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SANTA ANA – Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against both registered sex offenders accused of raping and killing four women in a case that drew scrutiny over the GPS monitoring of sex offenders.
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office...

Orange County sheriff’s deputies will get a 4 percent raise under a contract revision approved unanimously Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors.
The agreement follows nine months of salary “reopener” bargaining, in which the county and...

SANTA ANA – With El Niño weather conditions expected to continue into April, Santa Ana City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to provide nearly $100,000 for several more weeks of services for the homeless at the Santa Ana National Guard Armory....

SANTA ANA – A recent audit of an Orange County Transportation Authority program serving seniors found the unauthorized use of taxpayer dollars to shuttle elderly Santa Ana residents to casinos and wineries outside of the county.
The transit...

Orange County Sheriff’s deputies nabbed three motorists on Monday in a court sting targeting those with multiple driving violations ordered not to get behind the wheel.
Deputies followed 13 offenders leaving the Harbor Justice Center in Newport...

The Ducks held their annual fashion show and luncheon Tuesday at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel to raise funds for CHOC Children's.
The show featured Ducks players, Lady Ducks and CHOC patients wearing fashions provided by Bloomingdale’s South...

A contentious plan that would redistribute property tax dollars to keep Irvine in Orange County’s largest emergency services agency was rejected by a state appeals court Tuesday.
The ruling rekindles questions about the future of the Orange County...

A motorcyclist died Tuesday after crashing into a tree in San Clemente, authorities said.
A man in his early 20s was on a motorcycle was traveling on an unknown street around 1 p.m. when he crashed into a tree at Calle Del Cerro and Avenida Pico,...

The dispatch call was vague: a 20-year-old woman was sick and needed help.
An oversized rig carrying a team of Anaheim firefighters rolled up to the modest apartment on the city’s west side, followed moments later by an ambulance driven by Victoria...

East, meet West.
There was no shortage of West Coast surfers who traveled cross country to compete March 10-13 in the Ron Jon Vans Pro, a World Surfing League tournament held at Cocoa Beach, Fla.
While West Coast surfers are sometimes known to have...