Email Author MATT COKER

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 4, 2010

  "Douchebag Does Sundance"

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2012 Stories by MATT COKER

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  Mark Sanchez, Jets QB Out of Mission Viejo, Called "Shaky Chihuahua" by Boomer Esiason

  published Jan 05, 2012

  Current New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, the pride of Mission Viejo High School, has been called out by retired Jets QB Boomer Esiason as a "shaky chihuahua." Sanchez is famous for displaying M... More >>

• [UPDATED with Octomom Confirming She was Dropped as Client:] Nadya Suleman Fires Ex-Porn Star Managerr

  published Jan 05, 2012

  UPDATE, JAN. 5, 9:08 A.M.: We should be used to this on Planet Octomom, where up is down, black is white, fiction is truth, employment is fantasy and whipping a fat guy in a diaper is appropriate pare... More >>

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  [VIDEO of Sea Lion Lunch:] Gray Whales Provide Killer Poses for Dana Point Excursions

  published Jan 04, 2012

  UPDATE, JAN. 4, 4:54 P.M.: Earlier this afternoon we shared Dana Wharf Sportsfishing video of a gray whale family frolicking in waters off the Orange Coast (see original post after the jump).But now f... More >>

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  Mario Marin, Who Fought Congregants at Skater Church, Dies During Mental Health Tests

  published Jan 04, 2012

  Mario Marin, who was arrested Dec. 28 after fighting with churchgoers at City Lights Dream Center in Santa Ana, died while undergoing a mental health evaluation, authorities divulged a week after the... More >>

• Charles Craig Clements, Bank Teller Kidnapper, Gets Life Due to Handcuff Keys Up His Ass

  published Jan 04, 2012

  On his way to court Dec. 20 to be sentenced for kidnapping a pregnant bank teller from her home so she could open her Anaheim bank's vault, Charles Craig Clements fell down, injuring himself. That del... More >>

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  Joshua Evans, Homeless Family Man-Turned- Army Sergeant, Pays It Forward

  published Jan 03, 2012

  Despite today's blog posts from yours truly, not all stories from the long holiday layover involved homeless men being fatally stabbed, Christmastime murder-suicides or New Year's Eve party stabbings.... More >>

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  Sunmee Kim Allegedly Met Korean Businessmen Online Before Pulling Off Elaborate Thefts

  published Jan 03, 2012

  UPDATE, JAN. 3, 4:21 P.M.: Irvine Police confirm it was their Officer Joseph Jun who had the initial suspicions about the name Sunmee Kim is alleged to have presented as her own, so he deserves the cr... More >>

• Rogelio Nava-Rivera Accused of Machete Attack

  published Jan 03, 2012

  Imagine pulling into your neighborhood Chevron station and seeing a guy with a machete hacking up a vehicle's hood, smashing the driver's and rear driver's side window and then turning the blade to th... More >>

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  Richard French Falls or Leaps to Death From Six-Story Parking Structure for Arts Venues

  published Jan 03, 2012

  Let's just get this out of the way first: it probably had nothing to do with the touring production of the musical White Christmas at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, nor Hal Landon Jr.'s 32nd annu... More >>

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  Stephen John Frea Held for New Year's Eve Stabbing Outside Goat Hill Tavern

  published Jan 03, 2012

  2011 began in Orange County with Robert Sickles, 27, of Mission Viejo, being stabbed to death outside a New Year's Eve party in a Costa Mesa hotel.2012 almost began the same way, with a different vict... More >>

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  William Griffith Dies in Rip Currents Off Surf City; High Surf Advisory This Week

  published Jan 03, 2012

  The coast has been under a high surf advisory since 7 a.m. today, but a rip current already claimed the life of a man in Huntington Beach.William Griffith, 26, was swept out to sea late Monday afterno... More >>

• Paulus Cornelius Smit, OC 2011 Homicide No. 70: Third Homeless Man Slain in 2 Weeks

  published Jan 02, 2012

  The body of a homeless man was found near a puddle of blood at the base of a Yorba Linda Public Library stairwell Friday evening, and Brea Police homicide investigators believe 57-year-old Paulus Corn... More >>

• [UPDATED with I.D.:] Lloyd Middaugh, 2011 OC Homicide No. 69: Homeless Man Stabbed on River Trail

  published Jan 02, 2012

  UPDATE, JAN. 2, 10:32 A.M.: The transient whose body was discovered Wednesday along the Santa Ana River Trail near the 91 freeway in Anaheim Hills has been identified as 42-year-old Lloyd Middaugh. Th... More >>