Orange County - Page 4

Democrats reportedly outraised their GOP counterparts in key 2018 U.S. House races in California last year — and in the battleground area of Orange County, that could make a major difference.

Orange County officials have begun removing the thousands of homeless people that now line the 35-mile stretch of the Santa Ana River from Prado Dam to the ocean.

Left-wing billionaire and environment activist Tom Steyer is reportedly pouring millions of dollars into Orange County, California, to mobilize millennial voters to turn at least four at-risk red seats blue and shift the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.

Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), the powerful chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, currently serving his 13th term in Congress, announced Monday that he will retire after 2018 and will not seek re-election this November.

Two California Republicans, Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), voted against the tax reform bill on Tuesday.

Cooler weather brought on by onshore winds helped more than 1600 firefighters knock down the “Canyon Fire 2” that ravaged the Orange County hillsides around Anaheim, Tustin, and Orange Monday and Tuesday.

Gale-force winds gusting upwards of 70 mph fueled a fast-moving brush fire in the Anaheim Hills area of Orange County Monday, destroying at least 24 structures and consuming 7,500 acres as it raged through the night, forcing thousands to remain evacuated.

State and federal agencies are investigating an incident in California where a teacher is suspected to have distributed flutes containing his bodily fluids to Orange County students, officials say.

A new video has surfaced that shows how three inmates escaped from a California maximum security prison in January 2016.

A California man who pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and pimping charges in Orange County received a 31-year prison sentence, officials said.

A California Sheriff said this week that the Democrat-sponsored “sanctuary state” bill — barring all local law enforcement statewide from cooperating with federal immigration authorities — is “all about sticking it to Trump.”

Brandon Mebane, who is set to earn $3.5 million next year, was looking for a rental home with his wife in a brand new community in Irvine. The Mebanes were turned down due to the player’s credit score.

As Orange County, Ca. was making its final bankruptcy bond payment to end its 23-year bankruptcy reorganization; Illinois, Connecticut, and Maine went into default shut-downs after failing to pass state budgets before the start of their July 1st fiscal years.

Two people aboard a Cessna 310 twin-engine plane miraculously survived when it crashed in an emergency landing on the 405 Freeway in Orange County California.

CoreLogic has reported that the median home prices for Los Angeles and Orange County have just hit new all-time highs due to spiking sales of homes at over $1 million.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told donors on Saturday that Orange County is one of the key battleground regions in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.

A student at the University of Central Florida was arrested on Wednesday after over allegations he hacked into the school grading system, changing a failing grade.

Authorities arrested three illegal aliens for allegedly breaking into an attorney’s home and kidnapping him in the middle of the night.

Authorities took to the air via helicopter just off the coast of Orange County, California, on Thursday to warn surfers and paddleboarders to “exit the water calmly” because up to 25 great white sharks were seen plying the waters near the shore.

Democrats advanced legislation supported by public employee unions this week that would block the public from seeing collective bargaining negotiations between labor and government until they are complete.

The quarterly CSUF 2017 Economic Forecast predicts that Orange County may already be at full employment, while Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties are approaching full employment.

The Cadiz Water Project will soon produce enough Mojave Desert groundwater to serve the needs of 400,000 people in Southern California, thanks to President Donald Trump’s Department of Interior reversing his predecessor’s stall tactics.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating actor Harrison Ford after he flew his private plane over a jet airliner awaiting takeoff at a Southern California airport on Monday.

Consumer confidence indicators have hit nine-year highs in California following Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 presidential inauguration, even though Trump lost the state by staggering margins.

Orange County received a more rain than it receives in one year over the course of four days of torrential downpours this week, leaving near-empty reservoirs full again.

Many states usually squander millions to bribe companies to bring in factories that will employ thousands of blue-collar workers, but California’s ‘Go-Biz’ program will squander a quarter of a billion dollars this year to add just a small number of high-paying, mostly white-collar jobs.

A Mission Viejo High School grad predicted in 1993 that the Chicago Cubs would win to the World Series in 2016.

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Gov. Pat McCrory (R-NC) discussed the firebombing of the Republican Party headquarters in Orange Co., NC that occurred over the weekend. McCrory told host Neil Cavuto it was an assault on the democratic

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said Monday that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was “cowardly” for announcing that he would not defend Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and would not campaign for his election.

A young woman was arrested for a hit-and-run that injured a bicyclist just hours after she had posted a picture of her new Mercedes-Benz to Instagram.

Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) is attempting to rally Southern California to her cause by noting that the San Francisco Bay Area “controls everything” in California because of voting propensity.

ANAHEIM — A group called “Latinos for Trump” held its first rally in Orange County on Sunday, named “Operation Taco Bowl” after an infamous Donald Trump tweet. Hispanics and African Americans joined other Trump supporters in voicing both their support for the Republican presidential nominee and their opposition to the Democratic Party and its nominee, Hillary Clinton.

A hammerhead shark, one of two seen last Thursday, was captured on video lazily swimming in the waters off the coast of Newport Beach.

Tourism may suffer serious damage in Florida after a seven-to-eight-foot alligator dragged a two-year-old toddler off a Disney World hotel beach as parents furiously fought to save him. The attacked followed just two days after an Orlando terrorist attack.

nowhere is the race likely to be closer than in California’s 47th congressional district, the terrain of influential conservative Orange County Republicans and progressive Los Angeles County Democrats.

Angry protesters swarmed outside a Donald Trump campaign rally in Costa Mesa, California Thursday night, drawing scores of police in riot gear and on horseback as Trump supporters responded singing God bless America and the Star Spangled Banner.