Michael Carona

The first grand jury report described Orange County as being a "hotbed of corruption, conflict of interest and abuse of authority" while the next blamed political leaders for the "implosion" of the county's health plan for the poor. This week, jurors...

Orange County Supervisors agreed this week to a nearly $2-million settlement with former sheriff's Lt. Bill Hunt over a claim that he was wrongly demoted after running against former Sheriff Michael Carona, now serving a prison term for witness tampering....

The administrator credited with steering Santa Ana away from potential bankruptcy has been abruptly fired, exposing a deepening fissure among political leaders in Orange County’s second largest city. Paul Walters, who had been the city’s...

Don Haidl, a Newport Beach multimillionaire and former assistant sheriff in Orange County who became a central figure in the corruption case against onetime Sheriff Michael Carona, has died. Haidl died late Tuesday at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, said....

Don Haidl, a Newport Beach multi-millionaire and former assistant sheriff in Orange County who became a central figure in the corruption case against onetime Sheriff Michael Carona, has died. Haidl died late Tuesday at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach,...

Don Haidl, a self-made millionaire and former assistant sheriff in Orange County who became a central figure in the corruption case against the sheriff who was once his boss, died Tuesday at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach. He was 61. Haidl died of...

Attorneys for the former Orange County sheriff convicted of witness tampering have filed a motion to reduce the lawman's 66-month prison sentence by almost half. In the motion, lawyers for Michael Carona argued that the sentence handed down in 2009 by U....

SANTA ANA (KTLA) -- Attorneys for former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona -- now serving 66 months in federal prison for witness tampering -- have filed a motion to cut the former lawman's sentence by nearly half. In the motion, Carona's attorneys...

In October, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law banning the open carrying of handguns in public. For several months before that, "open carry" proponents had been especially visible in the South Bay, making their 2nd Amendment point by packing heat......

PART 5: PHILIP K. DICK, THE LAST DECADE During the last years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in, of all places, Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a stranger in......

After months of testimony, national headlines and the profanity-laced audiotapes, the sweeping public corruption case against former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona may end up coming down to the testimony of one man: Don Haidl. The wealthy...

SANTA ANA -- Former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona was a sharp, inspiring leader consumed by greed, a prosecutor said Wednesday as the three-term lawman's corruption trial began in federal court.       Carona took hundreds of thousands of dollars...