Car dealer Cal Worthington started each television introducing his dog Spot – except there was never a dog-always a different animal.

Surgery is a mainstay of breast cancer treatment, offering most women a good chance of cure. For frail nursing home residents, however, breast cancer surgery can harm their health and even hasten death, according to a study published Wednesday in JAMA Surgery. The results have led some experts to question why patients who are fragile…

I’m not sure if it’s a sign of local economic vitality — or just a symbol of how horrible the region’s traffic has become — but there’s record-setting traffic on Orange County’s southern toll roads. Use of Orange County’s Foothill/Eastern (133/241/261) and San Joaquin Hills (73) tollways has finally exceeded pre-recession peaks thanks to an…

SANTA ANA  — A 35-year-old Cerritos man was convicted Tuesday of gross vehicular manslaughter in a drunken driving crash that killed an 82-year-old La Mirada man on Mother’s Day 2015 in Buena Park. Steven Gerard Cruz was also convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with a blood-alcohol content exceeding…

Property owners for decades have fought to keep Hollister Ranch largely to themselves — and earlier this year it seemed they had won. But mounting public outrage has fueled multiple new efforts to open one of California’s most pristine stretches of coastline. A Santa Barbara County Superior Court…

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…