A 51-year-old man was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for kidnapping and raping a 6-year-old girl in Santa Ana in 2012. Francisco Javier Lopez was convicted Sept.

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SANTA ANA, CA – December 11, 2025 – PRESSADVANTAGE – Ornate Home, a furniture and mattress retailer with a location in Santa Ana, California, has launched a curated collection of in-stock Ashley ...

Every death inside Southern California’s county jails is put under a microscope. Every cause of death is analyzed, every lapse in services or employee misstep is scrutinized. The question then becomes ...

Letters to the editor of the Daily Pilot, this week from residents of Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. One writer opines on the ...

The Orange County and Santa Ana Mountains area is the focus of an air quality alert reported at 11:54 a.m. on Friday by the ...

On Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, Orange County Sheriff’s Department Special Victims Detail (SVD) investigators arrested Cameron ...

The Santa Ana Police Department arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly stabbing a person to death in a local drive-thru.

A suspect was arrested for allegedly stabbing a man to death at the drive-thru lane of an Orange County fast-food restaurant.

The popular grocery chain Trader Joe's has opened a new store in Costa Mesa and plans to open two more in New York and South ...

Santa Ana Police Detectives have arrested Diego Sartori, a 35-year-old Anaheim man, for a fatal stabbing of a man in the ...