A mother must write a written apology and pay more than $9,000 in restitution to a teenage girl who was punched in the neck by the woman’s daughter after she yelled at […]
“You better hit her for that!”
“Mental health” court for OC?
By Janie Harr and Adam Beam/Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s controversial proposal to steer homeless people with severe mental disorders into treatment cleared the state Assembly on Tuesday […]
“Not guilty” plea in shooting
By Amy Taxin/Associated Press SANTA ANA (AP) – A Las Vegas man pleaded not guilty in an Orange County court on Friday to charges that he killed one person and wounded five […]
Life in prison for fatal DUI crash
NEWPORT BEACH (AP) – A California woman sentenced Friday to between 21 years and life in prison for killing a mother and father and injuring their three young children in a 2020 […]
Driver in fatal crash charged
An unlicensed 19-year-old driver who led Orange police on a brief police pursuit at more than 100 miles per hour before crashing and killing three passengers, including a 14-year-old girl and a […]
20 years to life for escapee
SANTA ANA (AP) – One of three men who carried out a daring, elaborate escape from Orange County Jail was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison. Bac Tien Duong, 49, was […]
Drunk driver pleads guilty in deaths of mother and father
SANTA ANA (AP) – A drunken driver who killed a mother and father and seriously injured their three young children as they looked at Christmas lights in Orange County pleaded guilty Friday […]
Murder conviction in DUI death
SANTA ANA (AP) – A driver who struck and killed a 6-year-old girl as she played on an Orange County sidewalk was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder. Maximino Delgado Lagunas, 56, of […]
Sex offender took teen on trip
SANTA ANA (AP) – A convicted sex offender has been sentenced in California to 20 years in prison for taking a 15-year-old girl on a three-month interstate road trip during which he […]
Life term in “racial justice” case
NEWPORT BEACH (AP) – A judge has found that an Orange County district attorney violated the state’s new racial justice law in his discussions of a Black man who was sentenced to […]
