r/orangecounty

My wife and I just tested positive today. We moved this past Sunday and started feeling sick Sunday morning (moving while sick is NOT fun by the way). Monday was bad - fever and chills all night. Felt mildly better yesterday but woke up feeling horrible again this morning. We decided to test since it reminded us how we felt the first time we had Covid.

Being sick SICK in the heat is not fun. 10/10 don’t recommend. Not too sure where we might have picked it up. Only thing I can think of is the OC Fair since we were there on 8/9, but that seems like a long incubation period.

https://ktla.com/news/california/orange-county-couple-sues-deputy-crash/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=nextdoor.com&utm_campaign=nextdoor_news

An Orange County couple who suffered serious injuries when their vehicle was struck by a speeding sheriff’s patrol unit in Santa Ana is suing the county and the deputy behind the wheel.

The collision occurred on the night of Dec. 29, 2023, along 17th Street as Megan Doan attempted to make a left turn into a Target parking lot.

Doan and her boyfriend, Jan Tan, were badly injured when the patrol unit, driven by Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremiah Peyus, collided with their vehicle.

Dashcam video shows the patrol vehicle traveling about 65 mph, nearly twice the posted 35 mph speed limit, moments before it slammed into the couple’s car.

• Surveillance footage shows an Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputy slam into a civilian vehicle at 64 mph in a 35 mph ...
• Dashcam footage shows an Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputy slam into a civilian vehicle at 64 mph in a 35 mph zone on Dec. 29, 2023. (OCSD)

Surveillance footage shows an Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputy slam into a civilian vehicle at 64 mph in a 35 mph ...

“This was an extraordinary collision. Both people could have died,” attorney Robert Glassman, who represents Doan and Tan, told KTLA’s Carlos Saucedo. “They suffered serious physical, vascular and nerve injuries.”

The couple has since filed a civil lawsuit against Orange County and Peyus, seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for medical expenses and other losses related to the crash.

According to Glassman, an investigation by the Santa Ana Police Department determined that Peyus was at fault for the collision due to excessive speed.

The deputy did not have the patrol unit’s emergency lights or siren activated at the time of the crash.

“He was not in pursuit. He was not responding to an emergency,” Glassman said. “He was going 65 miles per hour in a 35-mile-per-hour zone.”

Video from depositions taken in connection with the case also shows Peyus acknowledging that he was neither involved in a pursuit nor responding to an emergency call.

“At the time of the collision, you were not in pursuit or rolling Code 3, correct?” an attorney asks Peyus in the deposition.

“Correct,” the deputy responds.

“You did not have your lights or sirens activated, correct?”

“Correct,” Peyus replies.

Deputy Cervantes, Peyus’ partner, was riding in the passenger seat when the crash occurred. He testified that he was using his phone shortly before the collision.

“What were you doing on your phone?” an attorney asks Cervantes during his deposition.

“I was looking for dinner ideas,” Cervantes responds.

“Is that what you were planning on doing with Peyus?”

“Yes,” he says.

Glassman characterized the deputy’s driving as reckless.

“This was just a reckless display of sheriff’s deputies who believed they were apparently above the law,” he said.

Deputy Peyus was disciplined by the department, but remains employed with the sheriff’s department. It’s unclear if the department or county officials have formally responded to the civil suit, which is set to begin in mid-September.

https://www.ocregister.com/2026/08/18/shooting-in-a-stater-bros-parking-lot-in-costa-mesa-leads-to-arrests-of-man-woman/

A man and his mother were arrested in connection with a shooting in a Stater Bros. parking lot in Costa Mesa on Tuesday morning, Aug. 18, police said.

Officers responded to the supermarket in the 2100 block of Newport Boulevard on a report of a possible shooting around 7:35 a.m., Costa Mesa Police Department spokesperson Roxi Fyad said.

They located a person suffering from a gunshot wound in the parking lot, and the victim was transported to a hospital, where they were in critical condition, Fyad said.

Police also headed to an apartment complex less than a mile away, on the 2400 block of Newport Boulevard, where a suspect was believed to be. A 37-year-old man and his 63-year-old mother were arrested there just before 3 p.m., police said.

The victim was not publicly identified, and the circumstances that led to the shooting were not immediately known, according to Fyad.

All 15 of these were grown in my backyard here in Orange County. I started with a few habaneros and somehow ended up growing everything from Peach Wrinklys and Ghost Peppers to Carolina Reapers, Peach Miasma, Dragon’s Breath and a bunch of other weird superhots.

The amount of sun and the long growing season here have been incredible for peppers. A lot of these eventually make their way into my hot sauce experiments, but honestly growing strange varieties has become half the fun. These peppers will go in my ribbit riot hot sauce test batches!

Anyone else in OC growing peppers or other unusual produce this year?

…because they were filming something at Brookhurst and Talbert today

Whats left of my SS Camaro. If you have desirable performance cars and no access to an enclosed garage, for the love of god put in a killswitch 🤦‍♂️

Edit: I live close ti the Beach and was dumb enough to think no one would steal cars in such a peaceful neighborhood. Thats exactly who they’re targeting right now.

Hello, we’re a tiny community newspaper based in Santa Ana, and we want to ask the community how they remember 9/11 in Orange County ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks.

Where were you on 9/11? Who were you with? How did your day start, like routines and such? How did you learn about it? How did it affect you? How did you explain what was happening to your child(ren)? Did you know what was happening at first or did it take a moment to set in? Were classes cancelled? Which churches held mass?

All of these details will be incredibly helpful. Much of the archive that exists did not detail much of the local Santa Ana scope (including Daily Pilot, OC Register and LA Times). However it is our understanding that the Register still printed and worked out from the building on Grand, where several extras were printed in the thousands. Some of these are in The Santanero’s collection.

The first plane struck at 5:43 AM Pacific Time to give you an estimate how when the attacks began and what time it was here at home.

Anyone with photographs or home VHS footage from that day or shortly afterward is welcome to share with us. If you developed film strips from that day or afterward in relation to the terror attacks that aren’t scanned, we can scan them at no cost.

“I was only five months old at the time. My mom, who was already at work in the early hours, tells me my grandma and grandpa were on the way to Norms on Main and 17th. My mom watched 9/11 unfold from the breakroom.” – Daniel Diaz, Editor & Publisher of The Santanero

I understand there's more land in Orange County that can be used but for this instance I feel it would have been a better use to have the parking be underground. I'm not compared them to LA but LA has been doing them for decades. In fact the Hollywood and Highland complex has a whole train station underground with a parking structure.