One moment, Alfonso Morillo III was asleep in the back seat of his friend’s Nissan on the way back from Disneyland. Two weeks later, he awoke from a coma in a hospital. Morillo, now 23, and six others were injured Feb. 27, 2016, when a man who was street racing lost control of his Dodge…
LAGUNA BEACH — Robert Stewart Sant, a Laguna Beach High School lacrosse coach, has been arrested on suspicion of inappropriate touching of three girls on his team. Sant, 37, of Irvine, was arrested Tuesday, April 9, on three counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child, said Laguna Beach police Sgt. Jim Cota. Sant…
More than two weeks after Orange County and Adelanto officials said they were getting out of the immigrant detention business, the fate of some 2,500 people still held in prison-like facilities remains unclear. Though federal immigration officials declined comment Friday, they indicated last month that detainees in Orange County and Adelanto could be sent out…
An Orange County Superior Court judge has denied attorneys for a Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend, who are accused of drugging and raping seven women, access to internal correspondence from prosecutors. The defense request came amid months worth of pretrial jockeying over hundreds, potentially more than a thousand, videos collected from Grant William Robicheaux…
Air quality officials will miss a 2019 federal deadline to clean smog in the Coachella Valley, saying the challenges of “hotter summer weather and the threat of climate change” are hampering efforts to slash health-damaging ozone. The South Coast Air Quality Management District said Friday that…
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked a judge’s order that would have stopped the Trump administration from returning asylum seekers to Mexico. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay Friday. A three-judge panel set a Tuesday deadline for civil liberties groups to…
Until recently, Adrian Salgado lived a quiet life mowing lawns and trimming trees in Santa Ana. Then the 65-year-old gardener got swept up in a drama, like the ones he sees in his old Mexican action movies — and his face was broadcast all over television: California Cops Pitch In To Buy Equipment…
While it attracts millions of visitors annually, many Southern California residents will likely never make the pilgrimage to Rome to experience Michelangelo’s magnificent frescoes painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But they can more easily find their way to the Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, where “Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition” will be…
A kitten is kept snuggles with a fluffy stuffed animal at OC Animal Care in Tustin on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Kitten season is in full bloom at the OC Animal Care shelter in Tustin. Public Education Officer Brittany Hayes holds a litter of 1-month old kittens on…
Authorities were searching for a 15-year-old who escaped from Orange County Juvenile Hall early Friday, April 12. He was in custody on suspicion of murder. (OnScene.TV) Authorities were searching Friday, April 12, for a teenage boy accused of murder who escaped from Juvenile Hall in Orange overnight. Ike Souzer, 15, reportedly escaped Orange County Juvenile…
