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A jury has found a 27-year-old Santa Ana man guilty of plotting the robbery and murder of an elderly jewelry salesman whose body was never found. After being convicted on one felony count of murder, Ricardo Dagoberto Diaz-Nivarez faces the same since his momma received in April 2011: 25 years to life in state prison. …
I didn't get shot. Not once, not at all. As silly as that sounds, after all of the travel warnings I've read and horror stories I've been told, a tiny part of me kinda thought the moment I arrived in Tijuana I would be stopped by the cartels and taken out. I admit I'm not …
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Richard Lee “Dick” Baney remembers the excitement he felt in 1963 as a fireballing freshman at Anaheim High School. Scouts such as Los Angeles Dodgers legend Tommy Lasorda already had their eyes on him. “I was told that I’d be the first Mexican signed out of Orange County,” he says. He was drafted by the …
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Have you been thinking of starting a food truck but just don't have the capital? Tyler Florence wants you for The Great Food Truck Race! The casting call was put out today for new teams to compete in the third season of the show and the producers aren't exactly interested whether you even have a …
UPDATE, MARCH 12, 3:21 P.M.: As promised, the trailer for the upcoming documentary on Charles “Mask” Lewis, the late Huntington Beach co-founder of the TapouT MMA clothing brand, was released Sunday. Check after the jump to get a peek. ] The film is due out in early 2013: ORIGINAL POST, MARCH 9, 8:40 A.M.: Sunday …
The media have totally ignored what Itzcoatl “Izzy” Ocampo is accused of doing–fatally stabbing four white men; forget the Latina mom and her son for the purposes of this twisted logic–instead spinning Orange County's latest serial killer as “a good kid,” “patriotic,” “a war hero,” a recipient of “metals” (sic), “a good role model” and …
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Whenever I read a best-of list in the national media, I wince internally. They're usually either cobbled together by looking at the Internet and seeing which ones are mentioned most often–which results in a kind of small-scale Zagat guide, prone to the hype machine–or they're put together by people who have not visited very many …
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Once again, it's fish sandwich season at the nation's fast food burger joints, a.k.a. Lent. It is said that 23% of Filet-O-Fish consumption happens during this period. But how do the others measure against what's arguably the nation's most popular fishwich, which McDonald's now offers in a double-dose with its Double Filet-O-Fish (seen above)? Although …
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The Internet has gone nutso over this Chicagoist post featuring a recipe for DIY Thin Mints. And for good reason. Thin Mints all year round? Yes, please. But the cookies, while surely delicious, look like they take some time to make. I've got an even easier recipe. It's the cheaters' way, but the results are …
UPDATE, FEB. 29, 11:48 A.M.: Facing the Orange County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, an employee union official said there are actually two government buildings workers want closed due to fears the air inside makes them sick. Fortunately, movers would not have to go far as the buildings are next to one another at 800 and …
Kiss your Royals NBA team goodbye, Anaheim. A tearful Gavin Maloof emerged from a meeting in Orlando, Florida, this morning to announce that the Kings are staying in Sacramento under a deal that promises the NBA franchise a new arena. The Maloof brothers who own the Kings had flirted with moving to the Honda Center, …
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UPDATE, FEB. 24, 9:21 A.M.: A memorial for Sgt. Manuel “Manny” Levi Loggins Jr., the Marine shot to death by a sheriff's deputy, is scheduled this afternoon at Camp Pendleton. However, the public and media are not invited to the service in the camp's chapel, at the request of the Loggins family, the Marines announced. …