los Angeles County Fire Department crews responded around 2 p.m. to the quarry in the 7300 block of Pearblossom Highway in the community southeast of Palmdale on a report of a burning vehicle.
County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said a short time after crews arrived, perhaps around 2:10 p.m., an explosion occurred, killing a 19-year firefighter.
His name was not imme

Rickea Jackson’s career night not enough as Sparks fall to Lynx

MINNEAPOLIS — Sparks rookie Rickea Jackson had a breakthrough night, but it wasn’t enough to lead her team to a road win against one of the hottest teams in the WNBA.
Jackson, the No. 4 pick in April’s Draft, had her first career double-double (19 points and 10 rebounds), but Napheesa Collier scored 30 points to go with a career-high eight steals, Courtney Williams had 15 points and 10 assists for her first double-double of the season and the Minnesota Lynx beat the Sparks, 81-

Angels’ Zach Neto has adjusted the way he uses his leg kick during hot streak

SAN FRANCISCO — Zach Neto said one of his first conversations with new hitting coach Johnny Washington this spring was about picking his spots to change the way he uses his leg kick.
The Angels shortstop said he went along with the plan.
Until the season started.
“I kind of went away from it,” Neto said. “I was just doing what I wanted to do, and that didn’t work out for me.”
Neto began the season hitting .167 with a .449 OPS and no home runs in his first 79 p

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U.S. Open: Ludvig Aberg seizes lead; Patrick Cantlay, 2 others are 1 stroke behind

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer
PINEHURST, N.C. — The U.S. Open is a new experience for Ludvig Aberg, not that anyone would notice the way his machine-like game gave him the 36-hole lead Friday.
Pinehurst No. 2 is not.
Aberg was a 19-year-old from Sweden about to start his college career at Texas Tech when he came to this Donald Ross gem for the 2019 U.S. Amateur, losing in the second round.
“I remember it was one of my first experiences coming over and playing a really hard golf cou

UCI faculty want suspensions lifted for students involved with encampment until disciplinary hearings are completed

While students from the School of Social Sciences walked across the Bren Events Center stage Friday afternoon to celebrate commencement, approximately 170 faculty members in the UCI Academic Senate met online, many of them to call on the administration to drop disciplinary charges against students involved with May’s Palestinian solidarity encampment.
The academic senate, a voting body that represents faculty members, has already called for an independent investigation into the administrat

Bobby Miller will give Dodgers a 6-man rotation ‘for this moment in time’

LOS ANGELES —Bobby Miller will make his return to the Dodgers’ starting rotation on Wednesday in Colorado – and make it a six-man rotation.
Even as they’ve remained committed to giving their starters (particularly Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and James Paxton) extra time off between starts, the Dodgers have resisted going with a six-man rotation, preferring to use spot starts, the occasional “bullpen games” and off days on the schedule to augment th

The rise of Jimmy Kimmel: From raunchy TV skits, to talkshow host to now Biden’s emcee

To get people to donate and show up at President Joe Biden’s fundraiser Saturday, June 15, in Los Angeles, host Jimmy Kimmel sent out an unusual appeal via text message:
He described himself as host of a “poorly rated” late-night TV show (“Jimmy Kimmel Live!”) that Biden’s presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump hates to watch, adding the event will feature “extra malarkey” as promised by Joe Biden.
While Kimmel has bashed former President Trum

Did Redondo Beach woman mastermind her boyfriend’s murder? Jurors set to decide Carson slaying

A Redondo Beach woman enlisted the help of her ex-husband to kidnap and kill her boyfriend and was the driving force behind the slaying even though she didn’t physically kill the victim herself, a prosecutor told a Torrance Superior Court jury during closing arguments of the former couple’s trial on Thursday, June 13.
Prosecutor Matthew Pfeffer said Maricela Mercado, 45, never feared her ex-husband, 44-year-old Roman Cerratos, even after he stabbed and shot 32-year-old Jeffrey Appel

COVID cases rising again in California after record-low deaths in spring

Once again, it seems people are coming down with COVID-19 with data showing positivity rates statewise have increased notably over the past few weeks.
Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, has noticed the uptick, anecdotally among his friends and colleagues, and in the data. But the good news?
“It’s nothing approaching the winter, it’s not even as high as it was a year ago at this date,” he said. Metrics for the virus

The Book Pages: The woman who got Anne Frank’s diary into print

Sara B. Franklin is the author of the just-published biography, “The Editor,” which explores the life of publishing legend Judith Jones. A writer, teacher and oral historian with a Ph.D. in food studies, biographer Franklin was just 26 when she met the then 88-year-old Jones and began interviewingher about her life and work. As Franklin shares in the Q&A this week, the remarkable Jones, who spent more than 50 years working at Knopf and was only its second female editor,&nbs

Did he kill Blaze Bernstein out of hatred for gays? Portrait of Samuel Woodward at trial is mixed

Looking through the Tinder dating site less than a year before his violent death, Blaze Bernstein was shocked to find that his former Orange County School of the Arts classmate Samuel Woodward — who during their high school years earned a campus reputation as a conservative social outcast among the largely liberal student body — had created a profile searching for other men.
A late-night meetup between the two former classmates six months later would end with Bernstein buried in a ma

Fullerton driver charged with allegedly 100 mph, alcohol-fueled crash that killed a motorcyclist

A 44-year-old driver has been charged with vehicular manslaughter after prosecutors say he ran a red light while drunkenly speeding and struck and killed a motorcyclist.
Francisco Garcia-Vargas, a Fullerton resident, is also facing a pair of DUI-related charges for a June 12 crash that took the life of 28-year-old Alexander Marce, according to an Orange County District Attorney’s Office statement.
Marce was stopped on his Harley Davidson motorcycle waiting for a red light at the Orangethor

Alexander: Jeanie Buss takes flak from Laker fans

The world according to Jim:
• Jeanie Buss has been taking some serious incoming flak on social media the past few days, and I can’t say some of it isn’t warranted.
• The Dan Hurley episode was portrayed nationwide as an embarrassment to the Lakers, although that thinking seems an overreaction. The Lakers’ mistake was probably that the six-year, $70 million contract offer was insufficient, but I noted earlier in the week that I wasn’t sure going up to $100m

Galaxy has room for improvement as 2nd half of regular season kicks off

The Galaxy wrapped up the first half of the 34-game regular season with a loss to the Chicago Fire on June 1.
The loss might have taken some of the shine off of a strong start to the season, but the Galaxy players and coaches know they’re in a much better spot heading into the second half.
“I would say a B,” Galaxy midfielder Mark Delgado said of the grade he would give the team for the first half. “Just because there’s so many games where we could have taken more p

Angel City FC kicks off a busy week in Houston

Angel City Football Club will reach the halfway point of the 26-game schedule after Wednesday’s game against Racing Louisville FC.
So far, the first half has been a struggle.
ACFC is in 12th place with just 11 points and is currently on a four-game winless streak heading into Saturday’s road game against the Houston Dash.
“We’ve talked about this a lot the last couple of weeks, right now it’s us versus us,” Angel City coach Becki Tweed said. “I think we&

Anaheim will use pandemic bonds, reserves to shore up city budget until 2027

Anaheim is set to use a combination of pandemic bonds and reserves to keep its budget balanced until 2027, a year before the city expects a massive influx of money to be freed up once 1990s resort bonds are paid off.
Using pandemic bonds and reserves will prevent the city from having to look at service cuts or raising taxes, officials said.
Anaheim is eyeing a $2.3 billion budget for its next fiscal year beginning in July, the largest of any city in the county. Driving that huge sum is Anaheim o

Stanley Cup Final: Edmonton, on verge of being swept, seeks answers

EDMONTON, Alberta — Leon Draisaitl had 28 points through the Edmonton Oilers’ first three rounds of the playoffs, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had 20 and Zach Hyman had 18.
Through the first three games of the Stanley Cup Final, they have not a single goal or assist between them.
That lack of production is a big reason the Oilers are down 3-0 in the series against the Florida Panthers and searching for answers as they look to avoid being the first team swept in the final since the Washington

Santa Margarita swimmer Teagan O’Dell focusing on backstroke events at Olympic Trials

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.Subscribe nowSanta Margarita swimmer Teagan O’Dell is talented enough to race multiple events at the U.S. Olympic Trials but plans to focus on one stroke in the coming days in Indianapolis.
The Register’s three-time Orange County female swimmer of the year has entered the 100 and 200-meter backstroke events for the meet, which begins Saturday inside Lucas Oil Stadium. The competition sends its qualifiers t

UCI kicks off weekend of commencement ceremonies

UC Irvine celebrated Friday morning its first of 12 commencement ceremonies taking place over the next few days.
Chancellor Howard Gillman conferred degrees on nearly 700 graduates of the School of Education and School of Physical Sciences as more than 4,000 guests watched inside the Bren Events Center. In his address to students, he commended their determination.
“Graduates, consider your journey — all those years of dreaming, aspiring, planning, so many long days and late nights,&r

LAFC goes for MLS-record 6th consecutive shutout

Back in action from a two-week international break, the Los Angeles Football Club can make Major League Soccer history Saturday in Orlando.
A sixth consecutive clean sheet victory in league play would position LAFC as the first MLS team to pull off such a sustained period of defensive excellence, surpassing the 2019 Atlanta United FC squad.
Early last month, a run like this would have seemed far-fetched.
LAFC had 15 points through 11 games, holding opponents scoreless just twice in that span.
St

New sticker program aims to help restaurants better serve food-allergy sufferers

From wheat and dairy to frequent offenders peanuts and shellfish, there are approximately 160 ingredients found in common dishes that can trigger allergic reactions in people, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The Food Allergy Institute in Long Beach has launched an initiative called the Food Allergy Alliance, a program that hopes to help turn restaurants into literal safe spaces for food-allergy sufferers.
“We’re talking around 33 million people that are afflicted with

The Audible: Southern California’s Mt. Rushmore, Caitlin Clark and the Lakers’ coaching quagmire

Jim Alexander: The death of Jerry West this week got me to thinking: If there were a Southern California sports Mt. Rushmore, which four faces would we carve out of the hillside?
And my next thought was: How can you keep it to just four? With all of the memorable athletes, coaches and, yes, broadcasters who have entertained us for so many years, it seems like an impossible choice. It also seems like one that would probably be heavily influenced by the generation in which you grew up (and/or the

Proposed pay raises, benefits for police would cost Santa Ana $27 million over 3.5 years

The Santa Ana Police Officers Association has negotiated an immediate 4% raise along with additional pay increases in a contract that will be presented to the City Council for approval on Tuesday, June 18.
The proposed contract is estimated to cost about $27.2 million over the next three and a half years. Members would get an additional 4% increase in 2025 and in 2026 to their base salaries. If approved, the contract would be effective retroactively back to Jan. 1 and through June 30, 2027.
The

Fun times in store for Mr. Irrelevant Jaylen Key this month

Mr. Irrelevant will go jet skiing when he is in Orange County in a couple of weeks.
He is, after all, a Jet.
Jaylen Key was the last player selected in the NFL Draft in April when the New York Jets took him with the 257th and final choice of the draft. That makes Key the latest Mr. Irrelevant, the star of Irrelevant Week that begins June 23.
Irrelevant Week was started in 1976 by Paul Salata, who played at USC and in the NFL and had some bit parts in a few major motion pictures before becoming a

Nick Rice allowed to coach ‘future Katy Ledeckys’ despite criminal charge

Last October 26, 52 of the fastest and most promising teenage female swimmers in America gathered on the pool deck of the Olympic Training Center aquatic facility in Colorado Springs for the start of USA Swimming’s Girls National Select Camp.
The purpose of the camp in large part was to identify and prepare a new generation of medal contenders for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles or perhaps in a case or two even the Paris Olympics later this summer; to find the next Katie Ledecky or L