Seven years before James Alan Neal allegedly kidnapped, sexually assaulted and strangled 11-year-old Linda Ann O’Keefe in Newport Beach, he sat in an Orange County jail cell lamenting his miserable life and long rap sheet. “I want to make up for all the hurt I have caused myself and my parents, especially my mother,” Neal,…
Heather Repenning edged into second place Friday in the contest for a pivotal seat on the Los Angeles Board of Education. Second place matters because the top two finishers will be on the ballot in a May 14 runoff. Jackie Goldberg has already nailed down one spot by finishing far ahead of the other…
An Orange County Superior Court judge on Friday described the illegal recording of attorney-client phone calls from the jail as an “epic mishap,” but one that did not affect the attempted murder case against the son of a former “Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member. Judge Jonathan Fish declined to dismiss the charges against…
El Monte school officials had warning signs that Richard Paul Daniels was having inappropriate interactions with the girls in his high school classes — he even had a conviction for it — but they failed to take decisive action that would have prevented him from having sex with a student in 2015. …
Authorities are investigating after a man’s body was found lying atop rocks near Baby Beach in Dana Point on Friday, March 8. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department received a call just before 3 p.m. from a passerby who had seen what they believed was a body near a cliff side along the coast in the…
Marine biologist Nancy Caruso at Table Rock Beach in Laguna. She and a team of volunteers search for signs that the depleted snail-like abalone are reproducing again on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Ron Pedley, a pianist for singer Barry Manilow by trade, is a volunteer for biologist Nancy…
Jan-Michael Vincent, a golden boy of Hollywood action films in the 1970s who starred in the mid-1980s TV adventure series “Airwolf” but saw his career crater amid drug and alcohol addiction, has died in Asheville, N.C. The actor’s Feb. 10 death — which was not publicly announced at the time — was…
A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Friday afternoon one mile from Caldwell Pines, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 2:55 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 12 miles from Clearlake, Calif., 15 miles…
Nearly a week after images from a Nazi-themed party attended by teenagers in Orange County sparked outrage, school officials and the community have been working to turn the incident into a learning experience. Images from the party appearing on social media showed a group of students — arms outstretched…
Costa Mesa plans to spend nearly $7 million to buy a warehouse near John Wayne Airport to use as a homeless shelter. In the meantime, the city expects to open a temporary shelter within a month at the Lighthouse Church of the Nazarene to offer a nightly place for up to 50 people to stay….
