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The late Shirley Dettloff worked tirelessly in support of the nature center in Huntington Beach that now bears her name. She was also founding member and director of Amigos de Bolsa Chica.

Nearly 40 years after an act of domestic terrorism shattered the Santa Ana office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee killing Alex Odeh, the civil rights organization is opening a new office in the heart of Anaheim’s Little Arabia.

Forbath, 95, died early Monday in her Mesa Verde home surrounded by family and loved ones, who noted the devout Catholic passed shortly after the death of Pope Francis in Vatican City.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied an en banc hearing Monday, dealing a blow to Huntington Beach’s fight against housing mandates.

Coroner’s officials released details on a man and a woman who died Wednesday in a crash involving a pedestrian and an apparent suicide on the beach, while a third person died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a local park Monday.

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The Republican podcaster and former Fox News host held a rally Tuesday, a day after announcing he would run for governor in 2026.

By a 4-1 vote, O.C. Supervisors passed a resolution asking the U.S. Department of Justice to take another look at ex-supervisor Andrew Do’s plea deal and proposed sentence ahead of his June court date.

The signs posted by a political action committee started by Huntington Beach City Councilman Chad Williams, urge a “No” vote on two library initiatives that are the focus of a June special election.

An Orange County Superior Court judge’s claim that he accidentally shot his wife to death in their Anaheim Hills home due to a bad shoulder is “ludicrous,” a prosecutor argued to jurors, but the defendant’s attorney said the forensics in the case back the judge’s version of what occurred.

Attorneys for defendant Craig Charron did not dispute that he stabbed and killed his girlfriend, Laura Sardinha, nearly five years ago. But they say he acted in the heat of passion and in self defense.