Izakaya West End, at 334D Ingalls St., announced on social media Sunday that it was permanently shuttering its doors that evening after 12 years.

Tucked away on California’s Central Coast, Capitola Village beckons with a siren song of crashing waves and calling seagulls.

Scott Allen Gardner of Ormond Beach, reportedly left his 18-month-old son in a hot truck while he got a haircut and drank in a bar.