The fish that have been dying in fish kills over the last five years all appear to have been born in 1995, Riedel said. The county's vicious-dog law may get more bite. The Board of Supervisors gave preliminary approval Tuesday to an ordinance allowing officials to take owners of potentially dangerous or vicious dogs directly to court and apply tougher sanctions to ownership. Owners of problem dogs currently attend an office hearing with the county Department of Animal Care and Control, which almost always leads to a court appeal, spokesman Bob Ballenger said. In proposing the new law, the department's aim was to speed up the way it handles the cases.
Neighbors deserve to be protected.
A preliminary Orange County district attorney's office investigation determined a deputy wounded in a gunfight with a bank robbery suspect was accidentally shot by a fellow officer, a newspaper reported. Law enforcement sources speaking on condition of anonymity told the Los Angeles Times that two pellets removed from below Orange County sheriff's Deputy Jimmy Rubio's right eye likely came from another deputy's shotgun. Rubio is expected to make a full recovery. The conclusions, which have not determined whether deputies were at fault, shed more light on the gunbattle Friday in a Dana Point neighborhood that left the bank robber dead. Up to 100 rounds were fired as deputies armed with handguns, shotguns and high-powered rifles confronted James Titus Walker as he tried to escape through an apartment he had set ablaze.