ORANGE — An man suspected of elder abuse refused to leave a home in unincorporated Orange for nearly nine hours Sunday until the Orange County Sheriff’s Department sent a K-9 inside to get him, authorities said. The standoff started about 1 p.m. in the 8000 block of Magnolia Avenue, sheriff’s spokeswoman Carrie Braun said. Related…
Overtime pay for firefighters has surged by 65% in the past decade, further evidence of the toll an unprecedented string of wildfires has taken on California.
Therapists are challenging a California law requiring that they report it to police when a patient has admitted viewing child porn online. “This is a terribly unpopular cause,” one therapist says.
Never has the coffee shop been a more charged symbol than in a neighborhood going through gentrification. The Free Cafe in traditionally black Leimert Park wants to spur dialogue about this and other issues. But some say it’s a symptom of gentrification.
The region’s 24-year-old alt weekly abruptly shuttered the day before Thanksgiving.
Ten years ago, there were 20 survivors at the ceremony. Saturday, there was one: Clayton Schenkelberg, 102
Thousands of victims of California wildfires to receive $13.5 billion from PG&E.
One person died after being struck by a BNSF freight train in Riverside county on Saturday morning, Dec. 7, authorities said. The incident delayed commuters on Metrolink trains across Orange, Los Angeles and Riverside counties for more than an hour. The train hit the person along the tracks in a non-pedestrian area in Riverside County,…
A 27-year-old Norco resident with a history of violence was arrested Friday, Dec. 6, after investigators say he attacked his 83-year-old former landlord and led deputies on a pursuit. The incident began just after 4 p.m. when deputies went to a home in the 1700 block of Hillside Avenue in Norco to investigate a report…
NEWPORT BEACH — A Fullerton man was sentenced Friday to 16 months for embezzling more than $305,000 from his Newport Beach employer over seven years. Dennis Sam Medici, 58, was given credit for 440 days in custody, so he is expected to be released from jail soon. He was also ordered to pay $305,026.60 in…
