Boot Barn Opens 500th Store
Irvine, Calif. — Boot Barn, the largest western and workwear retailer in the nation, has opened its 500th store, located in Huntington Beach, Calif. The milestone location represents a symbolic return to the area as the very first Boot Barn store opened its doors in Huntington Beach in 1978. From that single...
Man Sentenced To 44 Years In Prison For A Fatal Shooting In Anaheim
Richard Flores, a 25-year-old man, was sentenced Friday, Dec. 12, to 44 years to life in prison for fatally shooting Jefferson Diaz, a 30-year-old man, in Anaheim back in 2021. According to Flores’ defense attorneys, the incident followed a quarrel about a vehicle purchase. On October 23, Flores was...
City manager salary now $346k
Garden Grove City Manager Lisa Kim will be getting a raise said to be 7.5 percent, bringing her annual salary to $346,433. The city council approved the increase in her compensation at Tuesday night’s meeting by a 6-0 vote, with Councilmember Philip Nguyen absent. She will also get a...
13-year-old dies after massive explosion rips through Bell Gardens apartment building, family says
A body was found inside a Bell Gardens apartment building after a massive explosion tore through the structure and left two others hospitalized. Family members said the victim was a 13-year-old boy.
Orange County Man Awaits Sentencing for Stealing Nearly $1 Million From Surfers’ Parked Cars
A man is set to be sentenced for stealing surfers’ phones and bank cards from their cars. Moundir Kamil, 56, of Orange County, orchestrated a scheme that saw him steal almost $1 million from surfers at beaches in San Diego County, Malibu, Manhattan Beach and others. As CBS8 reports,...
Orange County Supervisors Hike Trash Rates
Residents throughout Orange County could be paying a lot more for trash disposal by the end of the decade. It comes after OC Supervisors signed off on a new set of rate hikes on Tuesday for cities to dispose of their residents’ waste at the dump, with plans to almost double the current rates by 2030.
Yorba Linda High School students, staff ordered to shelter in place
Students and staff at Yorba Linda High School had to shelter in place for about an hour Wednesday amid an investigation, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said. Deputies had to investigate "suspicious circumstances," the sheriff's department said but did not clarify what prompted the investigation. By 11:26...
Hawaii man sentenced after defrauding elderly Irvine man out of nearly $2 million
A Hawaii man who defrauded an elderly Orange County resident out of nearly $2 million — costing the victim his Irvine home and yacht — has been sentenced to four years in federal prison, prosecutors announced Wednesday. John Tamahere McCabe, 42, of Kailua, Hawaii, was sentenced to 48 months behind bars and ordered to...
One city to hand out $1,000 fines with new self-checkout law to curb rising...
Costa Mesa, California has proposed a self-checkout ordinance requiring one staff member per three machines, with fines up to $1,000 per day, as new research shows 27% of users admit to stealing
This Costco heist was a bust
Fighting crime isn’t just for police officers. According to the Garden Grove Police Department, three adult suspects were arrested Monday for allegedly stealing a computer from the Costco store at Main Street and Garden Grove Boulevard, using fake/homemade receipts. Costco employees recognized the fraud, say police,...

















