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A resolution, unanimously passed by the City Council, applauded officers for how they handled several local protests earlier this summer that were part of the international movement against police brutality in the United States. → Read More
The Orange County Board of Supervisors approved a mobile police fingerprinting system Tuesday over the objections of anti-racism activists who said the tool would disproportionately impact people of color and people living in the margins. → Read More
The California Department of Public Health dropped Orange County from its watchlist on Sunday, putting it in company with seven other counties including San Diego and Santa Cruz. → Read More
The City Council will consider a resolution Tuesday that recognizes the force's response on June 3, when five separate protests took place at various times and locations in town. → Read More
Abdallah Osseily, 34, was the alleged ringleader of 12 defendants who, from July 2014 to March 2020, defrauded a company referred to in an indictment as “U.S. Retailer 1," the Department of Justice said Thursday. → Read More
The judge said that any prosecutor in Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer's office who won the case would be in a position of making his boss look foolish for saying the case could not be prosecuted. → Read More
This is a story about how young Eric Connella and his friends had an itch for some wholesome hijinks in 1983 and wrote a few lines into Newport Beach history. It's the story of Tower P. → Read More
The city of Newport Beach has agreed to pay $360,000 to settle a wrongful arrest suit stemming from a 2016 incident involving a declined credit card for a $16 cab ride. → Read More
From a podium fashioned from shipping boxes, Rep. Harley Rouda said removal of blue curbside outgoing boxes and elimination of overtime are a plan to suppress the vote in November that could unseat President Trump. → Read More
The case rate is 109.7 per 100,000 people, close to the 100 per 100,000 threshold that would get the county closer to easing restrictions. → Read More
Local opponents of an office building and parking garage project in Newport Beach have delayed the project again with an appeal to the California Coastal Commission on environmental grounds. → Read More
The Orange County district attorney's office charged Travis Patrick White, 48, with one count of brandishing a firearm in public and one count of possession of a loaded firearm in a public place, prosecutors announced Friday. → Read More
John Hamilton created a legacy as a family man, businessman, philanthropist, loyal Trojan and sports fan beyond compare before he died of COVID-19. → Read More
Five people are running for Newport Beach City Council this fall, with all three incumbents in the mix. → Read More
Much of the discussion at Tuesday's supervisors meeting focused on the qualities of the applicants, with assists from customers and friends offering supportive testimony. Newport Beach neighbors also chimed in. → Read More
Carlos Romo, 77, of Newport Beach died Friday after being struck near the intersection of Irvine Avenue and 17th Street, on the Costa Mesa-Newport border. → Read More
The county had 886 new coronavirus cases Monday, bringing the total to 40,527, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency. → Read More
The $1,000 SafeDineOC grants will cover expenses incurred from March through September and come from federal CARES Act relief funds. The Orange County Business Council will manage the program on behalf of the county. → Read More
The Newport Beach Film Festival is pivoting again in response to the coronavirus pandemic, with a premiere held drive-in style next week plus a virtual Lifetime Achievement ceremony that can hold cinephiles over until the full festival can move ahead. → Read More
Caltrans announced both the southbound and northbound 55 connectors in Costa Mesa will close at 10 p.m. Friday and reopen at 5 a.m. on Monday. → Read More