An officer with the Cypress Police Department was arrested in Garden Grove on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman early Friday. Garden Grove police responded to the 5500 block of Ludlow Avenue after a woman called the department at around 3:45 a.m. Police said the woman and officer met at a nearby bar and drove…
SANTA ANA — Robbers staged a smash-and-grab burglary at a Macy’s fragrance counter at the MainPlace Mall in Santa Ana Thursday night. Three men smashed glass display cases and made off with perfume just before 8 p.m., according to the Santa Ana Police Department. The men were wearing hoodies and possibly bandanas covering their faces…
A 40-year-old man has been charged with igniting the Williams fire, a 2.75-acre wildfire in the Cleveland National Forest near Silverado Canyon that was quickly extinguished on Sunday. Jeremy Ryan Shaw, 40, is facing a felony count of unlawfully causing a fire in a structure or forest during a state of emergency. Shaw pleaded not…
One of six co-defendants charged with the stabbing death of a man whose body was found in a San Juan Capistrano creek bed pleaded guilty Friday to a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. In return for being allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter rather than facing the special-circumstance murder charge he was previously facing, Myles…
A person found dead in the eastern Sierra Nevada was confirmed Thursday as a Huntington Beach man who went missing after going on a hike in the Inyo National Forest last week, authorities said. On the evening of Monday, November 4, authorities received a call about Alan Stringer, 40, who had planned on taking a…
Costa Mesa police said Thursday they arrested a woman dressed as a law enforcement officer and armed with a loaded, unregistered gun on Friday, Nov. 1. Michelle Brianna Hughes, 30, of Huntington Beach, identified herself as an Orange County sheriff’s deputy when she was stopped by officers near the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Merrimac…
The mother of a special-needs teen who died when in a golf cart crash at El Modena High School in September has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Orange Unified School District claiming negligence in the incident and by the staff who were with the boy. The suit, filed on Nov. 5 in Orange…
Q. I ride a motorcycle and when I get to a freeway on-ramp with a traffic meter, the traffic detector in the ground doesn’t always sense my motorcycle. I’ve held up traffic waiting for it to change, and it never does. I’ve proceeded even though the meter’s light is red, figuring the loop detector is…
A resident came home to find the nightmarish scene, including a bomb threat scrawled on the wall that forced the evacuation of several neighbors.
The latest quake occurred two miles from Oxnard, seven miles from Port Hueneme, 11 miles from Camarillo and 12 miles from Carpinteria.
