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Charges against a convicted murderer regarding solicitation to attack an Orange County sheriff's sergeant were dismissed Tuesday when the defendant's attorneys argued prosecutorial misconduct.

In a statement, the department called Sgt. Vanessa Chow's Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit against the county "a compendium of false statements, omissions, mischaracterizations and outright lies."

A bail review hearing is scheduled for Wednesday for the driver accused of running a red light and speeding into a Windsor Hills intersection leading to a fiery chain-reaction crash that killed six people.

With searing heat expected to drive up air- conditioner use across California, the manager of the state's power grid issued a Flex Alert Wednesday calling on residents to conserve as much electricity as possible from 4 to 9 p.m.

"60 Minutes" drew its second-largest audience of the summer, 6.427 million viewers, to be the most-watched prime-time broadcast or cable program for the third time this summer and first time since the week of July 4-10, according to live-plus-same-day figures released by Nielsen Tuesday.

Orange County's COVID-19 hospitalizations and positivity rates continued gliding down, according to figures released Tuesday by the Orange County Health Care Agency.

A man with a machete was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies Wednesday in the Florence-Firestone area, authorities said.

A former Southwest Airlines Co. employee is suing the airline, alleging he was wrongfully fired earlier this year after complaining about an unsafe training session involving a  life raft.

Southern California continued to bake Wednesday under sweltering conditions that are expected to stretch through the Labor Day weekend -- with excessive heat warnings in effect across the region.

Two animal welfare advocacy groups filed a second lawsuit Wednesday hoping to compel compliance with state law barring the sale of kangaroo parts, this time targeting a sportswear retailer the plaintiffs say is selling kangaroo-sourced soccer cleats.