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A 23-year-old man was fatally stabbed Thursday night at concert venue in downtown Santa Ana, police said.
There was a fight at about 10:30 p.m. inside Underground DTSA, 220 Third St., and a man was stabbed, said Cpl. Anthony Bertagna of the Santa Ana...

Isikeli Akau doesn’t plan to get much sleep tonight.
The senior at Rancho Verde High School in Moreno Valley will be cramming for the revamped SAT college entrance exam that will debut nationally on Saturday.
He didn’t do well the two times he...

ANAHEIM – By day, tens of thousands of employees swarm the factories and offices of Anaheim Canyon, a 4-square-mile finger of boxy industrial buildings and office complexes stretching from Anaheim Hills to the 91 and 57 interchange.
But at night,...

As the end of El Niño season draws close, rain is finally coming to Southern California.
Storms caused by the much ballyhooed weather condition have so far skirted Southern California and instead dumped rain on Washington state and the northern West...

SANTA ANA – An elementary school in Santa Ana will be the first in California to get a new soccer mini-pitch through a Major League Soccer community outreach initiative involving the champions LA Galaxy.
The mini-pitch will be unveiled at Andrew...

FULLERTON – Jurors on Thursday told a judge they are at an impasse on a rape charge for a man accused of kidnapping his then-girlfriend’s 15-year-old daughter.
Jurors, who have been deliberating in the trial of Isidro Garcia, notified Orange...

A Utah family is suing Knott’s Berry Farm claiming their 10-year-old son was severely injured on a roller coaster when his leg got caught between the cart and the platform.
In a negligence lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court on Thursday,...

TUSTIN – Matthew Nisson died Feb. 20 in the same house where a midwife delivered him 91 years before.
To many Tustin residents, Nisson was known as the orange grower who sold his fruit at an unattended roadside stand – an honor system started in...

Q. After a horrible accident where a car slammed into a tree, most TV stations carried the story. After the car had been taken away, and the street was re-opened, there was still a quite a lot of broken glass in the street. I thought the tow truck...

LAKE FOREST – The city is moving toward creating a civic center that would act as a social hub for the community, which some residents say has been overdue for years.
Nearly 150 people attended a workshop last week to give input on a senior center...