He's back ... This weekender you are updatered on the fight over Christopher Dorner reward money being far from over, the convictions of a CEO whose Ponzi scheme stung investors for $169 million and a distracted driver who backed away from a plea ...
Don't end up like this! The Orange County Sheriff's Department runs special patrols for drunken drivers in three South County cities tonight, the Anaheim Police Department has a sobriety checkpoint scheduled Saturday night, and we know the locatio...
Ballet folklorico DeColores style! OC Pride week wrapped up earlier this month with an all-day celebration in downtown SanTana, but not everyone is feeling too festive. A conference organized by DeColores Queer Orange County, a grassroots LGBT peo...
"Eat sand" takes on a whole new meaning at Surfrider's birthday party. The Surfrider Foundation's 31st birthday celebration at its San Clemente business park was somber compared to the blowouts with celebrities and pro surfers the environmental n...
Anaheim Union High School District teachers participate in a teacher association-based training session that is presumably NOT on what to do with all the money they make. Despite its teachers earning more on average than their colleagues at every ...
Garden Grove City Council members debate President Obama's executive order on immigration. UPDATE, AUG. 13, 9:21 A.M.: The Garden Grove City Council voted Tuesday night to rescind its approval of a non-binding resolution in support of President Ba...
"Is Supervisor Spitzer here today?" asks Michael Chew, founder of Orange-Riverdale Homeowners Alliance, as he surveys the standing-room-only crowd assembled inside the overflowing banquet room at the Embassy Suites in Anaheim on Aug. 5. "We extended ...
Enter if you dare ... I don't know what is more surprising: that a Texas woman is suing the Walt Disney Co. over alleged negligence by the operators of the Monsters Inc., Mike and Sulley to the Rescue! ride at California Adventure or that the ride...
Now with fewer housing opportunities. Two formerly homeless veterans are seeking an Orange County Superior Court injunction to stop Huntington Beach from blocking the construction of affordable housing in the so-called Beach-Edinger Corridor. The...
Michelle Yeh faces nearly 10 years in prison. UPDATE, AUG. 12, 5 P.M.: Michelle Yeh, who taught in San Pedro High School's science department and previously held a number of temporary teaching assignments in the area and provided online tutoring, ...
They keep the Newport Beach city seal under glass so Councilman Scott Peotter can't get to it. UPDATE, AUG. 12, 12:26 P.M.: After all that holler, the Newport Beach City Council decided not to censure Councilman Scott Peotter for his homophobic ha...
Suspected leafblower pranksters make their entrance. UPDATE NO. 2, AUG. 12, 12:04 P.M.: "Preliminary investigation shows that the subjects were at a fast-food establishment in Irvine in a silver Ford truck, approximately one hour before the incide...
You have to be in awe of California police union officials' brazen efforts to politically assassinate opponents. Just ask Costa Mesa's Republican mayor pro tem Jim Righeimer, who in 2012 was falsely accused of driving drunk while he was sober, or Ga...
Empty now, as it usually is Apologies for the tardiness in this insight, but I've been in the hills of Kentucky doing...something. But as people have noted, Anaheim's much-maligned ARTIC bus and train station had an important cameo in the season ...
Money down the drain You have to wonder if the Yorba Linda Taxpayers Association is emboldened by their counterparts in San Juan Capistrano, where a tiered water rate system was declared unconstitutional after a legal challenge by the Capistrano T...
Ahkail Demyers was visiting family. A 19-year-old masseur pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday to offering to give a 72-year-old woman a massage in her Huntington Beach apartment and raping her instead. Ahkail Demyers could spend his next...
Bound for a high-end shop near you: Crocodiles that are about 1.5 years old in a Kariba, Zimbabwe, pen before their slaughters at age 3. Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) say they will be at the South Coast Plaza Herm?s...
The body was found at the apartment building at 3424 W. Olinda Ave., Anaheim. Orange County's coroner has identified a 23-year-old man who was shot and killed early Sunday in what Anaheim Police believe was a gang-related homicide as Jared Smith o...
Adam Dandach (inset) tried to become a homegrown Orange County terrorist like the late Adam "Azzam the American" Gadahn. Orange resident Adam Dandach, who'd changed his first name to Fadi-Fadi by the time he tried to fly off and join the Islamic S...
Straight outta Santa Ana Zoo AND a Newport Beach dumpster AND a Westminster filling station? UPDATE NO. 2, AUG. 10, 6:37 P.M.: It turns out the "Tarzan" arrest at Santa Ana Zoo is the least of John William Rodenborn's worries, as he was charged to...