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Robert Ligayo, In-Home Caregiver, Faces Up to 8 Years in Elder Sex Abuse Case: Update

2013-06-19 16:00:56

See Update No. 2 at the end of this post on the punishment Robert Ligayo faces with a conviction and more details on the case from the district attorney. Update No. 1 o the next page has the defen...

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Zack Kalter is Latest and Last Orange County Contestant Sent Home on The Bachelorette

2013-06-19 14:29:17

The other Orange County shoe has dropped, although this shoe is a former USC baseball player and Newport Beach children's book publisher who is the latest--and last--Orange County contestant elimi...

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California Lodge Suites Hotel in Santa Ana Adds Another Cause for Complaints: Whoring

2013-06-19 13:29:23

Here's an important tip to sleuths amateur and professional: If you are looking for a place that might be a brothel, start with the inn in town that has generated 365 police calls in the past year...

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Carjacker Wins Federal Appeal That Defense Lawyer Botched His Case

2013-06-19 11:03:00

At the age of 16, Orange County's Robert John Goliath experienced the glorious benefits of methamphetamine: For the rest of his life, he may received free housing, free food, free medical care, f...

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Orange County Beauty Salon Ordered To Stop Selling Fake Chanel Products

2013-06-19 09:34:01

A federal judge in Orange County this month ordered a Little Saigon beauty salon accused of selling poor quality counterfeit Chanel products to cease it trademark infringement actions and pay the...

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David Carlos Pleads He Did Not Expose Self, Jerk Off and Creep Out Jogger Near GF's Home

2013-06-19 09:00:59

Man, courting rituals sure have changed since I was on the market.Take David Carlos ... PLEASE!The 34-year-old Santa Anan is accused of jerking off in front of his girlfriend's Fountain Valley hom...

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OC Human Relations Gets $50,000 Less Funding Than Wanted as "Weaning" Continues

2013-06-19 08:32:38

Once again, the Board of Supervisors has cut by $50,000 the annual funding request by Orange County Human Relations, the watchdog on regional hate crimes.But the nonprofit, which won approval for ...

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Board of Supervisors Gives Initial OK to More Police Powers for "Sheriff Special Officers"

2013-06-19 08:00:59

The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a proposal to allow uniformed civilian sheriff's department employees the power to write citations, make misdemeanor ...

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Sources: OC Register to Launch Long Beach Daily Newspaper

2013-06-19 07:30:31

When Aaron Kushner bought the Orange County Register a year ago, he let it be known that OC's paper of record wouldn't be the only media acquisition in his feel-good empire. He's been rumored to w...

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Q: Where Did Fullerton's Homeless Flee to After Encampment Raid By Police Last Week? A: Sewers

2013-06-19 07:00:36

The Hunt Branch Library in Fullerton seemed more peaceful than ever, with birds chirping and a cool breeze whispering to everyone around that now, more than ever, was the time to lay on the gras...

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John Paul Beckman, Third Striker Who Shivved an Inmate, Stirred Up Prison Riot, Wins Release

2013-06-18 18:13:37

Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert Fitzgerald today re-sentenced and released career criminal John Paul Beckman over the objections of the district attorney's office.The hearing was prompt...

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James Michael Camp Goes to Prison for the Disneyland Bomb Threats, Stays for the Rapes

2013-06-18 14:11:14

James Michael Camp, who was serving a five-year federal sentence in an Arizona prison for issuing bomb threats to Disneyland when he was extradited to Orange County in April to answer to allegatio...

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Who Saw This Coming? Man Shot at by Police Manhunters for Christopher Dorner Sues

2013-06-18 12:41:14

The last time we checked in with David Perdue, he was holding one of the bullets a Torrance police officer fired at him in those tense SoCal days in early February when rogue ex-LAPD cop Christo...

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Anaheim's Latino "Leaders" Continue to Try and Hide Their Role in Creating Curt Pringle's Empire

2013-06-18 12:30:54

Exposing the bowdlerizing of local history by politicians and the lords of OC has been this infernal rag raison d'etre since its founding, and while we've seen some whoppers over the years (dis...

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Dana Rohrabacher Mad Dogs John Boehner Then Really Goes Off on "Weasel" Marco Rubio

2013-06-18 11:28:06

John Boehner should be removed as Speaker of the House if he forwards to members the "Gang of Eight" immigration bill being debated in the Senate, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-The Moon) report...

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Another Hint That Mexican Cartels Love California's Potpocalypse?

2013-06-18 11:19:48

According to an intriguing item from the local sheriff's blotter in today's San Clemente Patch, an anonymous tipster phoned deputies to say that a 55-year-old man was busy loading bales of mariju...

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Tim Tebow Could Be an Angel

2013-06-18 10:07:43

Tim Tebow could be playing for the Anaheim Angels of Anaheim right now instead of possibly holding a clipboard for Tom Brady on the New England Patriots' sidelines (if the controversial lefty quar...

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Orange County Film Society Opens Summer Run with Terence Stamp in Unfinished Song

2013-06-18 09:24:15

The Orange County Film Society kicks off its summer programming Wednesday evening with Unfinished Song, which veteran actor Terence Stamp has called "probably the best experience of my career." Ot...

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Panel on Catholic Church Sex-Abuse Scandal Focus of Next "Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!" NEXT THURSDAY!

2013-06-18 07:30:47

A couple of years ago, sex-abuse survivor advocate Joelle Casteix brought legendary reporter Jason Berry to OC. Berry essentially created the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal beat, and deserved t...

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Gustavo's Latest "Orange County Line" Commentary for KCRW: On Anaheim's Unlikeliest Radical, Mayor Tom Tait!

2013-06-18 07:00:29

Last summer, as Anaheim burned, I praised mayor Tom Tait for a job well-done despite his troglodytic party (can you imagine if Deborah Pauly was Anaheim's alcalde? Shudder). In the year since, Tai...

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