SANTA ANA — A judge on Wednesday cleared the way for the public identification of a Roman Catholic priest named in a lawsuit alleging he molested a 6-year-old boy at a Catholic school in Stanton in 1994. Father Edward Poettgen had previously been listed anonymously in the lawsuit filed in June. Orange County Superior Court…
Police released video and photos Wednesday, Jan. 29, in hopes of identifying a man suspected in a shooting that left a man dead the prior morning outside of a Santa Ana taco stand. Paramedics attempted to save the life of a man found wounded at about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of Navarro’s…
SANTA ANA — A 41-year-old man was handed a two-year prison term for threatening two gay roommates in Santa Ana at knifepoint on the Fourth of July and slashing the tires of one victim’s vehicle, court records obtained Wednesday show. Joe Martin Rodriguez pleaded guilty Nov. 6 to a felony count of making criminal threats…
Former Santa Ana City Councilman Carlos Bustamante, who pleaded guilty four years ago to sexual misconduct involving five women with whom he worked at the county public works department, got three felonies reduced to misdemeanors, his attorney said this week. Bustamante also sought to reduce his five-year probation by a year, which would allow him…
LOS ANGELES — A windstorm will generate powerful winds across Southern California Wednesday and Thursday, forecasters said. “Damaging winds will blow down large objects such as trees and power lines. Power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult, especially for high-profile vehicles,” warned a National Weather Service statement. “People should avoid being outside in forested…
A fire broke out Wednesday morning in a 25-story residential building in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, leaving 13 people injured including two firefighters with minor burns, officials said. Fire crews responded quickly, attacked the blaze aggressively and put it out in about 80 minutes. Among the injured was a 30-year-old man, who was…
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake is reported in Oildale, two miles outside Bakersfield, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning, six miles from Ukiah, Calif., 59 miles from Santa Rosa.
Alarmed by a trend of people livestreaming violent crimes, a California state senator proposed Tuesday to require social media websites including Facebook to remove photographs or video of crimes posted by alleged perpetrators when a request is made by victims.
Prosecutors and lawyers for Xiaoning Sui, a Chinese mother detained in Madrid on charges of bribing her son’s way into UCLA, have proposed she spend no additional time in prison.
