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 [...]
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 [...]
Next week, South Coast Water District workers will remove a small 1928 house and detached garage on property at Fourth Avenue and Coast Highway in preparation for a five-year, $50 million sewer replacement project. No one has lived in the dilapidated house since 1974, according to a report by the water district, which acquired the [...]
A homeless man from Oklahoma suffered severe injuries last Saturday, Nov. 3, when struck by a vehicle while attempting to cross Coast Highway outside of a crosswalk near Laguna Beach’s Three Arch Bay, police said Monday. The injured person, who was not further identified, was transported to Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo with moderate to [...]
Gil Thibault, Laguna Beach resident and newly minted author of the children’s educational book “Bristlecone Pine Tree, The World’s Oldest-Known Living Tree,” will be sharing his expertise in local talks. On Oct. 3, he will be at the Dana Point Library at 7 p.m.; before the Laguna Beach Rotary Club at noon on Friday, Oct. [...]
The Salty Suites, the Nitty Ditty Dirt Band with Chelsea Williams and the PawnShop Kings will perform Friday, Sept. 21, in a benefit concert for Laguna Beach’s Genesta family, according to promoter Rick Conkey. John and Lisa Genesta face a dire financial situation, including a home foreclosure, since John suffered brain and back injuries in [...]
Police issued a warning today about a bobcat estimated to weigh 35 pounds that has taken up residence in Three Arch Bay and is suspected in the killing of three or four local pet cats. When another domestic cat was seized early this morning, animal services officers responded to Vista Del Sol and attempted to [...]
It’s complicated, but South Laguna has lost its power to vote on the running of the water district that the community established in the 1930s. Way back in 1910 when the Egan family homesteaded 40 acres where West Street and Paso del Sur is now, they managed to get water from a spring back up [...]
Editor, (The letter was also addressed to top city administrators and elected officials.) I write in support of installing the proposed traffic signal at Emerald Bay and Coast Highway. My opinion is informed by personal history. I lived in Three Arch Bay before there was a signal, and even before there was a guard gate [...]
Magical gardens, the stuff of fairytales, exist in Laguna Beach if one knows where to look. Those with tickets to the Laguna Beach Garden Club tour on May 4 will need only follow the pixie dust between eight such gardens during the annual tour, which this time threads through the private community of Three Arch [...]
The city’s fast-growing fleet of 12 novelty trolley buses, which shuttled 582,000 riders around town during the summer art festival season last year, is anything but a free ride. On Tuesday, the City Council agreed to “raid” the city’s parking fund, established to create new parking spaces, in order to lease six trolleys for $100,800 [...]
As film lovers flock to see the Newport Beach Film Festival’s 350-film line-up showing through May 5, The Indy rewinds for readers a splice of local film history. By Jane Janz, Special to the Independent For Hollywood filmmakers Laguna Beach had something special to offer. They could drive 50 miles and be able to film [...]
Editor, I was looking forward to reading a report on the squid run that took place a very short distance off our shores during the nights of Nov. 29 through Dec. 2. It was quite spectacular. On the last night, I counted 33 commercial boats all lit up out there. It looked like a Christmas [...]
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 [...]
