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You could tell that Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Chapluk was nervous. Okay, maybe not as nervous as he was on that security footage from the night of Oct. 5, 2006 when he and fellow Theo Lacy Jail guard Kevin Taylor were bouncing around the guard tower inside F-West barracks, trying to figure out how …
Continue reading “John Chamberlain Murder Trial Day Three: Deputy Taylor's Partner Speaks”
UPDATE, AUG. 15, 2:33 P.M.: The “Irvine 11” trial (now with one fewer defendant) was scheduled to begin today in Santa Ana. That didn't happen. Trial has been rescheduled to Aug. 29, which is when jury selection is scheduled to begin. ] Opening statements are expected the week after that in Judge Peter Wilson's courtroom., …
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For an hour-long show (has it always been an hour long?), last night's premiere of the second season of The Great Food Truck Race whizzed by like those sponsored VW pace cars. As you may already be aware, OC's born and bred luxe loncheras, Seabirds and The Lime Truck, are two of the eight teams …
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It has finally come. The premiere of The Great Food Truck Race featuring OC food trucks, The Lime Truck and Seabirds, is this Sunday, August 14 on the Food Network. ] If you're not about to watch it by your lonesome at home, you can do it with the stars of the show this Sunday …
UPDATE, AUG. 12, 11:13 A.M.: Our last visit to Nadya Suleman vs. Casey Anthony Nutbar Land included a line pontificating that the latter is the most hated mother in America and that Octomom had dropped to No. 2. A national poll now backs up that bold proclamation. ] Rating the most despised people in the …
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In June, the Weekly told you about Poorman getting name-checked by actor Tom Hanks, who was slumming on the KTLA Morning News set. Poorman returned the favor a week later via a hilarious Fourth of July YouTube video. Alas, the back-and-forth may soon end, at least here in SoCal, as Poorman (a.k.a. “Mayor of the …
Continue reading “Poorman, Big City: Jim Trenton in New York”
On Monday, Aug. 8, opening arguments began in the long-awaited trial of five Theo Lacy Jail inmates charged with the brutal October 2006 murder of John Chamberlain, a Rancho Santa Margarita software engineer awaiting trial on child pornography charges. Along with a host of local radio and television networks, what's left of the daily print …
Continue reading “Media Fail: Code Of Silence Obeyed in Brutal OC Jailhouse Murder Trial”
UPDATE: Aug. 8, 2011, 12:00 p.m. : So when we talked about Lucinda Williams headlining the Great Park Flights & Sounds Summer Festival on Saturday, we didn't know it was a free event. But the country music star will take the Great Park stage at 8:15 p.m. on August 13 without charging any money, so …
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) claims that a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant collapsed while being loaded into a rail boxcar in Anaheim following Sunday night's finale at the Honda Center. Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait has been sent a letter from PETA “urging him to make this most recent …
Check out our slideshow here! Yesterday's Phish show meant that Hollywood was invaded by Phans from all over the country touring with the Vermont band, and in some ways it was a pretty spectacular return to SoCal. While they did play a three-day fest in Indio two years ago, last night was the first Hollywood …
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Opening statements are expected to begin this morning in the murder trial of five jail inmates accused of beating John Chamberlain to death at Orange's Theo Lacy Facility in 2006 because they believed their fellow inmate was a child molester. Garrett Eugene Aguilar, 28, of Anaheim; Stephen Paul Carlstrom, 42, of Anaheim; Jared Louis Petrovich, …
Attorneys for Muslims who have been spied on by the government through paid informants like Irvine's Craig Monteilh asked a federal court to reject U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's move to dismiss their lawsuit against the FBI on grounds the case exposes state secrets. “It is shocking that the Obama Administration would invoke the state …