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See the update at the end of this post about the date Jose Ramiro Baez Paredes was reported missing and inconclusive autopsy results. ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 24, 9:29 A.M.: Just as we were going offline Friday evening, a report came in that a stretch of Brea Canyon Road had been closed by police for a …
See Update No. 2 at the bottom of page 2 on the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners accepting the report on Dorner's firing hours after the autopsies on his first presumed victims, an Irvine couple, were released. Update No. 1 on page 2 is about the LAPD report concluding Dorner's firing was “appropriate.” ORIGINAL …
Just a reminder folks to tune in to the SoCal Restaurant Show every Saturday morning on KLAA-AM 830 because it's Anaheim-based and Weekling pal Jet Tila is the host. Here's the lineup for mañana, from producer Andy Harris–enjoy! ] -10:30 a.m. to 10:42 a.m. This past week Chef Jet has been part of an influential …
In a stunning statement, Exodus International, the Irvine-based Christian group that promoted therapy so gays and lesbians could overcome their sexual preferences, has reportedly closed its doors and apologized to homosexuals, acknowledging its mission had been hurtful and ignorant. A statement on Exodus International North America's website indicates it has ceased operations. Founded in 1976, …
The last time we checked in with David Perdue, he was holding one of the bullets a Torrance police officer fired at him in those tense SoCal days in early February when rogue ex-LAPD cop Christopher Jordan Dorner was on the loose. As Perdue demonstrated, police were so freaked out by the threat posed by …
Continue reading “Who Saw This Coming? Man Shot at by Police Manhunters for Christopher Dorner Sues”
Lawanda Sockey had been clean for years. She did a dangerous dance with crack cocaine in the 1990s, running afoul of the law on a few possession charges. But by the end of the millennium she was clean, with a steady job and a place of her own. For a decade things were good. Lawanda …
Continue reading “Woman Jailed In Long Beach Chooses Death Over More Time Behind Bars”
[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer and fellow Weekling Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for us on top of other freelance work and holding a day job at a hospital, of all places. As …
Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit education company based in Santa Ana, made gains this year that shot its stock price up 12.1 percent as of the close of trading Monday. But those gains were gone by Tuesday. ] That's when a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into the firm's student-recruitment practices became known by New …
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News reports are emerging that Richard Ramirez, the infamous “Night Stalker” that terrorized Southern California through 1984 and 1985, has passed away at San Quentin State Prison. He was 53. Anyone who grew up during the mid-1980s remember the terror that Ramirez inflicted, as his murder-and-rape spree went from Northern California all the way down …
Continue reading “Richard Ramirez, Infamous “Night Stalker” Serial Killer, Dead”
Remember Craig Monteilh, the conman-turned-FBI mole Nick Schou and I have written about because he posed as a Muslim to infiltrate Orange County mosques, in an attempt to stir up jihad so would-be terrorists would be exposed? Monteilh gets some coverage in a new book by an investigative journalist who speaks at the Islamic Institute …
Get with the Reconquista, people: This is carne asada country, so stop trying to slow-roast 'cue in some overpriced contraption, only to get results not worthy of a Memphis trash heap. It has been since the Californios ruled cattle empires, since the Americans who overtook the state would pretend to be Mexicans by cooking beef …
See the update on page 2 with the Costa Mesa City Council approving privatization of the city jail and the city workers union finding the Weekly's coverage of last night's vote lacking. ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 4, 1:05 P.M.: Those concerned about keeping their jobs at the Costa Mesa city jail have a full day on …