Placentia News

Doting Placentia couple and baby appear of reality TV show for parents who indulge their newborns.

PLACENTIA To donate food to needy families this Thanksgiving, Placentia residents need to go no farther than their local fire station.

PLACENTIA City officials have a direct line to Santa Claus; the city plans to continue its tradition this year of sending the jolly elf off to visit kids whose parents sign up for the privilege.

Placentia officials said Wednesday that they have tentatively agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle a claim by Caltrans that the north Orange County city misspent more than $36 million in state funds to finance a now-defunct rail corridor project.

YORBA LINDA Police have three suspects in custody and are seeking a fourth, after an off-duty FBI agent confronted and shot at several men breaking into his garage early Tuesday morning.

Hospital official: Upgrades final by January. A hospital official said Monday that renovation and building efforts at the Placentia-Linda Hospital campus are nearly complete.

SANTA ANA A former caretaker is accused of stealing more than $100,000 from developmentally disabled adults by writing checks from their accounts, county prosecutors said today.

Placentia Public Library officials and staffers gathered at Spadra Ristorante in Fullerton Thursday night to celebrate the employees' work.

Two 17-year-old La Habra boys were arrested Thursday for the Nov. 1 fatal stabbing of a man.

The investigation into the stabbing death of an 18-year-old man has led La Habra police to serve multiple search warrants Thursday morning in La Habra, Anaheim and Placentia, police said.

PLACENTIA Dozens of locals, veterans and their families gathered Wednesday morning in the Placentia Civic Center courtyard to observe Veterans Day and honor Placentia's members of the U.S. armed forces.

The city of Placentia is on the cusp of settling on a payment of $5.5 million to the California Department of Transportation, a sum that the Orange County Transportation Authority will front for the city.

The Orange County Fire Authority has a new, $500,000 ladder truck for its Valencia Drive station in Placentia.

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Considering Santa Barbara's remarkable susceptibility to wildfires and the resultant destruction of hundreds of homes in recent years, we seem to have two options: move a.s.a.p., or fire-proof our lives.

You can email your questions to Professor Hammer at covell@cruzio.com, or mail to Professor Hammer, c/o CLASSIC TRUCKS Magazine, 774 S. Placentia Ave., Placentia, CA 92870.

At a family holiday party your 8-year-old nephew asks you "just what does a nurse do?" Do you say "takes care of patients," or use this moment to give him a real idea, described in a way he can understand, of the important work a nurse does daily? What about when you conduct a mid-afternoon assessment on that cardiac patient? Plenty of observations ...

The city is installing two security cameras in the walkway bridging the train tracks in Old Town - workers will have the cameras online in two weeks.

Charges are pending against a 16-year-old boy from Ontario after a high-speed chase early Sunday morning drew crowds of apparent gang members, dozens of police from several agencies and a police helicopter.

PLACENTIA Children with spray-paint cans, men who like to pick fights, and those who like to enjoy their beer on the sidewalk may have noticed more police scrutiny in the past year.