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Gas selling at $2.99 a gallon for regular unleaded is back in Orange County for the fist time in months. It may not last long, but for now the Arco station at Chapman Avenue and Placentia Avenue in Placentia is selling regular unleaded at $2.99 a gallon. A check of …

A fire in a house with pack rat conditions lit up the night sky in Santa Ana late Wednesday night. The fire was reported at 11:54 p.m. at 417 South Birch Street. Arriving Orange County Fire Authority Firefighters were met with a wall of flame at the front of the …

An 80 year old Irvine man missing for about 34 hours was found in a rock lined drainage ditch along Edinger Avenue about a quarter mile from the Irvine MetroLink Station shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday morning. The man, Tun Yang Ching, is believed to have been located by a …

A neighbor banged on the door of a house on fire at 11711 Donna Lane in Garden Grove around 2:30 a.m. and roused the family sleeping inside allowing them to escape just in time. Garden Grove Firefighters arrived quickly and had the fire knocked down in about 10 minutes with …

On Tuesday Garden Grove Police were contacted by mental health workers at an addiction treatment facility in the city at around 9:15 p.m. requesting help in dealing with a man they believed was suffering a psychic episode. Officers arrived and placed the man in the back of a police car …

Shortly before 3:30 a.m. Garden Grove Firefighters responded to a report of a fire in the parking lot of a shopping center on Garden Grove Blvd. near Galway Street. Firefighters found a car on fire in the parking lot behind the Hanmi Bank and quickly extinguished the fire. Once the …

A fire in the auxiliary power unit on a Southwest Airlines 737 about to depart John Wayne Airport around 7:30 p.m. filled the airplane cabin with smoke and forced Flight Attendants to deploy the emergency evacuation slides to evacuate the passengers. According to the Orange County Fire Authority, 4 of …

Garden Grove Police were the first to arrive at 12301 Oertly Drive after receiving 911 calls reporting that the house was on fire and a man in his 90s was still inside. Officers helped the man from the front of the house onto the lawn where neighbors placed a chair …

A Robinson R44 helicopter carrying 4 people crashed into a home on Egret Court in Newport Beach shortly after it took off from nearby Orange County Airport. The first 911 call came in to Newport Beach Police at 1:51 p.m. and Firefighters were at the scene in under 4 minutes. …

The pilot of a 1971 Beech Bonanza airplane contacted FAA controllers at Orange County Airport and reported that he was having engine problems around 7:30 pm. Moments later the plane dropped off the radar screens at the Orange County Airport control tower. The pilot and dozens of motorists almost immediately …