Workman walks through water pipe during construction of Castaic Hydroelectric Power Plant.

A 23-year-old motorcyclist died after colliding with a car in Costa Mesa near Orange Coast College on Tuesday, March 19. Officers responded near the intersection of Fairview Road and Adams Avenue after a caller notified police of the crash at about 8:50 p.m., according to Costa Mesa Police Sgt. Patrick Wessel. He said the man…

The man ran through the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw shopping mall, armed with a foot-long kitchen knife. It was a Tuesday evening, and the mall was crowded with shoppers. When he wouldn’t drop the knife, two Los Angeles police officers began shooting at the man. After he fell to the ground and tried…

SEAL BEACH – Seal Beach police asked for the public’s help on Tuesday, March 19, in retracing the steps of a man whose body was found in a flood control channel last week. Police are seeking more information about 28-year-old Brandon Atchley, whose last known address was in Yorba Linda, said Seal Beach police Sgt. Mike Henderson….

Two men and a woman from Kern County were arrested Monday on suspicion of stealing an expensive bicycle from a shop in Chino in February and running over a store employee with a truck as she tried to stop them. Ronald Wolfe, 20, of Frazier Park; and Kyle and Nichole Stewart, 27 and 23, both…

Another round of rain will fall across Southern California as a relatively mild storm moves through the area on Wednesday, March 20 and Thursday, March 21, according to forecasts. Portions of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties may see some showers beginning late in the evening on Tuesday, but most of the precipitation…

Immigrant detainees at the Adelanto Detention Facility, a privately run center that has been criticized for providing inadequate care, are staging a hunger strike to bring attention to conditions there. Their demands: adequate medical care, an end to what they describe as abusive treatment, and access to edible, nutritious food. The hunger strike began in…

$426.5 MILLION MAN Angels superstar outfielder Mike Trout agreed to a contract to keep him with the Angels through the 2030 season. Trout was set to make $34 million for the next two seasons but could average about $35.83 million over the next 12 years. Major league money The biggest contracts in MLB history (by…

Nine months after voters scuttled the Irvine City Council’s scenario for building a veterans cemetery, supporters still can’t seem to agree on how – or where – to proceed. Irvine city leaders are now focused on a piece of land in the Orange County Great Park that was planned to be part of a golf…

Elisabeth Kimmel, the wealthy former San Diego media executive charged with paying bribes to get her children into USC and Georgetown, appeared briefly Monday in San Diego federal court, where she was ordered to give up her passport as part of a $500,000 no-cash deposit bond package. Kimmel was…