Macdougall Family Mortuary

Midway through the funeral Mass for the young wife and mother struck down by leukemia, the call came to the Santa Ana church: The funeral home was terribly sorry, but it had sent the wrong body. When word filtered out to grieving husband Ricardo Sandoval, he flipped up the drape covering the casket and realized that it was indeed not the coffin he had ordered.

Midway through the funeral Mass for the young wife and mother struck down by leukemia, the call came to the Santa Ana church: The funeral home was terribly sorry, but it had sent the wrong body. When word filtered out to grieving husband Ricardo Sandoval, he flipped up the drape covering the casket and realized that it was indeed not the coffin he had ordered.

A rosary will be said today for a 25-year-old woman killed in a gang cross-fire. Maria Corona of Westminster died of gunshot wounds Monday. Corona, who was shot early Saturday while waiting outside a restaurant on West Pine Street in Santa Ana, was the mother of two small children. She held two jobs to support them. The rosary will be from 5 to 9 p.m. at MacDougall Family Mortuary, 1610 E. 1st St. in Santa Ana. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m.

Midway through the funeral Mass for the young wife and mother stricken down by leukemia, the call came to the Santa Ana church: The funeral home was terribly sorry, but it had sent the wrong body. When the word filtered out to grieving husband Ricardo Sandoval, he flipped up the drape covering the casket and realized that it was indeed not the coffin he had ordered.

A father charged with homicide and child abuse after his infant daughter died of a skull fracture last weekend told his girlfriend that he had dropped their baby accidentally, she said Thursday. Aurora Jaimez, 20, also said that in the past year and a half that she has lived with Octavio Pantaleon, 22, he has hit her children, including a 4-year-old and a 6-year-old, on the backside and hands for disciplinary reasons and has hit and bruised her.

As extra police patrols cruised the streets near Santa Ana High School, family and friends gathered Monday at a mortuary to mourn the slaying of a 31-year-old deliveryman last week on the school parking lot in a display of gang violence that continues to rock the city. Police have assigned a contingent of detectives to the case but said they had no new developments and were working "step by step" toward the capture of gang members who fatally shot Mauro Meza and wounded three of his relatives.

The search for the killer of 9-year-old Nadia Puente continued Thursday, with Santa Ana police sifting through a combination of physical evidence and new information supplied through a police hot line. "We've received quite a few calls on the hot line overnight," said police spokeswoman Maureen Thomas, who declined to elaborate about the new information. But she said that tips on the girl's kidnaping as she walked home from Diamond Elementary School on Monday were being studied by investigators.

When they bring to order Orange County's first comprehensive anti-gang summit Tuesday in Anaheim, officials won't need to spend much time discussing whether gang violence is getting worse here. Orange County is now a place where a neighborhood priest, Father Joseph Justice, conducts 14 funerals in three months' time and 10 of them are the result of youth gang strikes. Where Dr.