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 […]
20 years to life for escapee
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 […]
Fugitive is arrested by police
UPDATE: Ike Nicholas Souzer, 18, the convicted killer of his mother in Garden Grove in 2017, has been arrested after fleeing a halfway house in Santa Ana. According to the SAPD, the […]
Angels sued over head injury
By Amy Taxin/Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) – A 6-year-old boy suffered a fractured skull and brain damage when he was accidentally hit by a baseball thrown by a Los Angeles Angels […]
From terrorist to drug dealer
SANTA ANA (AP) – A convicted terrorist from Orange County was sentenced to more than 15 1/2 years in prison for selling drugs to an undercover FBI agent, prosecutors said. Ahmed Binyamin […]
H. Beach native’s kidnapper sentenced to 31 years in prison
VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) – A man who sexually assaulted a Northern California woman who was kidnapped from her home in what police initially thought was a hoax was sentenced Friday to 31 […]
HB officers cleared of charges
SANTA ANA (AP) – A jury has decided that two Huntington Beach police officers did not use excessive force when they shot and killed a man behaving erratically at a crowded sports […]
