An Orange County jury on Monday swiftly found a 79-year-old retired barber guilty of fatally shooting a urologist inside the doctor’s Newport Beach office in 2013. The jury deliberated roughly 40 minutes Monday before finding Stanwood Elkus of Lake Elsinore guilty of first-degree murder for making...
When you have been coaching football for as long as Newport Harbor High coach Jeff Brinkley, you tend to be good at drowning out the outside noise. Some have pointed out that rival Corona del Mar will be the first team to play a game that counts at the Sailors’ renovated Davidson Field, on Friday...
An Orange County Superior Court jury will begin deliberating Monday in the trial of a 79-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a urologist in the doctor’s Newport Beach office in 2013. The jury is being asked to consider whether Stanwood Elkus, a retired barber from Lake Elsinore, committed murder...
The Huntington Beach Downtown Business Improvement District should hire a chief executive and be more “nimble and quick to respond to issues affecting downtown,” according to an external review meant to improve the organization’s business practices. The findings will be presented to the City Council...
The Laguna Beach Planning Commission liked the idea of bringing a retail specialist on board to advise the city on the latest industry news. Commissioners did not officially vote Wednesday night, but gave their takes on commercial uses in Laguna’s downtown as they discussed revisions to the downtown...
Newport Heights resident Carleen Butterfield couldn’t find anyone to make an orange-flavored, orange-colored birthday cake. “How about lemon?” was the standard response from local bakeries — that is, until she put the word out on Nextdoor where Linda Johnsen read her post and agreed to do it. Johnsen...
As I sat on my patio on a recent summer morning at 6:45, I thought about how lucky I am to live in Newport Beach. Then at 7 a.m., the morning quiet was interrupted by a roar that 7,000 residents directly under the flight path of John Wayne Airport hear each day. It came from the first 10 airplanes...
During the Aug. 8 Newport Beach City Council meeting, we experienced one of the most irresponsible and ideologically misguided acts in recent memory. Newport Beach was eligible for $480,000 in needed state funds to improve our streets, specifically for MacArthur Boulevard and University Drive. Rather...
The impact of what happened Aug. 12 in Charlottesville, Va., has not been lost on my Laguna Beach friends and yours truly. Talk about your darker angels. It is beyond a crime when someone makes himself out to be judge, jury and executioner. That is exactly what a white supremacist did when, according...
Did you know there is a certain smell to every classroom? I know it sounds gross; it’s not. Every teacher knows what I’m talking about. It's a reminder of all the past students who have sat in the classroom: the ones you worried about, the ones you knew would be successful, the ones who made you...
Re. “Newport takes steps to add 9-inch cap to Balboa Island seawalls,” (Aug. 9). Thanks to the Pilot for this item. There is no question Newport Beach will need to raise the seawall to protect from rising sea levels. The latest draft of the federal climate report has just been released. Most of...
A 29-year-old man with four previous DUI convictions was arrested Saturday in Costa Mesa on suspicion of drunk driving after officers found him passed out behind the wheel of his vehicle, with open beer cans, police said. A driver called 911 at about 7:50 p.m. to report that another car was swerving...
A 53-year-old man was arrested in Laguna Beach on Saturday on suspicion of hitting a bicyclist with his car two days earlier and trying to hit another, police said. Laguna Beach police responded to a report of a disturbance at 9:42 a.m. Thursday at the intersection of Bluebird Canyon Road and South...
A 22-year-old San Diego woman was killed late Saturday while riding in one of three vehicles that crashed on the southbound 405 Freeway in Costa Mesa. California Highway Patrol officers responded at 11:58 p.m. to a report of a three-vehicle crash on the freeway near the Bristol Street exit. CHP...
A Newport Beach caregiver was sentenced to five years in state prison Friday for stealing more than $125,000 from an elderly Balboa Island man who suffered from dementia. An Orange County Superior Court jury in June found Guillermo Trujillo, 43, guilty of two counts of caretaker theft from an elder...