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LOS ANGELES — Jurors convicted a Southern California judge of second-degree murder on Tuesday for fatally shooting his wife while the couple argued and watched television at home. Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, 74, was on trial for the 2023 death of his wife Sheryl, 65, in their Anaheim Hills home. Ferguson took the stand in his own defense, admitting to shooting his wife but saying it was an accident. Jurors reached their decision Tuesday afternoon, a day after deliberations began. After the verdict was read in court, Ferguson was given a moment to hug his son before...

Jeffrey Ferguson, 74, was convicted for the 2023 killing of his wife Sheryl, 65, in their Anaheim Hills home.. A Southern California judge was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder for the fatal shooting of his wife during an argument. Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, 74, was on trial for the 2023 killing of his wife Sheryl, 65, in their Anaheim Hills home. Ferguson took the stand in his defense and admitted to shooting his wife but claimed it was an accident. Jurors reached their decision Tuesday afternoon after deliberating since the day before. He was also found guilty...

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orlando woman was arrested after attacking a man on Thursday, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. Her weapon of choice was a Pringles chip can. Orange County Deputy Adams said he responded to a physical fight at the 7-Eleven gas station on International Drive in Orlando. "I arrived at the 7-Eleven and eventually made contact with the victim, who was later identified by his Florida driver’s license as Martin Milburn," Adams said. Martin stated that the assailant, Shanika Serdahl, struck him in the eye with a Pringles chip can and took off running. "While speaking...

A Florida Democratic Party official is accused of possessing videos of children being sexually abused by adults and attempting to arrange a meet-up with an undercover cop posing as the father of a nine-year-old potential victim, prosecutors said. Matthew Inman, who advertises his role as the Orange County Democratic Party treasurer and Rainbow Democrats president on his LinkedIn page, was arrested and charged with transportation of child sex abuse material earlier this month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Middle District of Florida said in a news release. The 39-year-old Orange County man also boasts of being a Democrat National...

A Florida Democrat Party official was arrested on charges of transporting child sex abuse material after sending child porn to an undercover police officer. Matthew Inman, 39, who served as Orange County’s Democratic Party treasurer in Orlando, Florida, was arrested after being caught in a sting operation by undercover law enforcement officers. Orange County, FL Democratic Party treasurer Matthew A. Inman arrested on child porn charges He faces up to 20 years in prison ... Between “August and October of 2024, Inman received and saved several videos of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to his phone. These videos depicted adults...

A New York homeowner unearthed a mastodon jaw that was peeking from beneath the soil in the backyard of their home. This is the first time a find like this has occurred in 11 years. The researchers who were alerted to the Orange County resident’s discovery spent two and a half days digging in the individual’s backyard. They uncovered more mastodon bone pieces and a complete adult jaw. Mastodons are closely related to elephants and the extinct wooly mammoth. Researchers and historians tend to say that these animals roamed all over the world, but their fossils have only been found...

The mysterious drones that have been plaguing the skies over the Northeast shut down the runways of Stewart International Airport Friday night, prompting Gov. Hochul to demand the feds step in. “This has gone too far,” Hochul said in a terse statement Saturday, in which she noted the runway of the Orange County facility was shut down for an hour because of the unidentified aircraft. Stewart Airport services both commercial and military flights and is adjacent to a New York Air National Guard base, where the 105th Airlift Wing is stationed. ... The unidentified drones — which have been hovering...

The 2024 Election results in Orange County, CA make no sense. The first indication that something was up in Orange County was on Thursday, November 7, two days after the 2024 Election. Concerned citizens warned that Newsom had sent people to Orange County and that GOP ballots needed to be cured. The races for the 45th, 47th and 49th district are razor thin and 364,055 ballots are still left to count. National Democrats have sent staff and volunteers from Washington DC to the Orange County Registrar of Voters. I’ll be blunt, we’re outnumbered. Donald Trump will be the next President...

U.S. Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine) secured a temporary restraining order Tuesday against a former boyfriend, saying in dozens of pages of court filings that he had bombarded her, as well as her family and colleagues, with hundreds of messages that she described as “persistent abuse and harassment.” Porter, 50, alleged in a filing with Orange County Superior Court that her ex-boyfriend Julian Willis, 55, was contacting her and her family with such frequency that she had a “significant fear” for her “personal safety and emotional well-being.” Judge Stephen T. Hicklin signed a restraining order Tuesday barring Willis from communicating with...

Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH Why did #KatiePorter invite a violent criminal and drug addict named #JulianWillis to live with her and her children? And why did she allow him to stay for such a long period of time? https://latimes.com/politics/story/2024-11-27/rep-katie-porter-obtains-temporary-restraining-order-against-harassing-ex-boyfriend #Parenting #DomesticViolence #ChildAbuse #DrugAddiction #News 8:29 AM · Nov 28, 2024

A judge on Friday rejected California’s lawsuit against the city of Huntington Beach over a local measure allowing officials to require voter identification at the polls. Orange County Superior Court Judge Nico Dourbetas ruled that existing state law does not block the local measure, which was approved by voters earlier this year. The ruling could clear the way for the majority-Republican city to implement one of California’s only voter ID requirements at the polls in local elections. “It’s a massive black eye to the state of California,” City Attorney Michael Gates said of the ruling. “And what the state of...

A California man ended up in the hospital after a dispute with his neighbor over his Donald Trump flag. John Muder from Orange County said his neighbor recently had their Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz outdoor sign stolen. Muder thinks the neighbor assumed he was the one who took it because of his pro-Trump display. He told FOX 11: 'He was thinking it was me because I have my Trump sign, which is the furthest from the truth.' The next thing Muder knew, the Trump banner hanging above his Ladera Ranch home's garage was missing.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — After deliberation on Friday, an Orange County jury found Sarah Boone guilty of second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr. Torres Jr. died from suffocation in February 2020 after a medical examiner says he spent about 11 hours inside a small suitcase Boone zipped him in. The couple had spent the day drinking before Torres Jr. willingly and playfully got into the suitcase before bed, Boone testified on Tuesday.

Authorities in Washington State have charged a suspect with murdering a woman and on suspicion of stuffing her body in a suitcase at a homeless encampment last month. Shannon Reeder’s body was found inside a suitcase by police clearing a homeless encampment at a junction in Seattle on Sept. 27, Washington State Patrol said in a press release earlier this month. The 37-year-old disappeared last November, per police, and at the time was living in the area where her body was discovered. On Wednesday, Oct. 16, 57-year-old Steven Thanh Nguyen was charged with murder in connection with Reeder’s killing, according...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The woman accused of killing her boyfriend by leaving him trapped inside a suitcase will be allowed more freedom in court in the future. Sarah Boone, 46, is charged with murder and has been held in jail since her arrest in 2020. Investigators say she zipped her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr., inside a suitcase after a game of hide and seek. She allegedly left him there when she went to bed and found him dead inside the next day. Boone has no attorney and is representing herself in court. Judge Michael Kraynick ruled she forfeited her right...

Election Day is rapidly approaching, bringing with it the possibility that one Orange County city will soon allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. Measure DD, which is on the Nov. 5 ballot in Santa Ana, would allow “noncitizen City residents to vote in all City of Santa Ana municipal elections” beginning in November 2028, the city says on its website.

Federal agents raided multiple properties connected to the daughter of an Orange County supervisor, who is accused of using taxpayer money to purchase a home. Rhiannon Do, an executive at Viet America Society (VAS) and the daughter of Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do, purchased a $1.035 million home in Tustin, California, last year... LAist's investigation, which began in November 2023, uncovered over $13 million in public money approved for the nonprofit. The FBI, IRS, and Orange County District Attorney's Office are conducting the investigation, following a civil lawsuit filed by the county against VAS for misappropriating $10.4 million in COVID...

A former children’s ministry volunteer at a California church has been sentenced to more than 120 years to life in prison for molesting girls as young as 6, and possessing hundreds of pornographic images of children. The ministry volunteer also took sexually suggestive images of a minor he met through the church. Orange County District Attorney Tood Spitzer's office said in a statement last week that Newport Beach resident Todd Christian Hartman was sentenced to 120 years to life plus an additional four years and four months in prison following convictions on two felony counts of a lewd act upon...

A California judge has ruled that teachers were right to punish a seven-year-old girl over a Black Lives Matter drawing because 'she's too young to have First Amendment rights.' The first grader was banned from recess and drawing pictures at Viejo Elementary in Orange County after she added the words 'any life' below Black Lives Matter on a picture she drew and and gave to a black friend. The picture showed the words 'Black Lives Matter' with four round shapes in various different tones of brown, beige and yellow, which was intended to 'represent her friends' who were 'racially-mixed'.

The alleged leader of an armed robbery crew charged with killing a New Zealand tourist last week outside Newport Beach’s Fashion Island mall had been placed on probation for stealing a Rolex at gunpoint in Santa Monica.He avoided prison time in that case after Los Angeles County prosecutors agreed to a three-year suspended sentence, according to interviews and records reviewed by The Times.Leroy Ernest McCrary, 26, now faces a special circumstances murder charge that could carry the death penalty after authorities allege he ran over Patricia “Trish” McKay, 68, during a July 2 robbery attempt.Orange County prosecutors say McCrary and...