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A Deceptively Simple Racket (Image Credits: Unsplash) Irvine, California – Retail theft took a creative turn when detectives uncovered a scheme targeting high-end Lego sets at Target stores nationwide. A 28-year-old man allegedly removed valuable minifigures and pieces from the boxes, replaced them with dried pasta to mimic the original rattle, and returned the tampered ... Read more

Laguna Beach’s Main Beach and nearby businesses emptied out in a hurry Saturday afternoon after an anonymous caller claimed a bomb was hidden in the sand. Within minutes, the normally packed shoreline turned into a secured zone as officers locked down parts of downtown and launched a full safety sweep.

A 49-year-old man accused of selling fentanyl-laced drugs out of his Perris home, where authorities seized tens of thousands of pills, was charged Monday with possession of controlled substances for sale and other offenses. Ignacio Gomez Lares Jr. was arrested last week following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation.

Residents of a quiet California neighborhood could hardly believe their eyes when a hot air balloon carrying 13 people made an emergency landing in a backyard

The singer known as D4vd has been arrested in connection with the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas, who was reported missing in the spring of 2025. The Lake Elsinore girl's decomposed body was found Sept. 8 in the front trunk of a Tesla impounded at a Los Angeles tow yard.

Orange County is hanging up the phone on $1,337 calls.

A total of 293 drivers were contacted and yielded 11 field evaluations for impairment, 3 DUI arrests, 10 citations issued for driver’s license related violations, and 5 vehicles were impounded on Friday night, April 17, at the Costa Mesa Police Department’s DUI and driver’s license checkpoint on westbound Baker Street, east of Bear Street.

The cause of a hazardous material incident in Huntington Beach last week has been determined. According to the Huntington Beach Fire Department, the incident was in the 16000 block of Viewpoint Lane (west of Beach Boulevard). A small electronic tracking device had been cut open, exposing an internal lithium battery and releasing an odor.

Santa Ana residents may not get a detailed public hearing on what happened at last summer’s protests against ICE’s sweeping deportations almost a year after police officers fired hundreds of rounds of rubber bullets and threw tear gas at demonstrations in Orange County’s only sanctuary city. According...

No American city literally checks your bank balance before you move in, but a few come surprisingly close once you look at the cost of buying a typical home. This is not really a story ... Read more