Police look for shooter who wounded man at downtown Chipotle
Police say a 38-year-old man was wounded in a shooting during an argument at a Chipotle in downtown Long Beach on Sunday afternoon. The shooting happened at about 1:45 p.m. inside the restaurant on Pine Avenue just south of Third Street, according to Long Beach police. Two men got into...
$1.5B Paramount deal safeguards OC film crews, vendors and local film spending
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a major settlement agreement with Paramount that resolves the antitrust concerns at the center of the state’s case and secures binding, court‑enforceable guardrails to protect competition, consumer choice and California’s film workforce. The agreement requires Paramount t
Capistrano Beach homes continue to suffer from pounding Orange County surf
A second storm-battered oceanfront home in Capistrano Beach has been torn down, while eight houses in the private development on Beach Road are red-tagged and seven remain yellow-tagged.
LAB Holding Acquires Pep Boys Site in Costa Mesa
LAB Holding LLC, owner and developer of Anaheim Packing House and The CAMP, has bought the 18,053-square-foot Pep Boys service center on Bristol Street in Costa Mesa for $10.5 million, according to CoStar records. The acquisition, which closed in August, marks one of the final pieces to the family-run firm’s...
Moving to Orange County: How to Prepare for a Different Kind of Move
Moving across Orange County can look deceptively simple on a map. The distance might be short. The number of boxes might be exactly the same. You may even be moving from one part of the county to another and think, well, how complicated can this really be?. Pretty complicated, depending...
The Santa Ana Rent Control ordinance already appears to be backfiring
Santa Ana’s rent‑control ordinance was intended to stabilize housing costs, but current market data from Zumper shows the opposite trend: rents in the city are rising faster than almost anywhere else in the Los Angeles metro. The ordinance caps increases only for pre‑1995 multifamily units, leaving most of...
North Long Beach Man Gets 22 Years for Killing Ex’s New Boyfriend
A 45-year-old man has been sentenced to 22 years in state prison for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend inside a North Long Beach home in 2023, in a case that began with an initial murder booking and later led to a plea. Oscar Alejandro Chan pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter on September 18,
Pedestrian killed in Long Beach identified
LONG BEACH – A pedestrian struck by three vehicles and killed in Long Beach was identified Monday. Juvenal Banderas, 65, died at a hospital after being struck about 7:25 p.m. Sept. 13 on Pacific Avenue, north of Pacific Coast Highway, according to the Long Beach Police Department. Only one of the three vehicles stopped
California Sea-Doo rider fatally struck by boat on the Colorado River
The victim of a fatal boat collision Sept. 17 on the Colorado River near Parker was a laborer and construction worker from California who was riding a Sea-Doo when he was killed, his family says. Manuel Martinez, who had recently turned 46, had a 13-year-old son and a fiancé, Martinez's sister Marlene Martinez told The
Rare sea turtle lays eggs in Orange County in first documented West Coast nesting
Historic sighting: A rare olive ridley sea turtle has laid eggs in Orange County, marking the first documented nesting of its kind on the West Coast.

















