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The Orange County District Attorney’s Office filed an amended complaint Thursday with a hate crime sentencing enhancement against Samuel Woodward, 21, of Newport Beach for murdering 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein due to the victim’s sexual orientation. The OCDA Tony...

NOTE: Indy reporter Sara Hall compiled this look back at what made headlines in the NB Independent during 2017. This week, we cover January through June. (click the first line of text in each brief to read the full, original story)   January   A Huntington Beach man was...

  A makeshift memorial has been created at the site of the accident where a young boy was struck and killed by a trash truck last week. Brock McCann, 8, a third grader from Newport Heights Elementary School, was identified Friday by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department...

An 8-year-old boy died Wednesday after being struck by a trash truck on a Newport Beach street, authorities reported. Newport Beach Police Department’s dispatch center received a call around 1:26 p.m. about a collision near the corner of 15th Street and Michael Place, just west...

A San Francisco man died over the weekend after being struck by a car in Newport Beach, authorities reported. Mohamad Ahmed Abdelwahhab, 36, was crossing MacArthur Boulevard outside of the crosswalk, just north of the intersection with Von Karman Avenue, shortly before midnight...

The Costa Mesa man that died early Wednesday morning after a vehicle struck him while he was walking along Newport Boulevard has been identified by authorities. Darin Wells, 44, died around 3 a.m. after he was struck by an auto while crossing the street, according to the Orange...

Thanksgivukkah * There will be chaos in the kitchens on Thursday November 28, 2013. According to the Religious News Service (RNS) it “last happened in 1888 and, according to one calculation, won’t happen again for another 77,798 years: the convergence of Thanksgiving and...

By Richard Simon | NB Indy On November 6, 41-year-old cyclist Paul Lin was killed in a collision with a vehicle in Newport Beach. Debra H. Deem, 58, of Laguna Beach, was killed in a Newport Beach bicycle accident on August 27 after she was hit by a minivan. Last year, two women...

A procession and memorial service honoring two of the firefighters who died in the Arizona wildfire will be held in Costa Mesa and Newport Beach Saturday. Grant McKee, 21, attended Newport-Mesa Unified School District schools between second to 11th grades, officials reported...