It's been just over a week since I wrote that the Orange County Register is in content-sharing talks with Dean Singleton's MediaNews Inc. and a week since Register publisher Terry Horne told one of his own reporters about his vision for saving the paper, including the formation of "a consortium with other companies, to be announced soon, that will share advertising and news content."
There's no evidence the reporter even asked Horne about my story about Singleton, which is pretty bizarre given
In light of today's first-ever economic espionage conviction of Dongfan "Greg" Chung, 73, of Orange, it must be asked: How did the former Rockwell International and Boeing engineer get away with being a spy for China for so long? Born in China, Chung was employed by Rockwell in Downey from 1973 until its space unit was acquired by Boeing in 1996. He worked at Boeing's Huntington Beach offices until retiring in 2002. But then he returned as a Boeing contractor the next year and remained until Sep
On Feb. 21, FBI agents arrested Ahmadullah Sais Niazi, an Afghan immigrant, and charged him with lying about his brother-in-law's status as an alleged Al Qaeda terrorist. A few days later, Craig Monteilh, a convicted con artist, held a press conference to announce that he was an FBI informant and had helped the FBI bust Niazi. Over the next few months, Monteilh made numerous claims in published articles--including this one in the Weekly--asserting that he had been recruited by the FBI to snoop o
Hello haters! Here we go with another edition of...Let's talk about illegals, shall we?Two fun stories this week. The first one is by Cindy Carcamo--and we know where this señorita's sympathies lie, don't we? It concerns an effort by PATRIOTIC AMERICANS to put something on the June Ballot called the California Taxpayer's Protection Act. Now, who could disagree with that? All it tries to do is prevent babies who are born here to illegal alien padres and madres (like our own Gustavo Arellano)
Palagems.comEl Itoco: object of desire.In a small room near the front desk of the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana rests El Itoco, a 472-carat emerald crystal that is considered one of the finest in the world and valued and is valued at more than $3 million.The emerald that was dug up from black shale in Colombia in 2008 is scheduled to remain on display at Bowers through early December. Museum president Peter Keller was tight-lipped when asked by the Orange County Register about security, saying,
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UPDATE: Lake Forest 19-year-old Matthew Thomas Dragna will be arraigned in Santa Ana at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Oct. 23 murder of longtime Hotel Laguna catering manager Damon L. Nicholson, who is believed to be Laguna Beach's first homicide victim since 2002.Courtesy of Laguna Beach Police DepartmentMatthew Thomas DragnaDragna, who is being held on $1 million bail, faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in state prison if
convicted, according to the Orange County Distric
