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All CategoriesThe Barbarian Nurseries: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Indocumentada"Too many questions," says Araceli Ramirez, the protagonist of Hector Tobar's new killer novel The Barbarian Nurseries to her two young wards as the Mexican... Read more...Multiple Law Enforcement Agencies Converge on La HabraAs many as 20 police officers from La Habra, Placentia, Brea and Fullerton converged on the intersection of La Habra Boulevard and Dexter Street in the city of La Habra... Read more...Huntington Beach Residents Lost Police Helicopter TodayYippie! Wasting your valuable taxpayer money but everybody thinks we're working hard!Huntington Beach residents didn't have their police helicopter patrolling the sky... Read more...What We Learned, Feb. 4-10It's a week worth of bite-size Orange County news and what it all taught us.FEB. 4: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange reveals on its website that it is accepting from... Read more...Garden Grove Prostitute Killer Learns His PunishmentGomezA Los Angeles gangster, undocumented alien and pimp who beat and then strangled a 24-year-old prostitute to death in her Garden Grove hotel room in 2009 tilted his head to... Read more...[UPDATED with Cop Union Response:] Jennifer Tamara McClain, Sheriff's Deputy at Men's Jail, Accused of Sex Acts with InmateUPDATE, FEB. 10, 3:31 P.M.: The president of the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs, which represents nearly 2,500 active and retired deputies and district attorney... Read more...[UPDATED with Fairview Checkpoint:] Beach Blvd. & Stanton Ave. DUI Stop TonightUPDATE, FEB. 10, 2:10 P.M.: The Santa Ana Police Department is also holding a DUI/unlicensed driver checkpoint near the 400 block of North Fairview Street from 7:30 p.m.... Read more...Disneyland Sued For Negligence in Jungle Cruise CrashSkipper: Gilligan!Disneyland sells its popular Jungle Cruise boat ride this way:"Board a trusty tramp steamer for a 7-minute guided tour of jungles from around the world,... Read more...Narcisco Romanes Blando: Ugly Police Mugshot Poser Accused of Touching Patients SexuallyProsecutors of today's ugly mug poser, Narcisco Romanes Blando, put it best: "There was no medical reason or necessity for the defendant to touch the victim's... Read more...Long Beach Cannabis Collectives Plead For Public SupportNext Tuesday, the Long Beach City Council is scheduled to vote on whether to ban medical marijuana, a move that is strongly supported by the city attorney's office and... Read more...Do Brea's Drivers Hate Pedestrians?Road hogs are running rampant in Brea.That's according to one walker who says the streets are not safe for those out for a stroll. Sandy Toth, a 20-year resident of the... Read more...John Tran Nguyen, Ex-Basketball Coach, Accused of Unlawful Sex with 14 y.o. StudentAuthorities are reaching out to the public for possible victims of John Tran Nguyen, a 21-year-old former high school basketball coach who is facing criminal counts for... Read more...Harry Welch, State Champ Santa Margarita High Head Football Coach, Must Go: LA TimesWelchSanta Margarita High School's football team is coming off a state championship, having won the CIF Division I bowl game on Dec. 16, and all the state's largest... Read more...Denis Yoshio Cruz Ramirez Earns Immigration Hold for craigslist Ad Hawking Stolen BikeA fellow checking the craigslist want ads could not take his eyes off a black 21-speed Fuji Road Bike on sale for $280. That's because he was convinced it was his black... Read more...Are You Ready for Some Angels Baseball?If those buzzing past Warner Avenue at the 55 freeway in Santa Ana are not psyched about the upcoming Angel baseball season, they are: 1) Blind.b) Stupid.tres) Doyer fans (or... Read more...Ozro Robert Lee Guilty of Breaking into Home, Jerking Off in Front of Grandma and Little Girls But NOT of Punching Grammy's Woo-WooA jury found a 45-year-old Santa Ana man guilty today of breaking into a Garden Grove home last spring, dropping his paints, whipping out his schlong and stroking it in front... Read more...Sources: Fix Already in on Crystal Cathedral Renaming--Bishop Brown Wants "Transfiguration" in NameNot even a week has passed since Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown asked the county's 1.2 million Catholics to submit ideas with a Christological angle to rename the recently... Read more...Newport Beach Council Asked to Ban Beach Fire Rings ... and I Couldn't Be HappierA divided Newport Beach Park, Beaches and Recreation Commission voted 4-3 Tuesday night to ban and remove fire rings from city beaches. A ban advocate told the panel exposure... Read more...Jon Dumitru on Jihad for Orange Mayor's OfficeOrange city Councilman Jon Dumitru (peace be upon him) has announced his candidacy for mayor in "the slice of Old Town charm". OC Weekly readers will recall last year when... Read more...Rodney Alcala Can Be Extradited to New York: JudgeA judge in Northern California has ruled Rodney Alcala, the serial killer sitting on Death Row for killing a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl and four women in Los Angeles... Read more...Bob's Towing Unleashes the Dogs, Fullerton Police Bite BackA week after the Weekly reported that local business Bob's Towing had sued the Fullerton Police department for harassment, the department fired back with a salvo of its... Read more...PETA Loses Whale of a Slave Suit But Still CrowsA federal judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that argued five orcas should be freed from SeaWorld under the... Read more...Fred Karger Makes Home State's GOP BallotMany California gays (and non-gays) celebrated this week's federal appellate court ruling upholding a district court decision that found Prop. 8 violates the U.S.... Read more...Lights Out for Disabled Veteran? Retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Says Southern California Edison Threatening to Leave Him in the Dark"To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very... Read more...Jim Righeimer Ordered to Pay Huge Legal BillJim RigheimerAt the same time Costa Mesa Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer poured more than $42,000 in personal funds into his 2010 political campaign to successfully fight police... Read more...Rick Santorum, Hot Off Victory, Laps Up Praise From Santa Ana Religious Freedom NonprofitLast night, Rick Santorum trumpeted his solid GOP presidential primary defeats of Mitt Romney in Minnesota and Missouri and narrow win over the former Massachusetts governor... Read more...Gustavo Named One of Orange County's Most Interesting People--by the Orange County Register?!The petty wars between the Orange County Register and us Weeklings are legendary. Right now, my big thing is to go on stories that we broke but that the Reg steals from us... Read more...Valerie Plame Comes Out of the Cold to UCI LawValerie Plame, whose career as an undercover for the CIA ended when the Bush White House blew her cover in 2003, comes to the UC Irvine School of Law Feb. 17 to give a free... Read more...Reps. Gary Miller and Ken Calvert Get Their Assets Handed Back to ThemThe Washington Post compared the annual financial disclosure reports filed by every member of Congress over the past decade to various public records and discovered that... Read more...Anaheim GardenWalk Tax Breaks Speak of a Tale of Two CitiesAnaheimGardenWalk.netWhere's the Garden?Ahead of yesterday's Anaheim city council meeting, a mailer to city residents from the Orange County Employees Association and... Read more...Doug Korthof, Enviro and Electric-Car Activist, Loses Battle with Lung CancerDoug Korthof saw a world where we would all be driving electric cars powered by batteries in our garages that are charged by the Sun's rays captured by solar panels on... Read more...Tiger Woods "is Feeling Explosive"Monterey Bay-area cocktail waitresses, adult actresses and assorted skanks, consider this your warning:Cypress-born Tiger Woods says, "My body is feeling explosive." ... Read more...Burglar Has Good Eye for Purses, Takes 4 Hermes Bags Valued at $126,000Four Hermes purses worth $126,000 were stolen from a Newport Coast home Saturday.Because there is usually (read: always) less money in my wallet than the actual cost of the... Read more...Tchaik Violin Concertofrom:Segerstrom Center for the ArtsCarl St.Clair, conductorVadim Gluzman, violinPaul Jacobs, organTchaikovsky’s dazzling violin concerto is a test of skill for any violinist, but Vadim Gluzman, who performed... Read more...Fall 2012 Applications Open Feb. 13from:Orange Coast CollegeAdmissions Process Begins on College Website Orange Coast College will begin accepting applications online for the Fall 2012 semester on Monday, February 13th, on the colleges... Read more...
AmericanTowns Heroes: Ariana Hargis is a Real LivesaverAriana Hargis is the kind of lifeguard you want on duty when your loved ones are in the pool. She's a quick-thinking, focused professional with eyes in the back of her head. When... Read more...6th Annual St. Patrick's Day Festival At OC Market PlaceYou Don’t Have to Be Irish to Enjoy a Bit o’ Blarney FunA full day of Jigs, Reels, Green Food and Leprechauns featured at6th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Festival at the Orange... Read more...Updated: Celebration Moved; Court Strikes Down Proposition 8; Celebration in Downtown Santa Ana Tonight!The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage.A three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that Proposition 8, which limits marriage... Read more...5 New "Christological" Crystal Cathedral NamesWhile the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange is allowing Crystal Cathedral ministry to stay there for another three years before completely taking over, Bishop Tod Brown is... Read more...Chuck Smith on Proposition 8 Ruling: "Absolutely Tragic"Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel today led off his daily radio program Pastor's Perspective not with a prayer, but a protest. Smith referred to the... Read more...Television and Radio Broadcasters: Please Stop Mispronouncing "Itzcoatl"Folks in the media: just because Itzcoatl Ocampo is accused of butchering six people to death doesn't mean it's okay to butcher his first name. Oh, it's... Read more...Bizarre Costa Mesa Pot Shenanigans Behind Tonight City Council ProtestIt was just a few weeks ago when Costa Mesa Mayor Gary Monahan declared his support for regulating medical marijuana during a pro-legalization panel discussion at his... Read more...[UPDATED with Moorlach Statement:] John Williams, Ex-Public Administrator, Finally Agrees to Leave OfficeUPDATE, FEB. 7, 1:44 P.M.: Just received this short, unsweetened announcement from John Moorlach, chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors:"Mr. John Williams has... Read more...One OC Register Sex Crime Story Produces Two Golden Nuggets!Hold the onionsThere is nothing funny about sexual assault, but an Orange County Register courthouse reporter named Jolly inadvertently published two memorably hilarious lines... Read more...1957 Disneyland Home Video SurfacesThe Disney History Institute just released a newly transferred and retouched full-color home video that was shot in Disneyland in 1957. The park was less than two years old... Read more...Airport Shuttle Owner Reportedly Settles Cyclist's Lawsuit for $6 MillionA Santa Ana law firm representing a 32-year-old cyclist who was injured in a collision with a shuttle bus near John Wayne Airport announced "a large multi-national... Read more...Horrible Home For Sale Photos of the Day!Snaps photos with tongue; nabs commissionIn California, would-be Realtors have to pass an examination to obtain a valuable, state-issued license.But there is no requirement... Read more...Ronald Reagan Returns to Full, Upright PositionRonald Reagan is back at Bonita Canyon Sports Park in Newport Beach--and this time he wants blood.Actually, it's a statue of the Gipper that has risen from the ashes--and... Read more...UC Irvine Law School Learns About Gulf Oil Spill From Chairman of Presidential PanelIt's a long way from the Gulf of Mexico to UC Irvine, but the institution is close enough for Harvard Professor Richard Lazarus, who delivers the inaugural lecture for... Read more...Performance - The Borrowersfrom:South Coast Repertory TheatreIn this enchanting new play based on an award-winning classic of children's literature, Arrietty lives a quiet life with her parents in a warm and cozy home. But, like any... Read more... |
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