Deputies arrested an Aliso Viejo man Wednesday, Sept. 25, who was suspected of inappropriately touching a minor along a popular hiking trail where two attempted kidnappings and two cases of child molestation had been reported over the past two weeks. Christopher Lopez, 30, was taken into custody at about 12 p.m. and booked on suspicion…
Trial began Wednesday for a San Clemente woman who drunkenly crashed into a vehicle stopped at a Huntington Beach intersection, killing three Las Vegas teenagers. Both the prosecutor and the defense attorney in their opening statements in a Santa Ana courtroom acknowledged that Bani Marcela Duarte, 29, was responsible for the 2018 crash that killed…
The 13-year-old boy whose head hit a pillar during what authorities called an attack by two other students at Moreno Valley Landmark Middle School has been pronounced clinically dead. The boy, identified as Diego, was hospitalized after the Sept. 16 incident and died from his injuries, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. “Preparations by…
The lead defense attorney for Charles “Chase” Merritt, convicted in June of slaying the four-member McStay family of Fallbrook, has filed a motion to withdraw from the case and asked to delay the scheduled Friday, Sept. 27, sentencing of his client. In a court filing, James E. McGee said a conflict of interest has emerged that…
The fire danger remains high in Northern California, spurring power shutoffs, while Southern California begins a cool-down.
In California, there have been two deaths and 90 people hospitalized due to vaping, officials say.
Orange County firefighters battled a fire Wednesday morning, Sept. 25, that tore through a commercial building in Santa Ana. About 50 Orange County firefighters knocked down a fire at a commercial building in Santa Ana in just under two hours Wednesday morning, Sept. 25. (Photo Courtesy of Capt. Paul Holaday) The fire broke out at…
Gold prospecting in the San Gabriel Mountains started in the mid-1800s and continues today.
In the couple’s Los Angeles social network alone, several of their friends have chosen not to reveal the gender of their children until the kids are old enough to articulate their identities on their own.
There’s big money to be made in marketing “rapid DNA” technology. But some forensics experts say the technology could hinder prosecutions if not handled correctly.
