Memorial honors life of Alice Chandler, OC’s first female deputy
0Anyone listening to Alice Chandler talk about her life would probably think she tends to exaggerate. After all, how many Southern California women spent their youth hunting rattlesnakes and bobcats and riding horses? How many go on to become cowgirls, riding instructors, dog breeders, airplane pilots, and horse trainers? And how many can boast about being the first female deputy with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department? All that can’t be true. But it’s all true, every bit of it, and there are documents and photographs to prove it. Many of those items were beautifully displayed in a celebration of Chandler’s…
The 32 graduates of Class 159 survived a grueling six months in the Golden West College Police Academy, preparing for…
Orange County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Steven Thompson recently underwent grueling chemotherapy to stop the growth of cancer cells in his…
Several hundred people attended a recent graduation ceremony for the Class of 88 Explorers who completed a challenging five-day Explorer…
For more than four decades, the DNA sat on the top shelf of the Orange County Crime Lab – evidence…