Los Alamitos

Christine Daniel, Who Hawked Phony Cancer Cure on TBN, Gets 14 Years, $1.2 Million Fine

An ex-doctor and minister who hawked a miracle cancer cure via a program on the Costa Mesa-based Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison because her "brown sludge'' was actually made of suntan lotion and beef flavoring. Besides TBN, Christine Daniel, 58, ... More >>

Chris Kluwe Cover Story Wins GLAAD Award

Remember our Nov. 1 cover story on Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter out of Los Alamitos High and evolving national, straight advocate for marriage equality? Andy Mannix, the writer of that fine piece, just won GLAAD's 2012 award for Outstanding Newspaper Article.

[UPDATED with New Arrest Totals:] Tis the Season to be Boozy and Patrolled and Stopped

ORIGINAL POST, DEC. 21, 8:56 A.M.: The Costa Mesa and Garden Grove police departments are conducting DUI checkpoints tonight, while one goes up in Huntington Beach Saturday night. None of the agencies is revealing the location of the mandatory motorist stops aimed at removing impaired and unlicensed ... More >>

Anne Marie's Top Five Restaurants of 2012!

If last year was spent finding our footing, this year was spent embracing our petiteness concentrated awesomeness. On the Line got a nip/tuck, and our subjects had more to discuss than ever (We're talking to YOU, Matt Strickland and Dean Kim). Our culinary crew discussed comings and goings, but we a ... More >>

Linda Ann Wilborn Has Mistrial Declared in Case Alleging She Murdered Her Daughter

An Orange County Superior Court judge declared a mistrial today in the murder case against Seal Beach Army wife Linda Ann Wilborn, who is accused of killing her 23-month-old daughter Millicent in December 2009.Judge Richard Toohey granted the mistrial at the request of Wilborn's defense attorney, wh ... More >>

David Haldane Has a Mail-Order Bride And Wants His OC Neighbors to Be Cool With It

David Haldane went online, met a girl and married her. But this isn't your typical Internet-age love story. To meet this young lady in person for the first time, 63-year-old Haldane had to take a 16-hour plane ride to the Philippines, where her mother immediately inquired, "So, you want to marry my ... More >>

[UPDATED with Ban Approved:] Laguna Hills is Latest City to Prohibit Pervs from Parks

​UPDATE, NOV. 23, 8:28 A.M.: The Laguna Hills City Council on Tuesday night approved on first reading an ordinance banning registered sex offenders from city parks and, if homeowner associations request to join in, their private parks as well.The city will join La Habra, Westminster, Yorba Linda, ... More >>

[UPDATED with Final Tallies:] Fourth of July Surprise! Stepped Up DUI Checkpoints and Patrols

​UPDATE, JULY 6, 10:38 A.M.: The Avoid the 38 DUI Task Force just released the final numbers from the holiday weekend past's three sobriety checkpoints and multiple DUI saturation patrols countywide.From 12:01 a.m. Friday through midnight Monday, officers representing 38 county law enforcement age ... More >>

[UPDATED:] You'll Be Disappointed If You Go to the Los Alamitos City Council Swearing-In Tonight

​Update, December 16, 3:45 p.m.: Dean Zarkos, who originally requested a recount of Los Alamitos City Council votes from the Nov. 2 election, this week asked the county Registrar of Voters to end the process. Zarkos, an incumbent, had come in fourth in a race where three seats were open.Fullerton ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Election 2010: Coker is Spun, Polled, Teabagged

​1:28 p.m.: Orange County agreed with state voters on most ballot initiatives, although more of us did want to keep choking on polluted air until the unemployment rate drops and most like the state budget approval process to remain fucked-up, thank you very much (probably because many are philosop ... More >>

Gerard Maddox, Los Al Man Popped in Nebraska With 62 lbs. of Pot, Gets 5 Years

Illustration by Simon Davison​Remember last October's arrest of a Los Alamitos man for having 62 pounds of pot and four pounds of hashish in his car after getting pulled over in Nebraska?The hammer has come down on 50-year-old Gerard Maddox.

Citizen of the Week!

​Jeffrey Blue Miller's crimes were heinous, but he thought he had a great excuse. The reason that he broke into an 85-year-old Los Alamitos woman's home in July 2006, threatened to kill her, slugged her in the head and face, dragged her around by her hair and penetrated her vagina and rectum with ... More >>

Jim Gilchrist Saves Journalism

God bless Jim Gilchrist!​So, on C-SPAN: THE DEUCE the other day, John Nichols of The Nation and co-author of The Death and Life of American Journalism was telling an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that 140 newspapers closed down in the past year, 1,000 newspaper employees ... More >>

As Cranks Get Town Hall Time With Royce, Websites Help the Rest Struggling With Healthcare

Congressman Ed Royce​Cranks who wouldn't know true socialism from extreme botulism get to take some swings at Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) beginning this afternoon. Royce holds a 1 p.m. town hall in the Buena Park Senior Activity Center, 8150 Knott Ave. (just south of La Palma), Buena Park. It's ac ... More >>

FBI Boasts More Arrests in Largest Gang Case Ever

The FBI announced it made 11 additional arrests this morning tied to a Hawaiian Gardens gang, upping the number of defendants to 24 in the final phase of the nation's largest-ever gang investigation and prosecution that included the participation of Orange County law enforcement agencies and is cred ... More >>

It's a Quick Read 3

Orange County Register: A tip-of-the-knit cap back at the Reggie, for acknowledging Weekly news breaker R. Scott Moxley's 2001 cover story on a nurse's allegations that famed Dr. Steven Kooshian dispensed watered-down AIDS meds. At the time, Kooshian, other media and Orange County's gay communi ... More >>

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Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

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Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

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Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

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Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Best of OC, Nos. 51 to 75

From the House of Tiki to Joe MacAsland

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Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

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Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

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Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

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Tasty morsels from OC's best damn dining guide

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Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

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Can Go Home Again

The Over-Reactors are over Orange County

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A sampling of Orange County's best damn dining guide

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A taste of Orange County's best damn dining guide

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What the hell are you looking at?! since 1995

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Its very hot right now. Heres why

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Short on berries, short on fun

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