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Orange County Register: The first Orange County Starbucks targeted for closure is (drum roll, please) . . . the one at 24502 Del Prado, Dana Point. . . . Based on the photo that pops up (and out!) when you open this, a flotation device turned out for The Real Housewives of Orange County casting call at South Coast Plaza. . . . Cypress cops Tasered a dude about to take a pool cue to a convicted drug dealer. . . . Sheriff's investigators believe they are zeroing in on whoever is shooting out car windows in Lake Forest, Laguna Hills and Trabuco Canyon. . . . Michell Fugate, 34, of Irvine, is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail at the Huntington Beach city jail in connection with a suspected arson fire at a Clay Avenue apartment. It was unclear at press time how Fugate is tied to the unit. (UPDATE: a commenter below claims Fugate owns the building. Hmmm, the plot thickens!)
Los Angeles Times: With the plug pulled on his Orange County column after more than 18 years, Dana Parsons comes roaring back with a story on a man suffering from anorexia nervosa. Brian Bixler, 39, 5-foot-9 and 82 lbs., looks very much like Christian Bale in that one move. . . . Travelscape's Tim Poster lists his $6.9 million Laguna Beach home. . . . Former Rancho Santa Margarita resident Craig Stevens, 49, who is currently serving a sentence for embezzling $147,000 from his Costa Mesa employer, is arraigned today on bigamy charges.. . . . Use the Metrolink out of Orange? The commuter rail service may raise fares up to 5.5 percent this year. . . . In the highly unanticipated Battle for LA, the flipping Dogs beat our Halos, 6-2. The most amazing feat was witnessing a veteran in the twilight of his career but still at the top of his game. A red cap off to you, Vin Scully.
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.