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Scanning a six-photo lineup, the Fullerton bank clerk took only seconds to identify the man she believed pointed a gun at her.
But the woman was less certain a year later as she stood in a Santa Ana courtroom inches from the man she identified.
While...

With Orange County’s economic expansion entering its seventh year, the inevitable questions about the longevity of the expansion do crop up.
It’s not emotional baggage from the Great Recession. It’s not economic policy. It’s simply that good...

LAKE FOREST – Jim Gardner has been a community activist for years, pushing to get Lake Forest its own dog park, chastising city officials for accepting money from outside interests and fighting to slow the city’s housing boom.
His fourth bid for...

DANA POINT Plans to transform this sleepy seaside village into a bustling destination that welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors are rapidly moving forward.
“Development is widespread across the city,” Mayor John Tomlinson said Friday during...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Nyquist kept his perfect record intact, winning the 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday to prolong the buzz that American Pharoah created a year ago when he won the first Triple Crown in 37 years. The victory was the...

Nine South Orange County restaurants were burglarized late Friday night and early Saturday morning, said Orange County Sheriff’s Department Lt. John Roche. All the businesses were closed to customers at the time. The incidents, reported at...

The coroner's office on Saturday identified one of two men who died early Thursday morning when a car that flipped on I-5 freeway in Tustin, just south of the 55. Santa Ana resident Edgar Garfias Ramirez, 21, was pronounced dead at the scene of head...

Those umbrellas can go back into the closet.
After Friday’s bursts of rain, Orange County was expected to get scattered showers at most Saturday, with clouds lingering through Sunday.
By Monday, the sun will be back.
“It looks like a really nice...

The waves weren’t all that great, so what were the surfers yelling and cheering about?
That’s what Diggy Riley, aquatics coach at Edison High School, wondered as he looked out toward the water Friday morning from the Huntington Beach Pier.
Then...

His beer baptism came at age 9.
His father Russ and his uncle Shawn would cook up a batch of hops and malted barley in the garage, and little Trevor Walls would take the first sip. That was the rule: First sip goes to Trevor.
Most kids might spit...