Matt Coker
Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before "graduating" to OC Weekly in 1995 as the paper's first calendar. He has contributed as a freelance editor and writer to several publications and been the subject of or featured in several reports online, in print and on the radio and television. One of countless times he returned to his Costa Mesa, CA, home with a bounty of awards from a journalism competition, his wife told him to take out the trash.
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11 hours ago | News
Chapman University in Orange is dealing with a suspected outbreak of norovirus, according to officials. The school has had an advisory about the "small outbreak" up on its website since Monday. The outbreak of gastrointestinal illne...
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15 hours ago | News
A survey of 28 cities that account for 84 percent of Orange County’s population shows the average full-time city worker received $135,464 in total compensation in 2014, with 66 percent receiving $100,000 or more, according to a free market think t...
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16 hours ago | News
Research has previously shown that playing three-dimensional video games can improve eye-hand coordination and reaction time, but new findings out of UC Irvine indicate it can also boost the formation of memories. The new research by UCI neurobiol...
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17 hours ago | Crime-iny
It's bad enough to be a cop rolling up to a DUI crash but being an active participant in one? A cop, sheriff's deputy and highway patrolman know that feeling. A 2000 Honda Accord was allegedly speeding on the 5 freeway just south of the 22 freeway...
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1 day ago | Crime-iny
The Santa Ana Police Department is turning to the public in hopes of finding the driver or vehicle involved in a hit-and-run of two elderly pedestrians that left one of them dead early this morning. The couple was standing at a bus stop on th...
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2 days ago | Film and TV
When we wrote about The Principle in January, the controversial documentary about Earth's place in the Cosmos was soon to open at the AMC in Orange. The only other Orange County connection at that time (and an admittedly very slim one) was that Th...