Orange County News

GARDEN GROVE - A person tied up by home-invasion robbers who burst into a Garden Grove home Wednesday night managed to escape captors and run down the street to call police. At least one person was injured after police say the robbers pistol-whipped...

GARDEN GROVE – Voters will get a chance in June to approve or reject a $250 million bond measure to help improve school facilities in the Garden Grove Unified School District.The school board Wednesday unanimously voted in support of a resolution...

Light moments in the Rodney Alcala trial? Not many, but a couple things made me smile. One was the incognito visitor my colleague Larry Welborn promised not to write about. Charlize Theron would show up occasionally and sit in the middle of row...

If any issue polarizes America, it's abortion – and nowhere does that polarization play out more dramatically than on the sidewalk in front of the Planned Parenthood medical clinic on Tustin Avenue in Orange. That's where a line has been drawn,...

Adoption fees will be discounted $40 to $50 for annual Spay Day event.

COSTA MESA – Police have arrested a 60-year-old Costa Mesa man who allegedly shot a 7-Eleven store clerk with a flare gun during a robbery attempt over the weekend. Herman Lee Coleman, 60, of Costa Mesa is facing charges of robbery and assault with...

Pedestrian and driver distractions can prove deadly to people and pets.

The cool weather will turn warmer on Thursday and Friday in Orange County.

LAKE FOREST – The owner and two managers of a marijuana dispensary pled not guilty Monday to charges of illegally selling marijuana and laundering the profits through banks. Mark Gregory Moen, 50, of Westminster, the owner-operator of 215 Agenda, a...

SANTA ANA – After killer Rodney Alcala was sentenced to death in 1980 for kidnapping and murdering a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl a year earlier, then-Orange County Deputy District Attorney Richard Farnell predicted that Alcala would turn out...