Category: Orange County News

WalletHub Reports: Record Q3 Credit Card Debt & Cities with the Least Sustainable Debt

With inflation putting pressure on people’s budgets and raising concerns about a prolonged recession, WalletHub released its latest Credit Card Debt Study, Federal Reserve Rate Hike Report, and report on the Cities with the Most & Least-Sustainable Credit Card Debt to help illustrate how consumers are faring. You can find key highlights below.  Credit Read More

CALA: Frivolous ‘no-injury’ lawsuits thrive in California 

California was named the third worst “Judicial Hellhole®” in the country, according to a new report from the American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF).  “California is plagued by serial plaintiffs and their lawyers who file boilerplate, no-injury lawsuits that nitpick technicalities and abuse the legal system,” American Tort Reform Association President Read More

CalOptima Health partners with NAMI OC for mental health program supporting hospital discharges

CalOptima Health has formed a partnership with National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) Orange County to launch a peer support program for Medi-Cal members recently discharged from a psychiatric inpatient hospital stay or emergency room visit. As part of the $5 million grant program, NAMI Orange County will pair trained Read More

Seal Beach Police request help identifying Leisure World Senior Community theft suspect

The Seal Beach Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect responsible for committing thefts inside the Leisure World community. On Sunday, December 4, 2022, at about 1:49 am, an unknown male suspect stole a bicycle from the patio of a residence located within the Leisure World Read More

Christmas surprise delivered bright and early to MemorialCare Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach

Santa greets Hansel, a pediatric patient at MemorialCare Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach in his room for his very first Christmas. Courtesy photo. On Monday, Dec. 5, “Ho, Ho, Ho” was heard throughout the halls of Memorial Care Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach for the first time in Read More

Garden Grove Strawberry Festival Association continues support of Orange County Ronald McDonald House with large donation pledge

Garden Grove Strawberry Festival Association (GGSFA), producers of the venerable FREE Garden Grove Strawberry Festival held annually every Memorial Day Weekend, is set to continue their support of the Orange County Ronald McDonald House with the completion of their $50,000 pledge in 2023. The Orange County Ronald McDonald House and Read More

CHP Investigative Services Unit arrests 27 suspects, shuts down fraudulent citation sign-off ring

In 2020, the California Highway Patrol’s (CHP) Southern Division Investigative Services Unit (ISU) personnel identified a street racing promoter who illegally signed off over 250 citations that were issued during street racing operations in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. The promoter signed off the citations for profit and used the Read More

Long Beach Homicide detectives arrest 2nd suspect in April 22, 2022 murder

Update 12/6/22: Homicide Detectives continued their investigation and identified the second suspect in the murder of Jimmy Ray Hawkins. On Dec. 5, 2022, Special Investigation Detectives arrested Brandon Tyler Shackelford, a 30-year-old resident of Riverside, for the murder of Hawkins. Shackelford was arrested near the 500 block of Palmyrita Drive Read More

Senator Dave Min releases statement on anti-Semitic attacks directed toward Local Democratic Party officials

Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) released the following statement in response to a barrage of anti-Semitic emails directed toward Orange County Democratic Party officials. “I recently learned of the hateful, anti-Semitic emails sent to officers of the Orange County Democratic Party. These attacks are disgusting and have no place in Orange Read More