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LAKE FOREST – Councilman Jim Gardner gave $30,000 of about $32,000 in reported contributions to the effort to recall three of his colleagues, according to campaign finance documents filed this week.
Council members Dwight Robinson, Scott Voigts and...

Terréll Holmes was chasing after sea gulls that were after her nuts on Saturday when she felt what she thought was a bee sting.
But when the 61-year-old looked back on the sand at Crystal Cove State Beach, she was shocked when she saw what had...

Mission Viejo’s Nancy Brown has voted for the Republican nominee for president ever since casting her first ballot, for Dwight Eisenhower, in 1956. But the erstwhile Ted Cruz supporter is ambivalent about her choices this November, now that Donald...

The five top candidates in the race to replace outgoing Rep. Loretta Sanchez agreed that the middle class needs more effective advocates in Congress, but offered stark differences in the approaches they would take to the issue during a Wednesday...

Welcome to what battleground state status feels like, California Democrats. At least, for a little while.
Just hours after Indiana sent Texas Sen. Ted Cruz packing and Ohio Gov. John Kasich called it quits – essentially making Donald Trump the...

TUSTIN – A meeting about the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s policy of handing over deportable inmates to federal immigration officials was cut short Wednesday when opponents loudly interrupted it to denounce the practice. More than 25...

Former President Bill Clinton made the case for sending his wife to the Oval Office during a speech Wednesday that referred to the San Bernardino terrorist attack and avoided direct attacks against Republican Donald Trump.
Clinton spoke to a crowd of...

Seal Beach police were searching Wednesday for a homeless man they called potentially a witness or a person of interest in the death of a man killed in a residential fire last week.
Authorities released a photo of Eric Jesus Andrade, 37, on Wednesday...

HUNTINGTON BEACH In a move local environmentalists are hailing a “milestone resolution,” the Bolsa Chica Land Trust has entered an agreement to purchase the final 11.1 acres of disputed property overlooking the Bolsa Chica wetlands. “We have...

ORANGE – An American flag was draped over the body of a Marine Wednesday morning just after he fatally crashed into concrete railing on a freeway, officials said.
The man – carrying his military I.D. card – was the only person in the car; his...