SANTA ANA (CBSLA.com) — The future of a pillar-style granite monument at the Santa Ana Cemetery honoring dead Confederate soldiers has come into question in the aftermath of the Charlottesville ...

At almost 200,000 acres, the Santa Ana Mountains remain the largest intact natural and cultural resource in Orange County. Suburban sprawl is rapidly encroaching on Orange County's final frontier.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans monument was erected in the Santa Ana Cemetery in 2004. On Sunday, it was discovered covered in red paint with the word “racists” written vertically down one side.

Over the weekend, a vandal defaced a monument to Orange County’s Confederate pioneers in Santa Ana Cemetery with red spray paint. Now, one side of the pillar read “racists” in graffiti.

A Confederate monument recently vandalized with red paint and the word “racists” has been removed from a Southern California cemetery. The 9-foot-tall (2.7-meter) granite marker was pla… ...

The Sons of Confederate Veterans monument was erected in the Santa Ana Cemetery in 2004. On Sunday, it was discovered covered in red paint with the word “racists” written vertically down one side.