Category: Southern California OC News

Irvine City Councilman Resigns to Avoid Terming Out

December 8, 2022
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Irvine City Councilman Larry Agran resigned on Dec. 5 with just a week left in his incumbency to avoid terming out and thereby allowing him to run for another four years on council. Agran will return to the dias Dec. 13 after being reelected by Irvine voters to serve another term. His resignation is in…

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Conservative Majority Takes Over Huntington Beach City Council

December 7, 2022
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The Huntington Beach City Council flipped to a majority of conservatives Dec. 6, when four newly elected members—Casey McKeon, Gracey Van Der Mark, Pat Burns, and Tony Strickland—were sworn into office during the council’s regular meeting replacing Mayor Barbara Delgleize, Mayor Pro Tem Mike Posey, and councilors Kim Carr, and Erik Peterson. This is the…

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Man Found Shot to Death in Huntington Beach

December 7, 2022
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—An investigation was continuing Dec. 6 into the fatal shooting of a man in Huntington Beach. Officers went to the 5200 block of Tasman Drive about 8 p.m. Dec. 5 on a report of possible shots fired, according to the Huntington Beach Police Department. “On arrival, officers located an unresponsive adult male with…

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27 Arrested in Orange County Fix-It Ticket Scam

December 7, 2022
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SANTA ANA, Calif.—California Highway Patrol (CHP) officials released details Dec. 7 of an alleged fix-it ticket scheme for illegal street racers which led to 27 arrests in Orange County on Tuesday. “It is very rare to find and arrest all the suspects involved in an investigative case,” CHP Capt. Gilbert Campa told a group of…

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Orange County Supervisors Declare Racism and Inequity a Public Health Crisis

December 7, 2022
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SANTA ANA, Calif.—The Orange County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution Dec. 6 with a 4–0 vote, declaring racism and inequity a public health crisis. Supervisor Don Wagner was absent. Chairman of the Board Doug Chaffee, who introduced the item with Supervisor Andrew Do, said during the meeting that racism has been associated with chronic…

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Construction Approved for New OC Health Agency Office in Irvine

December 6, 2022
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The Orange County Health Care Agency—which monitors public health in the Southern California county—will move to a new, larger campus in Irvine at the end of 2024, after the Orange County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $78.24 million contract for construction of the site during a recent meeting. Unlike the health agency’s current office—on…

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California School Principal Allegedly Jumped to Death off Disneyland Parking Structure

December 6, 2022
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A Southern California principal was found dead near a Disneyland parking structure on Dec. 3, according to Anaheim police, who said his death was likely a suicide. According to police, Christopher Christensen, 51, was found around 9 p.m. after a report that a man had fallen from the parking structure. Christensen had been charged Nov….

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Man Convicted of Attacking Female Janitor in Irvine

December 6, 2022
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SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 25-year-old man was convicted Dec. 5 of attempting to sexually assault a woman cleaning offices in Irvine after hours. Eduardo Godoy Gonzalez attacked the victim about 1:30 a.m. Feb. 6, 2019, in an office building at 17877 Von Karman, prosecutors said in a trial brief. According to prosecutors, the victim, who was…

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Avenatti Sentenced to 14 Years Federal Prison for Tax, Wire Fraud

December 5, 2022
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SANTA ANA, Calif.—Suspended attorney Michael Avenatti, who rose to fame representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels in her litigation against former President Donald Trump, was sentenced in Orange County Dec. 5 to 14 years in federal prison for tax and wire fraud. U.S. District Judge James V. Selna said Avenatti’s sentence would run consecutively—or on…

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California’s Environmental Laws Make It Harder to Build Homes, Litigator Says

December 4, 2022
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California is in a housing crisis and its environmental laws may be partially to blame, a litigator with the libertarian law firm the Pacific Legal Foundation told EpochTV’s California Insider. The state has tedious property regulations for building and zoning homes, as well as its California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the firm’s Litigation Director Larry…

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