Email Author NICK SCHOU

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 29, 2010

  "Don't Start a Riot"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 20, 2010

  "Will This Pot Case Get Weeded Out?"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 29, 2010

  "Crash First..."

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 19, 2010

  "Murder? Are You Crazy?"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published November 21, 2007

  "Just a Random Female"

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2009 Stories by NICK SCHOU

• Internet Shocker: Dems Blast Dana for Swine Flu Snoozing

  published Jul 09, 2009

  Where would the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) be without crazy congressman Dana Rohrabacherr He can always be counted on for fun and games and it seems like every day we get a pre... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Mike Hynson, Co-Star of 'The Endless Summer,' Resurfaces With Tales of the Brotherhood

  published July 9, 2009

  The Surfer Who Came In From the ColdWhatever happened to The Endless Summer co-star Mike Hynson? A lot, much of it bad,... More >>

• Chuck Devore to China: Set Your Prisoners Free!

  published Jul 07, 2009

  In September 2001, Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) self-published a book called "China Attacks" which envisioned a Chinese sneak attack against Taiwan that precipitates a third world war. Call it a case of ba... More >>

• Does Al Qaeda's Infamous Goat Boy Read the Weeklyr

  published Jun 19, 2009

  In April, the Weekly published this story about Craig Monteilh, a self-described FBI mole who spied on Orange County mosques and claimed that he foiled unspecified terrorist plots. No evidence has eve... More >>

• Washington Post fires ex-Register scribe turned White House watcher

  published Jun 18, 2009

  *Updated by Gustavo: Salon.com weights in...Dan Froomkin, the onetime Orange County Register reporter who is best known as the author of the Washington Post's widely-read White House Watch blog, is ou... More >>

• Awesome Criminal of the Week, Pt. Douche

  published Jun 17, 2009

  This tale of crime and no punishment has gone back and forth so many times that it's tempting to ignore this latest development, but John Yoo, Orange County's favorite torture enabler, may be back in ... More >>

• Autopsy Report: Angels Pitcher Adenhart's Driver Was DUI

  published June 18, 2009

  Adenhart’s Driver Also Was DUIWill the autopsy report showing that Courtney Stewart had been drinking before she died have... More >>

• UPDATED: Autopsy Report: Adenhart Driver Also DUI

  published Jun 11, 2009

  Shortly after midnight on April 9, Andrew Gallo drove his van through a red light at Lemon Street and Orangethorpe Avenue in Fullerton and smashed into a car passing through the intersection. Gallo es... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Taking the High Road With One of OC's Burgeoning Medical-Marijuana Delivery Services

  published June 11, 2009

  The Marijuana MachineTaking the high road with one of OC’s burgeoning medical-marijuana delivery servicesThe... More >>

• OC Register Loses Star Reporter

  published Jun 05, 2009

  These days it's rare to hear about a reporter leaving the newspaper where he or she has worked for more than a decade that isn't totally depressing. Which is it, this time, you might askr Layoffr Buyo... More >>

• Irvine Mosque Speaks: OC Weekly World Exclusive!

  published May 29, 2009

  On Feb. 21, FBI agents arrested Ahmadullah Sais Niazi, an Afghan immigrant, and charged him with lying about his brother-in-law's status as an alleged Al Qaeda terrorist. A few days later, Craig Monte... More >>

• Jury to Little Saigon Protesters: The War's Over. Now Go Home!

  published May 27, 2009

  Do you remember the exciting drama that unfolded in the summer of 2007, when a small group of anti-communist protesters began to make life a living hell for the publishers of two Little Saigon newspap... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Rocco Sentenced in College Ketchup Heist

  published May 26, 2009

  The Partnership scored yet another victory today when Judge Jacki Brown of the Quentin Tarantino Justice Center sentenced former Orange school trustee Steve Rocco to two years of probation for his Sep... More >>

• How Do You Stop Terroristsr Ask A Con-Artist!

  published May 22, 2009

  Craig Monteilh, everybody's favorite convicted con artist and FBI mole, hit the airwaves last night in an in-depth interview with KFI AM 640 talk show host Bryan Suits. The topic of the conversation: ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  FBI Spy: "Islam Itself is a Threat to National Security"

  published May 21, 2009

  If Craig Monteilh was hoping the Weekly's recent cover story about him would provide a springboard to media fame, he probably wasn't thinking of Inside OC with Rick Reiff on KOCE. But that's exactly w... More >>

• Protocols of the Elders of Islamr

  published May 19, 2009

  As its name suggests, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in LA is supposed to promote the kind of cultural dialog that brings people together rather than pushes them apart. So it's more... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Register Misses the Big Scoop in Debunked Zodiac Daughter Story!

  published May 07, 2009

  The Orange County Register ran a front page story today about Deborah Perez, the Corona woman who claims her adoptive father, Guy Ward Hendrickson, a carpenter who died in 1983, was actually the Zodia... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Zodiac Daughter Debunked!

  published May 05, 2009

  Hats off to Steve Huff of the True Crime Report for apparently being the first journalist to do anything other than simply regurgitate the bizarre, better-late-than-never claims by Deborah Perez that ... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The FBI, the Islamic Center of Irvine and Craig Monteilh: Who Was Conning Whom?

  published April 30, 2009

  Who Was that Mosqued Man?Craig Monteilh insists he was hot on the trail of terrorist plots at OC mosques. Count the victims of his... More >>

• Another Conspiratorial Twist In the Seemingly Never-Ending Story of Steve Rocco

  published April 23, 2009

  Prose and CondimentsDoes the seemingly never-ending story of Steve Rocco have a surprise, conspiratorial twist at (what we... More >>

• Rocco Convicted in Ketchup Heist: OC Condiments Declared Safe!

  published Apr 16, 2009

  After a three-day trial, a jury today convicted former Orange School trustee Steve Rocco of stealing a half-empty bottle of Heinz ketchup from a Chapman University cafeteria last September. Their hars... More >>

• The Great Ketchup Caper Trial, Day Four

  published Apr 09, 2009

  I arrived at Department C-51, the courtroom of Judge Jacki Brown--is it me, or doesn't that sound like the title of a great movie sequelr--just after 9 AM to find the courtroom nearly empty. Besides t... More >>

• Barack Obama The Pimp

  published Apr 08, 2009

  Twenty-nine years ago, Lisa Jack was a camera-toting student at Occidental College and Barack Obama was a freshman from Hawaii. He quickly became involved in the college's Anti Apartheid Coalition, an... More >>

• OC Hospital That Sued Doctor Drops Suit, Now Owes $2.7 million

  published Apr 02, 2009

  Two years ago, Integrated HealthCare Holdings, Inc, (IHHI), which owns Chapman Medical Center, Coastal Communities Hospital, and the Western Medical Centers in Anaheim and Santa Ana, filed a lawsuit a... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The Bizarre Case of the People vs. ex-Orange School District Trustee Steve Rocco

  published April 2, 2009

  More Than 57 Varieties of Strange: The bizarre case of the people vs. ex-Orange Unified School District trustee Steve... More >>