Sharod Smithen, 31, from Newport News, is charged with misdemeanor assault, police say. The charge stems from an alleged assault that reportedly happened at Riverside Elementary School.

Costa Mesa resident Landon Leguina, a recent Newport Harbor graduate, recently launched Splash n Slide, a small business that rents bounce houses and slides.

John D. Beaulieu writes: Newport has a wide range of slide risks in the mapped slide-prone areas. For the worst-case areas, we rightly read from the planning standpoint that something must be done ...

A 1960s-era house along Galaxy Drive in Newport Beach was red-tagged by city officials on Friday after part of its back patio and some hedges and plants broke away in a slide.

The desk floats on top, is big enough for a wireless keyboard and mouse, and can be extended away from the wall when it's time to work.

Officials concerned about danger from increased landslide activity on a slope in Newport have closed the area to visitors.