For the last several weeks, workers have flown by helicopter into the rugged Santa Ana Mountains, where they have dug deep into the earth to help determine whether a highway tunnel can be built between Riverside and Orange counties.
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The Orange County Board of Supervisors today selected two finalists to become the county’s next sheriff – retired Los Angeles County sheriff’s Division Chief Sandra Hutchens and Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters.
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Police detectives today were trying to find out how a woman wound up floating naked and barely conscious in a Costa Mesa hotel hot tub.
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The bodies of five family members found in a San Clemente home over the weekend were dressed in black, Orange County sheriff’s officials said Wednesday.
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Two handguns were found next to the bodies of a middle-aged couple in the same bedroom where three other bodies were found in a San Clemente home, an Orange County sheriff’s official said Monday.
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Traveling with the family has taken on new meaning for Richard Bangert.Bangert, who usually makes the trek from his home in Corona to work in Orange County solo, has added his wife and 2-year-old son to the commute.This allows Bangert, a computer systems technician, to use the 91 Express Lanes for free, taking advantage of toll-free travel with three or more people in the car.
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Authorities said this afternoon that no one has been injured from massive mudslides and flooding brought on by an unexpectedly nasty spring storm that pounded the Orange County foothills.
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U.S. Department of Commerce said Wednesday it would hold a public hearing on a state panel’s rejection of a controversial toll road through southern Orange County.The decision was hailed as a victory by toll road opponents and downplayed by officials with the Transportation Corridor Agencies, who wanted to avoid another raucous meeting like the one before the state Coastal Commission.The February meeting drew more than 3,500 people to the Del Mar Fairgrounds and was the largest in commi
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Orange County’s grand jury recommended Wednesday that the Board of Supervisors put two tough campaign ordinances on the November ballot, just months after the board rejected such a request by campaign activists.
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Orange County Supervisor Chris Norby remained hospitalized this morning for treatment of a blood clot in a lung, said his brother, Eric Norby.
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