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179 stories from Santa Ana. City hall, the mayor’s race, DTSA nightlife and the artists coming out of the 714’s capital.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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