Overtime pay in the Orange County Sheriff’s Department has skyrocketed in recent years because the department lacks a comprehensive policy or effective controls on the extra pay, according to an audit released Wednesday.
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Orange County’s Measure J may be the closest thing to a sure bet on next month’s ballot.
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A small brush fire that broke out Wednesday afternoon in the Cleveland National Forest near Yorba Linda is expected to be fully contained by noon today, a
U.S. Forest Service official said this morning.
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Two Anaheim police officers were taken to the hospital early this morning after an allegedly drunk driver rear-ended their patrol car.
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Santa Ana Unified School District officials today announced a $1,000 reward for the return of six bronze plaques, including four honoring Santa Ana High School’s war dead, that were stolen from a campus wall Tuesday night.
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Riverside County detectives are investigating the apparent homicide of a French Valley couple.
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About 100 Ventura County firefighters are battling a small coastal fire that broke out earlier this morning and has closed a roughly five-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway near Point Mugu,
CHP and Ventura County fire officials said this morning.
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Anaheim police today are investigating whether a 14-year-old boy’s older sister may have played a role in his death after he allegedly fell off the trunk of her car as she was driving.
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State lottery officials say time is running out for the buyer of a winning Mega Millions ticket at a Watts liquor store to collect the $184,000 prize.
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Former first lady Nancy Reagan broke her pelvis and has been admitted to the hospital, her spokeswoman said in a statement this morning.
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