Orange County

A 33-year-old man suspected of kicking and punching a dog at an Anaheim apartment complex turned himself in to police Thursday morning, authorities said.

A video that is disturbing to watch has residents in an Anaheim apartment complex concerned over what appears to be animal cruelty.

The mother of a teen basketball player who instructed her daughter to punch a 15-year-old opponent in a video seen millions of times was ordered to pay a $9,000 fine and provide a written apology.

Aside from the threat of communicable diseases like West Nile Virus, mosquitoes are just plain annoying. Here’s what to know about why your ankles seem to be even more irresistible, how the invasive ankle-biter mosquitoes got to Southern California, and what to do about keeping them away from your home.

A hiker found dead in after he was separated from a group in an Arizona park on a day of triple-digit heat was identified as a 31-year-old man from Irvine.

Sandra Quinones said when her water broke in Orange County jail in March 2016, staffers took two hours to reply to her call for help and failed to call her an ambulance.

The OC Health Care Agency has reported it first case of the monkeypox in a child under the age of 18. An investigation into contact tracing is underway.

Salvador Avila, the founder of the Southern California El Ranchito restaurant chain and immigrant entrepreneur who began his life in the United States as a construction worker before leading the successful chain, has died at 99, his family said in a statement.

Her husband went to police when he suspected she was poisoning him after he felt sick. He also took secret video of her.

An Orange County man has lawyered up to seek custody of his children and a restraining order against his wife, after he says she tried to poison him with drain cleaner.

California Live’s Amber Pfister un “covers” independent bookstore Lido Village Books to celebrate. The Newport Beach hidden gem invites book lovers to come stroll its boardwalks and find out where “the page and ocean meet!”

There are new concerns about the potential spread of polio in New York, with the state health commissioner saying there could be “hundreds” of people infected as new evidence shows the virus has been found in samples from multiple counties. The state health department, which launched wastewater surveillance earlier this month after officials announced the first confirmed U.S. polio...

A Southern California police detective who’d once been named “detective of the year” allegedly sent graphic messages online to a decoy pretending to be a 14-year-old girl, prosecutors said.

Orange County supervisors voted Wednesday to accept nearly $1 million from Amplify Energy to cover expenses incurred responding to the oil spill off the waters of Huntington Beach in October.

The cold case murders of two Orange County women have been solved using genetic genealogy, investigators said. The cold cases of Shannon Rose Lloyd, 23, and Renee Cuevas, 27, were solved. But their families still want to know one more thing — why.

A shark was spotted off the coast in Huntington Beach that prompted beach closures.

A shark was slotted off the coast in Huntington Beach which temporarily closed beaches.

Huntington Beach authorities Monday closed access to the waters off Sunset Beach, between Warner Avenue and Anderson Street, following a shark sighting.

Fancy a scenic way to get to Comic-Con 2022 in San Diego without spending your retirement savings on gas? Amtrak just opened up extra seats on its Pacific Surfliner, which boasts picturesque views traveling “along a 351-mile coastal rail route through San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, serving 27 stations.”

The charges for the two men involved in the shooting and robbery sprees at multiple 7-Eleven’s throughout Southern California were announced.