Three men, including a former Jamaican police officer, are facing murder charges in an Irvine home invasion that left one man dead and another seriously injured last year. Devon Quinland, 33, of Westminster, Andre Andrews, 34, of Miramar, Florida and Omar Miller, 41, of Lauderdale, Florida, each were charged with multiple felony counts, including murder,…
A 42-year-old Temescal Valley man charged with three counts of murder for what prosecutors said was an intentional ramming of a car filled with teens who had played a doorbell-ringing prank at his house appeared in court Thursday afternoon, Jan 23, for the first time, but the arraignment hearing was delayed to Feb. 21. Anurag…
An Orange County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that a man who stabbed his step-brother to death at a Garden Grove apartment is not guilty by reason of insanity. Judge John D. Conley determined that Andres Adolfo Serrat, 29, committed second-degree murder when he killed 20-year-old Donte Barcelo. But the judge accepted the determination by…
A driver accused of causing a 2015 crash that killed a woman and her granddaughter in Irvine is once again on trial for second-degree murder, less than a year after a juror prompted a mistrial by changing her mind from a guilty verdict. Alec Scott Abraham faces two counts of murder for the deaths of…
A 42-year-old Temescal Valley man was charged with murder and attempted murder Thursday, Jan. 23, after prosecutors said his angry pursuit of a car full of teens who played a doorbell ringing prank at his home ended with three of the boys dead and three injured. Update: Arraignment of Temescal Valley man who faces triple…
Police are looking for anyone who may have witnessed a small SUV hitting a pedestrian in Newport Beach then taking off. It was just before 8 p.m. on Dec. 28 when police got a 911 call about the incident at Superior Avenue and Hospital Road. Police said the pedestrian, whose gender has not been released,…
Ski snobs sneer at Mt. Baldy, dinging it for its ma-and-pa amenities and modest number of runs, treating its easy access and affordability as some sort of character flaws. Shame on the snobs. Because this year in particular, Baldy is the best ski deal in California.
Sen. Holly Mitchell and a coalition representing low-income communities have come out against Senate Bill 50, complicating a key legislative deadline.
Harvey Weinstein sat in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday as prosecutors described him as a sexual predator who used his influence to sexually assault women.
I stood at the front of the classroom and made my pitch to the 25 students who had been accepted into Careers for a Cause, an inaugural training program in homeless services offered at Los Angeles Southwest College.
