Huntington Beach CA

Police are investigating the death of a man who was hit by a pickup truck while walking onto Seventh Street Wednesday night. Long Beach police say the man walked onto the street near St. Louis Avenue between two parked cars around 10:48 p.m. when he was hit by a person driving a 2007 Toyota Tundra traveling eastbound.

A $3.5 million wrongful death verdict in favor of the mother of a 19-year-old man fatally shot by Buena Park police has been overturned on appeal, according to court records obtained Thursday. The Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed the verdict and remanded it back to the lower court on...

A woman’s body washed up on a Peninsula beach this week. Her cause of death wasn’t immediately apparent, but homicide detectives do not suspect foul play, Long Beach police said. At about 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, someone called 911 to report seeing a body that “appeared to have...

Enforcement of a ban on the sale and distribution in Huntington Beach is now in effect. According to the HBPD, the ordinance curbing traffic of what’s various known as “laughing gas,” “NOX,” “galaxy gas” or “whippits” – with some exceptions including use in dentistry and medicine – creates a misdemeanor offense...

LONG BEACH – Long Beach police are investigating two separate crashes Wednesday night that resulted in the death of a pedestrian. The first collision was reported about 9:30 p.m. at Pacific Coast Highway and Maine Avenue, according to the Long Beach Police Department. “Upon arrival, officers discovered an...

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer continues grappling with harassment lawsuits after a second female prosecutor won a lawsuit against the county, claiming she faced harassment from a senior prosecutor he hired that was ignored. While she initially claimed Spitzer and some of his executive staff retaliated...

A traffic stop in Irvine on Tuesday turned into a rolling beauty haul, after the city’s Real‑Time Crime Center flagged a car allegedly tied to a string of CVS shoplifting cases. Inside, officers said they found roughly $9,000 in cosmetics and arrested three people on suspicion of organized retail theft and related...

On a foggy morning this past November, vehicle sped off after police officers attempted a traffic stop, according to the Costa Mesa Police Department. The vehicle dangerously exceeded over 120mph. Despite the early morning hour, the officers did not want to endanger anyone and although the pursuit was terminated,...

[Editor’s note: The report mentioned here is from an inspection conducted on February 18 and may not represent the future health inspection status of the food establishment.]. The Orange County health department conducted multiple health inspections on February 18 in the area. Among them, Lopez & Lefty’s underwent a...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — A man was sentenced Wednesday morning to three years in state prison after pleading guilty in Newport Beach court, despite requesting bail, which was denied by the presiding judge. On Wednesday, Feb. 18, Judge Derek G. Johnson sentenced the man to three years in state...