Three boys were detained and enrolled in the OCFA Fire FRIENDS education program after setting a small vegetation fire Monday.
A man was sentenced to 99 days of time served and ordered to pay restitution for stealing the real estate mogul's tax refund check.
A judge used his discretion to ignore a mandatory minimum sentence for a man who sodomized a girl, 3, because he didn't see it as predatory.
The son of a wealthy San Diego businessman and Padres stakeholder allegedly threatened and tried to snatch a little girl from her school.
A small fire triggered the overhead sprinkler and caused some damage to Terminal A at John Wayne Airport overnight.
A disoriented man was airlifted from a rugged slope in the Wood Canyons Wilderness Park.
Students "sheltered in place" as police determined an armed man posed no threat at UCI today. A recent threat has the campus on edge.
Rapper Immortal Technique and Steven Alexander McDaniel, of Mission Viejo, allegedly attacked vendors outside the rapper's Observatory show
A Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate School bus fire spread to campus vegetation, prompting a school-wide evacuation.
Erica Alonso, 27, has been missing since Valentine's Day after a night of clubbing in Newport Beach and a fight with her boyfriend.
A Bank robber admits to stealing the identity of Irvine Co. Chairman Donald Bren in order to cash his $1.4 million tax refund check.
Despite the rate at which prosecutors are refusing to try cases before Judge Thomas Goethals, there is no directive to avoid him, they say.
The state will try to fight a judge's ruling ordering the attorney general's office to try the case due to alleged prosecutorial misconduct.
Farhad Sharifi, of Aliso Viejo, pleaded guilty to a year-long South County robbery spree in which he was known to apologize during holdups.
A robber held up the Wells Fargo at 27722 Vista Del Lago, but was caught running through the parking lot, according to police.
A man suspected of drunkenly causing a 4-car pileup in OC, absconded with a patrol car. Tracked with GPS, he faces slew of charges.
St. Patrick's Day weekend brings a spike in drunk driving fatalities.
Calling prosecutors' handling of the county's worst mass murder trial a 'comedy of errors,' a judge ordered the OCDA office off the case.
Southern California led the nation for foreign nationals deemed a public threat in a raid targeting foreigners deemed a 'public threat.'
A woman was found in her bathtub this morning.
Each month, the Orange County District Attorney publicizes the names and photos of newly convicted Johns.
A suspect escaped after holding up a Lake Forest Wells Fargo bank.
A former Signal Hill Police officer from Lake Forest was arrested today on suspicion of abuse of power in a Nov. road rage confrontation.
A fast moving fire spread to two houses. One firefighter sustained burns to the hand and another suffered heat exhaustion.
A man in his 20s is recovering after being pinned underneath his utility truck in San Juan Capistrano for nearly an hour.
Investigators suspect there are additional victims of a man they accuse of using his position to assault at least one potential employee.
Local police respond after a Somalia-based terror group released a video encouraging attacks on American malls.
Stephen Richard Bartlett, 53, robbed several Orange County banks and led police on a 90-minute, four county chase that ended in a crash.
A 27-year-old Laguna Hills woman hasn't been seen since fighting with her boyfriend Sunday morning.
A three-judge panel refused to consider an appeal by Adam Harrison Hall, a repeat offender, who had been warned before the fatal crash.
No one was hurt when a 29-year-old man crashed into a DUI Checkpoint in San Clemente. Naturally, he was arrested.
Police say the man suspected in 10 Orange County bank robberies over two months is a transient.
The technology is expected to help break unsolved violent crimes and has already helped police link three Anaheim crimes.
A Mission Viejo woman was found dead at a home on Pueblonuevo Drive today, and police arrested her husband after questioning by police.
Qayed Murtaza Shareef, a 39-year-old CEO of the publicly traded firm Adaptive Media, pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of molestation.
The Orange County Fire Authority Board of Directors approved a new deal with employees that has them paying their own retirement costs.
A day after her 3-year-old boy succumbed to his injuries, Maricela Sanchez also died. Her two-year-old boy continues to fight for his life.
John Edward Kudla faces 10 years in prison for attacking his sleeping father, a reserve sheriff's sergeant, with a hammer while he slept.
Jaiden Liborio succumbed to injuries from a condo fire so intense, a mother had to throw her babies out a second-story window to neighbors.
Nine people, including several children, were injured in a San Juan Capistrano Fire this morning.