Newport Beach

A year and a half ago, the cousins decided to buckle down and complete the requirements for achieving the Eagle honor: earning 21 merit badges, holding a leadership position in their troop and completing a community service project.

A draft of the resolution opposing the methods of the Southern California Assn. of Governments — which determined in November that Newport needs to plan for 4,832 new housing units over the next decade — criticizes the number as abrupt, unvetted, lacking local input and undermining the integrity of what should be a collaborative process.

“When city staff reached out to operators in the area, they were told that the number of shelter beds was too small to justify the operators’ bids,” Mayor Will O’Neill said.

Rick Staunton, co-owner of Bluewater Grill in Newport Beach, and Jay Lewis, owner of Outpost Kitchen in Costa Mesa, have hosted fundraisers to benefit their native Australia in the wake of the deadly wildfires that have ravaged the country.

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Gordon McNeill has been at the private Newport Beach high school for 19 of its 20 years and was named president in 2014.

Results of an online poll will be considered by a judging panel that includes members of the Newport Beach Arts Commission.

Prosecutors say Karen Littlefair hired Newport Beach consultant Rick Singer’s company to take four online classes on behalf of her son so he could graduate from Georgetown University.

For Orange County cancer patients Frank Di Bella and Todd Kennedy, the drive will go from at least an hour and a half each way to City of Hope’s Duarte headquarters to as little as a few minutes — a lot of time saved after a lot of years that they say City of Hope physicians reclaimed for them.

The other night, while my wife and I were celebrating my birthday at one of our favorite O.C. restaurants, Marché Moderne, we heard a man at the next table talking animatedly in French to his companions.

Jaime Reyes Torres, 58, known as the “mummy bandit,” was sentenced last week to 19 years in prison, nearly 10 years after being convicted of robbing a Wells Fargo bank branch in Newport Beach.

Ravens are territorial, non-migratory and form deep pair bonds, allowing bird fanciers like Rick Bouffard of Newport Beach to study the same birds for years. He’s not a formally trained expert, but he knows their quirks. They know his. He walks beneath them. They glide above him, loosely tracking.