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Good News is T-Mobile Store in Garden Grove Now Has Drive-Thru Window. The Bad News ...

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Garden Grove Police Department
There's got be a better way to get a phone charger for your car.
A car swerved off the road and into the T-Mobile phone store on Garden Grove Boulevard near Magnolia Street this morning, creating quite the spectacle for workers and customers inside.

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Assaulted Uber Driver Edward Caban Quits New Job and is Moving Out of State: Update

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YouTube
Edward Caban's last Uber drive.
UPDATE NO. 5, NOV. 9, 10:21 A.M.: Edward Caban quit his job with Uber to begin a new driving job because he was so distraught over his violent Oct. 30 encounter with customer Benjamin Allen Golden. But Caban remains so distraught that he has reportedly quit his new job and is moving out of state.

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$2.15-a-Gallon Gas in Orange County TODAY!

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Paramount Pictures
Wake me up before you go-go.
Get out there and fill 'er up for the weekend, because there is gasoline being sold for $2.15 a gallon today in Orange County.

But where?

Read on ...

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FTW Gear Brings Motorcycle Culture to the Masses

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Josh Chesler
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 (particularly 5-10 years ago) of "For the Win" isn't one of the first phrases a FTW Gear's owners think of, but they're leaving it open to interpretation.


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2016 Scion iA and iM Models Hug the Canyon Roads Like Much Pricier European Sportscars

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One in an occasional series reviewing consumer vehicles that are powered by water, natural gas, electricity, hybrid motors, high-efficiency gasoline engines or some other alternative source.

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Scion
The Scion iM (left) and iA are the first newly designed models from the Toyota brand in 3 years.
It was total coincidence that had me at Dave Wilson's South Coast Toyota in Costa Mesa Sunday afternoon, when I sat a few feet from rows of 2015 Scions. That's when it struck me how much different those cars look compared to the 2016 Scion models that I test drove three days before even though they won't hit American showrooms until September.


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Hyundai Motors America in Fountain Valley Gets Unwelcome Visit by United Auto Workers

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PRNewsFoto/Hyundai Motor America
Hyundai USA headquarters in Fountain Valley
About 30 United Auto Workers members and supporters marched to Hyundai's North American headquarters in Fountain Valley as their comrades hit 23 dealerships around the country Thursday to deliver a letter addressed to President and CEO David Zuchowski that accuses the South Korean automaker of providing low wages and unsafe work conditions.

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6 Ex-Celeb Cars to Give Dad for Father's Day, Courtesy of Russo and Steele Newport Beach

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All photos courtesy of Russo and Steele
Outrunnin' with the Devil
Waaaay bitchen vehicles once owned by the likes of John Wayne, Burt Reynolds, Eddie Van Halen, Richard Carpenter and other celebrities go on view starting at 9 this morning in Newport Beach--before they are rolled into daily Russo and Steele auctions Friday through Sunday.

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Pedego Trips the Electric Bike Fantastic

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Pedego
The electric bike on the left is like the one I rode, but that's not me standing next to it.
This is another in an occasional series on consumer vehicles powered by water, natural gas, electricity, hybrid motors, high-efficiency gasoline engines, my tears or other alternative sources.

Oil slicks, drunken drivers and snapping mutts are banes of many bicyclists' existence.

Mine is "The Hill."

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Support Pours in for Family of Mother Killed in Laguna Canyon Crash Early on Mother's Day

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GoFundMe.com
Friends, family and police are raising funds for the late Sandra Maldonado's family.
A crowdfunding campaign has raised more than $9,000 in six days for the family of a mother who was killed in a Mother's Day crash in Laguna Canyon that her children, ages 4 and 8, were able to walk away from with only minor injuries.

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Santa Ana Opens OC's First Bicycle Huts

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BikeConnect.org
Hut to it!
Just in time for Bike to Work Week, the City of Santa Ana announced it is the first city in Orange County to install integrated modular bike huts. What is an integrated modular bike hut? It's an enclosed place where you can safely store your bike--for a fee, of course.

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