Girard Damian Saenz, who has ties to the Getty family, faces up to nearly 49 years in state prison if convincted.

FULLERTON — Southern California Edison crews worked Tuesday morning to restore power to 87 customers in Fullerton still offline following a power outage along Harbor Boulevard that affected 13,902 SCE customers at its peak. The outage was reported at 8:40 p.m. Monday and was caused by a problem at a substation near the intersection of…

Shortly after federal authorities took down a national college admissions scam in March, officials at USC launched their own investigation with emails to dozens of students.

Aftershocks of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake near Ridgecrest have been creeping into areas close to two major earthquake faults, sparking concern.

There was confusion on Monday among northbound migrants in Tijuana, following the Trump administration’s latest effort to ban virtually all foreigners from filing for asylum in the United States.

Power outages cut electricity to thousands of customers in Los Angeles and Orange counties on Monday, July 15. Fullerton experienced the most widespread outages, with more than 12,700 Southern California Edison customers in that city left in the dark Monday evening, according to the SCE website. It wasn’t clear what caused the problem, Fullerton Police…

A Los Angeles Unified School District police officer shot a man in South Los Angeles on Monday after the man struck the officer with his vehicle, authorities said.

SANTA ANA — A 44-year-old inmate found unresponsive Monday in his cell at the Theo Lacy jail in Orange was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour after arrival, sheriff’s officials said. Related Articles 1 dead, 15 injured after gas explosion in Murrieta destroys home Man who took ‘upskirt’…

Rescuers on Monday found a Huntington Beach woman who told family she and her dog got lost Friday in the Inyo National Forest after being threatened by an armed man — and she then survived on stagnant pond water and cactus fruit. Searchers found Sheryl Powell, 60, a few hours after locating her 5-pound black…

A natural gas explosion Monday killed a gas company employee and destroyed a home in Murrieta in a powerful blast that rocked the area. Debris from the explosion was strewn across Spinning Wheel Drive and Wooden Horse Trail, in front of the lot where the home once sat. A garage door panel lay crumpled on…