A lab worker examines trapped mosquitoes for signs of disease at the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District laboratory in Garden Grove. They were the first mosquito samples to test positive for the virus this year in Orange County, but according to the state Department of Public Health, 20 of California’s 58 counties have experienced West Nile virus activity …
Chance Brannon and Tibet Ergul were recently sentenced for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a Costa Mesa Planned Parenthood in 2022. A 22-year-old man will spend six years in prison for his role in the 2022 firebombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa, closing a case that involved two other defendants. Planned Parenthood attack lands Florida man in …
Jennifer Castellon shook, tapped and blew on a box to shoo out more than 1,000 mosquitoes in a quiet, upscale Inland Empire neighborhood. “I believe, fingers crossed, that we can drop the population size,” said Solomon Birhanie, scientific director for the West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District, which released the mosquitoes in several San Bernardino County neighborhoods this month. …
The final defendant tied to the firebombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa pleaded guilty Thursday for his role in that crime and for another plot to damage Orange County’s power grid. Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Ergul and Brannon planned to use a second Molotov cocktail to damage another Planned Parenthood clinic, …
An Orange County man pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for firebombing a Costa Mesa Planned Parenthood clinic in March 2022 and admitted to plotting other attacks. An Orange County man has pleaded guilty to firebombing a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa as well as plotting similar attacks elsewhere in Southern California, according to authorities. Later that year and …