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See the update at the end of this post on the winning bid. ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 12, 3:43 P.M.: A Southern Nevada pawn shop owner is hoping someone will drop a couple thousand on a .38 Special Christopher Dorner reportedly sold to him in January. Morbid, true, but at least it's not a weapon ex-LAPD …
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Despite the district attorney clearing sheriff's Deputy Darren Sandberg of wrongdoing in the February 2012 shooting death of Manuel Loggins at San Clemente High School, the Orange County Board of Supervisors has approved a settlement with the popular Marine sergeant's family. It's unclear if the family will accept the deal to end their federal civil …
Remember that dust-up several years ago when it was discovered Caltrans was not filling potholes or performing other routine maintenance on the 91 freeway linking Orange and Riverside counties? Seems that few other than Caltrans and the Orange County Transportation Authority knew about a non-compete clause that prevented such work because it would make the …
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In full grips of the dry desert heat, the fine art of day drinking at Coachella becomes a game of survival of the fittest. Sweltering temperatures in the high 90s aren't necessarily ideal conditions to bombard your liver with alcohol. And unless you've been used to trekking through sand in the Middle East in full …
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When David Lavern Paine drove his beat-up, American, economy car to the Foothill Ranch Public Library just after noon on Oct. 6, 2010, the senior citizen planned to commit a sex crime in public. Clueless that an amateur detective tailed him, Paine entered the library, walked to the public computer station and, without any sense …
Before he became a wildly successful Verizon franchisee in Southern California, Michael Scott Grayson was a crook. We know this because in 2008 the FBI arrested Grayson for his role in a 2004-2005 conspiracy that used false statements and fake documents to steal enormous amounts of money in an equipment-leasing scam, and he eventually signed a …
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Movies usually ruin a good story. They find something great in a play or a book, then they stink it all up with their dumb camera angles, fake explosions and drug-addicted actors. But Billy Elliot did the opposite—in this instance, theater imitated film and the results are anything but stinky. The 2009 Tony Award-winning Best …
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a film that inspires strong reactions, and people have been trying to pin down what it's really about almost since the day it was released. With Room 237, first-time feature director Rodney Ascher has gone deeper down the rabbit hole than anyone before him, bringing together five disparate and fascinating …
Marijuana has been used for medicinal purposes–relieving stress and pain and fighting hunger and nausea–for centuries if not millennia. But now, a pair of doctors in San Francisco claim that they've compiled reliable data showing that a certain compound in cannabis–cannabidiol–may actually cure cancer. Unlike THC, the ingredient in marijuana that makes you feel stoned, …
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Media Matters for America, the progressive watchdog counterpart to Accuracy in Media, takes issue with an Orange County Register editorial that uses the financial woes of nearly dead electric car company Fisker Automotive to argue against government investment in green technology: “Despite the increasing benefits seen in the green energy industry, media outlets–like the OC …
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When we gave Brooke the option of meeting somewhere besides their much anticipated Sidecar Doughnuts, she requested Noah Blom's ARC at The OC Mix. It was at that moment that we knew (like we have with previous bakers interviewed) that she had her finger on what's trending. We couldn't turn down a wood-burning oven and …
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See the update at the end of this post with Toyota's statement on the settlement. ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 5, 4:19 P.M.: Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas today announced Toyota Motor Corp. has settled a $16 million lawsuit with his office over sudden acceleration claims. The case, based on alleged violations of California consumer protection …