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On Friday, the California Supreme Court overturned a Santa Ana-based Court of Appeal decision that required plaintiffs in Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-type cases to prove that businesses purposely violated the law by not making their facilities usable by wheelchair-bound customers. The high court, acting on a request for clarification by…
The survey from the “burgundy bible” rates this duo the best fast-food coffee and most popular fast-food mega-chain, respectively. Which makes me wonder if the reviewers–more than 6,000 of them, who visited more than 100 chains across the country–are living in a parallel universe. One in which Starbucks' coffee actually…
Last year we told you about the Tesoro High School teen accused of not-so-cleverly trying to fudge his way into college by breaking into his school, hacking into teachers' computers, altering his and others students' grades, stealing tests and changing his AP exam results. Omar Khan, who was arrested days…
Laguna Woods is famous for many things: elderly people, elderly people and elderly people. So when the nation's best newspaper sends a reporter to the tiny OC city, chances are, the story that comes out is going to be about youth baseball.Just kidding. It's going to be about elderly people.An…
Go Wet Nn Wild (Again)More than likely, the first brand of cosmetics you ever tried was Wet Nn Wild, now a familiar name of tried-and-true drugstore beauty essentials. The classics are all still there—and yes, their eye- and lipliner pencils and nail polish are still at the pricing they debuted…
What the Chuck?Does Irvine Assemblyman Chuck DeVore honestly think he can Twitter and parody-video his way through the Republican primary and into a title bout with Senator Barbara Boxer next year? Yep A SigAlert snarled the northbound Highway 57 the day Chuck DeVore promised to speak to a gathering of…
If you're able to stomach the bitchy bitching about Obama, Congressman John Cambpell's “laptop reports” to constituents are actually pretty good reads. Why? He has figured out what makes great bloggers great: gimmicks!This latest bend-over-backwards-to-be-clever narrative structure:Three Liners: OK, so 'one-liner' is the term we all know and are accustomed…
Tonight's secret ballot law enforcement election (previously discussed in detail HERE) recorded a 60 percent turnout and good news for both Mike Major, acting chief of the Orange County District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation, and Don Blankenship (pictured), the unit's longtime boss who took a sudden leave of absence two…
*No, Not Gordon Ramsay, but Jamie Oliver.Not satisfied with a worldwide culinary empire that includes several charity restaurants, numerous cook books and various TV shows and appearances (over here, Jamie At Home airs on the Food Network), Oliver wants to take on the seemingly insurmountable task of changing the way…
Who Was that Mosqued Man?Craig Monteilh insists he was hot on the trail of terrorist plots at OC mosques. Count the victims of his earlier con games among the skeptics If thereNs a precise moment when the FBI first began to have a sinking feeling about Craig Monteilh, it likely…
Product PlacementLocal bands break in by sneaking through your TV setIn 2005, “Breathe Me” by Sia played during the series finale of HBONs Six Feet Under. Despite being nearly two years old at the time, the song was exposed to a whole new audience, prompting widespread commercial radio airplay and…
Wild RidesSometimes the cars accelerate on their own. Sometimes they stop dead. Drivers of the Prius have discovered they can be an unexpected adventure *This article was altered on April 28, 2009. Bobette Riner publishes an electricity index used to promote renewable energy, and she bought a brand-new Prius last…