Bishop Brown citation dropped: The Los Angeles Times reports that a contempt-of-court citation against Orange Bishop Tod Brown has been dropped as part of an almost-$7 million sex abuse settlement. Plaintiff's attorney John Manly said the diocese forced them to drop their bid for the citation: "The diocese insisted that it be done this way or they would have refused to pay our clients." But Diocese of Orange attorney Peter Callahan, in typical Callahan form, said the contempt case was dismissed
Courtesy of Jou familyDonna JouThe case of a Donna Jou, a 19-year-old Rancho Santa Margarita woman who went missing in June 2007, comes to a sort of resolution today. Registered sex offender John Steven Burgess, 36, plead guilty this morning in Los Angeles court to involuntary manslaughter and concealing an accidental death in connection with Jou's disappearance. Jou's family has said that Donna and Burgess met each other over Craigslist, when Burgess answered Donna's ad offering her services as
