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Setting up a potential clash of Orange County political titans, former county GOP Chairman Scott Baugh is not ruling out a 2018 challenge of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Costa Mesa.
When Baugh began raising money for a bid in January, indications were...

On mile 41 of the 50 Mile Ride for Rwanda, Dave Hartstein pedals toward a wide stream in Mission Viejo and wonders if exhausted muscles can navigate water flowing over rocks – terrain so slick there is no traction.
To steady his nerves, Hartstein,...

A male pedestrian was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Lake Forest on Monday night, causing cancellations to several Orange County-bound trains. Authorities were called at 5:17 p.m. about a pedestrian hit by an northbound Amtrak train, 785,...

A 19-year-old demonstrator is charged with throwing an object at a police vehicle and inciting a riot at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Costa Mesa last week, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.
Luis Fernando Alarcon of...

GARDEN GROVE - A Garden Grove man was arrested Monday on suspicion of receiving videos of a naked 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet and then traveling to Canada to have sex with her, federal prosecutors said.
Paul Binh Do, 29, who surrendered...

Tangled is not a verb you want to use when you’re a skydiver telling the story – just one of the stories – about the time you nearly died.
But there is 71-year-old Luena Garrison Sharma sitting at her dining room table at her stylish home in...

Maddie Camargo and her mother, Stephanie Dufour, thought the screams for help were just a few Boy Scouts messing around. But then they saw the scene: scouts surrounding a hiker who had taken a gnarly, 20-foot drop in an area near Hoover Dam, a spill...

Here’s a roundup of restaurant and retail news from across Orange County. Take a look at the slideshow for more details on each.
Burger Parlor: After turning down offers over the years to grow Burger Parlor in other parts of Orange County, chef...

Ever since Amy Biehl died more than two decades ago, her parents have fielded requests from writers, moviemakers and producers wanting to tell the story of the Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach murdered by an angry mob in Cape Town, South Africa....

COSTA MESA – Don Wright didn’t complete Sunday’s OC Marathon quickly, but he crossed the finish line a winner.
This was the 95th marathon for the 75-year-old Minnesotan since learning that he has multiple myeloma, an incurable form of cancer...