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October 23, 2009
2009 Postseason Throwdown: Think and Drive
DUI-OrangeCounty.comWhat pen, officer?As this keyboard is being drooled over, the Angels have taken a 4-0 lead over the Yankees in the first inning of Game 5 of the ALCS. If the lead held by the time you read this, that means there will be no need to drown season-ending sorrows and go drivin ... More >>
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November 3, 2009
78-Year-Old Man Arrested for Kicking Cop in the Nuts (Twice)
What began as a routine traffic stop Wednesday ended with the arrest of a 78-year-old Garden Grove man for allegedly battering a much younger police officer--an attack the cops say included grandpa kicking the patrolman in the nuts. Twice!
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November 4, 2009
Orly Taitz and Barbara Coe, Together Again
Well, this isn't shocking. Laguna Niguel's Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq., the key anti-Obama lawyer that has had every single one of her lawsuits challenging the President's eligibility dismissed, will be speaking at an upcoming meeting of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform.You remember CCIR, ... More >>
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November 19, 2009
Cops to Be Out in Force Throughout OC This Weekend, "Black Friday"
Various Orange County communities are going to be crawling with extra cops this weekend as pre-Thanksgiving pushes are made to get drunks, druggies, the unlicensed and unsafe motorcyclists off the road and to ensure everyone is buckling up.R. Scott Moxley blogged earlier today about the Orange Co ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
Life on the Veg: Dolsot Bibimbap at Kaju Tofu in Garden Grove
Grace LeIt's HOT. What better way to deal with this freakishly cold SoCal weather than by counter-attacking with some tongue-singeing Korean food? Dolsot (aka or stone pot) bibimbap is a wonderful way to keep your belly warm during T-shit unfriendly weather and Kaju Tofu in Garden Grove does it r ... More >>
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December 22, 2009
Charity Office Burglarized Again
This mentioned the Thanksgiving weekend burglary at the United Labor Agency of Orange County in Garden Grove, where 20,000 pounds of food, more than $25,000 worth of donated toys and other items for the benefit of underprivileged families were taken. Fortunately, local do-gooders helped save the ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
Five Great Places to Eat Near Disneyland
Original image: heidigoseek @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Certainly not the only offender, but the worst one...Harbor Boulevard. If there were any justice for people who love good food, the stretch between Ball Road and Chapman Avenue in Anaheim and Garden Grove would be called Horror Boulevard. Th ... More >>
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February 17, 2010
Garden Grove Explains How It Will Impose $1,000 Graffiti Fine
kellelly/Flickr.comMake the homies say ho!City and police officials this morning unveil a new strategy to erase Garden Grove.Let's just say taggers will be a lot lighter in the wallets if they get caught.
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February 18, 2010
Garden Grove Fully Explains $1,000 Tagging Fine
Yesterday, you were told that the city of Garden Grove would explain how a new tool for fighting graffiti--fining taggers $1,000 each--would work.So here's how it works:Get caught with the tools of tagging (let's see, there's spray paint and . . . uh . . . what else?), and you're subject to a $1, ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
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April 12, 2010
[UPDATED AND CORRECTED:] Today's Sentencing for Smuggling Songbirds From Vietnam
UPDATE AND CORRECTION: Changes throughout (see below) . . . Courtesy of U.S. Attorney's OfficeI've heard of chicken legs, but this is ridiculous.Duc Le of Garden Grove pleaded guilty today to conspiring to illegally bring live Asian songbirds into the United States by attaching them to the legs o ... More >>
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April 12, 2010
KFC's Double Down: Is There A Cardiologist In The House?
Yes, that's right. I put my cardiac health on the line today. I drove to the KFC on Harbor Boulevard in Garden Grove, steeled my nerves, crossed myself, walked in and ordered a Double Down. Let no one say I never take one for the team.Dave LiebermanNote to the KFC in Garden Grove: the kids in this p ... More >>
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April 13, 2010
Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Garden Grove Man Pleads Guilty in Bird-Smuggling ConspiracyComment by malumot1: You wanted this "wonderful, diverse, mutlicultural" society. Now you got it. Comment by eviltwin: Ding dong Duc Le. lol.
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May 28, 2010
Garden Grove Strawberry Festival This Weekend!
This weekend is Memorial Day, and if you live in Orange County that means it's Garden Grove Strawberry Festival time. While it's fun to walk around the booths and play a couple of games, the real reason to go is for a strawberry shortcake from the Garden Grove Bethel (chapter) of Job's Daughters. ... More >>
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July 27, 2010
There's a Different Water Crisis Going on Here
The so-called worldwide water crisis is being linked to current and future wars, disease and populations shifts.In fact, today's Huffington Post reports on a study showing water shortages will impact 70 percent of U.S. counties by 2050.But, back here in 2010, a different kind of water crisis has ... More >>
Food
July 29, 2010
Hotel California
Garden Grove's TusCA is a notch above the typical hotel restaurant
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July 29, 2010
Water Scam Being Pulled in Garden Grove is Larger, Wider and Now Has a Face
We told you here about a mystery man who went to a home in Garden Grove, identified himself as a city employee named Christopher for the resident and claimed he was there to perform tests because the city water supply had been contaminated.As the city then warned, there is no contamination, no su ... More >>
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August 6, 2010
Meet the Accused Garlic & Onion Donut Rapist
Phat Huy ToPerhaps Phat Huy To wouldn't have been arrested last month in Garden Grove near Little Saigon, if he'd showered and brushed his teeth before spending 2.5 hours raping and sodomizing a woman he picked up on the street at 2 a.m.After the woman reported the crime, finding the suspect wasn ... More >>
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October 9, 2010
Dana Rohrabacher, Gulp, Sings at Van Tran Rally
It was billed as a Tea Party rally but today's event in a Garden Grove public park was actually nothing more than a Republican Party pep rally for Van Tran, the Republican hoping to unseat Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez on Nov. 2.Don't believe it? Well, explain why Scott Baugh, the chai ... More >>
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November 12, 2010
Alert To Minors: Don't Be Out Past Curfew on Nov. 18
Kids, here's some advice. The night of Thursday, Nov. 18 is a very good time to stay indoors. Police departments will conduct what they're calling the "largest-ever Orange County curfew sweeps." Cops in nearly every city--Anaheim, Brea, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Garden Grove, ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Thanh Tam Is a Corner Bakery
[Hole In the Wall] Visit this Garden Grove Vietnamese star for big bánh mìs
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January 28, 2011
[UPDATED: Shooting Victim Was 16] Garden Grove Cop Stabbed, Suspect Shot & Killed
UPDATED, JAN. 28, 10 A.M.: A second Garden Grove police press release (which amazingly also got the date of the incident wrong) states that the three suspects involved in the shootout were "16-year-old juveniles" with criminal records. The updated press release confirms that the suspects we ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
Restaurant Roll Call for January 2011
Photo by Professor SaltWith the start of 2011, we observed more of the same as other months: restaurants coming, restaurants going. Here's our monthly rundown of eating places that debuted and those that went kaput. If you see one not listed on either list, chime in.
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March 2, 2011
Vientiane, Irvine Farmers' Market Get the Good Food Treatment
I reviewed Vientiane in Garden Grove last year and want more people to go to this Laotian stunner--hence, the plug in this past weekend's edition of Good Food With Evan Kleiman on KCRW-FM 89.9. And while we here know and love the Irvine Farmers' Market, Good Food had amazingly never been to the mark ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
[UPDATED: Driver Identified] Street Race Between Brothers in Garden Grove Ends With One Dead
No extra "lives" in real world street racing.UPDATE, MARCH 7, 2:07 P.M.: The Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department has identified the driver who died in the high-speed street race as Caesar Michel, a resident of Garden Grove. Michel's brother has not been identified. ORIGINAL POST, MAR ... More >>
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March 21, 2011
19-Year-Old Man, OC Homicide No. 7: Dies at Hospital from Gunshot Wound
Garden Grove police received a call shortly before 2:30 a.m. Sunday of shots fired near Harbor Boulevard and Westminster Avenue. As officers searched the area, a 19-year-old man who had been shot arrived at a local hospital.He was immediately pronounced dead by hospital staff.
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March 31, 2011
Restaurant Roll Call for March 2011
Edwin GoeiA busy, busy March for the local restaurant scene this past month. We saw the long-awaited Chapter One: The Modern Local debut St. Patrick's Day in Santa Ana. This week we witnessed the popular Laguna Beach sushi bar, O Fine Japanese Cuisine, open its second restaurant in Irvine. The ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
Mandoorang Dumpling House Is the In-N-Out of Korean OC
[Hole In the Wall] This Buena Park diner offers great dumplings and other late-night Korean munchies
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May 24, 2011
[UPDATED with First Four Convictions:] 19 Arraigned for Providing the Loosest Slots in Garden Grove
UPDATE, MAY 25, 5:15 P.M.: Four of the 19 defendants have already been convicted in the case of illegal gambling at Garden Grove cafés. Pleading guilty today to one misdemeanor count of possession of an unlawful gaming device, one misdemeanor count of possession or control of a slot machine, a ... More >>
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June 3, 2011
[UPDATED with More Guilty Pleas:] 19 Alleged to Have Provide Loosest Slots in Garden Grove
UPDATE, JUNE 3, 4:57 P.M.: Two more defendants have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the multi-agency sweep of Little Saigon cafes alleged to have operated illegal gaming machines.Hien Thanh Thi Nguyan, 41, of Garden Grove, and Quy Huu Tran, 61, of Santa Ana, both pleaded guilty to misdem ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Cody Charles Johnson, Garden Grove School Bus Driver, Accused of Molesting Girl Over 7-Year Span
A 14-year veteran worker of the Garden Grove Unified School District was arrested at his home Wednesday for allegedly molesting a girl known to his family from the time she was 5 to 12 years old. Cody Charles Johnson, 47, of Garden Grove, was taken to the Orange County Jail in Santa Ana and held ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Thanh Van Tran Convicted of Murdering Lunar New Year Partier Outside Little Saigon Restaurant
A man who fatally shot a Lunar New Year celebrator outside D Saigon restaurant in Garden Grove in 2009 was found guilty by a jury today of second-degree murder.The jury also found true the sentencing enhancement for the personal discharge of a firearm causing death against Thanh Van Tran. The ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Phat Huy To, the Garlic & Onion Donut Rapist, Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison
On Friday afternoon, Phat Huy To was read his 8-year prison sentence for forcibly raping and sodomizing a 23-year-old woman in Garden Grove in July 2010. To had plead guilty and was charged with one felony count each for forcible rape, sodomy by force, forcible oral copulation, and kidnapping, ac ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
Will Gov. Brown Kill Garden Grove's Fantasy Hotel Resort Project?
For Garden Grove city officials, who've been trying for years to transform their benighted Harbor Blvd. corridor into a world class resort destination, the good news is that Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the state budget last week. If it had passed, the budget would have killed local redevelopment agen ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Emanuel Pennington, OC Homicide No. 28: Stabbed in Street Outside Family Party
Garden Grove police officers were on their way to the 8200 block of Acacia near Fern Street, where reports had come in of three or four people fighting in the street just after midnight, when a dispatcher informed over the radio that someone in the middle of the altercation had been stabbed. Cops ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Garden Grove To Marijuana Clubs: You're Welcome Here
Bucking the trend of Orange County cities who are doing everything they can to shut down medical marijuana clubs within their borders, Garden Grove is taking the opposite tack. Instead of suing the clubs out of existence, city officials are planning to ask them to register like any other business ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
Penis Chopper Likely Poisoned Husband With Tofu
Flickr user soundfromwayoutBy now, you've probably heard about Catherine Kieu Becker, the Garden Grove woman who cut off her husband's pecker and tossed it in the garbage disposal. (Guys, go ahead and cross your legs in mental agony--we'll wait.) Now, new details reveal the infa ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Drop By Rep. Loretta Sanchez's Office At Noon To Tell Her How You Feel About The Debt-Ceiling Debate
As the debt-ceiling debate trudges on in Washington, a liberal political action committee is taking to every nook and cranny of the country--including Garden Grove. In emails sent to their members, Moveon.org urges "every patriotic American" to show up outside Democratic congressional ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
[UPDATED with Sentence:] Thanh Van Tran Guilty of Murdering Lunar New Year Partier Outside Little Saigon Restaurant
UPDATE, JULY 29, 3:02 P.M.: 29-year-old Thanh Van Tran, who a jury found guilty last month of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Lunar New Year celebrant leaving a Garden Grove restaurant in 2009, was sentenced today to 40 years to life in state prison.Co-defendant and fellow Garden ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Hundreds of Catholic Sisters Headed To OC For National Convention, Have A Mass Meditation Planned
Maybe they'll shoot next year's calender cover in Garden Grove... Things are about to get hella holy around here. Next week, some 650 Catholic sisters from all over the country will convene in Garden Grove for the annual convention of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
"Dang! Crabs" Opens In Garden Grove
Dangcrabs.comAnother Cajun crawfish/crab/shrimp boil joint opened recently in Garden Grove, which makes it the umpteenth Cajun crawfish/crab/shrimp boil joint to open in Garden Grove. Before this one gets lost in the jumble, let's talk about the name. It's called "Dang! Crabs", which sounds like ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
[UPDATED with I.D.:] 76-Year-Old Edward Lee Royle, Upset Over Medical Woes, Apparently Commits Suicide by Cop
UPDATE, SEPT. 13, 9:41 A.M.: The 76-year-old man who died in his Garden Grove backyard Friday morning after taking beanbag rounds from police officers and a self-inflicted regular gunshot to the head has been identified as Edward Lee Royle. Royle, who family members later said was despondent and ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Garden Grove, Stanton and Villa Park Start Anti-Booze Patrols Tonight
Garden Grove Police Department's DUI Enforcement Team is deploying officers for special saturation patrols tonight and Saturday night to crack down on drunken drivers. The Orange County Sheriff's Department is also holding the patrols tonight in Stanton and Villa Park.With saturation patrols, pol ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Oscar David Duenas, Accused of Raping 3 Prostitutes, Could Get Life After Trial Opening Today
A Santa Ana man accused of forcibly raping three prostitutes is scheduled to go on trial this morning--with a possible life sentence handing over his head.Oscar David Duenas, 29, is charged with three felony counts of forcible rape, two felony counts of forcible oral copulation, and one felony ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
[UPDATED with I.D.:] Jason Nunez Shot and Killed by Garden Grove Police
UPDATE, NOV. 21, 2:42 P.M.: A man who was reportedly chasing people down a street with knives before being shot and killed by at least one Garden Grove police officer has been identified as 31-year-old Jason Nuñez.Police say an argument escalated into Nuñez giving chase to people who were not i ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
An Update On Wong's Chinese, OC Staple Since 1972
Photo by Jonathan HoAbout a few months ago, a reader named Steve tipped us off that Wong's in Garden Grove, an OC staple since 1972 (though they began in LA in 1952), would finally close and be sold to new owners.I said in that post that if there's a category for restaurants such as Wong's in Gar ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Loretta Sanchez Blasts Illegal Forecloses on Homes of Military Members
There has been a lot of talk around the country about homes being illegally foreclosed upon. For instance, the word on the streets of Oakland right now is that greedy banks are specifically targeting the houses of African Americans. But such stories have gone from rumors to, well, legitimate stor ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
[UPDATED with Conviction:] Oscar David Duenas Gets 4 Years and Sex Offender Tag for Roughing Up Three Prostitutes
UPDATE, DEC. 15, 4:45 P.M.: Santa Ana 29-year-old Oscar David Duenas pleaded guilty today to one felony count of sexual battery in the case where prosecutors accused him forcibly raping three prostitutes he'd threatened with a gun. A jury on Dec. 2 found him guilty of two counts of misdemeanor ba ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
Alexa Johzen Polar and Robin Antonella Pabello Accused of Stealing $285k for Lavish NYC Trip
PabelloTwo Garden Grove roommates are accused of stealing a check from a Newport Beach law firm and changing the value to more than $285,000 that they spent on a lavish trip to New York that included private jet travel, multiple hotel rooms, and a shopping spree at Tiffany & Co. and Montbla ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
17 of 19 Defendants Pleaded Guilty in Little Saigon Gaming Machine Case
Seventeen of the 19 people swept up in last spring's crackdown on illegal gambling machines in Little Saigon have reportedly pleaded guilty to misdemeanors.Charges were dismissed against an 18th arrestee, California Café manager Anh Viet Quach, 34, of Westminster, while Cafe Miss Cutie owner Ha ... More >>
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