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Restaurant Tip Jar Thief Complains About 18-Year Prison Sentence
Orange County’s Paul Avila III celebrated July 4, 2014, by stealing the employee’s tip jar off a counter inside a Hong Kong Express restaurant in Fullerton and within minutes committed more crimes that eventually landed him inside a California prison for an 18-year sentence. Avila began formally protesting his case late last year with hopes […]
Trump Seeks Freedom From Flores to Up Immigrant Minor Detentions
By Samuel Paramore Every day at my work, I’m able to see the close relationships between parents and children. The kids being held by parents who wouldn’t wish for any other child is the way it should be, a healthy bond for all. Without that, children lose important developmental benchmarks, such as trust of others, […]
It’s an Eat Dog Eat World, Starring Dana Rohrabacher
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 … uh […]
Feds Detain Glock-Toting OC Man Found with Five Pounds of Coke and Meth
Federal law enforcement officials are detaining an Orange County convicted felon for once again possessing a weapon while selling cocaine and methamphetamine. According to a grand jury indictment, police officers found Doc Huu Nguyen with more than three pounds of cocaine plus two-and-a-half pounds of methamphetamine as well as a 9mm Glock semi-automatic handgun and […]
2018 Hyundai Ioniq Plug-In Hybrid Limited Packs a Punch for Less Than 30 Grand
For those who think they might want to go electric but suffer enough range anxiety that they’d want a gasoline-powered engine as a backup lest they get ulcers or panic attacks, the 2018 Hyundai Ioniq Plug-In Hybrid is a solid alternative at a competitive price. If you drive the Limited model that I tested, you’ll get […]
Trabuco Canyon Man Charged With Thieving Big Money From Little League Program
On the field, stealing bases is good. Off the field, embezzling more than $87,000 from Tijeras Creek Little League in Rancho Santa Margarita? Not so good. Orange County Sheriff Deputies arrested Joshua Paul Nowack, a 43-year-old Trabuco Canyon man, this week for the alleged crime. Prosecutors followed his cuffing up with 18 felony counts of […]
“Surfing Beyond the California Beach Babe Cliché” Screening, Exhibit and Talk
On Wednesday Sept. 19th, further destruction of misconceptions about women surfers around the globe will take place at the historic cottage on Calafia in San Clemente. “Surfing Beyond the California Beach Babe Cliché” will be equal parts film screening, photo exhibit, reception and conversation. Organizers expect the discussion to extend from myth-busting to Southern California and Baja, […]
Liar, Liar in the Holy Fire Allegedly Faked Marriage, Swindled $11 Thousand
The national media has had a field day in the six days since the OC Register broke the news of how a 28-year-old San Clemente resident named Ashley Bemis fabricated a fake husband to swindle people out of $11 thousand worth of supplies in the wake of the Holy Fire. The media frenzy is both […]
OCDA Cuts Deal to Thwart Public Hearing into Jail Phone Surveillance Scandal
Days after OC Weekly’s August revelation that ethical issues tied to jailhouse telephone surveillance by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) for two years had stalled the severe pending punishment of a defendant, prosecutors quietly gave a sweetheart deal rather than surrender subpoenaed records and undergo public hearings into potential law enforcement perjury. As a result […]
Dana Watch: Throwing Some ‘Shady’
Harley Rouda, the Democrat challenging 15-term incumbent Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Slim Jim), “outsourced American jobs to China”; made “millions of dollars from sweatshop labor”; paid those workers “$5 a day,” amounting to $35 per week because they toiled “seven days a week”; and “got rich while Americans lost their jobs.” Those are the allegations […]
Political Football: Indianapolis Colts v. Washington Say-It-to-My-Face-I-Dare-You’s
Indianapolis update: Indiana is, of course, the “Hoosier State.” What’s a Hoosier? No one seems to know. Oh, the answer is probably out there, it’s just that who wants to take the time to find out something about Indiana. It’s an odd state. Though it lays claim to being a bastion of rock-ribbed Midwestern values, […]
Flor Edwards Survived the Notorious Children of God Doomsday Cult, Turning Her Pain Into a Poignant Book About Healing
The year was 2010. The setting was my intermediate print-journalism class at Cal State Fullerton. Flor Edwards, one of my students, was part of my “Love, Sex and Romance” mock press conference. Three volunteer female student panelists stood before the class taking questions from their male classmates about all things love, sex and romance. Then, […]
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Just Payless [Hey, You!]
You are the Houston-based rental car agency who took my reservation for an 8 p.m. Friday pickup and, when I arrived as scheduled for my mid-size sedan, had closed an hour earlier. That forced me to scramble in an airport, city and state I had never been in to find a rental company that was not only open, […]
Woman Guilty as Accessory In Fiancé’s Committed Double Orange County Murder
An Orange County jury this afternoon found onetime theater actor Rachel Buffett guilty of two felony counts of accessory after the fact in a bizarre double 2010 homicide that won international attention. Daniel Wozniak, Buffett’s boyfriend she planned to marry days after the gruesome crimes, is already sitting on California’s death row inside San Quentin […]
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Gay and Lonely [Savage Love]
I am a gay man in my late 50s and have never been in a relationship. I am so lonely, and the painful emptiness I feel is becoming absolutely unbearable. In my early 20s, I hooked up off and on, but it never developed into anything. I have always told myself that’s okay; I’m not […]
Dana Rohrabacher Gets “Handeled” by the Tune “Har-ley Rou-da”
In these very pages (virtual and otherwise), Vern Nelson has been referred to as “a humorless, knee-jerk Democratic Party loyalist.” As everyone knows, we have never been wrong. However, we must admit to getting a chuckle out of Nelson’s latest project. I know, snowflakes. The source of the guffaw involves Nelson’s lyrics and piano playing, […]
Hardball California Republican Strategist Jimmy Camp Takes on the President
For decades, Orange County’s Jimmy Camp has served as a prized political consultant not only for California’s conservatives, but also for the likes of Utah Senator Orrin Hatch and the National Republican Congressional Committee. Camp’s Democrat counterparts see him as a triple threat: inexhaustible, creative and fearless. He once donned a chicken outfit to publicly […]
You Can Help Make California Its Own Country
No man is an island, but the California National Party wants this state to be its own country. The secessionists, who have been recognized as “a political party attempting to qualify” by California’s Secretary of State, say they are petitioning Governor Jerry Brown “to start negotiations for California to become independent from the United States.” “We […]
Campaign for Living Wage in Anaheim Resort Kicks Off With Fighting Spirit
The scene at Workers United Local 50 on Saturday didn’t resemble the somber funeral it otherwise might have been. Disney cast members from various labor unions gathered in the morning to kick off the Measure L campaign for living wages in the Anaheim Resort, a fight that’s far from dead. “Yes on L” signs decorated […]
Aliso Niguel High School Football Program Sponsored by Anti-Sanctuary Mayor
An Instagram post ahead of Friday night’s now infamous high school football game between the Santa Ana Saints and the Aliso Niguel Wolverines simply read “‘murica.” It encouraged students in the stands to wear red, white and blue. With the anniversary of 9-11 coming up, the display of patriotism seemed well-placed enough. But with the visiting team […]
California Appellate Panel Not Amused That ‘One A Day’ Vitamins Require Two
A California Court of Appeal today reversed an Orange County Superior Court judge’s ruling that blocked a class-action lawsuit against Bayer AG for allegedly violating state consumer prohibitions on misleading packaging for the company’s One A Day Gummies, a vitamin supplement. In its 28-page ruling, a three-justice panel—William Bedsworth, Kathleen O’Leary and Richard Aronson—reasoned that […]