Orange County

The mother of a teen basketball player who instructed her daughter to punch a 15-year-old opponent in a video seen millions of times was ordered to pay a $9,000 fine and provide a written apology.

The victims’ identities were not immediately released.

Two men in their 60s — a 67-year-old rabbi from New York and a 68-year-old man from New Jersey — died when a car heading the wrong way on the New York State Thruway slammed head-on into another vehicle early Tuesday, leaving twisted wreckage across the highway, according to authorities and colleagues. State Police responding to a crash on the…

A man fell to his death from the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge in New York’s Hudson Valley after he got out of his car that had broken down on the highway, according to police.

Sandra Quinones said when her water broke in Orange County jail in March 2016, staffers took two hours to reply to her call for help and failed to call her an ambulance.

Her husband went to police when he suspected she was poisoning him after he felt sick. He also took secret video of her.

An Orange County man has lawyered up to seek custody of his children and a restraining order against his wife, after he says she tried to poison him with drain cleaner.

There are new concerns about the potential spread of polio in New York, with the state health commissioner saying there could be “hundreds” of people infected as new evidence shows the virus has been found in samples from multiple counties. The state health department, which launched wastewater surveillance earlier this month after officials announced the first confirmed U.S. polio...

Polio has now been found in wastewater samples from two different locations in Orange County, raising concerns that the virus is spreading, Sarah Wallace reports.

The CDC has detected more polio virus in more Hudson Valley wastewater samples, now in a different New York county — and state health officials are now warning that the latest environmental evidence “further indicates potential community spread” of a childhood disease that the United States declared eradicated more than four decades ago. The state health department, which launched wastewater…

A Southern California police detective who’d once been named “detective of the year” allegedly sent graphic messages online to a decoy pretending to be a 14-year-old girl, prosecutors said.

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A suspected gunman accused of going on an hourslong pre-dawn crime spree at multiple 7-Eleven stores across Southern California, leaving two dead and others seriously injured, has been arrested, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said.

7-Eleven announced it was offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the suspect accused of going on a string of robberies and deadly shootings at several Southern California stores on July 11.

Police were working Wednesday to return a stolen gold medal to Olympic volleyball player Jordyn Poulter after a thief snatched it from her car last month.

An internal investigation report from the Orange County Sheriff’s office obtained by NBC affiliate WESH-TV details how news of Saget’s death spread from employees to social media before an official release was provided by the department’s public information officer.

One woman died and a man was critically hurt when he jumped from the third floor where both were trapped, after the flames broke out.

A 10-year-old girl is facing a murder charge after police in Orlando say she shot and killed a woman who was fighting with her mom on Memorial Day.

A 2-year old boy fatally shot his father in an accident after finding a gun, and the boy’s mother is now facing criminal charges, authorities in Florida said Monday

Authorities say a 2-year old boy fatally shot his father in an accident after finding a gun, and the boy’s mother is now facing criminal charges.