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A Newport Beach man was charged with murder this week, authorities reported. Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 20, was charged Wednesday with one felony count of murder, with a sentencing enhancement of personal use of a knife, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s office....

Death, at one time or another, will come for all of us. Known as “The Great Equalizer,” there is no amount of money, fame, hoping, or pleading that can keep it at bay. The fact of the matter is that, sooner or later, each of us must meet our maker. So, the question becomes, do we...

At certain moments we lock onto the details, ever after keeping them near the surface of memory. On November 22, 1963, I was an Army wife, living in Lawton, Oklahoma, about 200 miles north of Dallas, where President John F. Kennedy was touring. As the news that Kennedy had been...

A quick look at the things that made news this week in Newport Beach: – At a meeting on Tuesday the Federal Aviation Administration voted unanimously to send a letter of proposal to change the fl ight procedure for planes leaving John Wayne Airport in an effort to reduce...

Charlie lives alone in a drab,  unkempt bachelor pad in a small northern Idaho town. He works as an online English professor to under-motivated college freshmen. He’s seriously overqualified for the job, but it pays well, and enables him to work from home. That’s a good thing,...

– California has spent $4 billion since 1978 in a futile effort to execute almost 700 death row inmates. Current hang-up is over the method of execution, lethal injection. – The killing spree of Chris Dorner suggests capital punishment isn’t much of a deterrent...

A woman found dead inside a house in the 2200 block of Heather Lane after a fire on Wednesday has been identified as 90-year-old Mary Louise Phillips, according to police. Newport Beach Police Department spokeswoman Kathy Lowe confirmed Phillips’ identity and age, but the Orange...

I have two rules when it comes to weighing the propositions on the California ballot. The first is to be very suspicious of the motives of people who sponsor these things and give them really tempting titles aimed at bleeding heart liberals such as myself or tax-hating...

Since over 27,000 absentee ballots are going to Newport Beach voters this week, I thought I would give my voting recommendations for the propositions on the November ballot. In case you are a Newport Beach City Councilman, I do NOT purport to provide independent analysis of these...

I’m sure I will have picketers in front of my house once this is published, and PETA may come knocking. However, I believe I acted in a loving and humane way, with only pure intentions. No one was harmed. Both dogs had already passed on to the greener pastures when the decision...

When I asked my husband if he wanted to have a third child, he said no. “Why on earth would you want another kid?” he asked. “We’re just starting to get our freedom back.” He had a point, I guess. Our two sons are healthy, happy and, best of all, in school all day. So maybe that...

I watched the movie, “The Hunger Games,” last week with a little sadness.  The slogan of the games was “May the odds be ever in your favor.”  What a striking difference from “May God be with you” or “God bless you.” This started out the movie and left me with a hollow feeling...

Mark David Allen, the Newport Beach man who had been arrested over 500 times for public intoxication, died early Wednesday morning, according to officials. David J. Sperling, a Newport Beach Police Department custody officer and the filmmaker that documented Allen’s life and his...