Orange County

An off-duty police officer shot and killed a neighbor in Orange County during some sort of dispute late Monday, the county district attorney said. It wasn’t immediately clear what the argument was about, but at some point the Ramapo cop’s gun discharged and neighbor Eric Gilmore was hit, according to Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler. Gilmore died a...

The District Attorney did not disclose where the off-duty police officer worked or what led to the shooting of his neighbor.

The son of NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was arrested this week after allegedly stabbing his neighbor, sheriff’s officials said. On Tuesday, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department was called to a San Clemente neighborhood around 10 p.m. They were responding to a stabbing that apparently occurred during a dispute between neighbors. Adam Abdul-Jabbar, 28, allegedly stabbed his neighbor multiple times...

One person was arrested after eight homeless people were given poisoned food that sent several to the hospital, Southern California authorities said Friday. The poisonings occurred over the course of about a week in mid-May in Huntington Beach in Orange County south of Los Angeles, authorities said. The victims were given food laced with oleoresin capsicum, “which is twice as…

A Southern California college graduate achieved something exceptional in what has been a spring unlike any other for students. At just 13, Jack Rico, of La Mirada, graduated from Fullerton College with four associate degrees. He is the college’s youngest ever graduate.  “I still can’t really believe that I’ve achieved something like this,” Rico said. “I didn’t know that...

A school in New York was ordered to shut down immediately after violating the governor’s executive orders and having ‘hundreds’ of students inside, not following social distancing measures and without personal protective equipment, according to the county health department

A lingering heat wave lured people to California beaches, rivers and trails again Sunday, prompting warnings from officials that defiance of stay-at-home orders could reverse progress and bring the coronavirus surging back.

Dachshunds are ready to go the distance for dogs in need, at Los Alamitos Race Course.

The Newburgh City Council is preparing to address a controversy centered around one of its own at a public meeting Monday night. At attention is leaked police body camera footage showing an interaction between Newburgh police officers and Councilman Omari Shakur. “Just give me your license and registration so we can be on our way,” said one of the two…

Work started on the site that will make room for a massive Amazon warehouse in the Hudson Valley, the Times Herald-Record reports. Nearly 190 acres of trees at the intersection of routes 17K and 747 in Montgomery, Orange County, started to be cut down on Tuesday to make room for the facility after the project was given a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT)…

When a body was found at a mobile home park during the Sandalwood Fire in Calimesa last October, family members of 89-year-old Lois Arvickson feared it was her. They were on the phone with the mother, grandmother and great-grandmother when the line went dead. They searched nearby shelters to see if Arvickson had survived, but couldn’t find her. It...

John Altobelli’s team knew there was only one way to honor its late coach — by playing on his favorite day. Altobelli’s Orange Coast College baseball team opened its season as scheduled on Tuesday against Chula Vista Southwestern. The game occurred two days after Altobelli, his wife and their 13-year-old daughter were killed in the helicopter crash that also...

A 30-year-old man has been arrested in the shooting deaths of a couple and a 9-year-old boy in Newburgh, authorities said Monday. A 3-year-old child remains hospitalized in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds. Newburgh police said Monday Kaliek Goode-Ford, who lives in the area, did know the victims, but they are still investigating a possible motive for Sunday’s...

A man, a woman and a young boy died in a shooting at a home in Orange County Sunday morning, police said.  Officers responding to a report of shots fired at a single-family home on Route 300 in the Town of Newburgh just after 8 a.m. found a man, a woman and two children with gunshot wounds inside, police said…

A man, a woman and a young boy died in a shooting at a home in Orange County Sunday morning, police said. Myles Miller reports.

The victim and his friend went to the suspect’s home when he was stabbing during the escalating confrontation.

The warehouse is the size of 28 football fields and runs 24 hours a day in order to get people the goods they ordered. Although Cyber Monday may be the online retailer’s Super Bowl, procrastinating shoppers can order things as late as Christmas Eve and could still potentially get it in time. NBC New York’s Gus Rosendale reports.

A plow truck working a parking lot in Elizabeth, New Jersey lost control Monday morning and very nearly plowed the bottom of a river instead. Brian Thompson reports.

An MTA bus struck and killed a pedestrian in Queens, dragging him along the road before coming to a stop early Monday, authorities say. Roseanne Colletti reports.