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2008 Stories by R. SCOTT MOXLEY

• Quinton "Rampage" Jackson faces charges

  published Aug 25, 2008

  Orange County prosecutors today charged professional fighter Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, the subject of a 2007 OC Weekly cover story, with two felonies and three misdemeanors for a wild July 15 inciden... More >>

• Death Official for PEN1 White Supremacist Killer

  published Aug 22, 2008

  Dana Point's Michael Lamb ditched his menacing shaved head look and entered Judge William Froeberg's 10th floor Santa Ana courtroom this morning with a full, messy head of hair that still couldn't cov... More >>

• Add Todd Spitzer to heroes list in wrongful conviction case

  published Aug 21, 2008

  The last hints of Republican opposition to pay a Latino man wrongfully imprisoned for a robbery/carjacking he did not commit disappeared this week in the California legislature after Assemblyman Todd ... More >>

• Citizen of the Week!

  published Aug 20, 2008

  While Angela May King liked to make people laugh, Edgar Omar Osorio loved to hurt people, and one night, less than 10 minutes from the Happiest Place on Earth, these two came face to face. It hadn't b... More >>

• [Moxley Confidential] Senator Dick Ackerman Does the Right Thing In the Case of James Ochoa

  published August 14, 2008

  Very Strange Bedfellows Senator Dick Ackerman proves there can be honor in a flip-flop For James Ochoa, the... More >>

• Citizen of the Week!

  published Aug 06, 2008

  You can imagine the joy 50-year-old Anaheim tamale dealer Gregorio Gomez Echeverria felt when his daughter walked up to him in March 2001 and said, "Guess whatr I'm pregnant." Well, maybe you can't... More >>

• [Moxley Confidential] We Don't Need No Stinking Badges

  published August 7, 2008

  We Don't Need No Stinking Badges Vanishing ethical impurities, bad math and more For years, I heard a constant... More >>

• Print Journalism: The 8-track cassette of newsr

  published Aug 04, 2008

  William Lobdell, a veteran investigative reporter/editor in the Orange County wings of the Los Angeles Times media empire until he took a buyout last month, launched LOBDELL'S OC today. Lobdell says h... More >>

• Santa Ana Dog Beater Strikes Again & Gets Nabbed

  published Jul 29, 2008

  This afternoon, the same female who was filmed yesterday punching, choking and strangling a small dog in Santa Ana tried to pummel the dog again. But, alerted by the OC Weekly blog post, the building'... More >>

• "California's Queer Quake"

  published Jul 29, 2008

  About 75 minutes after this morning's Southern California earthquake, Reverend Wiley Drake named the seismic event, "the California Queer Quake," and announced via email to his nationwide followers th... More >>

• Earthquake Strikes So Cal

  published Jul 29, 2008

  Just before noon this morning, an earthquake rocked Southern California--Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles. From the fifth floor of OC Weekly's Santa Ana headquarters, the 5.8... More >>

• Horrifying Dog Abuse in OC Captured on Video

  published Jul 28, 2008

  Several months ago, I drove three times to visit the Santa Ana Police Department Animal Control to report a neighbor's dog abuse. I was told my word wasn't good enough--that I needed evidence such a... More >>

• OC Journalism Loses Reporter, At Least Temporarily

  published Jul 28, 2008

  It's a sad fact that Orange County serves as home to numerous shills pretending to be journalists, but we've also been blessed with excellent reporters who've served their time here before graduating ... More >>

• Thien Minh Ly's Killer: "I Am Not a Monster"

  published Jul 24, 2008

  Last week, we featured the story of Gunner Jay Lindberg's attempts to get off California's death row by arguing that his brutal, 1996 ambush murder of Thien Minh Ly, a popular Vietnamese American immi... More >>

• Sheriff Sandra Hutchens' Green Dream Team

  published Jul 23, 2008

  The last time Orange County's sheriff announced the department's new management team, Bill Clinton was president, gasoline cost less than a buck fifty, people could afford their mortgages, and you did... More >>

• Citizen of the Week!

  published Jul 23, 2008

  As a teenager in Los Angeles using the name "DJ Tran," Daniel James Bell twice lured unsuspecting Southern California Asian women to fake modeling jobs and threatened them with weapons before robbing... More >>

• [Moxley Confidential] Ron Cedillos Hasn't Told the Whole Story of His Falling-Out With Mike Carona

  published July 24, 2008

  This Time, It's Personal Businessman Ronald Cedillos hasn't told the whole story of his falling-out with Mike... More >>

• Citizen of the Week!

  published Jul 16, 2008

  Don't assume that because Deep Arora won a top prize at a math competition that women wouldn't find him irresistible. On February 16, 2006, Emily, whom he'd met online that evening, invited Arora to ... More >>

• [Web Exclusive!] A Case From the Past Haunts Reporter

  published July 17, 2008

  Two VictimsAt sunrise on the morning of Jan. 30, 1996, I walked out of my Laguna Beach home in my boxer shorts,... More >>

• When Gunner Jay Lindberg Killed Thien Minh Ly, Was It Actually a Hate Crime?

  published July 17, 2008

  Hate and DeathWas the murder of Thien Minh Ly actually a hate crime? His killer’s fate hangs on The answerIf... More >>

• Susan Atkins Denied Compassionate Parole

  published Jul 15, 2008

  Just as it had on 11 prior occasions during the last 37 years, a California prison board rejected Susan Atkins' request for parole today. There probably won't be a 13th rejection. The 60-year-old ex-M... More >>

• Times OC Loses Three More Vets

  published Jul 15, 2008

  LAobserved.com is reporting on the latest round of forced/voluntary retirements at the Los Angeles Times and noted that the Orange County bureau will lose Bill Lobdell. Lobdell has served the Times ... More >>

• Hey, Barack Obama: Don't Come Back to Orange County

  published Jul 14, 2008

  A few of you might have heard that Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, arrived in Orange County on Sunday, held an exclusive fundraiser for wealthy contributors at t... More >>

• Citizen of the Week!

  published Jul 09, 2008

  Veronica Paz smoked pot with and repeatedly had public sex with Diego Gonzales, a 17-year-old high school wrestling champion, on a hillside perch overlooking Orange County. Yes, it is illegal for an ... More >>

• [Moxley Confidential] DA Tony Rackauckas Joins the Battle Over Susan Atkins' Dying Wish

  published July 10, 2008

  Let Me Die in Laguna BeachTony Rackauckas wades into the battle over Manson family killer Susan Atkins’ dying... More >>