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As the fentanyl epidemic leads hundreds to an early death each year in Orange County, the county’s Board ...

Mental health professionals will team with law enforcement in San Mateo County’s four largest cities as part of a pilot program aimed at de-escalating 9-1-1 calls and providing appropriate, compassionate care for non-violent individuals.

The reward for information leading to the arrest in the road rage freeway shooting of 6-year-old Aiden Leos has increased to $450,000 after the Costa Mesa City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to provide $50,000 in reward money to help find his killer.

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer issued a stern warning to the suspects involved in the deadly shooting of 6-year-old Aiden Leos on the 55 Freeway in the city of Orange, saying “we're not messing around anymore.” A cumulative $400,000 is now being offered in the case.

OC Leaders Secretly Approved Over $200 Million in Covid Contracts; Voice of OC is Getting the Public a Peek at Where it Went Mar. 11, 2021 OC supervisors Chairman Andrew Do (right) speaks with Michelle Steel, the boards former chairwoman, at a 2019 event organized by a PR firm that got $750,000 in secretly-approved county contracts in 2020, including for vaccine promotion. The contracts were not publicly disclosed until Voice of OC filed record requests in early 2021. Credit: JULIE LEOPO,...

Farmworker advocates call for vaccination priority With COVID-19 vaccines still in short supply, reprioritizing who gets them and when becomes, as Yolo County’s health officer said Tuesday, “a zero sum game.” “Whenever you expand eligibility for one group, you take away vaccines from another group,” Dr. Aimee Sisson told the Board of Supervisors. Up until last week, there was no game involved — the state was requiring counties to prioritize residents 65 and older before moving on to...

Print Orange County Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously voted to rename a Sheriff’s Department training facility after controversial former Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, who died of breast cancer earlier this month. The Katella Training Facility in Orange will now be known as the “Sandra Hutchens Regional Law Enforcement Training Center.” Supervisors approved the item after each praised Hutchens for her decadelong term as sheriff. “She came into the department at a very difficult time,” s...

Elsewhere this week, you have been able to read a comprehensive recap of the top news stories of 2020 as compiled by the expert staff of The Davis Enterprise. Unfortunately, this effort led to several angry tweets from President Trump because not a single story reported that he won November’s election “by a lot.” I will not make that mistake. In fact, one of my goals for 2020 was to get mentioned at least once in a presidential tweet, but I failed. Still, I have nearly three weeks to acco...