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More than 4,000 people from 65 different South Orange County churches gathered in a soccer field in Mission Viejo, Thursday, to observe the National Day of Prayer for the sixth straight year. The theme for this years’s National Day of Prayer...

SANTA ANA – A judge on Thursday rejected a wrongful termination lawsuit by five former Orange County Sheriff’s Department administrators who said they deserved $19 million in damages because Sheriff Sandra Hutchens laid them off.
Superior Court...

SANTA ANA – A federal grand jury indictment accusing eight men of running an international scheme to launder more than $60 million in illegal drug proceeds was unsealed Thursday, after four of the men were taken into custody. The group, which...

Attorneys for seven Muslim women who claim religious discrimination at Urth Caffe said Thursday that the hiring of David Yerushalmi to defend the popular Laguna Beach restaurant supports their claim.
In a statement, the attorneys cited Yerushalmi’s...

Huntington Beach professional surfer Kanoa Igarashi scored a surfer’s version of the golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory.
Except, in this case, Willy Wonka is 11-time world surf champion Kelly Slater. And the chocolate came in the...

Two Southern California lawmakers want to hold Frontier Communications accountable for interrupted FiOS and DSL service. Former Verizon customers in the area were switched to Frontier’s services when the network provider changed hands as part of an...

New regulations announced Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration have created fears that some in Orange County's vaping industry could be driven out of business.
Randy Freer, owner of P.O.E.T., a Seal Beach manufacturer of e-liquid for...

Pick up trash on the sidewalk. Join a beach clean-up – or volunteer at an animal shelter.
Sometimes, it doesn’t take much to be kind, does it?
On Thursday, the Orange County Department of Education launched a new initiative to encourage one...

ANAHEIM – The mystery of the owner a set of cherished wedding and engagement rings found in San Diego County has been solved, thanks to a Good Samaritan and a jeweler-turned-detective who tracked the jewelry to Anaheim.
On Saturday afternoon,...

Q. Why are there so many different paths for planes arriving at John Wayne Airport, and what determines pilots’ final approaches?
– Jim Fuchs,
Costa Mesa

A. There are more pathways for commercial jets and private, smaller planes into John Wayne...