USPS Postal Supervisor Sentenced to a Year in Home Confinement for Stealing
A U.S. Postal Service supervisor who worked in Costa Mesa was sentenced to a year in home confinement in federal court Friday for stealing checks worth about $284,000 and other goods worth up to $40,000. Joivian Tijuana Hayes, 36, of Compton, supervised the Costa Mesa post office when she was...
Santa Ana Winds to Bring More Power Outage and Travel Concerns Sunday
LOS ANGELES - Gusty Santa Ana winds are expected to return Sunday morning across Los Angeles County, bringing another round of concern over downed trees, power outages and dangerous conditions for high-profile vehicles, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters said Sunday's winds are not expected to be...
Norwalk’s “Ghost” Hospital to Be Transformed into a Major Mental Health Village
Los Angeles County is finally doing something with those long-empty hulks at Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk. On Friday, county leaders broke ground on a new mental health campus that will turn six long-vacant buildings into treatment space and housing for people with serious mental illness. The project,...
LA County investing $100 million for mental health services by leasing empty state facilities
Local leaders have broken ground on a project to turn vacant state buildings at the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk into a new mental health facility for Los Angeles County.
Anaheim homeless man charged after allegedly attacking mother, teenage daughter
A man is behind bars after police say he attacked a mother and her teenage daughter in public in Anaheim, threatening to sexually assault them.
Newport Beach Couple Charged in Multimillion Fraud
A Newport Beach couple is behind bars after what prosecutors describe as a yearslong, multimillion-dollar fraud operation that bankrolled an upscale lifestyle. The pair was arrested on Thursday, Feb. 26, and now faces 68 felony counts in Santa Barbara County, where judges are also weighing whether the money used to...
DA Charges 76-Year-Old Man with Fatally Shooting Woman in Huntington Beach
A 76-year-old man was charged Thursday with fatally shooting a woman in Huntington Beach. Robert Cipiano Alvarez Jr. was charged with murder with a sentencing enhancement for the discharge of a gun causing death. He is accused of killing 65-year-old Bari Payne of Huntington Beach. Alvarez’s city of residence was not...
Orange County demolishes unfinished Vietnam War memorial mired in corruption scandal
LOS ANGELES - An Orange County Public Works crew has demolished a Vietnam War memorial that was left unfinished in Mile Square Regional Park in Fountain Valley. In 2023, then-Supervisor Andrew Do allocated $1 million in First District discretionary funds to the nonprofit Viet America Society for the design and...
A wanted suspect was arrested again in Anaheim on drug charges
In March, a police officer working at Anaheim’s Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) was monitoring cameras along Beach Blvd when they observed what appeared to be a hand-to-hand drug transaction, according to the Anaheim Police Department. At the time, no police officers were immediately available to respond. However, the...
Three O.C. burglars in a stolen vehicle were arrested and now face meth charges...
On Tuesday, just before noon, Orange County Sheriff FLOCK cameras alerted deputies to a stolen vehicle connected to a burglary in the city of Irvine according to San Clemente Police Services. Deputies quickly responded and, with assistance from the OCSD helicopter Duke, they located the vehicle at a storage facility...
