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Santa Ana · Politics
Mayor Valerie Amezcua's election-night lead has shrunk to 140 votes over challenger Dan Shimell, and Orange County is still counting ballots.
Huntington Beach · Politics
In a clip posted two days after the election, the Long Beach Democrat who is set to represent Surf City in Congress says HB and the county "voted for change." Unofficial numbers show him narrowly carrying the Orange County part of his redrawn district.
Anaheim · Politics
First unofficial returns on election night had the incumbent mayor near 61% against challengers Alfredo Rodriguez and Imran Sharief. Ballots are still being counted.
Santa Ana · Politics
Mayor Valerie Amezcua opened with just over 50% in the first ballot drop, but later tallies showed challenger Dan Shimell closing the gap and moving ahead. The count is not final.
Anaheim · Music
The Anaheim rap group teamed with BC1 on “USA,” and shot the video at Garden Grove's Garden Amp after a show with Wu-Tang Clan's GZA.
Santa Ana · Community Partner
Catalyst is picking one local artist, 21 or older, to paint a space or galaxy mural on a blank wall inside its Santa Ana store.
Santa Ana · Culture
WAXX Brandz teamed up with TheseFoos for a prison-themed Halloween party in Santa Ana, and Shoreline Mafia co-founder OhGeesy came out for a special performance.
Garden Grove · Crime & Courts
Orange County prosecutors say Charles William Starnes III, 52, assaulted a fellow officer in 2007 and a civilian police employee in 2020. He faces up to life in prison if convicted.
Santa Ana · Music
The masked Santa Ana rapper put out his debut video just ahead of Halloween, and Juice Unlocked is asking readers whether he has potential.
Anaheim · Crime & Courts
Prosecutors say Ismael Pinedalopez, 34, came home early from work, found another man in bed with his wife and stabbed him to death with a pocketknife while the couple's two young children were in the home.
Orange County · Sports Giveaway · Waxx
Partner content: Waxx and Juice Unlocked ran an Instagram giveaway for four tickets to the Rams-Chargers game on Nov. 1, 2026. The game has since been played.
Orange County · Community Partner
Partner content. On the Juice Unlocked podcast, pretrial mitigator Max Miner of Executive Treatment Solutions describes a drug trafficking case he says ended in probation, and why clients have to put in the work.
Orange County · Culture Partner · WAXX Brandz
Cannabis brand WAXX Brandz says it was one of the featured brands at this year's edition of The Stigma, the Weedmaps event that debuted as a haunted house in 2025, and gave guests an early look at its upcoming WAXX Live Rosin line.
Orange County · Community Partner · The Injury Firm
Partner content: The Injury Firm shared a clip of a pack of riders weaving through big-city traffic. Where and when it was filmed was not disclosed.
Orange County · Culture Promo
During a set by @danny.official.music in Long Beach, the Juice Unlocked crew handed out and tossed West Coast Cure cannabis products to the crowd.
Westminster · Crime & Courts
Police say a caller reported killing someone, and officers arrived to find Benjamin Hoang with blood on his hands. Inside the Sutter Drive home were a 74-year-old woman, an 80-year-old man and the family dog, all dead.
Santa Ana · Politics
A council debate over police became a shouting match about 911 calls, family and police union money, as a viral arrest keeps the Santa Ana Police Department under scrutiny.
Orange County · Crime & Courts
The Orange County DA has filed child endangerment and related charges in new cases from Yorba Linda, Orange, Newport Beach, Garden Grove and La Palma. Prosecutors say the riders ranged in age from 9 to 17.
Orange County · Community Partner
The Executive Treatment Solutions CEO says treatment and mitigation done the right way before sentencing can change how a case ends, even when years behind bars are on the table, but only if you put in the work.
Anaheim · Breaking
One ticket bought on South Magnolia Avenue near Broadway matched all six numbers in the Oct. 17 drawing, ending a 58-drawing jackpot drought. As of Oct. 20, the winner had not come forward publicly.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Thieves took two pallets of graded trading cards from a FedEx truck outside PSA's Santa Ana office on Oct. 13. Police put the loss at $963,000, and no arrests had been reported as of Oct. 21.
Orange County · Community Partner
Partner content. On the Juice Unlocked podcast, pretrial mitigator Max Miner describes a DUI case involving an injured CHP officer that he says ended in two years of probation.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Omar Flores Sanchez, 35, was shot on a West Myrtle Street sidewalk Oct. 17. Santa Ana police say officers found a truck matching witness descriptions within minutes, and a later search turned up the gun they believe was used.
South OC · Breaking
A wind-driven brush fire that started in San Clemente on Oct. 16 put about 16,000 South OC residents under evacuation orders and destroyed or damaged seven homes before crews got it under control.
Orange · Breaking
A Tesla reportedly went airborne off the southbound 55 near Chapman Avenue early Thursday and landed upside down. The driver died at the scene, and CHP is investigating.
Anaheim · Crime & Courts
Jurors rejected second-degree murder for Zachary Pickrell, who now faces up to seven years in the death of a teen SoundCloud rapper on North Holbrook Street. Sentencing was set for Oct. 30.
Garden Grove · Music
Rapper Ijan (@iloveijan) is back with a new music video, and Juice Unlocked's Garden Grove-tagged post asks whether he's the face of the city.
Orange County · Politics Paid political
In a paid post, the committee Tax the Ultra-Rich Now, Yes on 3 & 40, No on 41 & 42 lays out what it says the billionaire tax would fund, and what it says is at stake if it fails.
Paid for by Tax the Ultra-Rich Now, Yes on 3 & 40, No on 41 & 42
Huntington Beach · Breaking
Lifeguards closed about two miles of ocean around Tower 16 on Oct. 13 after a great white was reported circling near shore. It was at least the third shark closure in Surf City this year.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Prosecutors dropped the case from the Oct. 1 arrest of Florentino Lopez, 28, but are now pursuing a probation violation against him. Santa Ana police have opened an internal investigation into the officers' actions.
Orange County · Music
Orange County rapper 2txnez is getting buzz for his new single “Freak Ah Leak,” with co-signs from LA rapper Joe Moses and Santa Ana-raised radio DJ Carisma. Is he next up?
Orange County · Breaking
More than 465 county road, flood channel, landfill and custodial workers with Teamsters Local 952 went on strike Oct. 13 after contract talks stalled. The union says retroactive pay is a sticking point.
Orange County · Politics Paid political
A paid carousel from the committee backing Prop 40 singles out Sergey Brin, Yuri Milner, Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg over California's proposed one-time billionaire tax.
Paid for by Tax the Ultra-Rich Now, Yes on 3 & 40, No on 41 & 42
Orange County · Community Partner · The Injury Firm
Partner content: The Injury Firm shared cab-camera footage of a trucker fighting sleep at the wheel as a drowsy-driving warning. Federal health officials say the only real fix is sleep.
Newport Beach · Breaking
Ocean water poured into Newport Beach streets Friday morning, Oct. 9, stranding cars and pushing the city to declare a local emergency.
Santa Ana · Politics
Jackie Cordova, a 54-year-old U.S. citizen, says she was monitoring immigration activity before dawn Thursday when agents chased her down, sprayed her and arrested her. DHS has not explained what happened.
Orange County · Culture
Days after LAPD said four people were hurt in a fight outside ComplexCon's first Los Angeles edition, a Foo Community panel clip credited to Juice God argued the festival should leave LA for the Anaheim Convention Center.
Orange County · Music Promo
Promo: Juice Unlocked and Foo Community scheduled a 7 p.m. music review on Oct. 7, with songs submitted through Juice Unlocked's page on Nero.
Orange County · Breaking
A 26-year-old man waiting for a flight to Seattle allegedly slipped out a gate door, took an Alaska Airlines tug and crashed it near Gate 7 before airport police stopped him. He now faces felony charges.
Irvine · Community
The math major was found Sunday afternoon, Oct. 4. UCI says the death was not heat-related and there are no indications of suspicious activity.
Orange County · Music Promo
Independent artists could send tracks through Nero for Foo Community and Juice Unlocked to review. The post said the best songs would get posted, with a chance to come on the podcast.
Irvine · Crime & Courts
Federal prosecutors say Wanying "Heather" Zhang, 34, surveilled the Seattle-area family of Taiwan's president at the direction of Chinese officials. FBI agents stopped her Oct. 4 as she prepared to fly to China.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
A video of Santa Ana officers taking Florentino Lopez to the ground outside his family's home set off a police review. Prosecutors later dropped the case from that arrest and are pursuing an alleged probation violation instead.
Orange County · Community Giveaway · The Injury Firm
Partner content: The Injury Firm ran a Halloween Instagram giveaway with Juice Unlocked and several other Instagram pages in October 2026, with three fall treat bags up for grabs.
Orange County · Music
Bashfortheworld, the Dallas rapper born Sebastian Alfonso Martell, has a song with eight-digit streams in “MVP.” A lot of listeners never knew he is a first-generation Mexican American.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Santa Ana police say license plate readers led them to the minivan seen in a Sept. 8 surveillance video of a pit bull mix puppy being lured with food and run over near West Park Lane. The woman now faces felony counts in Orange County and a federal animal crushing charge.
Tustin · Music
An unreleased song from Tustin rapper OTS Tony came up on Juice Unlocked and Foo Community's live music review on Nero, and the crews asked fans whether they had found an artist who deserves to get signed.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Santa Ana police asked the public to help find the driver they say ran over a 9-month-old pit bull mix on West Park Lane. License plate readers led them to her a day later, and she now faces state and federal charges.
Orange County · Music
Rapper RYTMZ started putting out country music, and some listeners suspected AI was behind the new sound. Two hosts on the Juice Unlocked podcast set talked it through.
Orange County · Culture Partner
Juice Unlocked and Catalyst worked the floor of The Network Show cannabis trade show in San Pedro with a Dodgers quiz. Get it right, walk away with a pre-roll.
Santa Ana · Breaking
A man who reported a deadly African viper in his Santa Ana backyard admitted the photo was AI-generated, police say, after officers and reptile experts searched the neighborhood and found nothing.
Anaheim · Music
The day before Wu-Tang Clan's GZA was set to play Garden Grove's Garden Amp on Sept. 30, rapper @baybehrichhh dropped a verse outside the Anaheim Marketplace to push tickets. The Mighty Tribe was booked to open.
Santa Ana · Community Partner
The Loyalty Day jersey giveaway at Planet Catalyst drew a line hours before the 8 a.m. start, and the jerseys went fast.
Santa Ana · Community Partner
Partner content: Juice Unlocked and Catalyst teamed up on an Angels-style "Catalyst 420" jersey giveaway at the Santa Ana store for the chain's Loyalty Day on Saturday, Sept. 26.
Orange County · Music
The rapper stopped by the Catalyst booth at The Network Show cannabis trade show, called it Comic-Con for weed and made his case as one of the best in the underground.
Anaheim · Music
Standing outside a Louis Vuitton store, Domthekid says North County is already his and South County is next. Readers had plenty to say about it.
Orange County · Community Partner · The Injury Firm
Partner content: A home security clip shared by The Injury Firm shows a pickup rear-ending a stopped school bus in upstate New York in May 2026, just steps from a student heading out to board it. State Police said the driver was following too closely and was distracted.
Irvine · Crime & Courts
Iris Rabaya Au, the ex-girlfriend of self-styled crypto “Godfather” Adam Iza, must also pay nearly $1.5 million in restitution and forfeit luxury cars, designer bags and three “Godfather” sculptures.
Orange County · Music
Juice Unlocked spotlighted a 55-second music video clip from an Orange County rapper billed as JSprings and asked followers one question: is he next up?
Orange County · Music Promo
Partner content: Juice Unlocked and Foo Community took song, video and beat submissions through Nero for a live listen-and-review session on Friday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m.
Anaheim · Politics
Berenice Ballinas, the mayor's chief of staff since 2022, alleges harassment, discrimination and retaliation. Aitken denies using the slur, and the city says a review is underway.
Santa Ana · Culture
After two years at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, OC Pride's free parade and festival returns to Third Street with five performance areas and headliners Charo, Mama Duke and Chris Conde.
Orange County · Community Giveaway
Partner giveaway: Juice Unlocked and WAXX Brandz offered two free tickets to the next Rams game. Entry ran through Instagram, with the winner to be picked the weekend after the Sept. 18 post.
Orange County · Crime & Courts
An arbitrator found Uber and driver Vu Tran liable for the 2023 death of 23-year-old Emily Normandin-Parker, who was dropped at a gore point on State Route 73 in Newport Beach. He awarded her parents $20 million each.
Anaheim · Crime & Courts
Anaheim police say three businesses inside the Anaheim Marketplace were selling Xanax without a prescription to anyone who paid, including minors. Officers say they seized about 50 bottles of pills and nearly $250,000 in cash.
Santa Ana · Politics
In a sit-down with Juice Unlocked, the mayor said critics who felt she moved too slowly on ICE are right. She also pushed back on officials who claim they got ICE out of Santa Ana.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Santa Ana police say two men used an electric cutting tool to free the statue from its base at Christ Our Savior Catholic Church, then dragged it toward Segerstrom High School. No arrests have been announced.
Fullerton · Breaking
Anthony Joseph Blas was dropped off unresponsive at St. Jude Medical Center early Sept. 13. Police say alcohol appears to have contributed. His family wants to know why nobody called 911.
Huntington Beach · Breaking
The Hidden Hills Club business director, who posts on Instagram as @mo_sway, was taken to the hospital after the off-road vehicle flipped over in Huntington Beach. His injuries have not been made public.
Orange County · Sports Giveaway · Waxx
Partner content: Waxx, Juice Unlocked and @ciscocutz_ ran an Instagram giveaway for a pair of tickets to the Rams' Sept. 21, 2026, home game against the Giants at SoFi Stadium. The giveaway has closed.
Costa Mesa · Music
Fans of Costa Mesa artist Tokyo Lou are inking his name on their arms, and the post says he has been packing out shows outside California. Is he OC's next breakout?
Santa Ana · Politics
On the Juice Unlocked podcast, Santa Ana's mayor said she has nothing bad to say about Bass, but she did not let a comment about her city slide.
Santa Ana · Politics
On the Juice Unlocked podcast, Santa Ana's mayor pushed back on critics who say her public safety approach comes down to arrests, saying residents simply want to feel safe at home, at school and at the store.
Santa Ana · Sports
The Santa Ana native picked up a win over former world champion Jose Ramirez at T-Mobile Arena, another big-stage result for one of OC's own.
Santa Ana · Politics
On the Juice Unlocked podcast, Amezcua said she takes more heat than the mayors before her, including over her hair and makeup. Two months later, she is trailing in a tight reelection race.
Santa Ana · Politics
Santa Ana's mayor sat down in the Juice Unlocked studio for a wide-ranging interview on her childhood, the city's future, immigration enforcement and her bid for another term. The full conversation runs about 74 minutes on YouTube.
Orange County · Community Partner · The Injury Firm
Home security cameras in Gilbert, South Carolina, recorded an insurance adjuster falling through a kitchen ceiling while he checked the attic for a roof leak. The Injury Firm shared the viral clip along with its advice on injuries that happen on someone else's property.
Santa Ana · Politics
In an interview clip, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass pushed back on Santa Ana's offer-help-or-arrest approach to homelessness, saying L.A.'s jails have no room and are already full of people with mental illness.
Costa Mesa · Community
The City Council accepted just over $92,000 in state cannabis tax money to keep the "Know Your Limit" program going and pay for 40 DUI saturation patrols.
Tustin · Music
Tustin rapper Jake Stacey has a new track called “Camo.” Juice Unlocked shared a clip and asked readers whether he's putting Tustin on the map.
Orange County · Culture
A clip of IRL streamer Zavala and the BuzzBall girls saying Orange County now feels "on par" with LA got OC talking. The latest homeless counts show the two counties headed in different directions.
Anaheim · Music
Anaheim rapper TG Thirtyone came back with a new video in September 2026, and Juice Unlocked asked readers whether he belongs in OC's top five.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Police say a man abandoned his car, hid in a pickup truck bed and allegedly tossed a gun as officers closed in, and at least one shot was fired. He was taken to a hospital, and it was not clear where the shot came from.
Huntington Beach · Crime & Courts
Huntington Beach police say a mother let her kids ride recklessly with a large pack of pocket bike riders. A father whose child rode up mid-investigation and an adult rider who crashed were also arrested.
Santa Ana · Culture
Leo "Dandy" Sandoval, the man behind Dandy Hats, sat down with Juice Unlocked to tell his story and talk about the brand's Summer 2.0 collection, which the post says sold out in under five minutes.
Costa Mesa · Music
Juice Unlocked called GB Drako the face of Costa Mesa when it shared a clip of his new track, “Different Mode,” on Sept. 4, 2026.
Santa Ana · Community Partner · The Injury Firm
Partner content: The Injury Firm, an Orange County accident law firm, says it secured a $350,000 settlement for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle in Santa Ana.
Santa Ana · Culture
The Dandy Hats founder told the Juice Unlocked podcast that a lot of people have tried to start hat brands and only about five made it. His list started with his own.
Anaheim · Music
Domthekid is back with a new single built on Drake and Lil Wayne's 2012 hit “HYFR,” and Juice Unlocked asked readers whether it beats the original.
Santa Ana · Culture
Juice Unlocked streamed live on YouTube from its Santa Ana studio with Dandy, the founder of Dandy Hats, and pitched the episode to anyone running a hat or clothing brand.
Orange County · Culture
Juice Unlocked went live on YouTube with Dandy, the West Covina-born founder of Dandy Hats, for a nearly two-hour talk on building a hat brand, the cars that drew attention to it and the night his house was burglarized.
Santa Ana · Music
Rapper Rich Rabbit, known for "closing the trunk" on music he doesn't like, put Santa Ana-raised Drexthejoint's new song in the toilet instead, according to a Juice Unlocked post.
Orange County · Culture Promo
Dandy, CEO of Dandy Hats, was scheduled to join The Juice Unlocked Podcast live on YouTube at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026.
Orange County · Community Partner · The Injury Firm
Partner content: Security footage shared by The Injury Firm shows an unleashed dog rushing a woman and a small child at a gate. The post does not say where or when it happened.
Anaheim · Sports
Kroenke Sports & Entertainment is buying a controlling stake in the Angels in a deal reported at about $4 billion, ending Arte Moreno's run as controlling owner once MLB signs off.
Anaheim · Music
Juice Unlocked shared a clip of King Envy's new track “Right Now” on Aug. 28, 2026, a reflective song about loss, pressure and wanting change, and asked OC how it sounds.
Santa Ana · Culture Promo
The downtown Santa Ana hat shop released a limited Sad Boyz x Rude Awakening hat collab on Aug. 27, 2026, sold exclusively through Supercap and supercap.shop.
Orange County · Music
After dropping Vol. 2 of “Dinero, Dolores y Dios,” the Mexican American rapper announced a free show with food and giveaways in Cockrell Hill, Texas, plus a challenge to help a few immigrants begin the naturalization process.
Buena Park · Community
The City Council directed staff to start a $25,000, one-year pilot with call-automation company Aurelian. Police say the AI could take up to 70% of non-emergency calls off dispatchers' plates.
Santa Ana · Politics
Santa Ana Councilman Johnathan Hernandez criticized mayoral candidate Dwayne Shipp's "The only ICE I support" graphic, saying people's lives are not a joke and asking what Shipp would actually do about ICE.
Orange County · Music
Terrell Wilson, known as Radio Rell, was a member of the Orange County rap group S.L.A.M. Squad, known for the local anthem "I'm From O.C." His cause of death had not been publicly confirmed.
Tustin · Crime & Courts
Tustin officers answering a domestic incident call on Monday, Aug. 24, found a woman dead inside a Walnut Avenue apartment. Police say a man then advanced on them with a knife and was fatally shot by an officer.
Santa Ana · Politics
Dwayne Shipp, a city commissioner running for Santa Ana mayor, says he was turned away from the backstage area at the city's Chicano Heritage Festival because he was wearing campaign gear.
Orange County · Community Partner · The Injury Firm
A clip from Albuquerque, N.M., shows a woman swinging a baseball bat into a white pickup at a red light, then the truck crashing into her SUV with her two kids inside. Both drivers were later charged.
Santa Ana · Music
The “Suga Suga” rapper ran through his classics for a packed crowd at Santa Ana's Chicano Heritage Festival, the city's yearly celebration of Chicano culture.
Orange County · Culture
On his podcast, Lucky from Hoodstocks said an Orange County dispute had spilled into "LA business" and argued that Orange-born comedian George Perez should have calmed things down instead of joking about it.
Santa Ana · Community Partner · Catalyst
Fans were lined up from 4 a.m. for the jersey drop at Planet Catalyst in Santa Ana. When the 100 jerseys ran out, Juice took the one off his own back and handed it over.
Orange County · Culture
Dandy, the founder of Dandy Hats, walked Cisco & Juice through his lineup of supercars at the Hidden Hills Club anniversary party. He said he hopes people see it as motivation, not a flex, and floated a sit-down with Juice Unlocked.
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