Services will be held this week for the victims of last week’s double fatality car collision in Laguna Beach even as accident investigators re-inspect the accident scene and close a portion of Laguna Canyon Road today between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Also today, a 4 p.m. mass will be held at Santa Ana’s Immaculate [...]
Accident investigators expect to return to the scene of a double fatality in Laguna Beach and will temporarily close Laguna Canyon Road between El Toro Road and state Highway 73 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9, police said today. The Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team based in Irvine lacked a needed piece [...]
Two people died and a third suffered minor injuries in a head-on collision that resulted in the partial closure of Laguna Canyon Road early Tuesday, April 2, disrupting the routines of early morning commuters, police said. The road, closed between El Toro Road and state Highway 73, is expected to reopen this afternoon after the conclusion of [...]
Veteran surf filmmaker Jack McCoy’s “A Deeper Shade of Blue” screened at 400 theaters around the country this past Thursday, a one-night performance but a major splash for an indie movie. The film recounting surf culture’s evolution was buoyed in part by local film consultant Sharon Keiko Mori Beatie, who played a behind-the-scenes role promoting [...]
Former astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of former Arizona Rep. Gabriel Giffords, pulled away his daughter’s dog that had attacked a sea lion pup last Saturday, March 23, on Goff Island Beach below Laguna Beach’s Montage resort. Onlookers attempted to distract the 65-pound American pit bull mix by hitting it with a stick, according to [...]
A 32-year-old bike rider, injured when losing control on a steep trail above Laguna Canyon Road about 10:15 a.m. on Sunday, March 24, was extracted for emergency treatment by helicopter about an hour later, fire officials said. Firefighters hiked in from the Big Bend portion of the roadway to reach the downed cyclist on the [...]
The Chamber of Commerce this week circulated a police “crime bulletin” describing a woman suspected in numerous “dine and dash” incidents in Laguna Beach where restaurant operators have been stuck with unpaid tabs. On Thursday, March 14, police arrested Mary Patricia Taggart, 58, of San Diego, for suspicion of walking out on a $82 bill [...]
Dow Jones 15,000 ? Another week, another record for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Despite media excitement, this is all remarkably average for bull markets. This bull market, the 24th since 1890, began out of the lows of March 2009 and is up more than 120% since than. Four years is not especially a long [...]
It turns out that stealing from City Hall isn’t all that easy, but someone has been trying anyway. In recent weeks, Bank of America has rejected nine counterfeit checks made out to different individuals attempting to cumulatively withdraw $9,997.93 from the city’s bank account, police and city officials say. The phony payroll checks with the [...]
Patrons of Laguna Beach’s Marine Room got more than the usual performance last Saturday by bagpipers, an entrant in the Patriots Day Parade who stopped by after the community event to play for tips. This year, they were clearly upstaged by two other parade entrants, members of the belly dancing troupe JJ and the Habibis, [...]
Sbe Entertainment’s high-style Katsuya Japanese restaurant in Laguna Beach will close its doors tonight, Monday, March 4, after less than two years in operation. All locals will receive a 50 percent discount off all menu items at Katsuya today, spokesman Robbie McKay said by email. The restaurant paired master sushi Chef Katsuya Uechi with design [...]
Montage Laguna Beach, the 248-room resort that overlooks rock-lined coves and opened in 2003, earned its first five-star ranking from Forbes Travel Guide this week. Nearby Dana Point’s St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort and Spa and Newport Beach’s Resort at Pelican Hill also received the five-star distinction, the guide announced. “Montage Laguna Beach not only [...]
The gunman who barricaded himself in a car and prompted an hours-long shutdown of Coast Highway in Laguna Beach last week, was upset about a possible divorce, police said. Lawndale sheriff’s deputies brought Edward Ernest Uribe’s wife to Laguna’s police department during the standoff, but she was never brought to the scene, Sgt. Louise Callus [...]
To improve pedestrian safety and battle the physical trauma suffered by nearly a score of people injured last year in collisions, Laguna Beach’s police department will conduct a crosswalk enforcement campaign Wednesday, Feb. 27 along the city’s 37 designated crosswalks on Coast Highway. Too many serious accidents occur each year from motorists failing to stop [...]
A five hour-long standoff with a handgun-toting motorist who claimed to have booby-trapped his car ended late Wednesday with Laguna Beach police taking the a 41-year-old man into custody outside the gated community of Three Arch Bay. No explosives were found, Sgt. Louise Callus said, though police had evacuated the immediate area early in the [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
