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Prisoner Whose Newport Baby Died Wins $1.5 M Settlement
OC supervisors will pay $1.5 million to a woman who gave birth to a baby who died while the mother was in custody in Orange County Jail.

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OC supervisors will pay $1.5 million to a woman who gave birth to a baby who died while the mother was in custody in Orange County Jail.

Tuesday is the deadline to cast ballots in the special election to fill the Second District seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors.
One person was crushed to death between 2 Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains on the tracks near the border of Buena Park early Wednesday.
A recent change in state law isn't enough for resentencing a man found guilty of a husband/wife double murder plotted in Orange County.
After victim testimony, the former Cypress BMX coach —charged 10 years ago— was at last convicted in a non-jury trial.
4 women have alleged sexual harassment by former Senior Assistant District Attorney Gary Logalbo, who resigned in December.
A sentence of pre-trial diversion for a Fullerton officer who lied on a report for a DUI crash involving a former city manager was panned.
A deadlocked jury failed to reach a verdict for Patrick Le, 47, accused of a 2018 street racing murder in Irvine.
Orange County reported 602 coronavirus cases on Thursday, raising its cumulative totals to 235,310 cases and 3,249 deaths.
A Los Angeles driver— found with blood alcohol twice the legal limit in a November crash that killed his passenger— was sentenced Monday.
Patients in county hospitals continued its downward trend, declining to 1,412, with the number of patients in intensive care still falling.
CA taxpayers were bilked $10 billion in fake unemployment claims, funds needed by hairstylists, waiters, & others laid off amid coronavirus.
Three new fraud cases in California's EDD scandal are "just the tip of the iceberg," says Laguna Beach Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris.
With the support of the OCDA, cities, Sheriff Don Barnes will appeal to keep dangerous offenders from being released, he says.
A longtime Disneyland Resort employee alleges harassment, discrimination, & retaliation after false accusations of bringing a gun to work.
Young Kim and Michelle Steel remain ahead in the race for the 39th and the 48th Congressional districts.
The California Fair Political Practices Commission alleges a supervisor tried to get around campaign contribution limits, which he denies.
A Dana Point man, 61, pleaded to voluntary manslaughter in Brent Stapleton Tobey's 1978 stabbing death at his Laguna home. Now he is free.
The mission is the 13th to carry satellites into orbit until Friday.
A health order against observing religious holidays at home with extended family refers to Jewish holidays, First Liberty Institute alleges.