SANTA ANA — A 20-year-old Buena Park man pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually assaulting two girls, ages 6 and 7, at the Anaheim daycare center where he worked. Daniel Antonio Martinez pleaded guilty to three counts of lewd acts on a child younger than 14 and three counts of sexual penetration of a child younger…
California’s nascent earthquake early-warning system had another successful run Tuesday night when a 4.4 magnitude temblor hit the La Verne area. The quake was too small to cause much damage but was felt over a wide area. Seismologist Lucy Jones told reporters at Caltech on Tuesday night that the…
U.S Rep. Lou Correa paid tribute Wednesday, Aug. 29, at Orange Plaza Park to Arizona Sen. John McCain, who died Saturday, and other military veterans who served in Vietnam. McCain was a Navy pilot who was held as a prisoner of war in Hanoi for five years after his plane was shot down in 1967….
Studio City resident Vance Christopher, 24, was one among dozens of video game fans who showed up to the TCL Chinese Theatre for Hollywood Action Tuesdays, a tournament where gamers come from as far away as Orange County compete in games like Street Fighter V and Dragon Ball FighterZ. The event is set up on…
Irvine police filed a complaint with prosecutors Wednesday alleging Fullerton Police Chief David Hendricks and Capt. Thomas Oliveras committed battery in an altercation with two emergency medical technicians at a Lady Antebellum concert last week. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office will determine whether to file charges against the Fullerton police officials for the confrontation Friday…
The number of attorney-client telephone calls improperly recorded by the Orange County jail’s phone vendor is likely more than the 1,079 announced by the contractor, according to the Public Defender’s Office. The official list released by phone contractor GTL showed that jail inmates called public defenders seven times over the past three years, which attorneys…
Incentive deals that would have given Disney $267 million in hotel room taxes and prevented the city from adding a gate tax to Disneyland Resort park tickets for decades are officially dead. A week after Disney officials asked them to, Anaheim City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday, Aug. 28, to kill the agreements that Disneyland Resort…
LAGUNA BEACH — Kimberly and Clay Leeds were driving in heavy traffic along Laguna Canyon Road shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26 when they saw a flash of fur run toward the center of the road. “I saw a car swerve to the left and then I saw it was a baby bobcat,” said…
Dr. George Tyndall, the USC gynecologist accused of sexually assaulting hundreds of students, has given up his medical license temporarily as he confronts a police investigation and a barrage of lawsuits. The physician reached an agreement this week with the Medical Board of California that prohibits…
Police and first responders in Placentia treated and then rushed a young boy to the hospital, likely saving his life after he stopped breathing on the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 28, authorities said. The Placentia Police Department said in a statement it received word of a choking child and responded to the parking lot of…
