Orange County Register: Turn on all your sprinklers, let the tub overflow and run the Water Wiggle at full blast! The drought in Orange County is over. Temporarily. . . . D.C. lobbying firm PMA Group, which is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly violating campaign finance laws, has contribued $40 million to virtually every member of Congress, including every Orange County Member of Congress. The $277,118 PMA has doled out to Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) tops the OC list. . . . Latest OC restaurant closures: the Black Angus cow carver in Tustin and hipster Japanese shoveler Izakaya Zero in Huntington Beach. . . . And yet, in the same economy, Einstein Bros. Bagels plans to open five new kosher doughy doughnut stops. . . . Snott's is hiring.
Los Angeles Times: Authorities debate whether to charge the other driver in the crash that took MMA's Charles “Mask” Lewis of HB. . . . State public health officials fined Anaheim Crest Nursing Center $75,000 in connection with the death of a patient who choked on a sandwich. . . . Shane Garrett Horning, the 25-year-old former youth pastor at Santa Margarita Methodist Church, was arraigned on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old female parishoner and sending a sexually tinged text message to a 15-year-old female relative. Told you it was Creepy Friday.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.