Eric Licas covers Newport Beach for the Daily Pilot. He previously was a crime and public safety reporter and, before that, spent four years as a staff writer with the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. He has been on the ground to cover active wildfires, civil unrest and mass shootings. He was born in the Philippines, raised in the San Fernando Valley and is a Cal State Northridge alumnus.
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There were about 20 bystanders nearby on Feb. 1 when pursuing officers eventually cornered the suspect at the end of the Newport Beach Pier. Moments later, he got out of his SUV holding a Glock 9mm pistol.
Grinding on stagnating wages, baristas at Via Lido Starbucks in Newport Beach petition to form union
If employees at the Newport Beach location vote to form a union, they’d be joining 1,000 baristas at 550 locations across the country who have done so.
The new facility should catch up to 80% of the roughly 100 to 300 tons of trash that flows into the Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve each year.
Newport Beach resident Marmar Salimian Sikka branded the local network of donors and volunteers who stepped up to help fire victims the Grassroots Project.
The building that used to be Peninsula Station #2 at 475 32nd Street was built in 1953 and has been vacant since the department moved operations to a new facility in 2022.
Students wrapped caution tape and chains around free miniature libraries in Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and other cities to draw attention to budget cuts and book bans affecting libraries in Orange County and across the country.
Billy Hall enlisted in the Marine Corps at the age of 15 in 1941, four months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Every reservation slot at the Newport Beach fixture is booked through its last night of dinner service on March 2.
The drone program is the latest effort to incorporate tech into the police department. The city opened the Crime Information Center in January and has installed 69 automated license plate readers.
One of the involved vehicles hit two trees and a light pole before landing in a nearby drainage field.