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Westminster Police Department uses new countywide Text-to-911 system for first emergency text call in city
Westminster Police Officer Roland Perez was about to end his patrol shift at around 5 p.m. Feb. 14 when he received…
OCSD reports a rapid increase in drug seizures in 2018; fentanyl seizures doubling for 2 years
Editor’s note: The Orange County Sheriff’s Department issued this news release on Wednesday, Feb. 27. Seizures of fentanyl, a synthetic…
The group of officers enter the bar and immediately, everyone looks a little nervous — except for the bartender, who…
Huntington Beach Officer Derek Young hopes he’ll never have to use the plan he spent years working on. Until two…
Jonathan Wainwright has a theory. “As cops, we’re all actors,” the newly promoted sergeant at the Garden Grove Police Department…
When Rachel Partida became a teacher at Westmont Elementary 11 years ago, learning how to handle a gunman threatening her…
A traffic stop in Orange on Friday led to the arrest of an Anaheim man suspected in a residential burglary…
Oh, alcohol — helping people make poor choices for centuries. Huntington Beach police witnessed a stellar example of how alcohol…