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The trial of a Costa Mesa man accused in a double murder case has been fast-tracked, prosecutors said Thursday. Daniel Patrick Wozniak, 28, is scheduled to be arraigned in a Santa Ana courtroom Friday on charges that he killed his neighbor, Samuel Herr,...

A Costa Mesa man charged with murdering his ex-wife and former father-in-law last year after losing custody of his daughter was bound over for trial after a preliminary hearing in Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach Wednesday. After hearing...

Dressed in festive pirate regalia, more than a dozen protesters rallied Saturday afternoon below the Ferris wheel at Balboa Fun Zone, supporting the side yard boat restoration project of Newport Beach shipwright Dennis Holland. Holding pirate flags and...

Prosecutors on Friday announced charges against two people suspected of being accessories after the fact in a complicated double-murder case that rattled a Costa Mesa apartment complex in May 2010. The suspects were arrested and charged in connection...

A Newport Beach resident has donated $10,000 to help cover the medical costs of a severely injured high school student and pledged to match another $10,000 in donations from the community. David Pyle made the contribution to the Bank of America account...

Newport Beach Country Club will receive a new clubhouse. The question is what will it look like and how big will it be? Two proposals will come before Newport Beach City Councilmembers at their Jan. 24 meeting for the East Coast Highway property. One...

NEWPORT BEACH — Morningside Recovery President Raymond Jeffrey Yates pleaded not guilty Friday to felony domestic battery charges. Harbor Justice Center Judge Stephanie George ordered Yates, 44, of Newport Beach to not contact his ex-wife in...

LOS ANGELES — Newport-Mesa Unified Supt. Jeffrey Hubbard is expected to stand trial Jan. 6 on three felony charges related to his previous job as the schools chief in Beverly Hills, authorities said. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: An earlier...

NEWPORT BEACH — The Costa Mesa man charged with two murders and a handful of sentencing enhancements in a grisly killing last year has yet to have a preliminary hearing, but has been in custody for a year and six months. A judge Friday said that...

A court date has been set for prosecutors to show a judge that they have enough evidence to try a Costa Mesa man on charges that he murdered a neighbor and then, as part of an elaborate cover-up, killed the neighbor's friend. A preliminary hearing for...

The co-defendant in the criminal case involving the Newport-Mesa Unified superintendent received her sentencing Thursday of four years and four months in prison, and was ordered to pay $2 million in restitution, authorities said. --------------------...

The Orange County district attorney's office published evidence online Wednesday from the Irvine 11 case. The trove includes email threads sent among the UC Irvine and UC Riverside students and video of them shouting down Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren'...