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Police arrested 24-year-old Lukas McHargue in Oceanside Wednesday. He has been charged with one count of murder stemming from an April crash that pushed a woman’s car into the Bolsa Chica Wetlands.
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An investigative TimesOC report published this week looks at massive overtime payouts, alleged arrest quotas and an internal probe involving the Anaheim Police Department’s Disney resort team.
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The elevated shopping center parking lot off Coast Highway is the same spot where a 64-year-old father, teaching his teen daughter to drive on Memorial Day in 2025, was killed.
Officers responding Saturday to Beach Boulevard at Slater Avenue found the motorcyclist, a Costa Mesa resident, unconscious in the roadway and transported him to a nearby hospital where he later died.
Flappers, fedoras and felonies abound in this murder-mystery dinner theater, which opened in June at Pirates Dinner Adventure in Buena Park.
Wild Rivers hosts a one-week summer camp for kids that teaches water safety and basic first aid with plenty of free play in the waterpark.
The Irvine performing arts school’s acquisition of a second building will allow the program to accommodate an additional 400 students
The Lake Forest City Council in November will ask voters to overturn a lifetime ban on council members who’ve served two consecutive terms. Residnets in 2018 overwhelmingly approved term limits in an 82.5% vote.
A naturally talented phenom in soccer, softball and track, Fei Fabiola “Fifi” Garcia will be a freshman at Santa Margarita Catholic High School this fall.
Marina High’s principal for the last two years, Tim Floyd will take over the same role at Huntington Beach High, while Rob Rasmussen moves from Ocean View to Marina and Daniel Morris heads to Valley View.
A vintage 1959 Snowbird owned by Yucaipa resident Mike Staudt will kick off the event in Newport Harbor as a nod to the race’s history, when it was called Fight of the Snowbirds.
A study session scheduled on Tuesday will take a look at the police response to unruly Fourth of July crowds in Newport Beach and what the city can do ahead of Labor Day weekend.
Greer Wylder will share her notes from her book, “Born in OC: Artists, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries,” at the Norma Hertzog Community Center Sunday. The event is hosted by the Costa Mesa Historical Society.
Huntington Beach Police are warning online organizers and promoters attempting to stage another takeover during an Aug. 1 “Beach Bash” that they will be prosecuted for any criminality.
