MISSION VIEJO — An explosion in a suspected drug lab in Mission Viejo Friday sent two people to a hospital with burns, authorities said. The explosion occurred about 4:30 p.m. in a garage at a condominium complex in the 22900 block of Via Cereza near Trabuco Road, according to Carrie Braun, spokeswoman for the Orange…
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake was reported Friday evening about 12 miles from Barstow, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
She became entangled with a shaft to a cylinder that breaks up bunches of raisins and she struck her head, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in a statement.
Federal regulators were not aggressive enough in reacting to the California bullet train’s problems while overseeing a $2.5-billion grant to the troubled project, an audit released Friday found.
The trial court was wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong to put a man who was sued by the state over a boiler room scam but never charged with a crime in jail — for six years. Wrong to insist that he cough up $360,540 that had vanished in the care of his then-fiancee. Wrong to keep…
The high-profile murder of a man by his friend and business partner, and the elaborate scheme to cover up the slaying, will be the focus of a two-hour broadcast by ABC News’ “20/20” airing Friday, Jan. 24, as well as an upcoming podcast. The special-circumstances murder trial of Edward Shin for the killing of Chris…
An Orange County Superior Court judge on Friday temporarily stopped Santa Ana City Jail officials from moving the son of a former “Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member back to county lockup, where he says he was targeted for violence while behind bars. The less than two-month-old agreement between the city and county jails…
By TOM HAYS, MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ | Associated Press NEW YORK — “Do the Right Thing” actress Rosie Perez testified Friday that fellow screen star Annabella Sciorra told her in the mid-1990s that Harvey Weinstein had raped her but that she couldn’t go to the police because “he’d destroy me.” Taking the…
CHATSWORTH — Rapper YG was arrested Friday by sheriff’s detectives serving a search warrant at his residence in Chatsworth and was booked on suspicion of robbery, authorities said. The 29-year-old rapper, whose real name is Keenon Jackson, was taken into custody after detectives went to the 22000 block of Zaltana Street about 4 a.m. “in…
A chemical leak at a Yorba Linda water-treatment plant that exposed five employees to hydrogen sulfide was contained, with all of them declining to go to the hospital. Firefighters and a hazmat team responded to the plant in the 3900 block of Valley View Avenue about 9:30 p.m. Thursday and discovered the employees were exposed…
