The City of Irvine Global Village Festival is now taking applications for sponsors for its 2018 event, which is Saturday, Sept. 22, at its new location, the Orange County Great Park.

A community meeting organized and led by Irvine residents is set for 7-9 tonight, Tuesday, April 3, at the Irvine Civic Center. The topic is the countywide homeless issue and its effect on the Irvine community.

The City of Irvine offers more than 100 camps for kids of all ages – from as young as 3 years old, to teens in high school – during the upcoming summer break. Registration is now open at yourirvine.org (Open in new window) for parents who want to plan ahead and sign their kids up today.

The suspect in an Anaheim Police Department officer involved shooting Tuesday night has been identified as Kenneth John Yamashita-Magarro, 24. Magarro has two no-bail felony warrants in Orange County for drug-related crimes and is on formal probation.

An Anaheim police officer involved shooting occurred Tuesday night in Irvine. Around 10 p.m., an Anaheim Police Department helicopter was following a vehicle that was driving erratically and in excess of 100 miles per hour on I-405. The helicopter requested units to respond. Prior to those units arriving, the vehicle crashed on I-405 at Jamboree, near the Von Karman overpass. The suspect fled the vehicle and was located shortly thereafter in the area of Von Karman and Quartz. At 10:20 p.m., the suspect was shot by the Anaheim Police Department.

The County Board of Supervisors today voted (Open in new window) to rescind a plan to place upwards to 400 homeless citizens on county land that it owns near the Great Park. The Supervisors now will work with cities and a federal judge to find permanent long-term solutions.