Following the U.S. Capitol insurrection and moves across the country to undermine trust in elections, a pair of UC Irvine professors founded an academic center that will focus on the two most important tenets of democratic societies — fair elections and free speech.

The Daily Pilot’s e-newspaper includes Wednesday’s coverage of Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Laguna Beach, Fountain Valley and other parts of Orange County.

The board voted Tuesday night to pursue a legal challenge to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ongoing assertion of emergency rule-making powers due to the coronavirus pandemic, specifically the school mask mandate.

Fountain Valley police have identified Phia Marie Albanese as the 26-year-old Long Beach woman whose body was found in her car at the intersection of Amberwood Circle and Tradewinds Street last month.

Theodore Liko Wilson, 26, of Costa Mesa was shot Monday after allegedly throwing a pipe wrench at officers investigating an elder abuse report. This is at least the fourth CMPD shooting this year.

Laguna Beach will be bringing back a hybrid meeting format that allowed for limited in-person participation at public meetings, and the city will have a mask mandate indoors at all city facilities.

In 2018, Daniel Correa pleaded not guilty in the Feb. 28 murder of 29-year-old Ashley Boulay at Talbert Regional Park. But in a Santa Ana courtroom Thursday, he changed his plea.

The two-time defending Olympic champions rout Canada, 16-5.

The region known as Southern California is in the southwest corner of the contiguous United States, but it’s not part of the Southwest.

Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 1 for 45-year-old Jorge Tapiacastro.

Costa Mesa police Sunday night arrested Victor Manuel Carpio, 28, of Chino, after the truck he was driving crossed a median and struck cars waiting to turn onto Broadway.

Glenn Allen Brooks reportedly shared photos taken inside a breached U.S. Capitol with members of a church prayer text group, one of whom went to the FBI.