A 3.9 earthquake was reported Tuesday morning near Mendota, California. It was 25 miles from Coalinga, 33 miles from Kerman and 33 miles from King City.

For nearly five weeks, the leadership of the Sheriff’s Department tried to keep a lid on the episode instead of following normal investigative protocols.

NEWPORT BEACH — One person was killed and another person injured in a violent, high-speed, single-vehicle crash Tuesday morning in Newport Beach. The crash occurred near 23rd Street and Balboa Boulevard about 1:15 a.m. A witness told a news photographer at the scene the vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed along Balboa…

The survey, conducted for the Los Angeles Times by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, found that 64% of voters surveyed want to keep offering additional ways to cast a ballot even if it takes longer to finalize election results.

The coronavirus is not indiscriminate. As it spreads, certain vulnerable Americans – particularly the aged and infirm – face the most serious lethal risk.

A Santa Ana man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday, March 2, for an alcohol-related crash that killed two people on the southbound Orange (57) Freeway in Diamond Bar in 2017. Vincent Delavega, 31, pleaded no contest in January to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the Oct. 28, 2017, deaths of…

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Monday, March 2, that eight deputies were involved in taking and sharing photos of the remains of Kobe Bryant and other victims at the scene of the helicopter crash in Calabasas, and that he ordered the photos to be destroyed. “That was my number one priority, to make…

Prosecutors filed charges of assault and attempted murder of a peace officer against an inmate who already had been awaiting trial at the Theo Lacy Jail in Orange for a fatal 2011 shooting in Santa Ana, officials said Monday, March 2. Emmanuel Vega, 36, of Riverside, pleaded not guilty to two felonies and two misdemeanors…

A private investigator testified Monday that he was concerned to learn that his close friend, a former Orange County attorney accused of strangling an ex-wife and throwing her body off a cruise ship, had falsely implicated him in the alleged killing. Bill Price, a former police officer who said he once considered Lonnie Kocontes the…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A California man who is on the autism spectrum was sentenced Monday to more than five years in prison for cyberstalking families of Parkland, Florida, school shooting victims. U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz imposed the 66-month sentence on 22-year-old Brandon Fleury of Santa Ana, California, rejecting a request by prosecutors for…