A triple-life sentence for a triple killer The parade returns

Grace under pressure. That’s a nice thing to have.

I refer in this particular case to the 2023 Tet Parade in Westminster last week.

This has been an annual event observing the lunar new year, but there’s been a series of stumbles associated with it. A while back there was a controversy over whether gay rights groups could march in the parade and – if so –where?

A few years ago two rival groups held separate

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parades, one in Garden Grove and another in Westminster.

This year, no non-profit

Throng honors

A large crowd showed up on Saturday for the unveiling ceremony of a memorial highway sign honoring Officer Nicholas Vella of the Huntington Beach Police Department.

He died in a helicopter crash in February 2022 when his aircraft crashed into the water off Newport Beach. The unveiling of the sign was at Huntington City Beach at the south Beach Boulevard entrance to Pacific Coast Highway. Speakers at the event included State Sen. Janet Nguyen and Huntington Beach Mayor Tony Strickland.

The sign will mark the stretch of Beach Boulevard from PCH to Talbert Avenue as Officer Nicholas Vella Memorial Highway.

group stepped up to continue the event, and so – at the last minute, with just a few weeks to spare and plan – the Westminster City Council assigned the task to city staff to pull a rabbit or cat out of a hat and stage the parade on the city’s dime. (In China, this lunar new year is the “Year of the Rabbit.” For Vietnamese, it’s the “Year of the Cat.”)

Some folks expressed concern that the taxpay-

SANTA ANA (AP) – An Orange County man who killed his girlfriend and her two young sons and left their bodies to rot on a balcony while he partied was sentenced Friday to three consecutive life terms in prison, prosecutors said.

Shazer Fernando Limas, 42, of Orange, was sentenced in Orange County. Limas stabbed 31-yearold Arlet Hernandez Contreras 48 times at his home in April 2012 following an argument a day or two earlier, the Orange County district attorney’s office said in a statement.

Prosecutors said he then killed her sons, 16-month-old Fernando Hernandez Limas and 2-month-old Emanuel Hernandez Limas.

Limas, who also had another girlfriend, “let the bodies of Conteras and boys rot in a balcony clos- et for 10 days while he continued to go to dance clubs, rented limos, and even had friends over to his apartment,” the statement.

After bleaching blood stains from his carpet, Limas loaded Contreras’s body into a large chest and drove it in a rented U-Haul to an industrial area in neighboring Los Angeles County, where her body was found dumped in a gutter, prosecutors said.

After getting rid of that body, Limas is believed to have driven another 100 miles to dispose of the bodies of the children, which were never found, prosecutors said.

The victims were “discarded like trash,” District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in the statement.

A few days later, Limas