Here’s what experts say are the best ways to communicate during and after an emergency.

A woman who had previously been convicted of drunken driving was behind bars Tuesday, Oct. 8 after surrendering to police as a suspect in a Santa Ana hit-and-run collision that left a 79-year-old woman clinging to life. Karina Elizabeth Garcia, 25, of Irvine turned herself in to to authorities Monday afternoon while accompanied by her…

Two women were charged Tuesday for their alleged rampage through a South Coast Plaza restaurant, in which one of them — a former employee — reportedly using a baseball bat to vandalize the eatery. Passion Shenay Coleman, 27, of Fullerton, was charged with criminal threats, second-degree burglary, assault with force likely to produce great bodily…

A second Cal State Long Beach student was arrested Tuesday, Oct. 8, on suspicion of threatening violence on campus the previous day, leading to the campus lockdown. Investigators said Tuesday, they believe 18-year-old Prateek Devulpally sent the threatening message. A female student had been arrested at the end of the Monday lock down. University police…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After less than four hours of deliberation Tuesday, a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale found a 21-year-old California man guilty of cyberstalking and making kidnapping threats to survivors and family members of the Parkland massacre. The jury found Brandon Michael Fleury of Santa Ana guilty of one count of transmitting a…

An instructional aide at Cerritos Elementary School in Anaheim was arrested last week on suspicion of inappropriately touching a child, authorities said. Jason Pineda, 20, was taken into custody on Oct. 2 following an allegation from a student about being touched. Anaheim police would not give more details about the student or alleged touching, saying…

More than seven years after a 6-year-old girl was kidnapped from in front of her Santa Ana home and raped in a nearby parking lot, a Montebello man has been arrested in connection to the abduction and sexual assault, authorities said. Francisco Javier Lopez, 45, is facing a dozen felonies, including kidnapping to commit a…

The California Court of Appeals decision means Orange County prosecutors must decide whether to have James Andrew Melton stand trial a fourth time in the death of Anthony DeSousa.

On the eve of the second anniversary of the wine country fires, Northern California’s biggest utility has warned customers across half the state to prepare for a possible blackout this week so their equipment doesn’t spark another repeat of those deadly blazes.

An L.A. Times analysis found a black person was more than four times as likely to be searched by police as a white person, and a Latino was three times as likely.