Someone sabotaged the feral cat traps that were set up yesterday at an Orange County school by health officials who are trying to isolate the source of typhus, a flea-born bacterial infection. more ›

A new mom in Orange County will in all likelihood be celebrating Mother Day behind bars after she told police that the father of her baby is her teenage daughter's boyfriend. If it's true, not only is that totally skeevy, it's against the law since the boy is only 16. more ›

The bizarre case of a man accused of posing as a spiritual healer so that he could to lure a woman to a hotel room and rape her just got even worse: the suspect allegedly had another victim. more ›

A 16-year-old boy was shot walking home from school with his friend this afternoon. The shooting happened around 3 p.m. The suspect came from behind, walked in front of the pair and then turned around and shot the boy. more ›

While some local authorities have made it their mission to complicate access to medical marijuana, an Aliso Viejo-based company has pioneered an invention that will make accessing medicinal pot almost as easy as pressing "A3." more ›

A 14-year-old girl was shot this afternoon on the streets of Santa Ana. Police aren't sure what led to the shooting—they said it may have been a gang-related drive-by— but they don't believe that the young girl was the intended target. more ›

One of today's most disturbing stories comes to us from Santa Ana, where a 36-year-old spiritual healer has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman during a raw egg cleansing. Confused? Don't worry. So are we. more ›

Itzcoatl "Izzy'' Ocampo, the ex-Marine accused of murdering six people, is reportedly hearing voices and attempting to bang them out of his head in the Men's Central Jail in Santa Ana. The 23-year-old Iraq War veteran's lawyer, Randall Longwith said Ocampo attempted to hurt himself in his jail cell on Friday or Saturday. more ›

Unfortunately, we find ourselves reporting on teachers committing lewd acts on or molesting students almost daily. Today's report comes from Santa Ana, where a 63-year-old former high school teacher, wrestling coach and NFL player has been arrested on misdemeanor charges of fondling two students. more ›

Jennifer McClain, a 29-year-old Orange County Sheriff's Deputy, was arrested Monday night while on the job on suspicion of having sex with a male inmate at a Santa Ana facility, according to City News Service. The inmate claims the sex was consensual, however the extent of their relationship is not immediately known. more ›

After the discovery of the body of a homeless man in Santa Ana this morning, local authorities are not willing to attribute the death to a serial killer targeting the homeless in Orange County. The body was found beside the truck in which the man lived. more ›

An Orange County family has been charged with a handful of felony counts, including animal cruelty, stemming from evidence they hoarded 110 cats inside a filthy, stinky home that was unsafe for its occupants, including two young girls. more ›

A young woman was found hanging from a tree near the playground of Santiago Park in Santa Ana last night. more ›

A two-month-old baby suffocated and died after allegedly being left alone the night before Halloween, reports NBC Los Angeles. Corrina Atuatasi, 27, was watching her infant son on October 30 while her husband and two-year-old daughter were away visiting family. more ›

A two-year-old boy has died and his mother and 1-year-old sister are recovering after being struck by a hit-and-run driver last night, reports ABC 7 News. The family was crossing a street in Santa Ana when 23-year-old Angel Perez allegedly struck them with his SUV. The AP notes that boy was pulled under the car and the woman and baby were thrown on the hood. The boy was taken to U.C. Irvine Medical Center, where he later died. more ›

Juan Manuel Diaz, 36, of Santa Ana and his passenger were shot around 9 p.m. last night at the intersection of Grand and Edinger Avenues, according to the Daily Breeze. His van careened into wrong-way traffic and he slammed into a Volkswagen Beetle carrying a family with two adults and three children, ages 5, 8 and 13. more ›

A Santa Ana man who set his girlfriend on fire during a fight has been sentened to 15 years in prison, reports CBS Los Angeles. Constantino Monterrosas Gamez, 39, plead guilty last week to attempted murder, making criminal threats, false imprisonment and great bodily injury. more ›

Four protesters in the Occupy Orange County movement were arrested last night when they tried to camp out in tents in Santa Ana's Civic Center. Police rode in on horses and made the arrests, after warning protesters that they would be arrested if they violated the city's anti-camping policy, according to the O.C. Register. more ›

If you're driving south on the 5 freeway into Orange County today, you might get a chance to see some of the handiwork of Anonymous (if it isn't torn down first). The group transformed a welcome sign to Orange County into a promotion for the Occupy Orange County movement that is actually brewing behind the Orange Curtain. more ›

A 23-year-old man who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 58-year-old woman in a Santa Ana park faces 30 years to life in prison, reports CBS News. The victim was walking alone on a hiking trail at about 2 p.m. on May 25, 2009 when Alfredo Fraga grabbed her, dragged her into the bushes and sexually assaulted her. more ›

It's not uncommon to read and hear stories of sidewalk robberies in the OC. It is, however, uncommon when a robber makes a young child the victim of petty theft. While walking east in the 3600 block of West Fifth Street in Santa Ana on Wednesday morning, a woman and her 4-year-old son were approached from behind by a bandit. more ›

A child is in critical condition today, recovering from injuries sustained when she fell out of a second-story window in a Santa Ana apartment building. The four-year-old girl had been bouncing on a bed situated next to an open window, according to L.A. Now. She bounced through the window screen, tumbling head-first onto the ground below. more ›

Thousands of angry bees swarmed a man in a storage facility in Santa Ana yesterday, knocking him out of his wheelchair and prompting the evacuations of an entire city block. Three Good Samaritans stepped in to save the man from the attack of a swarm estimated to be as large as 60,000 bees, according to the Associated Press. more ›

On the heels of yesterday's 4.1 earthquake that shook Riverside, a magnitude 3.5 rattled Orange County at 2:56am on Thursday. more ›

Get ready for another day of seeing your L.A. friends' Facebook statuses being about how effing, stinking hot they are, because this heat wave is not leaving us today. In fact, we're expected to hit the ol' triple digit mark in many parts of Los Angeles today. more ›

Miguel Ruiz Fabian, a 24-year-old Santa Ana public works intern, faces his arraignment today for charges of creatively using his cell phone to record video of men in the City Hall bathroom. more ›

If you're driving down the Costa Mesa Freeway in Santa Ana, you might be able to catch a glimpse of the latest conquest by the Backyard Skeptics, a group of outspoken atheists in Orange Country. Their latest billboard quotes "lifelong atheist" Dr. Natalie Khazaal along with her quote: "Atheism is philanthropy without mythology, peace without superstition." more ›

After being taken into custody on Friday, a Santa Ana man is accused of coaxing three underage girls out of the Lone Star State and transporting them to the OC with the intention of selling them into prostitution, reports the OC Register. The man, 26-year-old Samuel Martinez Gonzalez, reportedly invited the girls to California for a beach trip. more ›