OC Watchdog: Will Orange County cities privatize emergency services?

REGISTER FILE PHOTO Irvine isn’t alone in threatening to bail on Orange County’s biggest emergency-services agency, which is suddenly...

Woman in Vallejo-to-Huntington Beach kidnapping files lawsuit against police who thought it was hoax

This undated photo released by the Vallejo Police Department shows Denise Huskins. SAN FRANCISCO –- Police who dismissed a California...

Crises averted: 211 hotline reaches O.C. residents in need of food, housing, detox aid and more

Billy Wayne Phillips answers questions from a 211OC Community Wellness Navigator as she help him enroll for Medi-Cal and CalFresh servic...

Disney Musicals in the Schools: O.C. students take their star turn at Segerstrom

Students from Agnes Ware Stanley elementary school perform "I Wanna Be Like You" from “The Jungle Book,” during Disney Musical...

Judge grants woman's request to quit Trump University suit

SAN DIEGO – A judge has granted a Southern California yoga instructor’s request to withdraw from a federal class-action lawsuit against...

Santa Ana Civic Center overhaul underway with $7.7 million design contract

Building 16, located at 601 N. Ross St. in Santa Ana, would be torn down under a plan to revamp county office space. SANTA ANA – A 20...

Goat Hill Tavern owner dies at 84, is remembered as a feisty and giving soul

Robert “Zeb” Ziemer, the man behind Goat Hill Tavern in Costa Mesa, died Friday after a battle with cancer. He was 84. Ziemer was kno...

Obama intervened over crumbling Iraqi dam as U.S. concern grew

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On Jan. 21, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iraq's prime minister in Davos, Switzerland, and ha...

S.Korea and US allies face 'miserable end', says N.Korea

US  North Korea threatened a "miserable end" for South Korea's president and her American allies on Wednesday, in its la...

Donald Trump threatens to 'spill the beans' on Ted Cruz's wife

(Branden Camp/Getty Images) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Georgia World Congre...

Benin Prime Minister Zinsou concedes defeat in presidential elections

Benin Presidential candidate Patrice Talon (C, in white) arrives at a polling station during presidential  COTONOU (Reuters) - Benin ...

Experts See Little Chance of Charges in Clinton Email Case

A Whole Lot of Paper: Hillary Clinton’s 55,000 Pages of Emails Asked earlier this month whether she'd be indicted over her use of ...

Shocking Video Of Rampaging Elephant As One Man Is Killed And Two Injured

This is the shocking moment an elephant went on the rampage in an attack that led to the death of a 40-year-old man. In the video, th...

Bukit Batok by-election is not about Indian vs Chinese: Chee Soon Juan

SDP chief Chee Soon Juan speaking to reporters outside Bukit Batok MRT station. Photo: Nicholas Yong Singapore Democratic Party chief...

Finally free from guilt over Challenger disaster, an engineer dies in peace

© Steve Helber/AP  In this Jan. 28, 198, file photo the space shuttle Challenger is destroyed by an explosion shortly after it lifted of...

Republican and Democratic presidential candidates issue contrasting responses to Brussels attacks

© Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leads the press around on a tour after a p...

Ted Cruz’s Call to ‘Secure’ Muslim Neighborhoods Stirs a Backlash

© Zach Gibson/The New York Times  Senator Ted Cruz in Washington on Tuesday. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas angered American Muslims on Tu...

Experts see little chance of charges in Clinton email case

In this photo taken March 9, 2016, Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton speaks during the Democratic presidential debate i...

Ex-Toronto Mayor Rob Ford dead at 46

TORONTO — Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle,...

ISIS on Brussels: We did it

Rescue teams evacuate wounded people outside the Maalbeek Metro station on Tuesday. CAIRO, Egypt – Islamic State has claimed responsib...

Brussels Airport and Subway Attacks Kill 34; ISIS Claims Responsibility

Credit                                                                                         Ketevan Kardava, via Associated Press ...

rief-stricken Germanwings families plan US lawsuit

© Provided by AFP  Investigators work at the crash site of the Germanwings plane in the French Alps, on March 26, 2015 The grief of f...