OC Fair 2024: Alice Cooper, Sublime With Rome join Pacific Amphitheatre lineup - Anaheim news - NewsLocker (2024)

Veteran shock rocker Alice Cooper, Sublime With Rome and Needtobreathe have been added to the Orange County Fair’s Pacific Amphitheatre concert series.
Sublime With Rome, out on its final tour now that Sublime has reformed with frontman Jakob Nowell, will play the amphitheater July 27 with Fortunate Youth opening. Tickets are $40-$80.
Alice Cooper will play classics like “School’s Out” and “I’m Eighteen” when he plays Pacific on Aug. 16. Tickets are $37.

Director of new Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs has hands-on experience, officials said

With its new leader in place, the county’s Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairsis looking for two new staff members to make the office complete before opening its doors.
Proposed by Orange County Supervisors Doug Chaffee and Andrew Do, the Board of Supervisors agreed last April to establish the new office to connect immigrants and refugees with housing, legal support and other necessary resettlement resources. Chaffee contributed $500,000 from his district discretionary funds.
Jos

Aspiring techies can find community in Irvine this week

Google, Microsoft, Meta, BlackBerry, Vizio and Oracle are just a handful of the many technology giants with a known presence in Irvine. But do the city’s startups have that same visibility?
That’s the question Councilmember Tammy Kim had when she proposed Irvine Tech Week to her colleagues last year.
While a startup scene does exist in Irvine, it’s nowhere near the startup hotbed that is Silicon Beach or the Bay Area, she said, because the city is largely made up of big compani

How José Vadi’s essay collection ‘Chipped’ explores the skateboarder’s experience

To a skater, the board is an extension of the body. And like a skateboard, an aging body can show life’s hard knocks.
“Skateboarding is truly rebellious and punk in its ethos,” said author José Vadi. “Nobody should care how old someone is just as much as someone shouldn’t care about their sexual orientation, gender, economic background. None of those things should be the determining factor of your ability to enjoy yourself on a skateboard.”
Vadi explore

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Anaheim police unveil new Tesla patrol cars

Anaheim police will soon begin using electric Tesla Model Ys as patrol vehicles in a pilot program the department says will help keep more officers on the road.
“We are in desperate need of police cars,” Anaheim Police Department Sgt. Jacob Gallacher said Monday at an event unveiling the vehicles.
The Police Department has 83 patrol vehicles, which city officials say are aging and breaking down more often. Chief Rick Armendariz said at a February council meeting discussing the progra

USC cancels valedictorian’s commencement speech citing safety concerns

Amid complaints about alleged antisemitic views posted online, USC’s valedictorian will not be permitted to deliver a speech at the university’s commencement ceremony due to concerns about security, the school’s provost announced, and calls for the valedictorian to be allowed to speak are growing today.
“While this is disappointing, tradition must give way to safety,” Provost Andrew Guzman wrote in a message to the university community. “This decision is not o

California’s high construction costs limit housing. A Supreme Court decision might help

California’s chronic inability to build enough housing – particularly for low-income families – has many causes, but a big one is its extremely high cost of construction.
Some costs are intrinsic and unavoidable, such as land acquisition and building materials. But some are artificial and could be lowered, especially those imposed by state and local governments. They include dictating the use of high-cost unionized construction labor, time-consuming environmental clearances, ar

Orange Unified launches a hunt for new board members after recall election

The Orange Unified School District is moving forward with filling two empty trustee seats through provisional appointments.
The OUSD board will pick two new candidates to replace former President Rick Ledesma and Trustee Madison Miner after voters last month booted them in a recall election. Whoever the board selects would fill the seats, representing Trustee Areas 4 and 7.
The district is accepting applications for the respective positions through April 26.
To be considered, an applicant must b

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Orange County’s untapped AI potential

When Forbes released its AI top 50 list last April, only one Orange County company made the cut. That’s despite California laying claim to thirty-five of the top fifty AI companies worldwide. OC, however, has untapped AI potential.
The vast majority of Forbes’ top AI companies are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. The only SoCal standouts are Costa-Mesa-based Anduril and San-Diego-based Shield AI. In 2021, the Brookings Institution issued a report identifying fifteen U.S.

Niles: Can name changes turn around struggling theme parks?

Of all the forms of creative entertainment, theme parks might be the most dynamic. With attractions opening and closing, theme parks remain in a constant state of development.
Yet this change typically happens over long periods of time. It’s rare that a park changes its entire identity at once. But that has happened twice already this month, with two notable parks announcing or completing name and identity changes.
Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and inte

Why can’t San Francisco build housing? Lessons from the 1906 fire

At 5 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were jolted out of their beds by the first tremors of an earthquake whose vibrations would be felt as far away as England. The massive quake brought down lampposts and split gas lines, causing several small fires that quickly converged into one giant conflagration that burned for three days. The fire destroyed more than 28,000 buildings and left a quarter-million residents homeless.
In terms of sheer numbers, San Francisco has never faced a housing cr

IVF: The new Republican nail for their ‘pro-life’ hammer

My husband and I started trying to have children when I was 33.
I was older than some first-time moms I knew, but I was also younger than plenty others. My husband and I were both healthy, and there was no reason to suspect we’d have trouble conceiving. In fact, I was so confident of our success that for my birthday that first year, I asked for gift cards to get baby items.
Even if it takes a few months to get pregnant, I thought, they’ll be handy for diapers.But it would be almost s

Trump trial: Why can’t Americans see or hear what is going on inside the courtroom?

By David Bauder, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a moment in history — the first U.S. presidentfacing criminal chargesin an American courtroom. Yet only a handful of observers are able to see or even hear what is going on.
Instead, most of the nation is getting news of former President Donald Trump’shush money trialsecondhand. Starting with preliminary motions and jury selection Monday, reporters in a Manhattan courtroom must convey what is b

Only 1 in 3 US adults think Trump acted illegally in New York hush money case, poll shows

By Thomas Beaumont and Amelia Thomson-Dexeaux, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he committed a crime, a newAP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Researchpoll finds.
Only about one-third of U.S. adults say Trump did something illegal in the hush money case for which jury selection began Monday, while close to half think he did something illegal in the other three cr

Orange County softball stat leaders through April 13

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOrange County softball stat leaders through Saturday, April 13.
To be included, teams must have their stats up to date on the MaxPreps.com leaderboards.
BATTING AVERAGEName, school
BA
H
AB
Isabella Gonzalez, Costa Mesa
.648
35
54
Natalie Keith, Northwood
.647
22
34
Soraya Leuta Aniva
.640
16
25
Fernanda Cervantes, Rancho Alam.
.625
10
16
Ashley Capelouto, Ocean View
.615
32
52
Aleena Garcia, Whittier Christia

Canyon boys volleyball clinches fourth straight league title with sweep of Yorba Linda

ANAHEIM — Canyon boys volleyball coach Matt Silva has seen enough to know that he has built a winner.
The winning ways continued Monday night as the Comanches swept Yorba Linda in dominant fashion, 25-7, 25-21, 25-17, to clinch a share of the Crestview League championship for the fourth consecutive season.
“I’m excited man,” Silva said. “I think that we’ve really built a program here, not just on the boys side, but as well on the girls side, just kind of putti

Car driver charged in suspected DUI crash that killed motorcycle rider in Santa Ana

SANTA ANA — A 29-year-old man was charged Monday with a deadly alcohol-related collision with a motorcycle rider in Santa Ana.
Mario Celestino Torres was accused of killing 44-year-old Flor Mecon Granados of Santa Ana in a collision just before 3 a.m. Thursday at Bristol Street and Segerstrom Avenue, police said.
Torres was driving a 2024 Mazda that rear-ended the motorcycle driven by Granados, police said. Both vehicles were northbound on Bristol Street at Segerstrom Avenue when the car c

CIF-SS boys volleyball polls, April 15

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe CIF-SS boys volleyball polls, released Monday, April 15.
CIF-SS BOYS VOLLEYBALL POLLS
(Selected by the Boys Volleyball Committee)
DIVISION 1/2
1. Loyola
2. Corona del Mar
3. Mira Costa
4. Edison
5. Huntington Beach
6. Newport Harbor
7. Mater Dei
8. Redondo Union
9. Tesoro
10. San Marcos/Santa Barbara
11. Santa Barbara
12. Beckman
13. Long Beach Wilson
14. Servite
15. Upland
16. Santa Margarita
17. Dos Pueb

Tyler Glasnow roughed up as Dodgers lose to Nationals

LOS ANGELES —This was not part of the plan.
Over the next two days, the Dodgers will go with a ‘bullpen game’ one day and start a pitcher called up from Triple-A on the other – bringing with it the very real possibility of back-to-back bullpen games.
But they had Tyler Glasnow starting on Monday night, coming off his seven scoreless innings and 14 strikeouts in Minnesota last week.
This was not that Glasnow. The right-hander had his worst start of his nascent Dodger

Trump will return to court after first day of hush money criminal trial ends with no jurors picked

By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Jake Offenhartz and Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump will return to a New York courtroom Tuesday as a judge works to find a panel of jurors who will decide whether the former president is guilty ofcriminal charges alleging he falsified business recordsto cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 campaign.
The first day of Trump’s history-making trialin Manhattan ended with no one yet chosen to be o

CIF-SS boys lacrosse polls, April 15

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe CIF-SS boys lacrosse polls, released Monday, April 15
CIF-SS BOYS LACROSSE POLLS
(Selected by the Boys Lacrosse Committee)
DIVISION 1/2
1. St. Margaret’s
2. Loyola
3. Mater Dei
4. Foothill
5. Santa Margarita
6. Westlake
7. JSerra
8. Corona del Mar
9. Crespi
10. Los Alamitos
DIVISION 3
1. Oaks Christian
2. El Segundo
3. Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks
4. Village Christian
5. University
6. El Dorado
7. Centenn

CIF-SS girls lacrosse polls, April 15

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe CIF-SS girls lacrosse polls, released Monday, April 15
CIF-SS GIRLS LACROSSE POLLS
(Selected by the Girls Lacrosse Committee)
DIVISION 1/2
1. Foothill/Santa Ana
2. Marlborough
3. Redondo Union
4. San Clemente
5. Mira Costa
6. Santa Margarita
7. Palos Verdes
8. St. Margaret’s
9. Mater Dei
10. Murrieta Mesa
Others: Chaminade, Crescenta Valley, Edison, Huntington Beach, Newbury Park
DIVISION 3
1.

Kings’ 8-game home winning streak ends with potentially costly loss to Wild

Kings interim coach Jim Hiller said after clinching a spot in the postseason that his team was still very much in a playoff race.
On Monday night the Kings missed the starter’s pistol as the Minnesota Wild blew past them, 3-1, at Crypto.com Arena, snapping their eight-game home winning streak.
Monday’s loss put the Kings in peril of dropping from third in the Pacific Division to the second wild-card position, which would pit them against the vaunted Dallas Stars. The Kings are just o

Biden is easily manipulated by progressive constituencies

In the mid-’90s, President Bill Clinton hired famed pollster Dick Morris to triangulate Clinton’s path to victory in 1996. Morris told Clinton that polling is not designed to tell someone what to do. Rather, polling is designed to tell one how to sell what they want to do. President Joe Biden has forgotten that lesson and now, instead of leading, he is being led around by his polling.
Eighteen percent of Michigan Democratic voters refused to vote for Biden on Feb. 27. Thirteen percen

Taylor’s Tracker: Esperanza’s Shumaker hits 18th home run to move closer to O.C. record

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.Subscribe nowTAYLOR’S TRACKER
Updates on Esperanza’s Taylor Shumaker as she challenges the Orange County single-season home run record in softball:
Current home runs: 18
Orange County record: 20
Results from Monday, April 15: Shumaker hit a go-ahead three-run home run, her 18th, in a 6-4 win against visiting Brea Olinda.
Next game: Tuesday, April 16 at El Modena
Noteworthy: The senior center fielder plays

Orange County baseball stat leaders through April 13

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOrange County baseball stat leaders through Saturday, April 13.
To be included, teams must have their stats up to date on the MaxPreps.com leaderboards.
BATTING AVERAGEName, school
BA
H
AB
Nevan Namgoong, Woodbridge
.500
13
26
Julian Gonzalez, Santa Ana
.500
12
24
John Coopman, Pacifica Christian
.472
25
53
Ethan Pardo, Rancho Alamitos
.462
24
52
Keenan Anzai, Mission Viejo
.456
31
68
Cole Lefebvre, Estancia

Community joins celebration of Hunt reopening

Lucas Barba, 4, of Fullerton smiles as he looks at a number of books at the grand re-opening celebration of the beloved Hunt Branch Library on Saturday, April 13, 2024, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)
Ruth Dominguez, 8, of Fullerton looks through some of the books on display at the grand re-opening celebration of the beloved Hunt Branch Library on Saturday, April 13, 2024, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer

Dodgers’ Emmet Sheehan’s immediate future uncertain with forearm injury

LOS ANGELES —Emmet Sheehan says his shoulder is fine. It has been all along.
A misunderstanding during spring training led to reports that Sheehan had been shut down with a sore shoulder. That was an error.
“It was never the shoulder,” he said Monday. “I said my arm, I think. I was confused why there was shoulder out there. I didn’t think I said that. Maybe I did.”
Instead, it was Sheehan’s forearm that was causing him pain, led to him opening the

CIF-SS boys tennis polls, April 15

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe CIF-SS boys tennis polls, released Monday, April 15
CIF-SS BOYS TENNIS POLLS
(Selected by the CIF-SS Tennis Committee)
OPEN DIVISION/DIVISION 1
Did not report
1. University
2. Corona del Mar
3. Harvard-Westlake
4. Palos Verdes
5. Loyola
6. Woodbridge
7. Beckman
8. Peninsula
9. Northwood
10. JSerra
11. Santa Margarita
12. Oak Park
13. Brentwood
14. Marina
15. Mira Costa
16. Los Osos
17. Arcadia
18. Calabasa

CIF-SS softball polls, April 15

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe CIF-SS softball polls, released Monday, April 15
CIF-SS SOFTBALL POLLS
(Selected by the Softball Committee)
DIVISION 1
1. Orange Lutheran
2. Pacifica/Garden Grove
3. Norco
4. Murrieta Mesa
5. Riverside Poly
6. La Mirada
7. Los Alamitos
8. Oaks Christian
9. Huntington Beach
10. Canyon/Anaheim
11. Marina
12. Camarillo
13. JSerra
14. Torrance
15. Santa Margarita
16. Great Oak
DIVISION 2
1. El Modena
2. Valenc