The Ford Foundation has bestowed a $1 million, no-strings-attached grant to the Los Angeles Times, which reports the money will be used to bolster coverage of immigrant communities, California prisons...
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This phrase should be saved on a hot key, it's been typed so much this year: police, responding to a call of gunfire, found a man shot up in front of an apartment complex. The latest victim was Hector...
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You know those Huntington Beach Police Department stings that have officers pose as underage girls on social networking sites to catch sexual predatorsr Guess Kevin Williams wasn't paying attention to...
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Does Long Beach-born pitcher James McDonald have the most wicked slider in baseballrThe pride of Long Beach Poly High and Golden West College in Huntington Beach has had his slider ranked the second b...
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A Fullerton woman was arrested and charged today with stealing more than $236,000 from
her employer by allegedly loading up company
credit cards with personal charges for airfare, hotels, an engagem...
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UPDATE, MAY 16, 1:28 P.M.: The Fullerton Police Department's booking photo for Diego Alejandro Figueroa has been released. The 22-year-old was one of two suspected gang members in a stolen pickup that...
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Ugly Police Mugshot of the Week pinup girl Rosa Carrasco and her husband Santiago Carrasco were sentenced Tuesday to two years in custody to be followed by two years of mandatory supervision for steal...
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In the first prosecution since federal Marine Life Protected Areas were established off the California coast, a Riverside County diver was ordered to give up his gear, spend seven days in jail, pay mo...
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Professional soccer player Brandi Chastain, who is known internationally for whipping off her jersey and falling to her knees in her sports bra after the U.S. defeated China in the 1999 Women's World ...
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A lawsuit in the hands of a Los Angeles jury alleges an LAPD sergeant was retaliated against by supervisors because he exposed a police captain avoiding tolls while driving his patrol car on the 91 Ex...
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Speakers at today's first-ever Women's Health Policy Summit, which runs from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the UCI Student Center, include Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove); Diana
Bonta, president and C...
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A jury today found Matthew Castaneda, an Anaheim 35-year-old who wrestled professionally under the name "Chippy Sanchez," guilty of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl
he met on MySpace. Castaneda...
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Santa Ana gets a closeup in tonight's HBO documentary The Weight of the Nation.Not that Santa Ana's chamber of commerce is trumpeting the appearance. The documentary is about the obesity epidemic in t...
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Two retired natural gas-powered generators at the AES plant on Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach were fired back up this weekend to help with summer demand as the region struggles with the sud...
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A California appeals panel has overturned a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a man who claimed he suffered "excruciating pain and trauma" when a worker at South Coast Medical Center in La...
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The good news for those clinging to truth, justice and the American way (brought to you by Mennen) is Robert Luis Reil was sentenced Friday to 50 years to life in state prison for his participation in...
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A Huntington Beach man has been ordered to
stand trial for killing his wife in 1981 despite her body never being found.Torrance Police in April arrested Michael Clark, 58, who changed his last name f...
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Orange County Superior Court Judge Gary Paer today sentenced Ozro Robert Lee, 46, of Santa Ana, to four years in state prison for breaking into a Stanton home in April 2011 and jerking off in front of...
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A judge today sentenced Jorge Miguel Gallegos, 38, of Santa Ana, to 40 years and eight months to life in state
prison and a lifetime of having to register as a sex offender for raping an
8-year-old ...
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A judge today sentenced Jorge Alejandro Lopez, 35, a semi-transient resident of Santa Ana, to 16 years to life
in state prison for murdering a man at a homeless encampment by beating him with his fis...
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Zombies have replaced vampires as the go-to horror movie monster in the U.S., and the march of the undead has continued onto the small screen with AMC's most-excellent The Walking Dead.It's been an in...
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A 32-year-old Santa Ana woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy six weeks ago, which normally would not be news in this cruel, cruel world except that the father is apparently the 16-year-old boyfriend...
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Remember the case of Alexa Antonella Polar and Robin Johzen Pabello, the Garden Grove genius roommates who decided to forge checks so they and their friends could take a $285,000 trip to New York City...
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The water crisis documentary Last Call at the Oasis won an "Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking" award at the just-concluded Newport Beach Film Festival. Surely helping propel Academy Award winning ...
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Alison Rosen has made many best friends since leaving the OC Weekly newsroom many moons ago--a million, to be precise.A day before her birthday, the writer-broadcaster-Adam Carolla newsgirl, can boast...
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