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Six people, including a Laguna Beach woman and men from Huntington Beach and Irvine, have been charged by federal prosecutors with participating in a fraudulent real estate scheme. The defendants are accused of selling bank-owned properties for as much...

A Huntington Beach man was sentenced Monday to six years in state prison for his role in the beating death of an inmate at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange in 2006. Eric Charles Miller, 26, was the ninth and final inmate to be sentenced in the killing of...

A white homeless Huntington Beach man was convicted Thursday of committing a hate crime against a Hispanic woman and sentenced to three years of formal probation and 180 days in county jail, according to the Orange County district attorney's office....

SANTA ANA — The Huntington Beach man accused of walking into a Seal Beach salon and killing eight people pleaded not guilty Tuesday in front of a courtroom packed with emotional family members and friends of the victims. A preliminary hearing was...

The teenager charged with fatally stabbing a 19-year-old man at a Huntington Beach park pleaded not guilty last week. Jesse Shockey, 16, of Garden Grove is scheduled for a preliminary hearing March 2 at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana. He is...

SANTA ANA — The Orange County Grand Jury on Tuesday indicted Scott Evans Dekraai for allegedly murdering eight people and attempting to murder a ninth in what is now known as the county's worst mass murder. The Huntington Beach resident faces eight...

A preliminary hearing for two former teachers charged with having sexual relations with a 17-year-old boy has been scheduled for March 8. Former Westminster High School teacher Daniel Shepard and his wife, former Mesa View Middle School teacher Gay...

A new mayor. A new Assembly representative. For that matter, a new queen. Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley have plenty of things to anticipate in 2012 —and leadership is only part of the picture. Here are stories to watch for in the coming...

A homeless man pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony charges for yelling racial slurs and spitting on a woman in Huntington Beach, according to the Orange County district attorney's office. Jonathan Michael Schmidt, 31, was charged with two felony counts...

A woman pleaded not guilty Oct. 5 to yelling racial slurs and punching a man in the face in downtown Huntington Beach, according to the Orange County district attorney's office. San Diego resident Jennifer Renee Vanveldhuizen, 36, faces one felony...

Opening statements were scheduled to begin Wednesday in the trial of a Huntington Beach man accused of beating and causing the death of a World War II veteran during a robbery on Veterans Day in 2003, according to the Orange County district attorney's...

The waitress accused by Huntington Beach police of selling cocaine at a downtown restaurant and bar pleaded guilty Monday to aiding in the selling of drugs. Brynn Ashley Boucher, 24, was sentenced to three years of formal probation and a day in jail, the...