SANTA ANA — A convicted thief was behind bars Tuesday on charges of a swinging a knife at security guards who confronted the suspected shoplifter outside a Santa Ana department store. Ryan Quintin Hancock, 43, of Orange, was arrested on Monday, Feb. 4, on suspicion of brandishing a knife at employees during a robbery at…
A couple charged with killing a 4-year-old girl whose body was put in a bag and taken to Mexico paid a woman $100 on Aug. 9, 2016 to drive them to the border, a detective testified in court Tuesday. Details about how Mercy Becerra, 46, and her boyfriend, Johnny Hartley, 41, reached Mexico came out during…
Loved ones gathered in remembrance of a husband, father and engineer who was killed at the age of 51 in an Aliso Viejo hit-and-run crash on Jan. 30. About 100 friends and relatives of Michael David Tomlinson came together Monday evening for a candlelight vigil at the intersection Wood Canyon and Westridge Drives. That’s where…
Javier Rodriguez, a lion dancer with the Thien Long Lion Dancers takes a break on the lion costumes during the Lunar New Year Celebration at the Asian Garden Mall in Westminster on Tuesday, February 5, 2019. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG) Kenn Nguyen, 3, dances during the Lunar New Year Celebration at the…
Presenting a report on a rash of pepper-spray use at juvenile detention facilities in Los Angeles County, an internal oversight agency on Tuesday advised the Board of Supervisors to consider restricting or banning the practice. The supervisors, though alarmed by the county Probation Department’s…
It was a role she wanted to turn down. A scientific expedition through the Amazon gone wrong. A gilled creature that appears to be half-man, half-fish. A climatic scene in a murky grotto. It seemed the stuff of comic books to Julie Adams. But she was under contract to Universal, and it was better…
The pilot of a Cessna that crashed into a Yorba Linda neighborhood, killing him and four people in a home, was carrying what investigators now suspect to have been false law enforcement credentials identifying him as a retired Chicago police officer, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said on Tuesday. Relying on what was described as…
Newly elected Rancho Santa Margarita Councilwoman Anne Figueroa has lived in the city since before it was, well, a city. She moved to the community in 1994 with her then 2-year-old daughter and raised all her kids here. Rancho Santa Margarita Councilwoman Anne Figueroa. (Courtesy of Anne Figueroa) “It really was the best place to…
Antonio Pastini, the pilot killed on Sunday when his small plane plunged into a Yorba Linda home, was first identified by California authorities as a retired Chicago police officer. But a spokeswoman for the Chicago police said Pastini, 75, was never employed by the department and was carrying…
Kindergartners in the Tustin Unified School District will be getting a little more time to learn their lessons. The district is adding about an hour and a half to the school day for the young students starting with the next school year, joining a trend toward offering full-day kindergarten. South Orange County school districts announced…
