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#orange-county

“I want to reassure everyone who is outside of the new evacuation zone that when you go home, you can feel safe,” said Orange County health officer Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong. “There was no contamination, there were no fumes, there were no vapors that came from this incident. There was no leak.” She said people who live in areas where evacuations were lifted should feel safe to return. “You should feel comfortable going home, even if you're across the street from that new zone line,” she said.

Prosecutors allege Tommi Jo Mejer's son struck the Vietnam War veteran on April 16 after the teenager was spotted doing wheelies in the middle of the street. Charges were filed against the 50-year-old Aliso Viejo mother because prosecutors allege she was warned before the deadly crash that her son had been driving the electric motorcycle recklessly and that he was not legally allowed to ride it.

Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer has vowed to prosecute parents who allow their children to ride e-motorcycles, or modify e-bikes to function as such, calling the devices a 'loaded weapon.'

The fire, which burned at least 60 acres, was reported shortly after 3 p.m. along Carbon Canyon Road, just east of Valencia Avenue.

Deputies opened fire on the suspect at 3:50 a.m. and rendered medical aid. Paramedics transferred him to a nearby hospital where he remains in critical condition.

The incident began earlier in Anaheim, where the man and woman were sitting in a parked vehicle when Hernandez approached and began hitting the car.

Fernando Melo Flores, 40, faces up to four years and two months in prison if convicted on all counts. He was assigned to John Wayne Airport when he allegedly went to his ex-girlfriend's home at night and repeatedly called and texted her, prompting the woman to get a restraining order against him.

The last Rienda release concentrates on three all-age neighborhoods scheduled to grand open in fall 2026: Sunflower by Trumark Homes, Indigo by Lennar, and Primrose by Shea Homes, each offering a range of family-oriented home designs.

Thousands of cheering fans surround the ice at the Honda Center. The arena is loud, packed with fans in Anaheim Ducks jerseys. As the puck drops and the action starts, players zoom back and forth until - boom! A shot, and the Ducks score. But when the music hits for the first goal of the game, it's not the typical "We Will Rock You" by Queen. It's "Come Out and Play" by local heroes, and one of Orange County's most influential punk bands, the Offspring.

The newest addition, Coldwell Banker Icon, plans to open a South Orange County office by the end of the month and another in Rancho Cucamonga, about 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, Rodriguez told The Real Deal. The Inland Empire office will be established through the acquisition of an existing company that, if finalized, will add another 60 agents to the roster. The details of both offices will be disclosed once those moves are finalized.

A woman whose body was pulled from the Santa Ana River in Orange County on New Year's Day has been identified as 39-year-old Alejandra Ramirez Torres, coroner's officials said. Her body had been carried by the river's current from Santa Ana to Fountain Valley before it could be retrieved by fire crews. Ramirez Torres was the mother of two daughters, ages 11 and 16, according to a GoFundMe created by her relatives.

Jesus Soto-Parada, 26, was arrested along with his alleged accomplice, Daniel Pavon, early last year. Soto-Parada, 26, appeared in federal court in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to interfere with commerce and seven counts of interfering with commerce by robbery. With his head dipped and voice low, Soto-Parada pleaded "culpable" through a Spanish interpreter as he forfeited his right to a trial.

More than a decade after a jailhouse snitch scandal rocked the Orange County district attorney's office and nearly upended the prosecution of the deadliest mass shooting in county history, federal officials announced they have ceased overseeing the department's informant program, citing recent reforms. The decision, announced Dec. 23, ends a year-long agreement between the Department of Justice and local prosecutors who were tasked with reforming the way they use informants in criminal cases.

5. Columbia County Federal With Charm-Filled Interior, Barn Asks $1.9 Million In Columbia County, an extensive landscape of 67 acres ranges from secluded woods to rolling lawns and includes a 19th century brick main house filled with lovingly cared for period details and enough outbuildings to hold guests and a multitude of hobbies. With an address of 3 Pratt Road, the house on the market is in the small hamlet of Malden Bridge near the Kinderhook Creek.

Jurors who just convicted a 34-year-old man of bludgeoning and stabbing his parents and a longtime housekeeper to death inside their home in a gated Newport Beach community will now have to decide whether the defendant was legally insane at the time of the slayings. The sanity phase of Camden Burton Nicholson's special circumstances murder trial began on Thursday, Oct. 23 and will ultimately determine whether Nicholson will spend the rest of his life in state prison,

On Tuesday, the Orange County Board of Supervisors directed staff to cross-reference voter rolls with pet registration data in the county in order to make sure there are no four-legged voters with names like Fido, Fifi, Spot, Sparky or Lucky casting ballots in the next special election in November. "How do we check that dogs and cats or whatever are not on our (voter) rolls?" Supervisor Dan Wagner asked during the meeting Tuesday.

Investors now own 87,928 of Orange County's single-family houses, accounting for 16% of the market, according to recent data. Statewide, investors own 19%.

California's CARE Courts aim to enforce treatment for those with severe mental health issues, while Orange County emphasizes voluntary participation through 'relentless outreach.'

I hope that no one else ever has to feel the absolute blood-chilling terror this young mother described as she had to run for her life, and the life of her baby, not because of what she did, but because of the color of her skin.

I just do not believe a sentence anything less than the maximum reflects the seriousness of the crime. Public corruption brings damage far beyond the monetary loss to the county.

Phoenix Rising, experiencing a season-high morale boost after four consecutive wins, aims to capitalize on their home advantage against struggling Orange County.

None of us thought that it would take nine years to get to this point and we can't go back and relitigate all of the failures along the way that have happened, but what we can do is control how we move forward together.