UPDATE, NOV. 13, 4:29 P.M.: The Orange County Sheriff's Department has announced it will hold a DUI checkpoint in Mission Viejo tonight.Paramount Pictures The Weekly archives' classics never get old. (Not to me anyway.)
The 1,100 backpacks on the ground at UC Irvine were not left by students who dropped everything and made mad dashes to Anthill Pub for the fall release of The Bruery's Autumn Maple ale. Today's display is part of a traveling exhibit focusing on a topic very relevant to UCI: student suicide.Active Minds Sobering display
UPDATE NO. 3, NOV. 13, 8:31 A.M.: Sarah Gonzalez, who'd been missing from Santa Ana since last Friday, was found late Thursday afternoon in Pomona, according to her family. "She was dehydrated, hungry, tired but found safe," reports her stepsister, Jubilee Gonzales. The family had received a call from an Officer Jimenez of the Pomona Police Department at 5:44 p.m. Thursday. The missing woman's father Rudy Gonzales then drove to pick her up at an address on Mission Boulevard, where she was waiting with Jimenez.Courtesy of Alejandra Gonzalez Sarah Gonzalez is back home safe.
Illustration by...someone A lot of discussion went into the positioning and meaning behind this flag
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Yesterday night, a group of roughly three or four dozen mostly elderly Vietnamese-American community members held a meeting to discuss Terror in Little Saigon, the PBS Frontline/ProPublica documentary and story by A.C. Thompson currently riling some feathers in Little Saigon. Hosted by Garden Grove City Councilmember Phat Bui at Thu Vien Viet Nam community space in Garden Grove, on docket for discussion for the two-hour meeting was the effects of work on the Vietnamese-American community's image and what sorts of organized community response should happen (a letter-writing campaign? phone calls? full protests?).
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More than twenty UC Irvine Black Student Union members silently locked arms yesterday on Ring Road near the school's flag pole plaza, stretching the width of the main thoroughfare on campus to show solidarity with their black counterparts at the University of Missouri. Protests erupted at Mizzou after a series of racist incidents boiled over in frustration. Black football players led calls for boycotting future games if student demands hadn't been met, a move helping sack University of Missouri system President Tim Wolfe, who resigned.
UCI students joined in a nationwide day of actions across campuses forming a line of their own. "As a Black Student Union and political organization, it's our job to intervene," Sandra Johnson, BSU co-chair at UCI, told the Weekly. "Even though it's not us personally, it can be one of us any day."
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A war drama about American soldiers tasked with neutralizing a Taliban roadblock in the Kajaki region of Afghanistan opens in Orange today.Honora and Search Engine Films Kilo Two Bravo explores heroism, bravery and survival among soldiers in Afghanistan.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that often-extensive delays in the state's system of capital punishment do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment, overturning an earlier decision by Santa Ana-based federal Judge Cormac Carney.OC Weekly archives Judge Cormac Carney had ruled California's death penalty process is unconstitutional.
Bear Mountain and Snow Summit, which usually have the best conditions of any of the routinely snow-starved slopes of Southern California, are set to open today, resort operators announced.Big Bear Mountain Resorts Colder temperatures have allowed Snow Summit snow-making machines to keep humming.
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.Garden Grove Police Department There's got be a better way to get a phone charger for your car.
UPDATE, NOV. 12, 1:41 P.M.: The man found stabbed to death in Orange Saturday has been identified by the county coroner as Alberto Colondres, 23, of Fullerton, according to sheriff's Lt. Jeff Hallock.