The former finance director and chief investment officer of Soka University of America has pleaded guilty to federal charges of embezzling nearly $1.8 million in university funds, authorities said Wednesday.
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Three teenage boys are being held today in the death of a San Juan Capistrano 14-year-old who was struck in the head with a large piece of concrete during an apparent gang altercation, authorities said.
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A 15-year-old Northwood High School student died Wednesday after collapsing during a late-afternoon football practice on the Irvine campus, police said.
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A Hawaii man was charged Tuesday with one of Orange County’s most notorious unsolved slayings: the 1987 execution-style killing of topless bar owner Jimmy Casino.
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Jimmy Casino, once Orange County’s strip club king, was like a character out of a James Ellroy novel, a slick-talking swindler who met his end with a bullet to the back of the head.
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An Orange County sheriff’s deputy may face up to 18 years in prison for alleged crimes that could be the result of nothing more than laziness, authorities said Wednesday.
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This year’s Rossmoor Family Fun Day Picnic featured a Ferris wheel, hot dogs and bands.
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A mother with secondary custody of her three children has been charged with felony child abduction and endangerment after surreptitiously taking them from an Orange County hospital, where one was being treated for pneumonia, authorities said Thursday.
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Orange County should give itself an F for the way it informs the public about health conditions in restaurants, according to a grand jury report released Thursday.
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