A man struck by gunfire in Fullerton died Tuesday, Feb. 4. Officers responded to reports of a shooting along the 3100 block of Pearl Drive, near Quartz Lane, at about 5:55 p.m., Fullerton Police Sgt. Eric Bridges said. First responders encountered a man suffering from a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was taken…
A Pacific Palisades woman and three Orange County residents suspected of orchestrating a scheme that allegedly claimed bogus health care reimbursements on behalf of longshoremen and members of the military face allegations of fraud following their indictment in January, prosecutors said Tuesday, Feb. 4. James Nate Bell, 38, of Anaheim Hills, Regina Piehl, 66, of…
SANTA ANA — A 25-year-old Costa Mesa man was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder for triggering an Irvine crash that killed a woman and her 2-year-old granddaughter. Jurors took about 90 minutes to reach verdicts in the retrial of Alec Scott Abraham for the June 10, 2015, crash that killed 54-year-old Katherine Hampton of Lake…
SANTA ANA — An Orange County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that the son of a former “Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member can remain in Santa Ana’s jail until his trial, blocking the city’s efforts to hand the defendant back to the custody of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Santa Ana jail officials…
LOS ANGELES — A licensed Anaheim Hills acupuncturist was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison Tuesday for fraudulently billing Amtrak’s healthcare plan for millions of dollars’ worth of acupuncture, massages and facials that either were medically unnecessary or were never provided. Guiqiong Xiao “Kimi” Gudmundsen, 53, pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court in…
Representatives of the Church of Christian Science in Southern California on Tuesday said they were “stunned and saddened” following the revelation of a scheme by one of their members to loot about $11.5 million from the church’s historic Hollywood branch over a decade. Charles Sebesta, a 54-year-old from Huntington Beach, now faces up to 60…
San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials on Tuesday were investigating the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in the forest near Big Bear Deputies in Big Bear found a vehicle in the parking lot near Cougar Crest Trail at around 2 a.m. on Monday that belonged to a missing person, 27-year-old Ria Williams, of…
Authorities have made public 911 calls fielded by emergency operators the foggy morning of the fatal Kobe Bryant helicopter crash.
Authorities say the gunman is a 33-year-old man from Maryland but it remains unclear what prompted the shooting.
CUDAHY — Fire caused the roof of a commercial building in Cudahy to collapse early Tuesday morning before firefighters were able to extinguish most of the blaze. Los Angeles County Fire Department crews responded to the vacant building near Atlantic Avenue and Cecilia Street about 3:15 a.m. “After about 10, 15 minutes of fighting the…
