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A walk along the shoreline turned into an unexpected discovery last week when a San Clemente resident found what authorities now believe are human remains near Linda Lane Beach. On the afternoon of June 17, Katherine Kinnison was walking along the sand when she spotted what appeared to be teeth...

To stop porch pirates, Irvine police have been using aerial drones to follow suspects from residential areas and shopping malls.

What started as a quick escape from an Orange Police Department Motor Officer at Grijalva Park ended as a textbook lesson in the rules of the road. The suspect, who attempted to flee on an illegal electric motorcycle, was quickly apprehended, hit with nine separate citations, and watched their vehicle get hauled away o

The long-delayed Nickelodeon project planned for the Harbor Boulevard hotel district in Garden Grove took another big – perhaps the final – step toward putting some sticks in the ground. On Tuesday night the City Council voted 7-0 to approve the second reading and adoption of an ordinance...

The Orange County Board of Supervisors has officially approved a contract appointing Chief Information Officer KC Roestenberg as the county’s new Interim Chief Executive Officer. Following a vote during a closed session on June 9, the Board formalized the agreement at their public meeting in Santa Ana, California. Mr..

This Fourth of July, drones will be used to crack down on the use of illegal fireworks in Southern California. If law enforcement officers get a report of illegal firework use in an area, they will send a drone out to locate the fireworks, allowing officers to view a live feed and determine whether it’s necessary to se

The Costa Mesa Police Department (CMPD) recently took 710 pounds of illegal fireworks off the streets and arrested two suspects following two distinct targeted operations. Led by the agency’s Special Investigations Unit and Community Policing Unit, the proactive enforcement comes amid a zero-tolerance policy targeting

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has released new surveillance video and vehicle images in an active appeal to solve a fatal 2024 shooting. On Friday, December 20, 2024, at approximately 4:20 PM, sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of gunfire in a residential neighborhood within the City of Stanton, CA. The t

Proactive enforcement by the Santa Ana Police Department has taken significant quantities of narcotics off local streets following a traffic stop yesterday. Directed Enforcement officers were patrolling near Standard Avenue and McFadden Avenue when they witnessed suspicious activity indicating an active mobile drug sal

A former state parks superintendent accused of secretly recording nearly two dozen naked lifeguards in a beach locker room and sharing some of the images with friends faces felony and misdemeanor charges in Orange County. Kevin Pearsall, 59, of Long Beach, was charged with five felony counts of eavesdropping, 23...