Tony Bell

Tony Bell scored four goals and Kevin Wood added three to lead UC Irvine to a 13-9 victory over Fresno State in a Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. water polo match at Heritage Park in Irvine Friday. In a PCAA volleyball match: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 3, Irvine 0--The Mustangs, ranked 14th in the nation, defeated Irvine, 15-3, 15-3, 15-6, at Irvine's Crawford Hall. Theresa Smith led San Luis Obispo (17-10, 9-8) with five aces, and Kim Collins led Irvine (9-15, 4-13) with seven kills.

A former Newport Beach yacht dealer suspected of stealing more than $2 million from his clients and then writing them cheerful letters and Christmas cards as he traveled the world on their money has been arrested in Florida. Tony Bell, 51, was arrested Wednesday at a recreation-vehicle dealership in Winter Park, Fla., more than two years after warrants were issued for his arrest.

A former Newport Beach yacht dealer suspected of stealing more than $2 million from his clients and then writing them cheerful letters and Christmas cards as he traveled the world on their money has been arrested in Florida. Tony Bell, 51, was arrested Wednesday at a recreation-vehicle dealership in Winter Park, Fla., more than two years after warrants were issued for his arrest.

Tony Bell scored four goals and Kevin Wood added three to lead UC Irvine to a 13-9 victory over Fresno State in a Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. water polo match at Heritage Park in Irvine Friday. In a PCAA volleyball match: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 3, Irvine 0--The Mustangs, ranked 14th in the nation, defeated Irvine, 15-3, 15-3, 15-6, at Irvine's Crawford Hall. Theresa Smith led San Luis Obispo (17-10, 9-8) with five aces, and Kim Collins led Irvine (9-15, 4-13) with seven kills.

Alexis Rousseau and Scott Leonard scored 2 goals each Monday to lead host UCLA to a 15-9 victory over UC Irvine in a nonconference water polo match. Tom Warde, Tony Bell and Skylar Putman each scored 3 goals for Irvine (14-12), the sixth-ranked team in the country. UCLA (26-3) is ranked second.

Welfare payments to children of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County increased in July to $52 million, prompting renewed calls from one county supervisor to rein in public benefits to such families. The payments, made to illegal immigrants for their U.S. citizen children, included $30 million in food stamps and $22 million from the CalWorks welfare program, according to county figures released Friday by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. The new figure represents an increase of $3.7 million from July 2009 and makes up 23% of all county welfare and food stamp assistance, according to county records.

In a standoff with federal forest officials, Caltrans is proposing to abandon a popular, cliff-hanging highway in the San Gabriel Mountains because it is too expensive to maintain. The proposal to walk away from California Highway 39, enjoyed by an estimated 3 million people a year, comes as the state struggles to close a $9.2-billion budget shortfall. To avoid closure, the California Department of Transportation is trying to persuade the U.S. Forest Service or Los Angeles County to take over the roadway, which runs 27 miles from the city of Azusa nearly to the crest of the San Gabriels.

County Supervisor Mike Antonovich has proposed that the board hold one meeting each month outside of downtown to better acquaint supervisors with regional concerns. Antonovich's motion, which will be considered Tuesday, would take the board members to the five supervisorial districts in the 4,081-square-mile county, which is larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

UC Irvine clinched the Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. water polo championship with a 10-6 win over Fresno State Sunday at Irvine. The Anteaters got two goals each from Tony Bell, Brett Del Valle and J.R. Salvatore. Goalie Mark Maizel made 13 saves. Fresno (6-5, 12-15) handed UCI (10-1, 21-6) its only conference defeat when it beat the Anteaters, 9-6, earlier this month in Fresno. No. 3 Irvine finishes its conference schedule with a match at UC Santa Barbara.

Four players from UC Irvine scored two goals each as the Anteaters defeated the University of the Pacific, 11-5, in a Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. water polo match at Heritage Park Sunday. Mike Doting, Mike Halphide, Tony Bell and Julian Harvey scored two each for first-place Irvine (17-7 overall and 8-1 in the PCAA), which has won five straight. Pacifica is 10-17, 0-9. Irvine, the third-ranked team in the country, plays No. 2 UCLA tonight at 7 at Heritage Park.

Mike Biondi scored with 21 seconds remaining in the first overtime period Saturday to lead the UC Berkeley water polo team to an 8-7 victory over UC Irvine in a nonconference match played in the Bears' pool at Berkeley. The second five-minute overtime period was scoreless. Brett Del Valle, J.R. Salvatore and Tony Bell each scored two goals for the Anteaters, who dropped to 9-5. Biondi scored twice for Cal, which improved to 7-3.

People who watch illegal street races could be slapped with a $500 fine under a motion approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. "Illegal street racing is a dangerous, reckless activity that threatens the lives of our young people. This ordinance will decrease the number of spectators at these events and help reduce street racing overall," said county Supervisor Mike Antonovich. Violation of the ordinance will constitute a misdemeanor.