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- A teenager whose best friend died while car surfing now speaks to parents and kids about the dangers of the practice.
- Riverside Animal Services saved a young cat that was perched dangerously close to Highway 60.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor is back in the hospital after having trouble breathing and spitting up blood.
- The intersection of Walt Disney Concert Hall was named Ernest Fleischmann Square, after the late managing director of the LA Phil.
- Long Beach City College opened a new, solar-powered parking lot.
- Six OC gang members plead guilty to felony manslaughter involving the shooting death of a woman in a Cypress cafe.
- The Ventura County school board rejected a bid for a new charter school in the area.