Gates, the 11th sheriff of Orange County, held the reins from 1975 to 1999. He was a self-styled Western lawman endorsed by none other than movie legend John Wayne, a resident of Newport Beach.

Before Timothy Olyphant graced television screens as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens on Justified, there was another cowboy lawman who traded in his sprawling Western landscapes for skyscrapers ...

In what Western historians call an “extremely exciting” discovery, a trunk containing new photographs of the famous mountain ...

Former OC Sheriff Brad Gates dies at 85, leaving legacy as a no-nonsense cowboy lawman Gates, who retired in 1999, became the county's most powerful politician and was tasked with helping to steer ...