Orange County District Attorney's Office

A 58-year-old registered nurse accused of helping a heartbroken man end his life pleaded not guilty Monday to a murder charge.

A former UC Irvine student who posed as a doctor pleaded guilty Wednesday and was immediately sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to perform 150 hours of community service.

A Compton couple facing criminal charges stemming from a brawl at Disneyland that was captured on video that went viral failed to appear in court this week for arraignment.

A federal class-action lawsuit refiled Monday on behalf of Orange County jail inmates alleges a number of abuses, including the improper monitoring of inmate-attorney phone calls, the use of disciplinary isolation and claims that two pregnant women in labor were ignored and later lost their babies.

Three adults were charged in connection with a family fight that was caught on camera earlier this month at Disneyland’s Toontown.

An Orange County pastor is due in a Santa Ana courtroom Monday on felony charges of molesting seven children ages 5 to 15.

A former UC Irvine student is accused of posing as a doctor and giving a diagnosis to a hospital patient about a growth on the man’s neck, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.

Prosecutors in Northern California on Monday announced a new murder charge against a man suspected of being the notorious “Golden State Killer,” closing a murder case in Tulare County that has gone unsolved for more than four decades.

A California woman convicted of conspiring to kill her identical twin sister has been granted parole after nearly two decades in prison. In a case that made international headlines, Jeen Han — who policed dubbed the “evil twin” — was sentenced to 26 years to life in 1998.

UC Irvine Law School’s founder and dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, will take the helm of the UC Berkeley School of Law on July 1, it was announced Wednesday.

Anaheim officials pressed for calm Thursday after a night of raucous protests that followed an incident in which an off-duty policeman scuffled in his front yard with a boy, drew a weapon and fired a shot into the ground after another teen pushed him over a hedge and others surrounded him....
Mayor Tom Tait said he was “deeply disturbed” and angered...

Video surfaced Wednesday of a fight in Anaheim between at least two teenage boys and an off-duty Los Angeles police officer who fired a gun during the scuffle.

A man whose viral YouTube videos captured his harrowing jumps from high places into bodies of water is in hot water as he faces trespassing charges, officials said.

Seven people who allegedly beat and stomped white supremacists at a KKK rally in Anaheim earlier this year were charged Thursday with assault, battery or resisting police, prosecutors said

A man who was involved in struggle that turned violent with Ku Klux Klan members at an Anaheim park in February claimed Tuesday that he was a victim and that law enforcement officials were dragging their feet on their investigation of the disturbance.

A 42-year-old man convicted of lewd acts involving his ex-girlfriend’s teenage daughter, whom he later married, was sentenced to four years and four months in state prison on Friday, prosecutors said.

An Uber driver accused of raping a 21-year-old woman last year after picking her up from a bar in Orange County appeared in court Thursday, and prosecutors said there may be more victims.

Three Santa Ana police officers were charged Monday with petty theft — with one additionally accused of vandalizing surveillance cameras — involving a search warrant they served at a marijuana dispensary that sparked a viral video and subsequent civil suit.

A Southern California man who killed two people and dismembering one in a scheme to steal money and cover his tracks was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder.

The family of an Iranian-American college student who was stabbed to death outside a Laguna Niguel bar is asking for authorities to investigate his death as a hate crime.