Orange County Superior Court

Here are the Independent's other top stories of 2011: * 2. Little Leaguers go big The Ocean View Little League Majors All-Star team went on a historic journey during the summer. The Huntington Beach squad captured Section 10 and Southern California...

Huntington Beach's long-anticipated new senior center may finally come to fruition now that a new developer has taken over the Pacific City project. Crescent Heights, a Florida-based company that replaced Pacific City's previous developer this summer, is...

The fate of Huntington Beach's annexation of Sunset Beach is in the hands of a judge after attorneys for the city, a county commission and a residents' group squared off in court Thursday. Orange County Superior Court Judge Frederick P. Horn promised...

Huntington Beach police are looking for the victim of a hit-and-run collision in which the suspect was caught and later convicted with the help of a witness. Anaheim resident Sasha Marie Duprez, 29, was arrested Aug. 30 after a short pursuit on suspicion...

A former Fountain Valley police dispatcher has filed an Orange County Superior Court lawsuit against the city alleging sexual harassment by a now-retired sergeant. The employee alleges that the sergeant touched her inappropriately, showed up at her...

A political watchdog group has joined forces with the Citizen's Assn. of Sunset Beach in its appeal of a recent court decision regarding the community's annexation to Huntington Beach. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn., which formed in 1978 to defend...

An Orange County Superior Court judge last week temporarily sealed the grand jury transcripts of the Huntington Beach man charged in the worst mass murder in the county's history. Scott Dekraai's defense team filed a motion to seal the report from public...

SANTA ANA — The Huntington Beach man accused in the worst shooting rampage in Orange County appeared in court Friday, where he faced eight counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and the pained remarks of the victims' grieving...

A former Huntington Beach police officer accused of 19 felonies, including rape and sodomy, can subpoena the medical records of one of the alleged victims, an Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled. James Roberts' alleged mistress told police she...

A Huntington Beach man was arrested Tuesday following a conspiracy and grand theft investigation by California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris. Curtis Melone, 37, who also goes by Curtis Kubat, along with Christopher Fox, 37, of Laguna Niguel allegedly...

The attorney of the waitress accused of selling cocaine to undercover officers at a downtown Huntington Beach restaurant and bar said he has evidence the officers bought her drinks and got her heavily intoxicated before getting information from her....

Family members of the ex-wife of Scott Dekraai, the man charged with killing eight people in a Seal Beach salon, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against him Friday seeking unspecified damages. Joseph and Geraldine Burke, the parents of shooting victim...