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Something of a before and after look at teacher Alvar Albert Gonzalez.
UPDATE, SEPT. 4, 6:13 P.M.: Add a third man placed behind bars today for alleged sex crimes with a minor, and this one is a teacher at Santa Ana High School. A joint investigat...
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Homeless at La Palma Park before Fido and friends took over
Anaheim continues to be a doggy dogg world!
At Tuesday's city council meeting, Mayor Pro Tem Lucille Kring spoke candidly about the benefits of dog parks. She championed hooch hangouts ...
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Ping Li was the owner of Massage Clover in San Clemente.
Ping Li, the San Clemente massage parlor owner convicted of sexual battery of four women, was sentenced Thursday to a year and five days in jail, three years formal probation, restitution, a...
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This means citrus war!
The thrust of the Mexican-in-Chief's 2006--and, if memory serves--award-winning--cover story "Gunkist Oranges" was that few had heard of the historic Citrus War on 1936 in Orange County. A Labor Day celebration and memorial ...
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Cherie shreds
By Sasha Azoqa
Cherie the French Bulldog has had an adventurous journey. She grew up in a home that didn't treat her with the love she deserved and found her way into the open arms of the French Bulldog Rescue. She soon discovered...
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No way to spend Labor Day weekend.
The Tustin, Fullerton, La Habra and Santa Ana police departments hold sobriety checkpoints tonight as Orange County Avoid DUI Task Force's "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign continues through Labor Day, on...
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Have you seen Jacob Antonio Weiss?
With three suspects in custody in lieu of at least $1 million bail each, the Anaheim Police Department sought the public's help Wednesday in tracking down a fourth suspect in the July 26 stabbing of a man who con...
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Although my title was "Attractions Host" and my official work area was Main Street in the early 1980s, I actually donned the bright yellow and orange, button-up shirt--that is, yellow on one half, orange on the other--in the Anaheim theme park's vast...
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Ottogi America Inc. is not so happy with attorney Stephen Kang.
UPDATE, SEPT. 2, 2:46 P.M.: Since the announcement Tuesday of a federal indictment against attorney Stephen Young Kang of Newport Beach for allegedly defrauding Ottogi America Inc. of...
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People unfamiliar with the criminal-justice system in Orange County may suspect the process almost always functions correctly. Obeying constitutional rights, police and prosecutors pursue only guilty defendants. Juries issue verdicts while in possess...
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How's this for random? Credit goes to Danny Kaye and a labor strike for the public knowing the stories, incidents and dirt about Disneyland that the Anaheim amusement park would rather we not know.
David Koenig was studying journalism at Cal State ...
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Clinton schools Sanchez: India is that way
The Los Angeles Times recently reported that some of the controversial Hillary Clinton emails released by the U.S. Department of State contain the subject "Loretta Sanchez" and were heavily redacted under...
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Monique Deckard, R.I.P.
When Anaheim police fired their guns and killed Monique Deckard on March 8, they had their body cameras turned on. The shooting had been the first since the department outfitted its officers with the recording device. The ...
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Funds are being raised for Robert Daniel Carranza's family.
A 51-year-old man has been charged with murder in the mid-afternoon stabbing of a family man in a Tustin park last month.Robert Carranza Identified as Man Stabbed to Death in Tustin
Robe...
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Hector Flores and family
Presidential hopeful Donald Trump is whipping up anti-immigrant fervor with terms like "anchor baby," but Garden Grove resident Hector Flores' deportation last week fits nicely with the Obama administration's "felons, not...
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Spy Lazlo Letters page from June 1993
During the olden days of OC Weekly, blatant rip-off was the sincerest form of flattery. We loved the Seattle Stranger's "I, Anonymous" and "Eight Days" columns, so we Orange Countized them into "Hey, You!" and...
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Roger that!
A marijuana grow operation has been discovered in the same industrial complex in Placentia for the third time since April of last year, according to police. And who do the pot purveyors have to blame for the trio of cannibusts? Habo, t...
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Roy Chi Wing Lung is at it again, say cops.
I wrote the following about Roy Chi Wing Lung on March 20 of last year: "One of the most bizarre thieves I can recall writing about pleaded guilty this week to stealing surgical equipment from Fountain V...
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A portrait of Matt, a homeless man from Santa Ana
Three months ago, industrial designer and artist Brian Peterson moved to Santa Ana from Irvine. Immediately, he began noticing the city's homeless. He had never talked to a homeless person before...
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She does rad tattoos and gives you a bag of cookies. What more could you want?
Running a business with your spouse is a nightmare for a lot of people. For Jen Davis of Tustin's Mule Tattoo Studios, working together has always just been part of h...