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Sexual Assaults of Vietnamese American Kids Earns Severe Punishment
A 68-year-old Florida businessman accused of sexually molesting his Vietnamese American girlfriend’s two minor children in Orange County’s Little Saigon area was sentenced today to spend 108 years in a California prison. Gary Lee Beavers represented himself during his 2017 trial and argued he’d been framed by his jealous, money-hungry Garden Grove companion seeking revenge […]
Garden Grove Cops Run DUI Checkpoint TONIGHT!
The Garden Grove Police Department Traffic Unit holds a DUI/drivers license checkpoint tonight from 9 p.m. through 3 a.m. An exact location was not released. The cop shop claims high visibility DUI operations, including checkpoints and saturation patrols, are ” proven to lower the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol or drug impaired crashes. […]
OC GOP and Rohrabacher Defend Backing Controversial School Board Candidate
Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Party Apparatus) and the Orange County Republican Party Central Committee are doubling down on their backing of a controversial Huntington Beach school board candidate in the wake of heated criticism of the endorsements. The same OC GOP that routinely craps on Latinos plays the Latina card in the following statement defending […]
2 Very Different Funeral Processions in Orange County This Afternoon
Two very different funerals happen in Orange County this afternoon. First, Costa Mesa Police Officer Oscar Adrian Reyes will be memorialized at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove at noon. Then, at 3 p.m., a “funeral procession” in Santa Ana sets off to pass by the Ronald Reagan Federal Building, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office and […]
Comfort and Performance in a 2019 Kia Optima SX Turbo? You’re Sitting in It
For a representation of the 2019 Kia Optima SX Turbo’s balance of comfort and performance, you need to look at your seat. No, silly, not your seat as in your buttocks but your seat as in the mid-size sedan’s sitting surfaces, or more specifically the front bucket version your humble reporter’s bum filled recently. The […]
Ex-CHP Cop Wants Graphic Online Chats with Girls Banned From Lewd Conduct Trial
After a federal appellate panel overturned his attempted lewd act on a minor conviction, a former high-ranking member of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) is arguing that jurors at his new trial should not see intensely graphic internet chats he conducted with individuals he believed to be middle-school girls. Law enforcement officials working with Perverted […]
Charity For Capistrano Unified School District Sues Former Director For Fraud
The Capistrano Unified School District Foundation (CUSD) is accusing its former executive director of fraud and breach of fiduciary duty for allegedly stealing “in excess of $50,000 for her personal gain.” According to a lawsuit filed inside Orange County Superior Court, Michelle Hart admitted to misappropriating funds in December and immediately resigned. “[Hart] made dozens […]
GOP and Rohrabacher Endorsements of Divisive School Board Candidate are Blasted
The Orange County Republican Party Central Committee on Monday endorsed controversial candidate Gracey Larrea-Van Der Mark for the Ocean View School District Board of Trustees–much to the chagrin of the Anaheim-based Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA). Meanwhile, Larrea-Van Der Mark’s support from Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s study buddy) is being […]
The National Union of Healthcare Workers Shows Orange County How to Get Organized
Dozens of healthcare workers marched in front of Kindred Hospital in Brea last Friday with signs in hand reading “We deserve a living wage” and “A hospital should not be an assembly line.” The spirited informational picket drew elected officials to the picket line and continued for hours, undeterred by the relentless summer sun. In […]
Dana Watch: Doggone Dana
Softball question to a sitting member of the House of Representatives from a Voice of America (VOA) China interviewer: “So Chinese New Year is just around the corner; is there any message you want to say to our audience in China?” Answer from Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Concubine): “Well, let me just note . . […]
Political Football: Dallas Cowboys vs. Seattle Seahawks
Dallas update: You’ve no doubt heard the tragic story of Botham Jean, shot to death in his own apartment by a Dallas cop who claimed she mistakenly thought it was her apartment. Now, it would be unfair to say this was something that could only happen in Dallas, as it could, of course, happen anywhere […]
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Ticket Dodger [Hey, You!]
I was driving home from downtown Santa Ana late one night when I realized I had a parking ticket slipped underneath one of my windshield wipers. After venting to my friend later about how I couldn’t figure out why I was ticketed, she advised me to look at the time stamp—and that’s when I realized […]
Mila the Pug Needs Your Help
What kind of monster abandons in a box an 18-month-old pug suffering from trauma so severe that only half of both of her hind legs are left? That’s a question for another day, as OC Animal Care recovered the pug who the staff named Mila on Tuesday in Fullerton–and the county agency is now asking […]
Sleuth Episode Airs Fight Over What’s Not Appropriate to Say About a Crime Victim
The fourth installment of Sleuth, an iHeartRadio original true-crime podcast exposing controversies in a 2010 Orange County double homicide, begins with Linda Sawyer hosting a mini-debate about whether a crime victim’s own dark past is fair game for journalistic discussion. An indignant Steve Herr, whose son Sam was lost in the crime, did not appreciate […]
Surgeon/Reality TV Dater and Girlfriend Allegedly Drugged and Raped Women
A Newport Beach orthopaedic surgeon, who appeared on the Bravo reality show Online Dating Rituals of the American Male, had a dating ritual with his girlfriend that involved finding a second woman and drugging and raping her, according to authorities with fears there may be 1,000 victims. Dr. Grant William Robicheaux, 38, of Newport Beach, is charged […]
Disneyland Resort Hotel Workers Reach Agreement Lifting Base Pay to $15 an Hour
The Disneyland Resort came closer to ending a long contract fight with its hotel workers by reaching a tentative agreement early this morning. Represented by Unite Here Local 11, members will vote this weekend on whether to approve a contract raising starting pay from $13.25 to $15 an hour on Jan. 31, 2019. Ahead of […]
Holy Fraud! Ashley Bemis’ Alleged History of Deception Before the Holy Fire
As the Weekly reported last week, many OC residents were shocked to discover that Ashley Bemis swindled $11 thousand from good Samaritans in the wake of the Holy Fire. According to Carrie Braun, a spokesperson for the OC Sheriff’s Department (OCSD), Bemis created a fake husband named Shane Goodman who Bemis claimed was battling the […]
Chapman’s Brian Robau is the First Two-Time Student Academy Awards Winner
A Chapman University student has won his second Student Academy Award in three years, a first-ever feat in the 45 years of the ceremonies that in the past honored the young Spike Lee, Trey Parker and Robert Zemeckis, among many others. At the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Oct. 11, Brian Robau will […]
New Pervy Charges for Teacher Suspected of Putting Semen in OC Students’ Flutes
Remember the story from last year about the music teacher accused of possibly giving semen-filled flutes to students in Fountain Valley, the Fullerton, Newport-Mesa and Capistrano Unified school districts as well as elsewhere in Southern California? It was an apparent crime so heinous that the Weekly had dual reports Oct. 2 on our news and […]
SoCal Conservatives List Proposed “Noxious” Veto-Worthy California Laws
Calling the state legislatures current session in Sacramento “over-the-top with noxious legislation,” Orange County-produced The FlashReport this month published a list of the “Top 20” proposed new state laws conservatives view contemptuously. The list is the work of state Senator John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa) and assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore), both known in their political circles […]
School Board Candidate Tied to White Supremacists Poised to Get OC GOP Nod
The Orange County Republican Party Central Committee is poised tonight to endorse a school board candidate who has curated a “Holocaust hoax?” YouTube playlist, promoted Islamophobic conspiracy theories on Facebook, referred to African Americans as “colored people” and protested a white privilege workshop alongside alt-right agitators who were scheduled speakers at Charlottesville’s Unite the Right rally days later. My […]