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A woman was charged Monday for posting Nazi propaganda posters at Newport Harbor High School and Fullerton College, the Orange County District Attorney announced this week. Grace Elisabeth Ziesmer, 22, of Fullerton, has been charged with one misdemeanor count of vandalism under...

Orange County is a prime destination for the “often invisible crime” of human trafficking, a predatory offense akin to “modern-day slavery,” according to authorities. The OC is a targeted location for this type of crime due to its “wealth and tourism,” said Orange County District...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Indy reporter Sara Hall compiled this look back at what made headlines in the Newport Beach Independent during 2018. This week, January through June. Next week will cover the top news stories of the second half of the year. (click on the text to see original story)...

Newport Beach residents heard from a different set of candidates this week during a community meeting. Speak Up Newport hosted the Orange County District Attorney candidates, incumbent Tony Rackauckas and OC Supervisor Todd Spitzer, during their monthly meeting on Wednesday. The...

A Newport Beach doctor and his girlfriend were arrested last week on multiple felony sexual assault counts, with more “credible” witness leads coming forward this week, the Orange County District Attorney reported. Orthopedic surgeon and reality star Grant William...

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...

A Newport Beach man was convicted and sentenced to nine months in jail recently for animal cruelty and petty theft after killing his roommates’ dog and removing the evidence from the scene, authorities reported. Justin James Pope, 27, Pleaded guilty July 12 to felony animal...

A local doctor was accused of “sexting” two high school cheerleaders, authorities announced this week. David Lee Haller, 51, of Newport Beach was charged Monday with two counts of misdemeanor child annoyance. Arraignment scheduled for Tuesday. If convicted, he could serve two...

A local couple were charged with stealing more than $5.9 million in a real estate fraud scheme and laundering the money to purchase a luxury car and other investments, the Orange County District Attorney’s office announced this week. Ronald Cedric Touchard, 59, and his wife Misty...

Newport Beach City Council voted Tuesday to issue subpoenas to investigate the alleged voter fraud in the signature gathering of the failed recall effort. Simultaneously, the Orange County District Attorney’s office confiscated the petitions on Jan. 4 as part of their own...

A Newport Beach man was charged with murder this week, authorities reported. Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 20, was charged Wednesday with one felony count of murder, with a sentencing enhancement of personal use of a knife, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s office....

A man was found guilty Wednesday of robbing several marijuana dealers at gunpoint during two large scale drug deals at a Newport Coast resort. Thomas Lamarr Prince, 40, of Anaheim also received a sentencing enhancement for a prior robbery conviction in Los Angeles in 2015. He...

News from around the city of Newport Beach. Newport Man Arraigned for Posing as Fire Marshal A Newport Beach man was arraigned this week for posing as a fire marshal and charging small businesses across Orange County for fraudulent inspections. Brian Lee Carsten, 36, is accused...

A Newport Beach man was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison for writing multiple bad checks totaling more than $200,000, the Orange County District Attorney’s office reported. Richard Scott Bloustine, 50, pleaded guilty to five felony counts of grand theft, 10 felony counts...

Newport Beach Police Department detectives have finished their investigation into the leaf blower scare at a Newport Beach theater last month and have turned it over to county authorities. The three juveniles were forwarded to Juvenile Probation and the adult was forwarded to the...

News from around Newport Beach   Fatal Traffic Collision On Sunday at approximately 8:31 p.m. the Newport Beach Police Department was notified of a major injury traffic collision involving a vehicle and a pedestrian on West Coast Highway, east of Superior Avenue. At the time...

About 50 people gathered in the Friend’s Room at the Newport Beach Public Library Thursday morning to listen to Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas speak. The event was the Chamber of Commerce’s monthly Wake Up! Newport meeting. Rackauckas spoke about DNA testing,...

School Official Resigns Over CdM Hacking Case A Newport-Mesa Unified School District administrator resigned this week after saying how NMUSD handled the students involved in a computer-hacking cheating scandal at Corona del Mar High School was a “total farce.” Jane Garland left...

A Costa Mesa man was arrested by Newport Beach police today and charged with stealing more than $280,000 from a blind and deaf 98-year-old woman who had dementia. John Thomas Windsor, 41, has 18 charges against him including first-degree residential burglary, caretaker theft from...