Sara Cardine covers the city of Costa Mesa for the Daily Pilot. She comes from the La Cañada Valley Sun, where she spent six years as the news reporter covering La Cañada Flintridge and recently received a first-place Public Service Journalism award from the California News Publishers Assn. She’s also worked at the Pasadena Weekly, Stockton Record and Lodi-News Sentinel, which instilled in her a love for community news. (714) 966-4627
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The former state senator said he and wife Trina are feeling fine and isolating at home after learning Tuesday they’d both been infected, two weeks before the March 9 special election.
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Planning commissioners on Monday considered rules for retail marijuana businesses, but decided more work needs to be done. “There’s a lot to be learned here,” one member said.
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Police report Herman Martinez was driving on Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa at around 2:07 a.m. Sunday when he ran a red light and struck a pedestrian and another vehicle near Harbor Boulevard.
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As a special election nears, five contenders are attempting to distinguish their candidacies and convince voters they have what it takes to lead the county through and beyond the pandemic.
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Dennis Ashendorf and Emily Matthews will represent Newport-Mesa Unified in the county contest for 2022 Teacher of the Year, while Lori Chlarson and Aaron Tyson were picked by Huntington Beach Union High School District.
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“We’re very happy to have that partnership and the generosity of a business that’s so prominent and is willing to give back,” said City Manager Lori Ann Farrell Harrison of the first shelter to be outfitted by the Swedish retailer.
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Christian Alexander Secor, 22, was arrested by FBI agents Tuesday after he allegedly entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 with a group of rioters and took a seat inside the U.S. Senate chamber.
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Three people, including two ambulance employees, were taken to a local hospital for mild to moderate injuries, while a fire crew acted quickly to continue the transport of the initial patient.
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Costa Mesa police suspect Jacob Aaron Vazquez and Esther Kavina Maultsby were involved in two purse thefts that took place Thursday at TeWinkle Park and a bank parking lot.
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For Peter Small, Presidents Day is usually a time of peak demand. But with most venues closed, the historical impressionist will spend Monday outside Triangle Square entertaining passersby as George Washington.