The Latest Breaking News from Orange County

LOS ANGELES — The Texas company that operates the oil pipeline that sent at least 25,000 gallons of crude gushing into the waters off Southern California in a spill last fall has tentatively agreed to settle more than a dozen lawsuits brought by Orange County business owners and residents.

LOS ANGELES — Orange County health officials this week confirmed the county’s first case of monkeypox in a child, a rare circumstance even as the virus continues to spread statewide.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Using a controversial new law, Orange County Republicans have created an Elections Integrity Task Force to dispute mail-in ballots before they’re opened, resulting in at least 36 challenges and 20 rejections so far for Tuesday’s primary.

LOS ANGELES — When his medical malpractice trial concluded in April, Dr. Essam Quraishi left an Orange County civil courtroom in victory. Swiftly and unanimously, 12 jurors had decided that the gastroenterologist had not been responsible for the death of a patient.

LOS ANGELES — A well-known youth sports coach was charged Monday with molesting a 15-year-old girl, and investigators are asking for the public's help finding possible additional victims.

Expanding its effort to mobilize Asian American and Pacific Islander voters for the midterm election, a national political group is targeting three close congressional races in Orange County and looking to small businesses to boost support for Democrats.

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orange County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot and killed a man while two others were shot, including one fatally, at an Orange Blossom Trail hotel in Orlando Saturday afternoon, Undersheriff Mark Canty said.

LOS ANGELES — An Orange County man was charged this week with multiple felonies for allegedly impersonating a doctor and performing unlicensed cosmetic procedures on women, a majority of whom were Spanish-speaking.

New York state health officials have issued a more urgent call for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new evidence of possible “community spread” of the virus