Yorba Linda News

By Aarne Heikkila, Producer, NBC NewsYORBA LINDA, CALIF. -- It was 40 years ago that hundreds of Vietnam-era Prisoners of War were saluted at the biggest White House dinner ever following their release in a prisoner exchange.

Los Angeles police are on the hunt for a man accused of robbing several banks in Orange and Los Angeles counties since 2010.

14, 1973 file photo, released prisoner of war John McCain is greeted by President Richard Nixon, left, in Washington.

This March 17, 1973 file photo shows released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm being greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., as he returns home from the Vietnam War.

You realize the futility of having a reservation for Bistrot Massilia on the Thursday night before Mother's Day weekend when you get there.

"If you guys came for the blues , you came to the right place!" announced Jeff "Papa J" Hudson at The Orange County Blues Society's one-year "Anniversary Party and Blues Jam" on May 19, at the Main Street Restaurant in Yorba Linda, California.

American prisoners-of-war held by communist North Vietnam during the years between 1965 and 1973 will celebrate their 40th year of freedom as a result of the release engineered by Pres.

Loyal reader, if you can't find some great live music this weekend, I think it's safe to say the problem lies with you, not with the venues in the area.

Yorba Linda police have stepped up patrols near parks and soccer fields after a suspicious person seen hanging around an 11-year-old fled when parents approached, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said Sunday, May 12, 2013.

The career path of CEO Ramon Nunez is almost the stuff of a Hollywood movie. After earning a living as a teenager by picking strawberries, Nunez has gone on to lead several high-tech businesses in California's Silicon Valley.

Psychological restraints were likely just as powerful. Specific details of the women's psychological states are not available yet, but given how young they were when abducted - Amanda Berry was 16 when she went missing, Gina DeJesus 14 and Michelle Knight 20 - their psychological defences may not have been as strong as those of older adults.

In an effort to assist the Equine Assisted Activities and Therapies program at the Yorba Linda, Calif-based Rocking T Ranch, Convaid, Inc Torrance, Calif, reports that it has donated two lightweight Scout and Cruiser wheelchairs to help train the facility's horses for the program.

An unlicensed contractor was sentenced Friday to 16 months in jail for defrauding a Huntington Beach homeowner and a Yorba Linda family of more than $635,000 by taking their payments and failing to complete construction projects, according to a news release from the Orange County District Attorney's office.

For the quarter, the company's net loss was $33.57 million, compared with a net loss of $7.24 million in the same quarter last year.

Sometimes I have succeeded and sometimes I have failed, but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena, "whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually ... (more)

When should you give someone a mulligan? Should you give a former president a mulligan for a good chunk of his eight years in office? Should you give a young broadcaster a mulligan when he doesn't realize his mike is on and he says words more suitable for a Chris Rock routine? This is the subtext issue in two recent media extravaganzas.

On a recent night in downtown LA, Evan Hagen holds up one of his clear, handmade, oil-projector slides to the lamp in his bedroom.

A delegation of 40 US dignitaries led by a grandson of Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to retrace the 37th president's 1972 visit to China.

Southern California home buyers will find plenty of Taylor Morrison choices this spring and summer as the home builder gets ready to unveil two new communities to accompany its popular San Juan Capistrano and Yorba Linda neighborhoods.

San Jose, Calif.-based Orchard Supply Hardware said it anticipates comp-store sales for the first quarter ending May 4 to increase from 9.0% to 11.0%. The forecast comes as Orchard entered Oregon with the grand opening events for its Portland and Tigard stores being held April 27.