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1:38 pm
Dec. 31, 2010
Katrina Foley Resigns City Council Seat, Will Remain With NMUSD Board of Education After serving six years on the Costa Mesa City Council, Katrina Foley sent an email, officially resigning her position yesterday, choosing, instead, to focus her time and efforts on her new pos... More >>

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12:16 pm
Dec. 31, 2010
[UPDATED:] 'Octomom' Nadya Suleman: Coming To A Neighborhood Near You? Update, December 30, 12:16 p.m.: Vivid Entertainment owner Steve Hirsch does not appear to be done with offering favors to Octomom Nadya Suleman.A couple days ago, Hirsch offered to make the $45... More >>

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11:20 am
Dec. 31, 2010
Scott R. Baugh, Chairman of Orange County Republican Party, Gets a Challenger Scott R. Baugh, chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, won't get another term in office without a fight.Longtime party activist Tim Whitacre has announced that he will challenge Baugh ... More >>

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10:30 am
Dec. 31, 2010
Tweets From the Park! Happy New Year! Welcome to Tweets From the Park! We round up the best, funniest and most irreverent tweets from the Disneyland Resort for your reading pleasure. Follow us on Twitter @OCWeekly!x... More >>

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9:00 am
Dec. 31, 2010
Flickr Photo of the Week: Sea Lion Pup on the Rocks Behind the jump: Check out this week's Flickr Photo of the Week, by Flickr user OrbitGal. Got some photos of life in or around Orange County you'd like to share with your community? Join the OC... More >>

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9:00 am
Dec. 31, 2010
Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day Headline: Volunteers Bring Holiday Cheer for Children in Santa Ana Comment by TRAPPORT: Not being racist but there are white famililes in Santa Ana, were none at this eventComment by TOMPERANTE... More >>

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3:00 pm
Dec. 30, 2010
Put Your Pouncing Shoes On: Orange County Gets Its First Cougar Convention This should bring all the boys to the yard. On Feb. 12, just in time for the Day 'o Lovin', the first Orange County Cougar Convention is coming to The Shark Club in Costa Mesa. Cue "Mrs. ... More >>

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1:00 pm
Dec. 30, 2010
Beached Boat Found at Crystal Cove State Park; Illegal Immigrants May or May Not Have Been Aboard Around 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning, a call came into the police from a woman reporting she'd seen a small fishing boat come ashore, with nearly a dozen people sitting inside. Upon striking sand, ... More >>

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9:00 am
Dec. 30, 2010
Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day Headline: Celebrants Kick Off Kwanzaa Week? Comment by SAVEUS2: WOW!!! What a beautiful Community celebration, the food, entertainment, decorations and the very educational and informational prog... More >>

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7:00 am
Dec. 30, 2010
[UPDATED:] Fullerton Snowboarder Dies After Colliding With Trees At Mountain High; Not Wearing Helmet Update, December 30, 7:00 a.m.: Details are starting to come forward about the young Fullerton male who died from a snowboarding accident. Authorities are saying that when the 24-year-old collid... More >>

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12:00 am
Dec. 30, 2010
A Year of Navel Gazing: The Virtual Orange County Yeah, sure, we could have done what we’ve done in past years. We could have foisted upon you an end-of-year edition giving month-by-month... More >>

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9:41 pm
Dec. 29, 2010
[UPDATED:] OC Register Calls Plagiarism On ESPNEWS Anchor Will Selva Update, December 29, 9:40 p.m.: Will Selva has apologized to Ding and has reportedly been suspended by ESPN. His explanation, as posted by the Register: "As I often do, I research local stories... More >>

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4:59 pm
Dec. 29, 2010
Thuan Van Nguyen, Charged With Sexual Assault, Posed as Acupuncturist to Reach Victim Acting under the pretense that he was an acupuncture therapist, Thuan Van Nguyen, 56, convinced at least one Orange County woman to disrobe and partake in some non-acupuncture acupuncture.He m... More >>

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4:22 pm
Dec. 29, 2010
[UPDATED:] Storm Damage: Mother Nature Owes OC $23 Million Update, December 29, 4:22 p.m.: Photographic evidence of the storm-caused carnage at Main Beach in Laguna Beach.  ... More >>

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3:50 pm
Dec. 29, 2010
[UPDATED:] Four Miles of OC Beaches Closed Due To Pollution; More Expected To Close In Coming Days (WITH PHOTOS) Update, December 29, 3:50 p.m.: In case you were wondering why you were being told to stay out of the ocean at select beaches, see Exhibit A to the right. That's a flowing brown river of o... More >>

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2:45 pm
Dec. 29, 2010
Scott Peterson Accused of Sex Crimes with OC Teenager The Orange County District Attorney's office is prosecuting Scott Peterson for having an alleged unlawful sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl.I know what you're thinking: How could Pete... More >>

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12:20 pm
Dec. 29, 2010
Natalie Kennedy, OC Civil Rights Pioneer, Among Those We Lost in 2010 One of my all-time favorite quotes came not from a legend but rather a nun quoted in the National Catholic Reporter, who said, "When you work on the margins, you really don't expect much recog... More >>

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10:28 am
Dec. 29, 2010
[UPDATED:] What Court Ruling? OC Fairgrounds Board of Directors Meeting Called For New Year's Day--Now Called Off Update, December 29, 10:28 a.m.: Meeting cancelled. Attorneys threatened to seek contempt of court if the OC Fairgrounds Board of Directors held its emergency meeting, and they backed off. G... More >>

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9:30 am
Dec. 29, 2010
Orange County Great Park Corp. Isn't Paying Its Bills? Late this month, a Montclair contracting business filed a lawsuit against the City of Irvine and it's Orange County Great Park Corp. in hopes of collecting $361,000 after creating a "shade stru... More >>

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9:15 am
Dec. 29, 2010
Orange County Saved NFL Great Dick Butkus? You can blame Orange County for many things: Laguna Beach, The Hills, TBN, professional Holocaust deniers, Allan Mansoor, Public Enemy Number One Death Squad, Curt Pringle.But a Chicago ne... More >>

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A Year of Navel Gazing: The Virtual Orange County A Year of Navel Gazing: The Virtual Orange County
By MATT COKER

Yeah, sure, we could have done what we’ve done in past years. We could have foisted upon you an end-of-year edition giving month-by-month blow-by-blows of select news goodness (and badness)… More >>

Mr. Wagner (Finally) Goes to Prison Mr. Wagner (Finally) Goes to Prison
By R. SCOTT MOXLEY

It’s not often in Orange County—or probably anywhere in California—that a prominent defense attorney becomes a prosecution hero. But Jennifer Keller, a self-styled “tenacious” Irvine-based lawyer who has delighted in… More >>

Return to Sender Return to Sender
By JIM SCHUTZE

Editor's note: Eight months ago, in part as a response to Arizona's enactment of a law requiring its police to ask anyone they think might be here illegally (read: Mexicans)… More >>

DREAM Act Supporters Keep Fighting DREAM Act Supporters Keep Fighting
By GUSTAVO ARELLANO

The soundtrack at the headquarters of the Orange County Dream Team in Santa Ana is one of dial tones and cell-phone beeps, followed by the same sentence repeated almost simultaneously,… More >>

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants
By MONICA ALONZO

Anastasio Hernandez Rojas screamed in agony as U.S. border agents rained blows on him and delivered 50,000 volts of electricity to his body over and over."No! No! ¡Ayuda!" the 42-year-old… More >>

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