La Habra

Rene Antonio Lobos Pleads Guilty in Halloween 2009 Slaying of Joshua Steven Rodriguez

An 18-year-old--who at 15 was charged as an adult for the murder of a La Habra teen beaten and stabbed to death at a Halloween night 2009 house party--pleaded guilty last week to voluntary manslaughter with a sentencing enhancement for gang activity.Rene Antonio Lobos, also of La Habra, was immediat ... More >>

Kirk Robert Lotzgesell, Ex-Cop Who Stole $60k from Cop Charity, Cops to Being a Stinkin' Thief

​A former La Habra police officer, who misrepresented himself as an active duty cop on medical leave when he was given a volunteer treasurer position with a nonprofit police football charity he would go on to steal $60,000 from, cut a plea deal that should have him spending a year in jail and m ... More >>

Feds Sue Owners of 3 Anaheim Buildings with Pot Clinics, Warn Others They May Be Next

"As part of an ongoing initiative against the commercial marijuana industry in California"--a.k.a. two-faced Obama's war on patients for Big Pharma--the feds today filed three asset forfeiture lawsuits targeting Anaheim clinics. "While these marijuana stores purport to be 'medical marijuana dispen ... More >>

Octomom Releases New Topless Album Cover for 'Sexy Party'

See Also:*Miley Cyrus Calls Anaheim Resident a "Fucking Creep" on Twitter*Our Top List of Opening DJ Codes, Laminated and Posted Backstage at the Yost for all Newbs to See*Top Five Musical Impressions From Comedian Pablo FranciscoHoly hell! In case you thought Octomom Nadya Suleman's flesh bari ... More >>

Chan Joon Park, Fullerton Acupuncturist, Poked Lady Patient with More Than a Needle: Cops

Chan Joon Park sounds like the name of a Korean movie director, but in this instance he's rolling as a specialist at a Fullerton acupuncture clinic.And, according to a female customer, the La Habra 68-year-old poked her--but not in the way he was supposed to.The woman's accusations have led to Park' ... More >>

Eat This Now: Meal for 2 at Chicken Box

When a restaurant has been around so long, putting out consistently great food the entire time, it's easy for us food writers to forget as we're off searching for the next best thing.That's the whole point of this column, of course, but it's especially so when it comes to Chicken Box, tucked way up ... More >>

OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Elvin A. Ames and Osborne Garber, Fullerton and Santa Ana High School Teachers

Oh, how we love to hate our public school teachers in Orange County, those indoctrinators of our young with radical ideas of feeling good about yourself, about learning about Cesar Chavez and Harvey Milk. Why can't it be like the good old days, goes conservative Orange County thought, those days whe ... More >>

OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Earl B. Tozier, Founder of Fullerton High School's Band

​Next year, the Fullerton High School band will celebrate its 90th anniversary. Today, it's a fine, multiculti group of kids, including more than a few Mexis who want to become rich and famous blowing the tuba. Given I'm not an Indian (I'm an Anaheim Colonist, and the cosmos take sick pleasure in ... More >>

OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Dr. Charles V. Doty, Santa Ana Dentist

​Not all Klan members are born raging racists, and that was definitely the case with Dr. Charles V. Doty, a longtime SanTana dentist still remembered in the older parts of the city. Doty was one of the OC brave who fought in World War I, and would later on belong to a group of SanTana civic leader ... More >>

OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Orrin M. Thompson, Fullerton Councilmember

​My sincere apology, gentle readers, for being unfair: I didn't previously list all the Fullerton councilmembers who were Klan members, who participated in the burning of crosses on the lawns of political opponents and jailed them for kicks.Last guy missing from the list? One Orrin M. Thompson.He ... More >>

OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Arnold F. Peek, Santa Ana Butcher

​When the Brave New Urbanists talk about the good old days of SanTana, the days before Mexicans destroyed the Golden City, they inevitably point to people like Arnold F. Peek. Like the Brave New Urbanists, he wasn't originally from the area, hailing instead from Kansas. Like the Brave New Urbanist ... More >>

OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Arthur E. Koepsel, Chair of the OC Republican Party Central Committee

​I'm not going to write TOO much about Arthur Koepsel here because...well, you'll read more this Thursday in our paper. But, of course, whenever it comes to the pioneers of Orange County, first we must consult their self-published bios as included in Samuel Armor's collection. So, let's hear it, A ... More >>

OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Frederick Bastady, Buena Park Citrus Rancher/School Board Member

​Out in the Central Valley town of Lindsay, Bastady Ranches continues the family's century-long tradition of growing oranges. They've been there since 1955, since Emanuel Bastady moved the family business from Buena Park, a business he inherited from his uncle Frederick, a child of Swiss immigrant ... More >>

OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Alvin L. Hitchcock, Orange County Chief Deputy Clerk

​In the early 1920s, the Orange County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution forbidding any county employees from being a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The supes had a serious problem on their hands, given that the sheriff at the time, Sam Jernigan, was a Klucker.The directive, of course, did lit ... More >>

Octomom Nadya Suleman Gets Top Billing on Millennium Poster

​The poster is out for the horror movie Millennium ("coming soon"), and Octomom Nadya Suleman gets top billing.So it has to be good!Actually, if a movie starring La Habra's otherwise unemployed single mother of 14 is a hit, she may move her circus out of Orange County to Hollywood. That makes it i ... More >>

OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William F. Espolt, Jr., La Habra Banker/Citrus Grower

​William F. Espolt, Jr. was quite the busy bee in his day. He was the chair of the La Habra Midway Oil Company, which sought out black gold up in them thar hills, and a stockholder in two banks. His father was one of the founders of the La Habra Citrus Assocation, and Billy also followed in daddy' ... More >>

Octomom Nadya Suleman Delivers the Pain

​Yes, of course Octomom Nadya Suleman says a lot of stupid things--so many that we can't keep track of all of them here at Octomerde Central. And, certainly, there are no doubt many more dumb quotes loaded into her appearance on Wednesday evening's series premiere of HD Network's Celebridate, whic ... More >>

Horrible Home For Sale Photo of the Day!

Snaps photos with tongue; nabs commission​In California, would-be Realtors have to pass an examination to obtain a valuable, state-issued license.But there is no requirement that practicing Realtors know a damn thing about how to activate a camera.Or how to take a decent photograph.This fact can h ... More >>

Horrible Home For Sale Photo of the Day!

Snaps photos with tongue; nabs commission​In California, would-be Realtors have to pass an examination to obtain a valuable, state-issued license.But there is no requirement that practicing Realtors know a damn thing about how to activate a camera.Or how to take a decent photograph.This fact can h ... More >>

G Burger Hits the G Spot

George Makri's La Habra burger stand straddles the comfortable center between dives and boutiques

DUI Patrols Intensify for Cinco de Drinko

​I mean, it's not like your favorite outpost of alternative newsiness is bastardizing the Mexican Army's unlikely victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, with "Cinco de Drinko" listings. Er, check that.Anyways, in other Cinco de Drunk Tank news, the countywide "Avoid the 38 ... More >>

Spring Citrus Fair

Downtown La Habra

Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Lucien Proud, La Habra Mayor/ School Trustee

​Recently on my Facebook page, one of my amigas--a proud White woman--chimed on my status and repeated the tired truism that Anaheim was THE hotbed of white supremacy in Orange County. Sigh...while the Klan did control the city during the 1920s and gets all the attention in the history books, the ... More >>

If Octomom Nadya Suleman Was a Pregnancy, Her La Habra Neighbors Would Want Her Terminated

​Octomom Nadya Suleman in 2009 was voted the least desirable neighbor in the whole United States.Things have only gotten worse since then, according to her La Habra neighbors.

[UPDATED] Octomom Nadya Suleman Whips Up Some Work . . . In a Fetish Video With a Guy in a Diaper

TMZ​Update, Jan. 20, 4:33 p.m.: The lawyer for Octomom Nadya Suleman of La Habra released a statement that says her fetish video is "disgusting," was filmed as a "joke," she was "tricked" into doing it, and she "regrets her actions.""I personally had nothing to do with it and find it disgusting, ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Tustin, Cypress, La Habra, Costa Mesa, Dana Point and Garden Grove Hold DUI Checkpoints Tonight, a Bunch More Follow Through the Holidays

​Update, December 17, 2:46 p.m.: Irvine Police announce a DUI checkpoint for Saturday night (weather permitting). Details on next page.Update, December 17, 12:11 p.m.: Two more DUI checkpoints will be held tonight, in Seal Beach and Huntington Beach.The Seal Beach operation runs from 6 tonight ... More >>

Puffy the Magic Taco

[Hole In the Wall] Arturo's Puffy Tacos may be in Whittier, but La Habra loves it all the same

Johnny Law's End-of-Summer Orange County Anti-DUI Ops Run Tonight Through Sept. 5

​While you're marking summer's passing with barbecues, Frisbee golf and Brazilian waxes, Orange County law enforcement rings in the traditional Labor Day weekend end of the season with massive anti-DUI operations.And those operations start--gulp--tonight.

Attention North-County Voters! Register to Replace The Dripper!

Dearly disgraced Mike "The Dripper" Duvall​Monday is your last day to register to vote in the Assembly District 72 special primary. Info on registration is at the OC Registrar of Voter's site.If you're unsure of whether you're an AD72 constituent, you can use the State Assembly's ghetto website to ... More >>

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: Disappearing Comments Edition

Not sure why, but when I sat down to write up this column today, all the comments on all the hot-button stories on the OC Register website appear to have been disabled. Could it be that the overworked censors on Grand Street just decided to hit the nuke button? Either that or my computer sucks, in w ... More >>

KSBR Birthday Bash

Oso Viejo Park

It's a Quick Read X

Orange County Register: The top viewed story on the Reg website as my knuckles drag across the keyboard? Octuplets' mom reportedly moving to La Habra. That should shut up anyone who whines the media should stop covering Nadya Suleman so she'll slither back into obscurity. It's not li ... More >>

[This Hole-in-the-Wall Life] Mad Mongolian at Mad Wolf Mongolian BBQ

Grub Guide

A little too close to home

Growing up in Garden Grove- there are few places to grab a moment of solitude conveniently located next to one's home. Huntington Beach is kinda far. La Habra heights too. A park? Maybe. This may sound odd but when life was getting me down, or hell, even out of sheer boredom - my friends and I ... More >>

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Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Grove of Dreams

The life and times of orange picker-turned-big leaguer Jesse Flores

Grove of Dreams

The life and times of orange picker-turned-big leaguer Jesse Flores

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Grub Guide

A sampling of Orange County's best damn dining guide

Grub Guide

A taste of Orange County's best damn dining guide

Grub Guide

The county's best damn dining guide

Diary of a Mad County

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No Cake for Adolf

Moose rebuke moves Hitler party to Palmdale

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