Ecuador has emerged as the most insecure country in Latin America, with its homicide rate surging to an unprecedented 38.8 ...

Israel Antonio Valencia, 25, and Christopher Mathew Pena, 18, both of Costa Mesa, are in custody in connection to a fatal stabbing and an assault that took place Tuesday night.

Mercado González opens today at 2300 Harbor Boulevard, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626 with hours from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. The operating hours of each of the vendors vary. Tacos at Mercado González.

The Costa Mesa Police Department has launched an investigation into a traffic stop where the driver says he was racially profiled. One of his passengers recorded the encounter when the driver ...

On Nov. 1, the Costa Mesa gang unit pulled over a white four-door Chevrolet Impala near Harbor Boulevard and Merrimac Way. They say the vehicle had a law enforcement light bar and California ...

Costa Mesa police and state and county authorities made four arrests Wednesday in a sweep of four Costa Mesa locations targeting people with gang connections in violation of their parole, the ...

Three men were recently arrested for various offenses including possessing heroin and methamphetamine after authorities said they monitored white supremacist gang members in Costa Mesa. One of two ...

MARTINEZ — A man who was convicted of murdering a 16-year-old boy and sentenced to life without parole last year had been left in charge of the Norteño gang in Contra Costa by a member of a ...

Four men and a woman are facing charges in connection with a kidnapping in February in which a man was forced to don a long blond wig and put on a red dress before being tortured and robbed in a ...

Gang culture emerged in the mid- to late-1980s in Costa Mesa’s neighborhoods. Some of the gangs began as party crews that would hang out together, but over time, they became involved in criminal ...

In the heart of Costa Mesa’s Westside, in a scrappy center called Save Our Youth, Trevor Murphy has learned many lessons in dealing with youths who are at risk of joining gangs.For the last ...