Alejandro Oliveros Acosta, 46, is accused of a one-man animal crime spree after witnesses said they watched him lure the felines with food and subject them to blunt force trauma.

Nearly 300 staff and teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District will be without a job next school year.

Santa Ana Unified is one of the state’s largest school districts, and faces some of the same demographic problems that have hit many others. “We have fewer younger families able to afford to live here,” said Fermin Leal, the district communications chief. He added that California’s declining birth rate is also a problem.

Lawsuit alleges Global Medical Center in Santa Ana lacked the proper equipment and a capable neurosurgeon to treat patient.

The shooting happened back on June 5, 2024, leaving a 13-year-old boy dead and a 16-year-old boy with gunshot wounds.

Nick Gerda, LAist’s watchdog correspondent whose investigative work exposing the scandal involving former Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do inspired changes to state law, won journalist of the year at the Golden State Journalism Awards Contest on Wednesday.