The final two North San Diego County gang members who were part of a crime ring that robbed Tustin Village Jewelers and Baca Jewelers of Laguna Beach in 2009 received their sentences today--and one was the largest handed out in the case: 90 years to life in state prison. Michael Burgin, 32, received that sentence after being found guilty by a jury in January of two felony counts each of second degree robbery, second degree commercial burglary, and street terrorism.
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Gabriela Mariana Morales, a Santa Ana 29-year-old convicted by a jury last month of murdering her 4-year-old son by repeatedly hitting the boy's head, was sentenced today to 25 years to life in state prison.

That's the same sentence that was handed down in January 2011 to her former live-in boyfriend.
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UPDATE, MAY 25, 3:11 P.M.: At right is the booking "money shot" Jenna Jameson took after being hauled in for allegedly being drunk when she plowed her Range Rover into a Westminster pole early today.

All things considered, the ex-porn star out of Huntington Beach looks so good we should consider running an un-ugliest police mugshot of the week.
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A former Newport Beach resident who fled the country in 1999 after federal authorities executed a search warrant at his allegedly fraudulent Internet company landed back in the United States on Thursday after being deported earlier this week from Malaysia. More >>

A jury has convicted gang banger Fernando Nanda Torres, 31, of Santa Ana, for the 2010 murder of a man shot in the head while walking away from a house party.

That sets Torres up for a possible sentence of 50 years to life in state prison at a hearing scheduled for Aug. 17 in Santa Ana, although the defendant's attorney told City News Service he will seek a new trial.
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Beach season unofficially begins Memorial Day weekend, and when it comes to the best beach on this blue planet, Huntington Beach has been Hasselhoffed.

See what former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff has to say about Surf City after the jump . . .
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Jessica Gascon

As if Facebook isn't having enough problems this week, the social networking site is being dragged into a teen murder conspiracy case in Costa Mesa.

Fernando Sanchez, 17, of Santa Ana, is facing charges as an adult of posting criminal threats against a Costa Mesa 20-year-old on Facebook before conspiring with his 18-year-old girlfriend, Jessica Gascon, to murder the young man.
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I'ma kill you

You gentle readers know what Godwin's Law is: the longer an online debate ensues, the likelier that someone will make a Hitler analogy to bolster an argument. More >>

Click here for the review of Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, which has Karina Longworth of our big sistah paper LA Weekly astutely pointing out the similarities with the 43-year-old auteur's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. But I was struck at the Orange County Film Society sneak-peak screening at Edwards Westpark in Irvine Wednesday night by how much Moonrise Kingdom is a homage to nearly all of the idiosyncratic writer-director's films. (I can't speak for the animated Fantastic Mr. Fox as I have not yet seen it.)  My case is built like a rickety tree fort after the jump . . .
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Rohrabacher: I am not a nut!

Never underestimate the brilliance of Dana Rohrabacher, Orange County's most senior career politician who once assured California voters that Arnold Schwarzenegger would solve the state's massive problems.

As it turned out, Rohrabacher couldn't have been more wrong.

There's bipartisan support for the notion that Schwarzenegger's time as governor was an embarrassing catalog of incompetence and buffoonery.

Now, Rohrabacher is playing constitutional scholar and opining the absurd again.
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