A day after prosecutors announced that a well-known Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend were charged with drugging and raping two women, several other potential victims contacted investigators, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Wednesday. The DA’s office has received more than 30 calls, including at least six “strong leads” regarding potential sexual assault victims…

Police in Buena Park were searching for a man considered to be armed and dangerous near the intersection of Beach and Artesia boulevards on the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 19. Officers encountered a suspect in a car who they believe had a gun sometime before 3 p.m., according to Buena Park Police Sgt. Mike Lovchik….

As a new member of the civilian board that oversees the Los Angeles Police Department, Matt Johnson wanted to reduce the number of police shootings. The fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014 had recently shaken the country, giving rise to the Black…

Two weeks after a gunman in Parkland, Fla., zigzagged from one classroom to another in his former high school, killing 17 people, a Beverly Hills High employee dialed 911 to report a stranger mumbling to himself and following her as she left campus. Police confiscated a loaded handgun in the man’s…

One thing I never understood about Meg Shimatsu was how she kept her spirits up, given her health problems and her circumstances. When I wrote about the former legal secretary a little over a year ago, she was living in a 1990 Toyota Corolla but figured things could be worse, given how many people…

Instead of taking the Blue Line to Long Beach, how about the A Train? Or how about catching the No. 5 line to Santa Monica Pier? With an unprecedented number of rail and bus projects planned — and a dwindling number of hues to choose from — Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials are considering…

Christine Blasey Ford, the Northern California psychology professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were both teenagers, is described by colleagues as a rigorous statistician who doesn’t fudge the data or stray from the facts. One psychiatrist who…

Physicist Virginia Carter left the lab to work for Norman Lear’s production company.

The short, heroic life of the mountain lion known as M86 offers a promise of what could be — and, quite possibly, what must come to pass if the cougars of the Santa Ana Mountains are to survive. Winston Vickers, a veterinarian at the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center and leading researcher and expert of…

Wildfires, like the Holy fire that torched 26,000 acres of the Santa Ana Mountains area in August, don’t typically pose a significant threat to cougars, expert sprinters as well as long-distance travelers who are skilled at escaping such threats. But one study of Southern California cougars — also known as mountain lions and pumas —…