Orange County News

A former Southern California police officer has been sentenced to 240 days in jail for stealing more than $60,000 from a law enforcement football organization that raised money for youth scholarships.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE Public Information Office 1 Civic Center Plaza Irvine, CA 92606 724-7216 www.irvinepd.org Irvine Police Detectives arrested Robert Dennis of Santa Ana and Fernando Flores of Garden Grove for their role in the recent string of burglaries from religious institutions throughout Orange County.

Authorities have taken a 17-year-old into custody after a reserve sergeant in the Orange County Sheriff's Department was found shot in the head and beaten in a Rancho Santa Margarita home.

Alisha Gomez has been named managing editor of Los Angeles Times Community News in Orange County, Editor John Canalis announced Wednesday.

Covered California, the agency running the state's health insurance marketplace, unveils details of the program, including how much it will cost.

Since man first rubbed a pair of sticks together to make a fire, we've gathered around a campfire to cook food, enjoy good company and bask in the warmth of the glowing embers.

Swimmers and surfers in Southern California enjoyed cleaner beach water this year, likely due to one of the driest winters on record in the region, according to Santa Monica-based Heal the Bay's 2012-13 study released Wednesday.

Some Inland cities such as Beaumont are still among the state's fastest growing, but the rates are not as high as in the recent past Several Inland cities were among California's fastest-growing places between mid-2011 and mid-2012, but suburbs in the job-rich Bay Area and Orange County saw bigger population increases, newly released U.S. Census ... (more)

You're going to see and hear dozens of stories this weekend, if you haven't already, about the return of Arrested Development .

Real A.D. : George Bluth Sr. Character: Patriarch of the Bluth family. Founded the Bluth Co.

You have to give it up to the writers on the original run of Arrested Development .

John Husing, chief economist of the Inland Empire Economic Partnership, at left, and Paul Granillo, chief executive of Inland Empire Economic Partnership, spoke at Wednesday's Quality of Life Summit at UCR.

Authorities have arrested a 17-year-old male suspected of shooting a 50-year-old Orange County Reserve Deputy Sheriff believed to be his father.

A court hearing today for a man charged with possession of methamphetamine turned into a debate about how much the 19-year- old defendant - one of two hikers whose rescue in Trabuco Canyon drew national headlines - owes to a volunteer who broke his back in the search.

The district has pledged to include all lease payments for the COPs in its annual budgets and to make lease payments from all sources of available funds.

Gino was born and raised in Orange County, California and hasn't ventured too far from home.

A man was charged today with murder in the death of his roommate, a U.S. Army veteran and student at California State University, Fullerton, authorities said.

A man is in jail, accused of trying to kidnap a 17-year-old girl as she read a book inside a Barnes & Noble store in Aliso Viejo.

Also launched in 2008, was the Irvine Police Department's "Return Home Registry" which is an innovative program designed to assist police officers in locating lost or wandering persons missing from their home or caregivers.

Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis.