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Thursday, May 13. I’m Kimi Yoshino, and I’m writing from Los Angeles. We’ve seen video after video of unprovoked attacks on Asian Americans and reports that show an alarming uptick in anti-Asian violence. One set of data, from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, found a 164% increase in Asian-related hate crimes in the first quarter of 2021 compared with the same period last year. As Times reporter Anh Do wrote: The attacks took place in schools, restaurants, stores, subways, sidewalks, fitness classes and Zoom meetings. Some involved allegations ...

With its mouth agape – revealing a set of pointy black teeth – and a large protruding appendage surrounded by a series of tentacles, the sea creature resembled something out of a horror film. But, the 18in-wide fish, which somehow found its way from the depths of the Pacific to the shores of Newport Beach last Friday, is very real. It’s just a rare find. One of the roughly 300 species of anglerfish found around the world (perhaps best known as...

In the past month, eight dead whales have washed up on beaches of the San Francisco Bay. Since 2018, 21 have washed up dead on the coast of British Columbia. This week, a rarely seen deep-sea anglerfish was found dead on Newport Beach at California’s Crystal Cove State Park. Are these signs of how much radiation from the Fukushima disaster is still in the Pacific? Is it a warning to the Pacific coast of an upcoming and disastrous earthquake or tsunami? Or is it something … worse? “Tissue samples were taken from the three whales but scientists couldn’t perform necropsies to determine h...

Good morning and welcome to the TimesOC newsletter. It’s Wednesday, May 12. I’m Carol Cormaci, bringing you the latest roundup of Orange County news and events. Arguably the most pressing challenge of this past pandemic year has been for those who set healthcare policy, hand-in-hand with those who carry out programs associated with those policies, to fully inform the public of safe practices, vaccination offerings and resources that are available to them. In Orange County, where the Latino population has been hit especially hard over the course of the COVID-19 crisis, outreach efforts ha...

Reply A jagged-toothed "Pacific Footballfish"—in the angler fish family—washed up onshore Crystal Cove State Beach over the weekend. (Shutterstock / Neil Bromhall) NEWPORT BEACH, CA — The sight of an angler fish above sea level and in perfectly preserved condition startled visitors to Crystal Cove State Beach over the weekend. One local expert identified it as a "football fish," a far from a rare type of angler fish, but rare in that it somehow remained intact from its 3,000-foot journey off the ocean floor. That identification has yet to be verified by Fish and Wildlife. RARE FIND! Dee...