AccuWeather forecasters say?this winter's El Ni?o could be one of the strongest in the past 50 years, leading to a return of meaningful but not necessarily drought-busting rain in California. "El Nino has steadily strengthened over the past month and...
Yanhao "Eric" Ren A Fullerton man who served as a youth leader at a Rowland Heights church was arrested in San Bernardino County for allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl, according to authorities. Around 11:55 p.m. S...
Photo OVSD filed in court papers Victor Valladares can tell the time of day when he's at his apartment in Huntington Beach's Oak View barrio just by smelling the air. "Around this time, like, 10 to 11 in the morning, it begins to smell like sulfu...
Young protesters hold banner in front of DHS vehicle "Hey, hey, ho, ho, PEP-Comm has got to go!" Immigrant organizations kicked off a press conference in SanTana yesterday with chants calling on the city council to denounce a new federal deporta...
Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama walk down the Cross Hall after the Iran nuclear agreement was announced in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday. "My parents still live there so I know exactly how it is. I wouldn't think ...
Tony Rack: As sneaky as ever... The folks running the Orange County district attorney's office (OCDA) are now claiming outsiders will help to reform a jailhouse-informant program that won tainted convictions in at least three dozen cases, includi...
"I'm filing this lawsuit because the government uses the U.S. border to bypass the rule of law," says Laura Poitras. Laura Poitras--the Academy and Pulitzer Prize Award-winning filmmaker of Citizenfour that opened in theaters in October and had an...
Matthew Muller was arrested for a home robbery that reminds the FBI of the Denise Huskins case. After 28-year-old physical therapist Denise Huskins turned up safe at her father's Huntington Beach apartment in March, police in Northern California s...
Darreck Michael Enciso could get more than four years in prison. A Disney Resort Anaheim hotel restaurant staff member was charged Monday with attempting to sell tickets to Disneyland in exchange for sex with a minor. Bryan William Anast, Ex-Disne...
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas awaits his stick fitting. If you people in Orange County reading this were truly paying attention, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas would be, at best, indicted and, at worst, have his severed head o...
Orly Taitz, sitting, lacks standing. If you go to Rancho Santa Margarita lawyer/dentist/real estate saleslady/wind-up doll Orly Taitz's OrlyTaitzEsq.com website and type "Hanen" in the search, you'll read all kinds of headlines that seem to indica...
Moreno--as usual--the only Mexican surrounded by a sea of racist old, white faces If you want to know the depths of desperation Donal Trump has reached in his presidential campaign, look no further than his choice of token Mexican he trotted out ...
Osius (far right) with a bunch of politicians This past weekend, US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius took a three-day trip to Little Saigon to get a sense of the sentiments of the Vietnamese-American community. As part of that trip, he spoke at a ...
Jeremiah Barba has tattooing in his blood, but he's making a legacy all of his own. Most people reject what their parents do for a living--it's the American way, you know? But for Jeremiah Barba, following in their footsteps wasn't an easy choic...
Left photo courtesy of OCDA Christian Rogelio Maroquin (left) and Adsalon Isai Montes Story: Noel Perez Aguilar, 2011 OC Homicide No. 11: Gang Beating Victim Left to Die in Truck Bed Update: Adsalon Isai Montes and Christian Rogelio Maroquin, w...
Blotto! The Irvine Police Department just announced a sobriety checkpoint will be up from 8 p.m. Saturday through 2 a.m. Sunday--as well as the location.It will be in the area of Bake Parkway and Rockfield Boulevard, according to officials. Like ...
Uh-oh ... I am still not convinced this is not sly promotion of "Shark Week" programming, but a shark bumping a surfer this morning has prompted lifeguards to prohibit anyone from going into the waters off Huntington Beach for the rest of the day....
Three of the four iPad theft ring suspects. The fourth is a minor. Irvine cops thought they were closing in on thieves who made off with 17 iPads from the Target store at Irvine Spectrum, but now the four people in custody are believed to have pul...
Nothing to see here, folks. Remember that April chlorine "attack" on 17 sea lions who were being nursed back to health at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach? Turns out it was not an attack at all but the result of a mistake by an emp...
John Raymond Breceda is back. UPDATE, JULY 9, 10:08 A.M.: A veteran Orange County homicide prosecutor wants to apply a special-circumstance allegation against accused double-murderer John Ramon Breceda that could conceivably set the 36-year-old Sa...