Orange County

Police pursued a reported stolen U-Haul truck going southbound on the 405 Freeway from Santa Fe Springs to the Orange County area and, then to Long Beach where the suspect and passenger were taken into custody Monday night.

The California Highway Patrol pursued a white van on the 405 Freeway in the Irvine area in Orange County Monday afternoon.

California election officials have received reports that unofficial ballot drop boxes were placed in several counties and said these set-ups are illegal.

Ten more people have succumbed to COVID-19 in Orange County, raising the death toll to 1,316, and officials also reported 162 new diagnoses of coronavirus, hiking the cumulative to 55,345.

A 24-year-old Buena Park man was sentenced Friday to 50 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl while he babysitting her in 2016 and later posting pictures of the assault online, the Orange County District Attorney's Office announced.

A student at Los Alamitos High School, the first public high school in Orange County to reopen in-person since the pandemic, has tested positive for the coronavirus. The positive case highlights the concern that children under the age of 18 can be infected with the deadly virus.

Santa Ana police have released surveillance video of two incidents of vandalism at a church in the hopes it would generate leads to an arrest of the vandals.

Fourteen more people have died from COVID-19 in Orange County, hiking the death toll to 1,292, but the county continued its trend of keeping new daily diagnoses below 200 as hospitalizations ticked down, officials said Thursday.

More than 12 hours after they were brutally murdered the bodies of nine-year-old twins were wheeled away from their home in Placentia on Wednesday.

A man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly setting traffic cones on fire in front of the Costa Mesa police station.

A father and two young girls are dead after what investigators suspect was a murder-suicide in Placentia, officials said on Wednesday morning. 

The family of a Black man who was fatally shot by an Orange County sheriff’s deputy last month filed a wrongful death claim Tuesday against the county.

A baby delivered by emergency C-section and critically injured after her mom was killed by a suspected drunk driver is making a miraculous recovery. Now a photoshoot of the baby girl that her mother always wanted is going viral. 

For the first time, vote by mail ballots are being mailed to all registered voters due to the pandemic. 

Mother of autistic student killed at OC high school awarded $7.5M

Hundreds of people participated in the first night of the Urban Legends Haunt at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa.

Officials from Orange, Riverside and San Diego Counties are calling on Governor Newsom to allow all businesses in their counties to reopen safely, arguing that the requirements set by the governor have been met.

Another heat wave is coming to the Southland this week, with high temperatures expected Tuesday through Friday and forecasters warning of moderate Santa Ana winds blowing across the area beginning Monday.

Orange County reported 246 new cases of COVID-19 and two additional deaths Sunday, bringing the county's totals to 53,315 cases and 1,216 fatalities.