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Pasadena PD offers H.O.P.E. for those who need (and want) it
The Pasadena Police Department’s Homeless Outreach Psychiatric Evaluation team, commonly known as the H.O.P.E. team, confront, on a daily basis,…
Meet the hardworking team of Tustin PD dispatchers, whose job demands perfection
Imagine a job where you’re expected to perform at 100-percent accuracy while confined to a small, dimly lit room with…
A man is found bludgeoned to death in his Fullerton apartment. The decomposed body of a woman who’d been missing…
No pulse, no movement and a wide-open stare. Tustin PD Motor Officer Ralph Casiello had seen that kind of expression…
“You have nothing on me. I’ll do a couple years in county, it will be a hung jury, then I’ll…
From a murder case that led to the first-ever execution ordered by an Orange County court to the killing of…
It’s one thing, as a father, to have nine kids. It’s another matter, entirely, when all nine of your children…
Editor’s note: Ronnetta Johnson is executive director of Community Service Programs With so many challenges facing youth today, it’s important…