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LAGUNA BEACH – Plans for a new residential trolley service pilot program barely got off the ground when neighbors in South Laguna rallied to convince city officials their quaint village didn’t need extra congestion and traffic from a new city...

It was a strong start for Orange County World Tour surfers Kolohe Andino and Courntey Conlogue, both who made it the finals at the first stop of the World Surf League Championship Tour -- but the two surfers stopped short of clinching titles. Still,...

A powerful drug often used to spike heroin and cocaine – sometimes unknown to users – has killed an estimated 700 people in the eastern United States in the past couple of years and has now swept into Orange County.
Acetyl fentanyl is cooked in...

Sheriff Sandra Hutchens got the OK Tuesday to hire an attorney to analyze “high-risk” issues at the Sheriff’s Department, which is facing intense scrutiny for a recent jailbreak and an ongoing jailhouse snitch scandal.
Hutchens framed the hire...

SANTA ANA – Orange County supervisors voted Tuesday to divvy up $150,000 in reward money to four people whose tips led to the capture of three jail escapees, giving the lion’s share – $100,000 – to a recently homeless man who alerted police...

GARDEN GROVE – A live grenade bounced off of Michael Monsoor’s chest during a 2006 firefight in Ramadi, Iraq and fell to the ground. He dove and smothered it.
A half-hour later, the Navy SEAL had died.
But the 25-year-old had likely saved the...

Sumo Sato, a surfing pastor from Huntington Beach, has long been the one to give people spiritual guidance during tough times. But now his friends and followers are the ones lifting him up during his time of need.
Sato found out about a month ago...

A defense attorney on Tuesday asked a judge to remove the Orange County District Attorney’s Office from an assault trial, alleging that the prosecution team continually intimidated witnesses in the case and that a D.A. investigator assaulted an...

The U.S. Justice Department sees “serious” antitrust issues with Tribune Publishing’s bankruptcy bid for The Orange County Register and The Press-Enterprise and would take action to keep any merger from hurting local newspaper readers and...

LAGUNA NIGUEL – Every weekday morning, Aliso Viejo resident Jessica Taylor travels into Laguna Niguel, over the AWMA Bridge, and back again to drop her children off at Wood Canyon Elementary School.
The extra effort is easy to justify, she said,...