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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 …
UPDATE, AUG. 4, 8:37 A.M.: At Orange County Superior Court in Westminster Wednesday, Jaime Arturo Garcia pleaded not guilty to slitting his dog's throat and setting fires in the Stanton home he shares with his sister. ORIGINAL POST, AUG. 3, 8:44 A.M.: Jaime Arturo Garcia is scheduled to be arraigned in Westminster this morning on …
Pitchfork reported yesterday that Deftones frontman Chino Moreno has released a new ep for his side project, cryptically named ††† (or, Crosses, if you want to say it out loud). The five-song release features Moreno's trademark echo-moans, which listeners usually hear soaring above the chugging, guitar fuzz of the Deftones. Though the guitars are still …
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UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology Elizabeth Loftus has long captivated OC Weekly writers (not always in positive ways), and now she's weighing in on this generation's Pearl Harbor moment: the 9/11 attacks that forever changed life as we know it. Loftus, who specializes in (often unreliable) recovered memories, has a piece on post-9/11 …
Things are about to get hella holy around here. Next week, some 650 Catholic sisters from all over the country will convene in Garden Grove for the annual convention of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Each year the conference — an association of female Catholic leaders, founded in 1956 — gets together for several …
The parents of Julian “Jules” Collender, who was unarmed when he was shot to death outside his Yorba Linda home on June 30, 2010, by Brea Police Detective Shawn Neel, have filed a federal lawsuit that accuses the department of bungling the case from the start. The suit names as defendants the Brea Police Department, …
While the debt-ceiling crisis was averted today, even President Barack Obama indicated that much more work needs to be done in a Washington, D.C., that's split between those who do not want to tax the super rich and those who do not want to cut services to the very poor. Perhaps everyone is focused on …
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UPDATE, AUG. 1, 9:13 A.M.: What will me miss most about having had Casey Anthony in our own Orange County (or, more likely, OC-adjacent)? Would it be her whisking away from John Wayne Airport by hired handlers? The wonder-inducing glimpses of someone who looked like her checking the calorie count on flax-seed chips at Whole …
UPDATE, JULY 29, 8:30 A.M.: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations' Thursday denied the paroles of Gilbert Lovato and Robert Eugene Williams, who were convicted of execution-style murders and other crimes in Orange County during the 1970s. Lovato, 53, will next be eligible for a parole hearing in 2018, while 58-year-old Williams can convene …
Rep. David Wu (D-Oregon) announced this week that he will resign from Congress, post-debt ceiling vote, after an allegation that he had an unwanted sexual encounter with his friend's 18-year-old daughter. According to The Oregonian, which broke the news of the scandal last week, Wu was visiting his friend and political donor in Orange County …
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UPDATE, 6:28 P.M., JULY 23, 2011: It seems tabloid newspaper Sunday Mirror will report in tomorrow's issue that Amy Winehouse passed away after an ecstasy and alcohol binge. See the front page image after the jump. ORIGINAL POST, 9:58 A.M., JULY 23, 2011: TMZ confirms that singer Amy Winehouse, 27, was found dead at her …
Have you visited the Orange Home Grown farmers' market yet? The Saturday morning market where over a dozen of our top local restaurants such as Bruxie, Gabbi's Mexican Kitchen, Park Avenue, Haven and The Crosby source their produce and support the local growers' community? On Saturday mornings, some of those chef-patrons will be teaching you …
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