As voters went to cast their ballots for the 2018 midterm elections, they were faced with enormously long lines at polling places in Georgia, New York, Texas, Arizona and many other states. Some of the hours-long waits were attributed to malfunctioning equipment, a lack of paper ballots and glitches in voter registration. BREAKING: A state…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON — Health care and immigration were high on voters’ minds as they cast ballots in the midterm elections, according to a wide-ranging survey of the American electorate conducted by The Associated Press. AP VoteCast also shows a majority of voters considered President Donald Trump a factor in their votes. Control…

Young entrepreneurs hawked their wares at the OC Children’s Business Fair on Saturday. Hosted by the Orange County Rescue Mission in Tustin, the fair featured items such as bracelets and wands, lemonade and cakes and other items decorated or made by the children. There were more than 50 booths manned by youngsters from throughout the…

By CLAIRE GALOFARO and MARTHA IRVINE JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind.— Clara Swallows pulled herself out of bed. Her aching back made her want to stay put, but the 74-year-old in Indiana had somewhere she needed to be: the polls. Seven hundred miles away in Florida, Stephanie Kent suspended repairs to her home — flooded during Hurricane Michael…

District 34 State Senator Janet Nguyen Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Show Caption of Expand State Sen. Janet Nguyen will soon find out if the more conservative and heavily Vietnamese Orange County portion of her district will allow her to once again overcome an overall disadvantage in voter registration to win a second term…

While Orange County Republicans fight to hold their four congressional seats in today’s election, they’re up against a Democratic wave that’s been building for 28 years. In 1990, the county GOP’s 22-percentage point voter-registration advantage over Democrats marked an apex in one of the party’s most famous strongholds. That edge has been shrinking ever since…

It’s the second most expensive House race in the nation and perhaps the most interesting. The contest for Orange County’s coastal 48th Congressional District has put 30-year Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in the toughest fight of his political career. He’s challenged by Democrat Harley Rouda, a Laguna Beach real estate executive who, polls suggest, has…

Upsets happen, but In a congressional district that straddles Los Angeles and Orange counties, Democrat Alan Lowenthal is favored to beat Republican John Briscoe on Tuesday, Nov. 6 in the race to represent California’s 47th District. Lowenthal – a key voice in the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” – was first elected in 2012 to…

If recent voter registration patterns continue, Orange County will turn blue — with more registered Democrats than registered Republicans — within a few months, if not weeks. But the blue tide has been on the rise for years among voters who live in what is now known as California’s 46th Congressional District. The district, which…

By any measure, what happened outside Reed Middle School one day last month was scary: A man with an arsenal of weapons was found hanging out on the edge of campus — the same man who just the week before had tried to lure schoolgirls to his truck. School police thwarted any possible bad outcome,…