Back in 2002, I wrote about Leilani Gutierrez, a four-year-old girl who was paralyzed in a Costa Mesa car accident. The Chevy Suburban van her and her mother, June, were riding in was broadsided by Michael Leinert, who had run a red light at the corner of Newport Blvd. and Wilson St.. After the initial impact, the van was sent careening into a utility pole.
Leilani is also the daughter of OC musician Rodney Sellars (Sense Field, Year Zero), and the OC music community stepped up - several benef
Back the Badge, Support the Star, Empty your Wallet: Peggy Lowe at the Register watched “dozens of black-shirted deputies march through Civic Center Tuesday as the union went on a public offensive to rally support for their fight to preserve” an incredibly generous pay, perk and pension package. The message on the T-shirts worn by the deputies said, “Back the Badge, Support the Star.” Supervisor John Moorlach has put the boys in green into a tizzy because he thinks a 2001 pay deal the c
FACES OF TAWNY Actress, ex-Anaheim Angel wife, car hood buffer, supposedly reformed druggie and all-around hot mess Tawny Kitaen is shown on a February 2004 Weekly sex issue cover (left); in a booking photo from her April 2002 assault on then husband Chuck Finley in Newport Beach (top right); and writhing in the famous Whitesnake video of 1987. See her latest brush with the law under Saturday, Sept. 26.It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more Tawny Kitaen arrests