Orange County

Actor-comedian Andy Dick was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of felony sexual battery in a campground at O’Neill Regional park in Trabuco Canyon.

Adreian Payne, a former Michigan State basketball standout and NBA player, has died in a shooting. He was 31. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a shooting at 1:34 a.m. Monday when Payne was identified and taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. Lawrence Dority, 29, was present at the scene, according to the Sheriff’s…

A 42-year-old woman was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life in prison for dropping her 7-month-old son to his death from a Children’s Hospital of Orange County parking structure a decade ago.

A Northern California woman pleaded guilty Monday to faking her own kidnapping and lying to the FBI about it, leaving her motive unanswered in the carefully planned hoax that set off a massive three-week search before she resurfaced on Thanksgiving Day in 2016.

Police are looking for a man at the center of a Bitcoin swindle who was wearing some flashy Converse Comme des Garçons shoes and driving a high-end Mercedes-Benz when he showed up to buy a $17,000 Hublot watch.

Police are investigating the death of a 14-year-old after witnesses said he fell from a ride at an Orlando theme park.

Video captured by police shows a full-grown mountain lion hiding in the bushes on a busy street in Orange County before taking off running across the street Tuesday.

A man was accused of stealing a pricey yacht in Newport Beach and crashing it into several others before being taken into custody Thursday.

“Nobody has the right to judge what other people do for a living. I feel judged, and so isolated,” the woman said said.

The man told police that he stayed at the airport because the coronavirus pandemic had left him afraid to fly.

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.