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Douglas Sherman Unger II and the ninja robber of Placentia
A 28-year-old Yorba Linda man is suspected of being the machete-wielding "ninja" robber of Placentia, according to police.Around 7:50 p.m. July 29, a man toting a machete and wearing all b...
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Jeffrey Robert Smith was being held on $1 million bail.
Orange County law enforcement is seeking possible victims of registered sex offender Jeffrey Robert Smith, who pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of peeping, improperly touching three resid...
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This weekender you are updatered on the murder conviction of a man who shot a fellow patron outside a Stanton bar and a star of The O.C. nearing a settlement of her "greedy stage mother" lawsuit against her parent.Story:
Leobardo "Banda" Vall...
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Here he comes ...
UPDATE, AUG. 7, 4:26 P.M.: The Irvine Police Department just announced it will hold a sobriety checkpoint from 8 p.m. Saturday through 2 a.m. Sunday at ...... the area of Main Street and MacArthur Boulevard. This is the final in ...
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Arlene K. Bautista was originally booked on suspicion of murder.
UPDATE NO. 2, AUG. 7, 2:44 P.M.: Arelene Kathryn Bautista was to be arraigned today on an involuntary manslaughter count for the shooting death of her boyfriend Luis Vidal, the Orang...
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Cuff 'em, Dano!
A 77-year-old man is reportedly suspected of raping and continuously sexually assaulting a girl who was at least 14 for several years.Orange County sheriff's deputies arrested John Walker Gunn on Tuesday, and he has since been char...
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Manny mug shot: take two!
Manuel Ramos, the fired Fullerton cop acquitted in the 2011 beating death of Kelly Thomas, is in trouble with the law again. His former chums at the Fullerton police department responded to a family disturbance call aroun...
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Mandee Johnson Photography
used by permission of Bobcat Goldthwait
Bobcat Goldthwait is back out there.
There's a weird thing that happens when you really admire the work of a writer, actor, comic, filmmaker or, in the case of Bobcat Go...
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Sarah Garcia shares a smile during Barrio Writers
On an otherwise lazy summer day, about 25 Chicano youth are busy scribbling their thoughts in a journal exercise at Santa Ana's El Centro Cultural de M?xico. They're aspiring Barrio Writers, guys a...
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Two others from Phoenix and England join the OC men in being charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and trafficking in counterfeit labels and smuggling goods in the U.S. For his troubles, Tran faces additional counts of the same cha...
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Publicity from Ping Li's initial arrest prompted more victims to come forward.
The co-owner/operator of Massage Clover in San Clemente was found guilty by a jury Tuesday of sexual battery of three lady clients and an employee as well as inappropri...
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Funds are being raised for the funerals of Ivan Sandoval (center) and his uncle David Cote.
UPDATE, AUG. 5, 2:08 P.M.: The uncle and guardian of a 6-year-old Santa Ana boy--who died in a Monday afternoon car crash--has passed away from the injurie...
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The lowriter
We call him the Butcher, and not just because Robert Flores is a carnicero by trade and has been for more than 35 years. Bobby's as sharp as the knives he uses for a living--the knowledge of his skills, his humor, the hooks and crosse...
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Garden Grove Mayor, Bao Nguyen
"I come back here tonight waiting for the mayor's response to my questions, and the questions of many in the Vietnamese community," Laura Tran tells 35-year-old Garden Grove Mayor Bao Nguyen, in a stern, medium regis...
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Apparently at least three of the Santa Ana cops caught on video eating pot edibles, throwing darts and complaining about feeling "light-headed" after a raid on an illegal marijuana dispensary two months ago are still high.
The trio of officers, who...
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Timothy Lance Lai copped to 21 felonies.
Over the objections of prosecutors, the tutor at the center of the 2012-2013 Corona del Mar High School cheating scandal only received a year in jail Tuesday.It sure sounds as if Timothy Lance Lai got off l...
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No round was chambered in the loaded .38 caliber gun plucked from the security check at JWA.
The handgun and ammo above were pulled out of a bag being carried onto a plane at John Wayne Airport on Thursday, one of 62 firearms (54 loaded, 25 with r...
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Andres Adolfo Serrat was booked into Orange County Jail.
A 20-year-old man was stabbed to death in his Garden Grove home, and his 25-year-old step-brother is being held for the slaying after their mother told police what happened Monday evening. C...
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The four-time Olympic gold medal-winning diver describes Back on Board: Greg Louganis as "a raw look at my life."
A documentary on the pride of UC Irvine--and before that Santa Ana and Mission Viejo high schools--premieres at 10 tonight on HBO.Whe...
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T-Rod (left) and Crash (right) stand on each side of one of T-Rod's most famous custom motorcycles.
If you ask Rodrigo "T-Rod" Requejo and Nick "Crash" Dagger, the acronym "FTW" can stand for a whole host of things. The common online usage (part...