Sentencing Delays for Defendant in SoCal Identity Theft Scheme
A sentencing hearing for a convicted bank robber who ran a nearly $1 million fraud scheme targeting surfers at Southern California beaches was postponed Thursday until next week due to a power outage at the Los Angeles federal courthouse. Moundir Kamil, 56, of Orange County, pleaded guilty in September to...
Trash fire near elementary school is extinguished
Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley and Anaheim firefighters combined to knock down and contain a fire at a trash-sorting facility in Huntington Beach on Wednesday. According to the HBFD, units from Huntington Beach responded to the facility in the 17000 block of Nichols Lane, near Oak View Elementary School. They were...
Stolen motorcycle ends in jail for suspect in coastal Orange County
Tuesday morning, what started as a routine proactive patrol turned into a not-so-routine discovery for one unlucky motorcyclist, according to the Huntington Beach Police Department. During a consensual encounter, a police officer learned the rider was on Post-Release Community Supervision and noticed several issues...
SoCal’s Secret Tornado Alley Cuts Through East L.A., Montebello And Compton
Southern California’s stealth tornado alley is not out in the desert or up in the mountains. It is a surprisingly narrow strip running through East L.A. and parts of the South Bay, including neighborhoods just east of downtown Los Angeles and cities like Montebello, Compton, and Carson. That corridor has produced...
Commerce, CA – Drug Bust: K9 Alert Leads to 45 Pounds of Meth Found...
Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Commerce, CA – A California Highway Patrol K9 is being credited for uncovering roughly 45 pounds of suspected methamphetamine during a routine traffic stop in Los Angeles County. According to the California...
Motorcyclist is killed in a crash on Pacific Coast Highway
An investigation is continuing into a fatal traffic accident earlier his week in Huntington Beach. According to the HBPD, police responded to a report of a traffic collision at around 1:11 p.m. on Sunday at the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and 11th Street between a grey Land Rover LR2 and a red Harley...
Police in north O.C. provided assistance as ICE agents pursued an armed suspect
At approximately 6:44 a.m. this morning, Fullerton Police Communications received a call from a reporting party who heard multiple sirens and believed officers were in pursuit of a vehicle in the 1500 block of S. Highland Ave. The caller also reported seeing a male subject, whom the caller described as...
21 citations issued during a multi-agency commercial vehicle inspection operation in Tustin
On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, the Tustin Police Department, in partnership with the California Highway Patrol and Commercial Enforcement Officers from Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties, conducted fixed and roving commercial vehicle inspections along northbound and southbound Tustin Ranch...
Innocent motorist killed in Orange County police pursuit crash
A man is in custody after a high-speed police pursuit in Orange County ended in a multi-vehicle crash that left at least one innocent person dead and an unknown number of victims injured Wednesday night. Details are limited and officials with the Anaheim Police Department have not said why they were pursuing the...
Orange County mom who made worldwide headlines dies after cancer battle
Lori Coble, the Orange County mother who became a symbol of resilience after losing her three children in a freeway crash nearly two decades ago, has died following a battle with brain cancer. Coble and her husband, Chris, were thrust into the spotlight in 2007 after their children — Kyle, Emma and Katie — were […]
