Fountain Valley (Orange, California)

We do not need more bars in downtown Huntington Beach ("ABC officials approve license," June 9). Our crime and DUI rates are off the charts. The taxpayers have to pay for the law enforcement costs. So, why did these folks protest the license? It's not...

A Fountain Valley man and woman were scheduled to go to trial Wednesday on charges of attempting to murder the woman's husband. Mary Katheryn Sharpski, 48, and Michael Calvin Shores II, 40, and Antonio Cinco Ortega, 25, of Santa Ana, are each charged...

When Sally Nobbs and her family jumped out of the windows of their Sunset Beach home to escape a five-alarm fire May 12, there was no going back: They lost everything. But almost immediately, Nobbs, who lived in the rented home with her boyfriend, his...

Fountain Valley is in talks with county officials about annexing a nearly 21-acre unincorporated area into its boundaries, but City Manager Ray Kromer said the county would have to agree to pay for an extra police officer before the city took over the...

The Orange County district attorney's office said Monday it was seeking the death penalty for a Garden Grove man charged in the execution-style slaying of two people so he could steal a car. Hilbert Pineil Thomas, 39, is charged in the February 2009...

Fifteen school districts across Orange County have been granted extended deadlines to complete paperwork to file for board seats after a number of incumbents failed to file their nomination papers by the Friday deadline. The Fountain Valley School...

The Orange County Fair is drawing to a close, and the last vegetable competition is over in the Farm and Garden category. Last year, I entered the competition for the largest sunflower head. Twice. Neither of my sunflowers was big enough to win a ribbon....

The Orange County Registrar of Voters verified the signatures for two Fountain Valley City Council candidates who were still awaiting official status Friday, bringing the total number of candidates to 10. Small business owner Duy T. Nguyen and retail...

Most athletes start their workouts with a warm-up and stretching, but 17-year-old Hassan Ilyas and his track-and-field cohorts have to prep not only themselves, but the track. Before they run, they grab shovels to remove rocks, bring in a rake to smooth...

It is probably true that every chef dreams of owning his or her own restaurant someday, and James Peters is no exception, having grown up in the food business, working at his family's restaurant, then doing his time at culinary school and in fine kitchens...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a decision to make. Should he allow California to rush out and prematurely create a massive, billion-dollar, state-run healthcare bureaucracy to implement ObamaCare – the national health insurance program passed by...

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer from Fountain Valley was charged Monday with raping and sodomizing two women. Miguel Lerma, 31, was charged with one felony count of forcible rape, sodomy by force and forcible oral copulation of a woman in...