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LAGUNA BEACH – At 10, Mark Evans spent money earned mowing lawns on potted petunias.
He’d cultivate the soil in his Pico Rivera backyard, take the tiny flowers and plant them. He knew how to do it because he had watched his neighbor do it the...

MISSION VIEJO – The City Council shot down a proposal to let voters decide in November whether to ban council members from running again after serving 12 years.
Councilwoman Cathy Schlicht proposed the idea for discussion at Tuesday night’s...

Janitors working at John Wayne Airport could join thousands more statewide in a planned strike Monday to protest wages and work conditions, according to the union representing them.
Janitors who clean John Wayne Airport and office buildings in the...

An Irvine medical software company could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in state tax incentives in the wake of its announcement Wednesday that it will lay off 150 people or 6 percent of its workforce.
Five months ago, Quality Systems Inc. was...

A 15-year-old gang member has been charged as an adult in the shooting of a 42-year-old man in Garden Grove on Tuesday, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
Phillip Nguyen, 15, of Garden Grove, faces felony attempted murder...

Q. On La Palma Avenue in Anaheim, about two blocks from the Kaiser Permanente Hospital, are railroad tracks. Unfortunately, the commuter train stops to load passengers and it triggers the crossing arms to come down and block traffic for three to 10...

The Orange County Justice Center in Santa Ana hosted the children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews of their employees, who took part in a mock trial Thursday.
The children got a taste of law with a kid-friendly twist while deciding the case of The...

A dead 40-foot gray whale began its final journey Thursday – in pieces – from a popular surf beach a mile south of San Clemente to a San Diego landfill.
At about 9 a.m., earth movers rolled the 60,000-pound carcass from the shoreline up to the...

WESTMINSTER – The City Council might ask voters in November whether financially strapped Westminster should have a 1-cent sales tax.
Councilwoman Margie Rice has asked city staffers to put the issue on the May 11 council agenda. At least four of...

From hundreds of hours of volunteer service to $3.2 million raised in a 30-hour charitable marathon, generosity in Orange County took center stage Thursday.
At the OneOC Spirit of Volunteerism Awards luncheon, close to 1,100 people gathered at the...