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Brandon Lopez, 34, was fatally shot after an hours-long standoff with Anaheim police on Sept. 28. His family members claim he was having a mental health crisis and now the District Attorney's office is investigating.

Paramedics took five people to trauma centers Sunday evening after a pickup and an SUV collided in Santa Ana.

A high-speed pursuit that started in Santa Ana turned into a foot pursuit in Atwater Village on Wednesday afternoon, police said. 

Sonia Hermosillo, who was convicted of murder after she dropped her 7-month-old son to his death from a Children's Hospital of Orange County parking structure a decade ago, was legally sane at the time of the crime, a jury found Monday.

David Nicholas Dempsey, 34, of Van Nuys, and Jeffrey Scott Brown, 54, of Santa Ana, are charged with federal offenses related to their alleged assault and impediment of certain officers, officials said.

An Orange County judge declared a mistrial Tuesday in the embezzlement trial of attorney Michael Avenatti, who is accused of stealing settlement money from several clients to help bail out his law firm from bankruptcy, stave off creditors and spend on himself.

John Wayne Airport is back to normal after a man's alleged crime spree at the runway forced evacuations, flight delays and cancellations.

Anthony Barajas was described by two of his closest mentors as a student leader who was not only fun-loving but deeply committed to the service of others. The 19-year-old was fatally shot inside a movie theater in Corona during a showing of "The Forever Purge."

Officials in Santa Ana on Wednesday issued a requirement for all city employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or face regular testing as the Delta variant fuels a surge that has hospitalizations continuing to climb.

Firefighters Tuesday were able to free a naked woman who somehow got stuck between two buildings in Santa Ana.

Two Southern California call centers that facilitated illegal drug deliveries distributed at least $2 million worth of heroin before a federal grand jury indicted 19 people in connection with the scheme, authorities said Tuesday. The conspiracy allegedly involved couriers to sneak the drug from Mexico to Orange County.

Days after 6-year-old Aiden Leos was shot and killed on the 55 Freeway in Orange County, the couple charged in the deadly incident got involved in another traffic altercation, prosecutors said in court papers filed this week.

Aiden Leos, the 6-year-old boy killed in a road rage shooting on the 55 Freeway in May, will soon have a plaque dedicated in his name at OC Parks' new Large Mammal Project, which is currently underway, it was announced Friday.

Spectators knowingly standing within 200 feet of races or dangerous street events would get warnings, but eventually could be fined or end up with a six month jail sentence.