U.S. Army

Secret Service Agent Once Assigned to Reagan California Detail Is Punished for Bank Fraud

A federal judge in Orange County this week punished a Vietnam War refugee--who eventually became an accomplished U.S. Secret Service (USSS) special agent assigned to protect former First Lady Nancy Reagan--for operating a bank-fraud scheme. U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter sentenced Richa ... More >>

Maribel Manriquez Ramos Confirmed to be Dead Body; Roommate Held in Murder: Update

See Update No. 2 at the bottom of page 2 on the recovered body being identified as Maribel Ramos' and her roommate being arrested for her murder. Update No. 1 on page 2 was about a woman's body being found Thursday in Modjeska Canyon, and police and Ramos' family fearing it was the missing Cal State ... More >>

ABC News' '20/20' Faces Libel Lawsuit for OC Internet-Dating Story

[Moxley Confidential] Orange County judge refuses network's demand to kill libel lawsuit against the ABC program

Decorated U.S. Soldier Heading To Federal Prison After Child Porn Conviction

During a stellar, 25-year career in the U.S. Army, Jorge Albert Swank of Aliso Viejo served in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Desert Storm and Operation Just Cause. Swank--a graduate of Trinity University and a onetime congressional liaison for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration S ... More >>

Diatribe with Dave: For The Love Of Logan

Every second and fourth Wednesday night of the month, legendary bartender/chef/restaurant insider Dave Mau hosts Dinner with Dave at Memphis at the Santora, where he treats drinkers to a free meal and live music as the evening progresses. To remind ustedes of this great night, Dave treats us ev ... More >>

Patient Med-Aid: For Those Sick Enough to Smoke

A peek inside Orange County's most exclusive medical-marijuana club, one no one wants to join

Mysteries of Costa Mesa: Armalite and the Creator of the M16, a Walking Tour

​For reasons not entirely clear, Orange County isn't out loud and proud when it comes to its connection to one of the most famous battle implements of all time. In my efforts to discover the one-time Costa Mesa location of ArmaLite, developer of the M16, I was met with blank stares and should ... More >>

Don't Ask, Don't Tell's End Marks ROTC's Beginning at UC Irvine

​Last week, when the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was officially repealed, UC Irvine's inaugural class of ROTC cadets began participating in the campus' new program.That wasn't just a coincidence.Campus officials first talked to the U.S. Army about establishing an ROTC program d ... More >>

The Searchers of G.I. Joe Search and Rescue

The OC group goes into the California wilderness to find the missing—and to honor a brother who was swept away

'Super 8' Flirts With Disaster

J.J. Abrams deploys humor and destruction in his super-fun, super-loud catastrophe flick

Sebastian Junger: Documentarian and Author Shares His Realities of War in Newport Beach

Junger doesn't dress like this for speaking engagements.​Sebastian Junger, the good looking guy with the manly-man jaw and intense gaze, spent five months in the crossfire in Afghanistan, but he never shot a gun. He did shoot tons of footage for his documentary and took plenty of notes for hi ... More >>

Naming the Orange County Great Park After Ronald Reagan Gets Scholarly Stamps of Approval

​A 25-year-old law has presented a snag in getting a statue of Ronald Reagan erected in a Newport Beach park. But who needs a statue when you can have an entire park named in your honor? And not just any park, but the Orange County Great Park, which has been billed as the first great municipal par ... More >>

U.S. Supreme Court Tosses Orly Taitz's Latest Crazy Appeal Tied to Barack Obama's Citizenship

​So, after having her latest appeal rejected this morning by the U.S. Supreme Court, where is Laguna Niguel birther/dentist/lawyer Orly Taitz to turn next? The Hague? Judge Judy? The Trill Symbiosis Commission?The Supremes did not utter a peep while tossing the appeal contesting a $20,000 fine lev ... More >>

Tom Tait, Whitest Man in Orange County, Gets Black Chamber of Commerce Award Tonight

​The whitest man in Orange County is scooping up an award this evening from the Orange County Black Chamber of Commerce.Tom Tait, the former Anaheim City Council member who is running in November to re-join the panel, will receive the Michael R. Jones Business Impact Award, which recognizes in ... More >>

Woman Barred From Flying Out of Long Beach Among Those Suing For Being on "No-Fly List"

ACLUHalime Sat​A woman who was barred from flying out of the Long Beach Airport is among 10 U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents the American Civil Liberties Union is representing in its constitutional challenge of the government's "no-fly list."Halime Sat joins a disabled veteran of the U ... More >>

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

Tougher border enforcement in California and Texas has spelled disaster for southern Arizona

LA Times Hints DeVore Misdirected Over Military & Reagan Background

John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyChuck DeVore: Fill in the blank.​Perhaps inspired by the New York Times' recent detrailment of a Connecticut senatorial candidate's campaign by pointing out that he had repeatedly "misspoken" about fighting in the Vietnam War, a Los Angeles Times article today takes a clo ... More >>

Tweets From the Park!

Welcome to Tweets From the Park, our weekly roundup of some of the best--and the worst--tweets from the park that's only sometimes the happiest place on earth. Follow us on Twitter @OCWeekly!Flickr user idogcow​tacce: me: it's okay dad, at disneyland they want our fat people money too. dad: DSA ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Julie Palasco, OC Homicide No. 5: Found in Ransacked Home

UPDATE: Orange County District Attorney levels charges; suspect's telling MySpace page . . . MySpace.comPasqual Loera's user photo.​The Orange County District Attorney today charged the man arrested in Las Vegas in the shooting and killing Sunday of a Westminster woman and critical injuring of her ... More >>

Classics Revisited: Elvis Presley, 'Elvis '75-Good Rockin' Tonight'

​Unless you're the type who attends candlelight vigils at Graceland, this is all the Elvis you'll ever need: Good Rockin' Tonight, four CDs, 100 songs that range from his first self-financed demo "My Happiness" from 1953 to Presley's final live and home recordings shortly before his death on a toi ... More >>

Former Surf City Mayor, State Insurance Commissioner Candidate Wes Bannister Dies

Wes Bannister​Wes Bannister, who'd been a Huntington Beach city councilman and mayor and ran unsuccessfully three times for state Insurance Commissioner, died last night after a lengthy illness. He was 73.Clockwork recalls Bannister as one of those Republicans not generally found in Orange County. ... More >>

It's a Wiley World After All

Welcome to Wiley World.​Lilly Fowler of Salon.com recently parachuted into "Wiley World."That would be the nickame for the domain of pastor Wiley Drake of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park. As Clockwork and other Weeklings have blogged since President Barack Obama's election, Drake h ... More >>

Serial Pedophile Who Bought 5-Year-Old Vietnamese Sex Slave is Up For Parole

England wants freedom but hasn't admitted his sick sex crimes​A convicted California serial pedophile who despises Jews, cops and African Americans and who forced a kindergarten-age girl he purchased in Vietnam to become a sex slave to not only himself but also his German shepherd and basset hound ... More >>

Top 5 Wacky Things to Come Out of Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin's Pie-Hole

BoykinHonors for hosting the most controversial book signing of the week go to Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, which Friday night hosts retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, who famously said George W. Bush was not elected by a majority of Americans but "appointed by God," and that America is hated ar ... More >>

Big Week For Birthers and Their Crusade to Unseat Obama the Usurper!

The Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia, reports today that Orly Taitz, the Orange County attorney who reigns as queen bee to the Obama "birther" movement, is representing a "conscientious objector" who refuses to deploy to Iraq*, not because he's a pacifist or because George Bush authorized the in ... More >>

Local Vets of Earlier Wars Say They Know What the New Iraq and Afghanistan PTSD Sufferers Are In For

The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

[Game On] There's More of the Same in 'Mario Kart Wii,' and That Just Might be Plenty

Colonel of Wisdom

This toll road debate is starting to feel like Clue—who's going to kill the project? Was it Colonel Magness, in the media, with cold, hard facts? Col. Thomas Magness wrote a little letter the Transportation Corridor Agencies didn't like. The letter disclosed that the TCA's preferred, certified a ... More >>

Eyes Wide Open

WEB EXCLUSIVE! De Palma’s Redacted never flinches from the casualties of war. Will you?

Mission: Implausible

The CIA has disavowed any knowledge of the alleged plot against Laos by Vang Pao and others. At least one defense attorney doesnt buy it

Southern Discomfort

Blues legend Bobby Bland brings you down just to lift you up

Hero or Heroin?

Alleged coup-plotter Vang Paos shady past eludes mainstream media

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: The Execution of Private Slovik

Staying the Course

At his press conference this morning, President Bush promised yet again that when it comes to Iraq, we'll continue to push on even though we're waist deep in the Big Muddy. Elsewhere in this morning's news we find some milestones of the course on which we are staying. From the Washington Post: A te ... More >>

Commie Girl

Freedom Costs a Buck-O-Five: Ladies and gentlemen, your Labor Day weekend!

A Terrorist Tool?

Checkmate

A book about killing the president proves a snooze

XXX Files

How Abu Ghraib echoes Robert Mapplethorpe

Smug As a Bug in a Rug

Republicans, reporters preen, groom selves at congratulatory LA bash

I Aint From Nowhere

Anaheims gang unit saved Eddie Quinonesthe hard way

An Informed Citizenry

The Ride of Their Lives

Residents say, No way to city officials who want to bulldoze their neighborhood to build roller coasters

We Know Evil

Remembering the Future of Orange Countys Great Park

Under Suspicion

For Tawfiq Deek, it runs in the family

How Not to Smash Global Capitalism

Why the Kalifornia Anarchists had their butts handed to them on May Day

History Vs. Memory

Little Saigons beginnings

Waste Waterworld

Will poop-to-tap plan raise a stink?

Reveille for Ridiculous

Dornan, from coward to 'military expert'