The pilot, Ara Zobayan, 50, of Huntington Beach, was worried enough to ask flight controllers to keep track of them. As he approached the hills of Calabasas at 150 mph, they radioed him, saying he was too low to be seen on radar. Zobayan commenced a climb, rising 765 feet in 36 seconds, enough to clear nearby hills. But what happened next is a ...

After basketball practice, she would head to her softball travel team’s hitting facility in Huntington Beach where she’d practice for another three hours, doing homework in between hitting rotations. But when she got a random call from UCLA Softball assistant coach Lisa Fernandez this past fall asking if she’d want to become a Bruin ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Charles Thomas Sebesta, a 54-year-old Huntington Beach resident, agreed to plead guilty to one count each of wire fraud and bank fraud for orchestrating the scheme to steal at least $11.5 million from the Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, a longtime Hollywood-based branch of the Church of Christian Science.

One week after a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, tragically killed nine people—including NBA legend Kobe Bryant, 41, and his daughter Gianna Bryant, 13—the Surf City Marathon in Huntington Beach, California, honored the crash victims in many ways. Passengers on the helicopter—John Altobelli, 56; Keri Altobelli, 46; Alyssa ...

Hundreds of people in Huntington Beach gathered Saturday to hold a candlelight vigil for 38-year-old Christina Mauser, the assistant basketball coach for Mamba Academy who was killed last Sunday in the helicopter crash that also killed Kobe Bryant. It wasn't easy for anyone who knew Mauser to be present Saturday tonight. "Why someone so amazing?"

On the afternoon of Feb. 7, 1990, the oil tanker American Trader ran over its anchor in relatively shallow water off Huntington Beach, spilling nearly 417,000 gallons of crude and fouling popular beaches along the Orange County coast. The oil killed fish and about 3,400 birds. The cleanup was completed on April 3. The spill wasn’t nearly as ...

“That’s just not going to happen,” the professor said. Southern California students face disappointment, uncertainty after virus outbreak cancels study-abroad sessions in China Huntington Beach school board votes to close a school, oust transfers, lay off 29 teachers Neighbors: CSULB Film student from Fountain Valley lights her own path ...

8. JSerra (13-8): Lions playing tough schedule with La Jolla Country Day and Mater Dei back-to-back. They’ll be battle-tested for Division 1 playoffs. 9. Huntington Beach (21-5): Oilers have clinched a second straight Surf League title. 10. Tesoro (15-12): Titans almost made it three straight, big victories but fell short against San Juan ...

Willie Rounaghi added 10 points for Laguna Beach (19-7, 5-0). Roddie Anderson scored 13 points for Fountain Valley (14-8, 3-2), which also clinched second place in league after Huntington Beach beat Marina on Friday. Huntington Beach 59, Marina 48: The Oilers picked up their first Wave League victory Friday night at Marina High. Huntington ...

Mater Dei also has received Lions’ offensive guard Ross Maseuli, who wasn’t cleared last season by the CIF-SS. The rest of the JSerra departures have spread out to Huntington Beach, St. Bernard in Playa del Rey and Servite. Earlier Friday, Huntington Beach coach Brett Brown confirmed that JSerra’s Sammy Green, Zamajay Duncan and Treyce ...