Orange County

San Diego county officials discussed the county’s emergency response to the oil spill after reports that tar balls were spotted in Oceanside.

Here’s what you need to know about how the leak happened and how it impacts wildlife and humans.

The remains found in a wooded area in central Florida have been confirmed to be the body of a missing college student who disappeared last month, authorities said Tuesday. The body found Saturday has been identified as 19-year-old Miya Marcano, Joshua Stephany, chief medical examiner for Orange and Osceola counties, said in a statement. At a news conference Tuesday, the…

Family members of a young college student from South Florida who vanished near Orlando were still holding out hope she’d be found alive, as the massive search for her stretched into a seventh day Friday.

A military veteran was captured on video trapping an alligator inside a garbage pail outside a Florida home Tuesday morning.

A man in Orlando, Fla., took matters into his own hands when a large alligator was found lounging in front of his house.

Family members and authorities continued their massive search Tuesday for a young South Florida woman who vanished in Orlando, a day after officials said they found the body of the man who was the person of interest in her disappearance.

Police are still searching for a missing 19-year-old Florida woman who was last seen Friday at an apartment complex near an Orlando college.

One teacher’s video about how she handles the Pledge of Allegiance in her classroom went viral, causing controversy at a California high school.

An Orange County judge declared a mistrial in the embezzlement trial of attorney Michael Avenatti, accused of stealing settlement money from several clients.

Firefighters needed about 2 1/2 hours Tuesday to free a nude woman who somehow got stuck between two buildings in Santa Ana.

Former MMA fighter Tito Ortiz has resigned from his seat on the Huntington Beach City Council, citing personal conflicts, a city spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

An Orange County man was discharged from the hospital after being there for more than seven months due to complications of COVID-19.

The woman turned around, saw the knife-wielding suspect and got up and ran onto a playing field shouting for help, police said.

The only survivor of the mass shooting at an Orange office building in March that left four people, including her 9-year-old son, dead was released Wednesday from the hospital.

A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday and was immediately sentenced to more than six years in prison for breaking into the residence of three female college students in the city of Orange, helping himself to refreshments and using a laptop computer belonging to one of the residents to download porn and commit a sex act.

The man accused of going on a shooting rampage at a Southern California business, killing four people, should not have been allowed to buy or own guns because of a California law that prohibits people from purchasing weapons for 10 years after being convicted of a crime.

Twin brothers who star in prank shows on a popular YouTube channel were sentenced to community service for their guilty pleas to charges related to fake bank robberies in Irvine that resulted in their Uber driver being held at gunpoint by police, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.

A teen driver has been arrested and issued 43 violations after cops caught him going as fast as 148 mph on highways and roads in New York, according to the state police

About 40 false killer whales were spotted along a California coastline, an uncommon sighting for the tropical species.