Behind the Badge
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Former park ranger now a La Habra police officer
Officer Mark Milward is returning to his roots. His job with the California Department of Parks and Recreation took him…
Laguna Hills elementary school honors top students in novel anti-bullying campaign
When a school resource officer, alarmed at an increase in bullying at an elementary school in Laguna Hills, came up…
She knew the look. And things looked very grim. At around 1 p.m. on Dec. 11, while sitting on a…
The veteran officer’s brown eyes widen. “We all have a story to tell,” John Ema says. Ema doesn’t want to…
Her world imploded in slow motion. It was an incremental collapse into homelessness. First, her sister died, leaving behind an…
Cameron Knauerhaze walks in to the dispatch center to offer coffee for those who will field 911 calls over the…
The first thing you need to know about that unforgettable day is this: It was hot. Humid, too. It was…
He thought of his own kids, and how happy he was seeing them as newborns. That’s what was going through…