SANTA ANA — Crisis counselors were on hand at a Santa Ana elementary school Tuesday in response to the apparent suicide of a 10-year-old student, and police were investigating whether bullying may have played a role in the girl’s death. Police were called Sunday night when the girl’s 9-year-old sister found her body in the…
SANTA ANA — Three dozen felony charges were filed Tuesday against a former Irvine police officer accused of stealing about $68,000 by making bogus overtime demands. Matthew Christian August, 47, of Aliso Viejo could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted of 34 counts of presenting a false claim and two counts of…
A 29-year-old man who fled deputies in a green Chevy Tahoe Tuesday Oct. 15, after they say he ran a red light in Yorba Linda and led authorities on an 11-minute pursuit, reaching speeds of 100 mph. The man, Nicolas Jeffery Olive, of Orange, is accused of not stopping at 11:32 a.m. at the light…
Authorities on Tuesday, Oct. 15, identified a body that washed ashore in Long Beach last week as that of 21-year-old Juan Barrios of Pico Rivera. Long Beach lifeguards were flagged down by beachgoers about 5:45 p.m., Oct. 9, after they found a body that had washed onto shore near 55th Place and Ocean Boulevard in…
DNA from a female relative was used to help identify a man accused of kidnapping and raping a 6-year-old Santa Ana girl, law enforcement officials announced on Tuesday, the first time such a technique has led to an arrest in Orange County and only the second time in California. At a Tuesday press conference at…
The survey of 181,752 students was conducted at 33 universities including Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Northwestern and the University of Oregon.
The man was wearing only Nike shoes when he allegedly stole a van and crashed it into a box truck near the 400 block of Broadway around 2 a.m., officials said.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake was felt widely in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday evening at 10:33 p.m., with an epicenter in the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill area.
Gov. Newsom is facing criticism over his decisions for the $5 billion generated annually by gas taxes and vehicles fees that were increased by a 2017 law.
An environmental group Tuesday plans to ask the California Fish and Game Commission to designate the western Joshua Tree as threatened, a push sure to set off battles with desert developers.
