UPDATE, JULY 7, 2:03 P.M.: Undercover officers tracked the red Chevy Silverado pickup the late Villanueva was driving with an 18-year-old male passenger from a Santa Fe Springs swap meet parking lot ...

Go ahead, call us a bunch of culture-less, lily-white suburbanites with a partiality to flip-flops and right-wing politics. Those kind of labels never cease to amuse us. Because one thing that ...

Trying to explain what música ranchera is to non-Mexicans reminds me of the apocryphal quote attributed to–take your pick–Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington, when someone asked what jazz is. Ranchera ...

As he walked briskly along a downtown Santa Ana sidewalk for our first meeting on a toasty, cloudless February 2014 afternoon, criminal defense attorney Scott Sanders’ brain generated waves of ...

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Happy Jewelers has long focused on supporting children and healthcare initiatives. Foster Love, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering foster youth, was a natural fit. What began as a client relationship ...

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DEAR MEXICAN: I've heard the Tijuana donkey show featuring a female whore is not real other than the fact they do bring out a donkey and do some simulation for people who are drunk.