Ever wonder what would happen if you locked an old woman in a bank safe? You have? Well then you're a sick individual. But lucky for you, Bank of America in Laguna Woods did lock a diabetic 73-year-old woman in a privacy room while she was checking her safe deposit box just yesterday. And what happened to her was kind of predictable; she passed out because she didn't have her medication.
Marian Prescher was trapped inside the small room for six hours before being found by a cleaning woman who
In these days of horrible news, something great: Chapman University School of Journalism professor Susan Paterno successfully defender herself against a libel and defamation suit filed by Wendy McCaw, the controversial owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press and a rag owner that makes Hearst look like Pulitzer. Even better, per a Santa Barbara blog, McCaw will pay at least part of Paterno's legal fees. Can't wait to get a reaction from Paterno, who has taught two classes of journalism students eve
Chapman University's annual economic forecast has been known to be overly sunny, but even this year's had to acknowledge that it'll suck huevos through the end of the next year.
However, as they faced a crowd of 1,200 huddled in the Orange County Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, Esmael Adibi and James "I'm Not Just an Economist, I'm Chapman U's President" Doti did offer this glimmer of hope: the economic recovery will begin near the end of '09 and start in Orange County and California before
The Orange County Bank Robbery Task Force is seeking the public's
help in identifying an armed bank robber authorities have dubbed the "Hazmat Bandit" due to his attire: a white painter's jumpsuit, a white
hat, boots and sunglasses.The unidentified man--described as white, in
his fifties, with long blonde hair which may have been a wig, and with
a height of approximately 6 feet to 6-feet-2--has pulled off two heists, according to the FBI.He entered the Laguna Niguel Wachovia branch on March 17 a
d70focus / FlickrWherever white-collar crimes happen, Irvine's aisles of nameless, indistinguishable boxy office buildings will somehow be involved. Exhibit #3945: the case of "The Analyst," a.k.a. Israeli hacker Ehud Tenebaum.Tenebaum hacked the Pentagon as a teenager, and then went to work as a good-guy cybergenius for the Israeli government when he was caught. But Tenebaum, now 29, was arrested last year in Canada for allegedly stealing $1.5 million from Canadian banks. Right before he was ab
Amid President Barack Obama's vow to end off-shore tax breaks for
U.S.-based multinational corporations and individuals within a
decade, billionaire Igor Olenicoff, who owns homes in Laguna Beach and Florida, says from his Newport Beach office that his Swiss bankers led him to lie about his foreign holdings on U.S. tax returns, according to a story just posted on Bloomberg.com.Since December 2007, Olenicoff and his private banker, Bradley Birkenfeld, have pleaded guilty to various tax crimes. Bu
No, not that kind of fish fry.
​Congratulations, Orange County! Some of your residents were among today's arrestees in the largest cyber crime case of its kind.
"Operation Phish Phry," the first joint cyber investigation between Egyptian law enforcement authorities and United States officials, netted the most defendants ever charged in a cyber crime case, turning up domestic suspects in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and San Diego counties, elsewhere in&nb
