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				<title>In with the New, In with the Old:  New California Writing 2013, Part I</title>
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			 Of all the many ways to read the eclectic, surprising, affirming and resonating pieces in New California Writing 2013, I fell into the perhaps easiest and undisciplined, picking and choosing fro...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:28:20 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Maribel Manriquez Ramos Confirmed to be Dead Body; Roommate Held in Murder: Update</title>
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			See Update No. 2 at the bottom of page 2 on the recovered body being identified as Maribel Ramos' and her roommate being arrested for her murder. Update No. 1 on page 2 was about a woman's body b...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:15:28 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Matt Coker</author>
			
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				<title>Christine Daniel, Who Hawked Phony Cancer Cure on TBN, Gets 14 Years, $1.2 Million Fine</title>
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			An ex-doctor and minister who hawked a miracle cancer cure via a program on the Costa Mesa-based Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison because her "...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:08:09 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Leticia and Noel Carrasco, Mother and Son Robber-Murderers, Draw Life Sentences</title>
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			Mother and son tag-teamers Leticia and Noel Carrasco received life sentences today for robbing and murdering a man in a Buena Park motel room after momma picked the fellow up in a Stanton bar wit...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:46:16 -0800</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Son and Fugly Mom Draw Life for Robbery-Murder</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Babak &quot;Bobby&quot; Azadgilani is a Wanted Man, Suspected of Raping Laguna Beach Woman</title>
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			Have you seen this fellow to the right?Laguna Beach Police suspect him of raping a woman in her home last month.Officers have tried to arrest Babak "Bobby'' Azadgilani, 26, at his Laguna Niguel h...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:56:12 -0800</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Police Seek Man in Woman&apos;s Rape in Laguna Beach</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Sequestration Hits Santa Ana HUD Office with Friday Furlough Days Through End of August</title>
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			Due to the sequestration cuts, the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) office in Santa Ana will close next Friday, May 24, and unless funding relief comes it will be closed select Fridays th...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:35:35 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Matt Coker</author>
			
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				<title>Feds Still Targeting Medical Marijuana Dispensary Profiled by Weekly</title>
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			 In my dead-tree edition of the Bong Blotter this week, about the ongoing potpocalypse in Orange County, I quoted the wheelchair-bound medical marijuana activist Marla James about her difficultie...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:51:38 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Safieh Fard, Mortgage Scammer, Gets 5 Years After Guilty Plea, Withdrawal and Conviction</title>
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			 A Newport Beach jewelry store owner, who withdrew her guilty plea in a family mortgage scam case just before sentencing only to be found guilty in Santa Ana federal court anyway, has learned her...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:47:22 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Matt Coker</author>
			
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				<title>California Assembly Passes Immigrant-Friendly TRUST Act; OC&apos;s Dem Assemblymembers Join GOP in Not Voting for It</title>
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			 The Trust Act made its way once more through the California Assembly yesterday by a final vote of 44-22. The legislation was vetoed late last year when it reached the desk of Democratic Governor...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 07:00:37 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Gabriel San Roman</author>
			
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				<title>Amali Dissanayake, Former Kaiser Urgent Care Nurse, Sues Over Poor Training and Placement</title>
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			A former Kaiser nurse is complaining in Orange County Superior Court that she was tasked with duties beyond her experience and training, and that when she complained and asked for more training, ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:32 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Matt Coker</author>
			
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				<title>Newport Beach and Huntington Beach React Differently to Fire Pit Pollution Findings</title>
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			Call it "A Tale of Two City Takeaways:" Newport Beach and Huntington Beach's mayors, at opposite ends on whether to remove fire rings along their beaches, heard--and reacted differently to--state...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:30:11 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>All 62 Dispensaries Shut Down In Garden Grove: Update</title>
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			 Scroll down to the end of the post for updates. 

Original Post, May 8, 10:42 a.m.: For the past few years, Garden Grove has been one of the most reliably 420-friendly cities in California. It r...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:06:15 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Richard Newton Has More of His Short Films Rolling in Laguna Art Museum Tonight</title>
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			 Richard Newton, an artist who would embed himself in various locations to find odd, ordinary images (moving and otherwise) that a wide spectrum of people could relate to, has a collection of his...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:00:14 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Jennifer Larsen, Formerly of Hustler and Porn Site Digital Playground, Commits Suicide</title>
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			A former public relations and marketing executive with porn star site Digital Underground took her own life Sunday via a gunshot wound to the head, the Orange County Coroner has confirmed. That m...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 09:00:05 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Matt Coker</author>
			
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				<title>Lindsay Lohan Won&apos;t Have Newport Rehab to Kick Around Much Longer if City Gets Its Way</title>
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			It's a good thing Lindsay Lohan blew off Morningside Recovery for the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage because the Newport Beach rehab may have closed with her in it!Following an Orange County ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 08:30:06 -0800</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Rehab Lindsay Lohan Blew Off Faces Closure Threat </featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Dita Von Teese Offers a Piece of Herself: Photos</title>
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			You have a day left to bid on a piece of Dita Von Teese, the burlesque superstar who went by Heather Renée Sweet when she knocked around University High School in Irvine. It's not a smooth, milky...]]></description>
				<link>http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/05/dita_von_teese_packard_auction.php</link>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 08:00:15 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Matt Coker</author>
			
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				<title>Nicolas Cendoya, Kyndall Jack Again Off the Hook for $160k Trabuco Canyon Rescue Tab</title>
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			See Update No. 2 on page 2 about the Orange County Board of Supervisors deciding behind closed doors not to charge the rescued hikers for the $160,000 in various government costs.See Update No. 1...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:30:49 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Matt Coker</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>County Won&apos;t Stick Hikers with $160k Rescue Tab</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>OC Register to Begin Weekly Paper Covering Santa Ana</title>
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			You young'uns don't remember this, but the Orange County Register began life as the Santa Ana Register, and was named that until about the 1960s. Its focus was on SanTana, and because it was the ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:00:24 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Gustavo Arellano</author>
			
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				<featured_headline><![CDATA[<i>OC Register</i> to Start Santa Ana Weekly]]></featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Jose Moreno, Los Amigos President, Seeks to Honor Retiring Anaheim Police Chief</title>
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			 Early on during the six-hour long Anaheim city council meeting last night, retiring police chief John Welter received a formal recognition from the dais. His nine-year career as head of the forc...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:30:15 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Gabriel San Roman</author>
			
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				<title>SoCal Edison Girds Public For Summer Power Outages</title>
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			Uh, this doesn't sound good.

A day after federal judges ruled that Southern California Edison (SCE) can't reopen its troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) without a full public ...]]></description>
				<link>http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/05/socal_edison_to_announce_summe.php</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:15:00 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Nick Schou</author>
			
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