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Authorities Wednesday night circulated surveillance footage of two women defacing statues at a Buddhist temple in Santa Ana, which police are investigating as a hate crime.

A Southern California county will provide up to half a million mail-in test kits to residents before the end of the year in the hopes that more testing can help beat back the coronavirus

The Santa Ana Police Department Wednesday released footage from a security camera of a man robbing a Santa Ana laundry employee, holding her to the ground, and cutting the bag tied around her waist, known as “Fanny Pack”.

Authorities say a leg that washed ashore at a California lake has been matched to the body of a missing woman found on a different day. KGET-TV reports the Kern County Sheriff’s Office says 64-year-old Shirley Mae Cassel was reported missing from Santa Ana in 2017. Cassel’s body was pulled from a car July 12, 2018, while the leg was...

Following the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, several vigils were held in her memory on Saturday afternoon — one of them in the city of Santa Ana.

An Uber driver was charged Friday with sexually assaulting a customer in Santa Ana and a domestic-related attack in Garden Grove.

The heat wave continues in San Diego County, and fire-prone conditions — including a brief Santa Ana — will linger.

NBC 7’s Sheena Parveen shares the First Alert Forecast for the morning of Sept. 7, 2020.

Rapper Silento — best known for his 2015 song “Watch Me” (Whip/Nae Nae) — is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly wielding a hatchet against two strangers in a home in Valley Village. The 22-year-old entertainer, whose real name is Richard Lamar Hawk, is accused of walking into a…

She’s coming home. Baby Adalyn Rose, who was born in the ER after her mother was struck and killed by an alleged drunk driver, is about to leave the hospital. Her father calls her a fighter, as he deals with the loss of his wife and learning how to change diapers.  “Come on, you can do it, you’re almost...

Two alleged street racers were charged Monday — one of them with second-degree murder and DUI counts and the other with gross vehicular manslaughter — in a fiery crash that killed a veteran newspaper editor near his Santa Ana home. Louie Robert Villa, 29, of Santa Ana, is charged with second-degree murder, driving under the influence of alcohol causing bodily injury...

A gang member with a lengthy criminal record was charged Tuesday with abducting an 82-year-old man from his home in Santa Ana and forcing him to withdraw cash from an ATM and buy him clothes and pay for a hotel room, police said. Sergio Magana Arechiga was burglarizing a home in the city’s Floral Park neighborhood when the victim...

Two men were behind bars Thursday on suspicion of a home-invasion robbery of a woman in a Santa Ana apartment in March. Gilberto Trevino, 24, of Fullerton, and Jordan Ozen, 25, of Las Vegas, were being held on $1 million bail, according to Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. Both were arrested Wednesday, he added. Ozen was arrested in Las Vegas on charges...

Although the circus has been shut down due to safer at home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic, there is another option that you can check out from home.  Ruben Caballero runs his family business called Circus Caballero. It’s a crew of 45 performers who travel across Canada, the United States and Mexico 11 months out of the year.  The...

A suspect has been arrested after a man was doused with a liquid and set on fire by an attacker on a bicycle.  The victim suffered serious burns to his upper body in the attack Friday on a Santa Ana sidewalk. On Monday, officers arrested Adrian Alberto Rodriguez Herrera, 45, on suspicion of arson and attempted murder. Detectives said...

Bubblefest XXIV delivers the iridescent orbs, science-cool activities, and the Mega Bubblefest Laser Show at Discovery Cube OC.

A California man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for cyberstalking the families of Parkland, Florida, school shooting victims. A federal judge imposed the sentence Monday on 22-year-old Brandon Fleury of Santa Ana, California. He was convicted by a jury in October. Evidence shows he used Instagram accounts to harass and threaten families of those who...

A dog who was rescued from the back seat of a crumpled car after it was struck by a train, killing the driver, has been reunited with his family, Santa Ana police said. In a tweet, the department said it received several inquiries about Pecas, a black-and-white spotted dog who was taken to an animal hospital after the crash on…

The driver of a car that had gotten inside the crossing gates was killed when it was struck by a Metrolink train in Santa Ana Monday, but a dog inside the Toyota Avalon survived. Officers received a call at 5:30 p.m. about the collision at South Grand Avenue, according to Cpl. Anthony Bertagna of the Santa Ana Police Department. The…

A man’s homecoming princess ended up saving his life when he was diagnosed with end-stage kidney failure. Kim Baldonado reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019.