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Overachiever Gets Jail for Stealing Tests, Hacking Faculty's Computers

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A former high school student seeking admission to top-tier colleges will spend 30 days in jail for a series of school break-ins to steal tests, alter his grades and place spyware on administrators' computers to learn passwords. Omar Shahid Khan, 21, was charged with 69 felonies and faced a maximum of...

Police: 'Not Too Bright' Robber Uses Yellow Cab in Attempted Getaway

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- File this one away in the stupid crimes category. A man used a cab driver as his unwitting accomplice to rob a Home Depot here and then fled in the bright yellow vehicle that acted as a beacon to police. The Yellow Cab, equipped with a GPS tracking system, was pulled over within a mile, and the fare...

California Warden Ignores DA, Releases Rapist Early

SANTA ANA, Calif. (Nov. 18) -- A man who raped two young girls at knifepoint and threatened to bury them in a graveyard was released from prison by a warden who ignored a prosecutor's plea for a few more hours to obtain a judicial stay. Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas has spent the past year trying to make...

Man Robbed, Killed After Winning Big at Casino

Bruce Chambers, The Orange County Register / AP

(Sept. 3) -- Fate, it seems, often turns on a dime. Hours after winning thousands of dollars in a jackpot at a California gambling hall, a 55-year-old man was followed from the casino, robbed, run over and killed by another man who fled the scene, the Los Angeles Times reported. Police in Santa Ana, Calif., responded...

Children of Unauthorized Immigrants: By the Numbers

(Aug. 11) -- In a new report sure to rock the cradle in the debate over whether to tinker with the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 8 percent of all babies born in the United States in 2008 had "unauthorized immigrant parents" -- meaning that their parents were in the country...

Background on Santa Ana California

Santa Ana is the county seat and second most populous city in Orange County, California, and with a population of 324,528 at the 2010 census, Santa Ana is the 57th-most populous city in the United States.

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