Tesoro Coach Steve Garrett draws up a play for his team Monday night. (PHOTO: Tim Burt, OC Sports Zone). Tesoro High School’s boys basketball team built a 13-point halftime lead, then broke the game open in the third quarter and went on to defeat host Tustin 50-38 Monday night in Read More
Laguna Hills players celebrate after winning the Orange Holiday Classic. (PHOTO: Tom Connolly, For OC Sports Zone). Laguna Hills girls basketball team raced to a 55-30 victory over host Orange in the championship game of the Orange Holiday Classic Monday. The game was held before the boys final between Irvine Read More
Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk Read More
Assembly Bill 2622 (Carrillo, Chapter 240, Statutes of 2024), effective January 1, 2025, will allow an unlicensed person to complete small projects up to $1,000 without obtaining a contractor’s license if they do not hire workers and no building permits are needed. If a consumer’s project under $1,000 requires workers Read More
ORANGE, Ca. (Dec. 30, 2024) – On Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, an inmate housed at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange died. 45-year-old Anthony Creston Brown of Cerritos was booked into jail on Dec. 27, 2024, by the La Palma Police Department on a warrant out of Los Angeles County Read More
Players from Tesoro and Edison head off the court for a timeout during Friday’s Tustin Classic. Edison meets Newport Harbor Monday at 7:30 p.m. for the championship. (PHOTO: Tim Burt, OC Sports Zone). It’s a busy day ahead of high school basketball as Orange County boys and girls teams go Read More
Costa Mesa Fire & Rescue crews responded to a working residential structure fire in the 3100 block of College Avenue on Saturday. Upon arrival, initial crews observed heavy smoke conditions and flames, along with the report of at least one individual or more individuals remaining in the impacted structure. CMFR Read More
Newport Beach, Calif. — At approximately 4:27 a.m., members of the Newport Beach Fire Department (NBFD), Costa Mesa Fire and Rescue (CMFR), and Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) responded to a reported structure fire at the Fairway Villas Apartments in Newport Beach. Newport Engine 67 (NE67) was first on the Read More
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