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SANTA ANA – A 27-year-old man believed to be transient suffered fatal injuries when a motorist accidentally ran him over while the victim was lying in a driveway at a Santa Ana car wash, police said Wednesday. Police were called just before 2:30 p.m. Tuesday to the Orange Coin...

BUENA PARK, Calif. — Knott’s Berry Farm, one of Southern California’s most popular theme park destinations, will debut a new eatery in the heart of Charleston Circle, right across from the famous fountain, this summer. The venue, currently a Johnny Rockets, will undergo a complete transformation starting April 15,...

Garden Grove City Manager Lisa Kim will be getting a raise said to be 7.5 percent, bringing her annual salary to $346,433. The city council approved the increase in her compensation at Tuesday night’s meeting by a 6-0 vote, with Councilmember Philip Nguyen absent. She will also get a...

The estranged husband of a Newport Beach woman found dead on the side of a mountain in Crestline last November has been arrested on suspicion of her murder last Friday (Jan. 23). Gordon Abas Goodarzi, 65, of Rolling Hills, was arrested in connection with the death of Aryan Papoli, 58,...

Woke Orange County Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento finally has endorsed a candidate in the hotly contested race for the 68th State Assembly District. As expected Sarmiento ignored one of his fellow progressives in the race, Santa Ana City Councilman Johnathan Ryan Hernandez, which makes sense since Hernandez’ campaign...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY – The Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS) has reached a major production milestone of half a trillion gallons of purified water as it marks 18 years of service this month. A joint project of the Orange County Water District (OCWD) and the Orange County Sanitation District (OC San), the GWRS is the...

A man is set to be sentenced for stealing surfers’ phones and bank cards from their cars. Moundir Kamil, 56, of Orange County, orchestrated a scheme that saw him steal almost $1 million from surfers at beaches in San Diego County, Malibu, Manhattan Beach and others. As CBS8 reports,...

Residents throughout Orange County could be paying a lot more for trash disposal by the end of the decade. It comes after OC Supervisors signed off on a new set of rate hikes on Tuesday for cities to dispose of their residents’ waste at the dump, with plans to almost double the current rates by 2030.

Students and staff at Yorba Linda High School had to shelter in place for about an hour Wednesday amid an investigation, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said. Deputies had to investigate "suspicious circumstances," the sheriff's department said but did not clarify what prompted the investigation. By 11:26...

A Hawaii man who defrauded an elderly Orange County resident out of nearly $2 million — costing the victim his Irvine home and yacht — has been sentenced to four years in federal prison, prosecutors announced Wednesday. John Tamahere McCabe, 42, of Kailua, Hawaii, was sentenced to 48 months behind bars and ordered to...