The Weather Channel Produces a Reality Show Starring OC Lifeguards

​Here in SoCal, unless you're a huge weather nerd or have family where there's actually weather, our wild guess is that you're not an avid watcher of The Weather Channel.     Seems that producers are hoping to change that. In an effort to boost its viewership, the channel has ventured into the great abyss …

Medical Records for 21,000 OC Patients Were Google-able For a Year

Doctor-patient confidentiality? Not so much at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton and Mission Hospital in Laguna Beach. The two hospitals accidentally made the medical records of more than 21,000 patients publicly searchable on the web. Names, lab results, medications, allergies, body mass indexes and demographics could be found by any weirdo with an internet …

George and Betty McFetridge Lose Suit Against County Social Workers Who Labeled Them Child Abusers for Cutting Daughter's Hair

A jury ruled against an Irvine couple who sued the County of Orange after being placed on the state's child abuse registry for punishing their adopted daughter by cutting her hair. George and Betty McFetridge had sought $28,000 to cover the cost of sending the teenager to a residential program and $1 for each of …

Ahmad Alam Turns to Facebook to Promote His Competing Vision of Little Arabia

Since the Weekly profiled the Anaheim ethnic enclave unofficially known as 'Little Arabia' in a January cover story, hundreds of folks on Facebook have 'liked' the neighborhood page that has existed since 2010 on the social networking site, sending its total to over 1,100. Rashad Al-Dabbagh, who turned to social media to build momentum for …

Four Big Facts The Daily Got Wrong In Its History of the Burrito

Here's to hoping my Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America is hitting the cultural caliente list at the right time–and it is, if you go by recent histories on Mexican food published by mainstream publications. I know Smithsonian Magazine is working on something because they called me for comment about the tamale wagons of …

Catherine Kieu Becker Pleads Not Guilty to Slicing Off Estranged Husband's Pecker

After several starts and stops, Catherine Kieu Becker finally entered another not guilty plea today to slicing off her estranged husband's penis as he was waking up, throwing the member into the garbage disposal and turning it on. That means she still could have done it, as she supposedly admitted to police at the time, …

[UPDATED with Firing Confirmed:] Jeffrey Hubbard, Newport-Mesa Schools Chief, Guilty of Misappropriating Funds

UPDATE, JAN. 24, 5:26 P.M.: The support Newport-Mesa Unified School District Superintendent Jeffrey Hubbard enjoyed from his Board of Education disappeared into the paneling separating trustees from the public barred from a secret meeting this afternoon. In other words, the board voted unanimously to can Hubbard, who has been convicted on corruption charges in Los …