Orange County

Woman Admits Faking Cancer To Get Money For Wedding And Honeymoon

AP | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Jessica Vega Cancer, Video, Woman Fakes Cancer, New York Crime, Michael O'Connell, Orange County, Bride Fakes Cancer, Goshen New York, Jessica Vega Fakes Cancer, Weird New York, Jessica Vega, Crime News

GOSHEN, N.Y. — A New York woman admitted Wednesday that she faked cancer to con donors out of money and services for her wedding and Caribbean h...

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Homeless Man Is Dragged For Miles Down OC Floodway

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: OC Floodway Homeless Man, So Cal Flood Control Channels, So Cal Floodway, Orange County Waterway, Orange County Floodway Homeless Man, LA River Safety, OC Floodway, Homeless Man Rescued, OC Waterway Homeless Man, Video, Orange County, Floodway Safety, OC Homeless Man, OC Waterway, So-Cal-Waterway, Flood Channel Safety, Los Angeles News

In sunny Southern California, rapid water currents are not a danger we often think about. But the danger that exists in our urban floodways showed ...

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Morgan Stanley, Italy and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Wallace Turbeville | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Jefferson County, Orange County, Italy Derivatives, Financial Reform, Derivatives, Warren Buffett, Dodd-Frank, Greece, Business News
Wallace Turbeville

Warren Buffett once referred to derivatives as "financial weapons of mass destruction" created by "madmen." Real WMD have rarely been used. However, derivatives are used quite a lot, and it appears that Italy got hit by the derivatives WMD in January.

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Bashing the Homeless: When Pinkberry Becomes Punkberry

Joel John Roberts | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Homelessness, Pinkberry, Orange County, Los Angeles, Pinkberry Young Lee, Pinkberry Homeless Man, Young-Lee-Assault-Charge, Impact News
Joel John Roberts

What is this country coming to when a guy in a car chases down a homeless man and pounds him with a tire iron, just because they exchanged angry words?

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Killing Homeless Stereotypes in Orange County

Joel John Roberts | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Hate Crimes, Serial Killer, Homelessness, Jack the Ripper, Orange County, Veterans, Impact News
Joel John Roberts

At first glance, he appears to be the stereotypical image of a killer of homeless Americans. Young. Male. Angry. Short hair, almost to the point of be...

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Police Detain Man Amid Hunt For Serial Killer Of Homeless Men

AP | CHRISTOPHER WEBER | Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: La Palma Avenue, Serial Killer, Craig Hunter, Southern California, Orange County, Brea, Imperial Highway, Anaheim, Homeless, Fbi, Placentia, Homeless Man Killed, Los Angeles Times, James Patrick McGillivray, Crime News

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Investigators are "extremely confident" a man in custody is responsible for all four recent killings of homeless men in Orange...

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Orange County Supervisors Misled by Health Care Agency on Laura's Law

DJ Jaffe | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Laura's Law, Mental Health, Orange County, Brea, Aliso Viejo, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Dana Point, Costa Mesa, La Habra, Huntington Beach, Buena Park, Laguna Beach, Cypress, Irvine, Anaheim, Fullerton, La Palma, Los Angeles News
DJ Jaffe

Misinforming the Board of Supervisors could be deadly for two groups of Orange County residents: those with severe mental illness and those without.

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Why I'm Walking 136 Miles With 50 Pounds of Wood On My Back

Greg Spencer | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Greg-Spencer-Jr, Clinton Global Initiative, Kenya, Los Angeles, San Diego, Cook Stoves, The Paradigm Project, Orange County, Fuel Efficiency, Activism, Impact News
Greg Spencer

With all the causes in the world you could support, maybe cook stoves don't top your list. But in my opinion, they should because, much like unsafe dr...

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Teen Who Raped Boy With Light Saber Sentenced To Prison

Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Teen Rapes Boy With Light Saber, Light-Saber-Rape, Orange County, Riverside California, Oscar Antoniel Arreola, Javier Enrique Perez, Sexual Assault, Teen Assaults Boy With Light Saber, California Crime, Crime News

A teenager convicted of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy with a "Star Wars" light saber at the home of a baby sitter while other children watched ...

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Dead Poets Society Lied: What the Movies Don't Teach You About Student Resistance

John Hrabe | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Student Protests, Uc Irvine Muslim Group Suspended, Orange County, Dead Poets Society, Irvine 11, Student Resistance, Muslim Student Association, UC Irvine, Culture News
John Hrabe

Our natural reaction to contrasting views should always be to speak out ourselves, not shut our opponents up. Muslim students get the same First Amendment protections as Israeli ambassadors.

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Casey Anthony Now Owes $217,000 For Caylee's Search

AP | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Judge Belvin Perry, Cindy Anthony, Owe, Missing, Orange County, Mom, Florida, Check Fraud, Casey Anthony, Caylee Anthony, Bill, George Anthony, Crime News

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Florida judge on Friday increased the reimbursement costs Casey Anthony must pay to investigators for searching for her missing 2-y...

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Security Camera Catches Car Crashing Through Mission Viejo Store

Mission Viejo, CA Patch | Peter Schelden | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Cadillac Deville, Car Crash, Rock N' Road Cyclery, Mission Viejo, Orange County, Jeff Hiatt, Mission Viejo Car Crash, John Bain, Los Angeles News

An elderly woman crashed her red Cadillac into Rock 'n Road Cyclery Tuesday around 5 p.m., forcing customers to dodge out of the way. "I thought i...

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Sade at Honda Center: Style as Enlightenment

S.X. Rosenstock | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Smooth Operator, John Legend, Orange County, Andrew Hale, Stuart Matthewman, Michelle Obama, Soul, Kate Betts, Sade Adu, Music, Cleo Laine, Audrey Hepburn, Christine McVie, Jazz, Halle Berry, Honda Center, Soldier of Love, Norah Jones, Anaheim, Greta Garbo, Paul S. Denman, Yukimi Nagano, Feist, Josephine Baker, Sade, Sophie Muller, La Around Town, Concert Reviews, Los Angeles News
S.X. Rosenstock

Sade's show at Honda Center in Anaheim August 30 was such a triumph of visual and sonic beauty, I started to wonder if pure gorgeousness could fix the economy or make political parties get along.

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Pigs Flying Off the Grill Aug. 18-21 in Orange County

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Bbq, Orange County, Slidepollajax, Orange County BBQ, Food News
Charles Karel Bouley

If pork ribs are your thing then this is the place to be this weekend. Six BBQers from across the country will compete for titles while diners serve as beneficiaries to the competitive spirit.

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Casey Anthony Ordered Back To Florida

AP | By MIKE SCHNEIDER | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Judge Belvin Perry, Casey Anthony Florida, Probation, Casey Anthony Ordered Back to Florida, Orange County, Casey Anthony Trial, Casey Anthony Must Return to Florida, Florida, Check Fraud, Casey Anthony, Casey Anthony Check Fraud, Crime News

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony must return to Orlando within two weeks to serve a year's probation for check fraud, a Florida judge ruled Friday. J...

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Paris on the Pacific: My New Love Affair

Zachary Ehren | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Orange County, Dolores Park, Bart, Travel, The Mission, Europe, San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco News
Zachary Ehren

This was the first time since my travels in Europe that I would stop and stare at the buildings and houses on every corner. Was I still in the United States?

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Republicans: The People Grandpa Warned Me About

Bob Burnett | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: John Boehner, Orange County, House Republicans, Speaker Boehner, Republicans, Politics News
Bob Burnett

If he were alive today, my Grandpa Harry would be horrified by the behavior of contemporary Republican leaders who believe the ends justify the means.

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Casey Anthony Jurors' Names Will Be Released This Fall

AP | By MIKE SCHNEIDER | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Orlando, Judge Belvin Perry, Names Released, Orange County, Florida, Casey Anthony, Caylee Anthony, Casey Anthony Jury, Video, Crime News

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The identities of the jurors in the Casey Anthony trial can be made public but not for another three months, a Florida judge ruled Tu...

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Florida Birthday Party Shooting: 9 Wounded

AP | Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Florida Shooting, Shooting, Apopka, Birthday Shooting, Orange County, Florida Birthday Party Shooting, Florida Birthday Shooting, Orange Country Florida, Crime News

APOPKA, Fla. -- A suspect fired several shots from a handgun after fighting erupted among teenagers at a birthday party at a central Florida home, lea...

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Debt Ceiling Battle Offers House Republicans Untold Leverage

David Paul | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Tea Party Movement, 14th Amendment, Mitch McConnell, Michael Milken, Debt Ceiling, Federal Budget Deficit, Orange County, Standard & Poor's, Rating Agencies, Barack Obama, House Republicans, Treasury Bonds, Moody's, Business News
David Paul

Both the President and Senate leaders believe that the fear of default should provide enough motivation to get something done. But so far, the House leadership is not biting.

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Witness Tampering Alleged At Casey Anthony Trial

AP | By KYLE HIGHTOWER | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Jerry Demings, Video, Cindy Anthony, Orange County, Chloroform, Casey Anthony Trial, Casey Anthony Case, Casey Anthony, Casey Anthony Witness Tampering, Witness Tampering, Crime News

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities were looking into allegations of witness tampering during Casey Anthony's murder trial, a Florida sheriff said Tuesd...

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Riverside County Officials Endorse 'South California' Secession

AP | By JACOB ADELMAN | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Imperial County, Video, South California, Jeff Stone, Orange County, California Secede, Fresno County, San Bernadino County, California Secession, Riverside County, San Diego County, North California, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- Elected officials in Riverside County endorsed a proposal Tuesday to discuss cleaving California in two, but with a catch: No public fu...

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Vietnamese Lingerie Cafe Crackdown

AP | By AMY TAXIN | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: California Police, Cafe Miss Cutie, Orange County Little Saigon, Racy Vietnamese Coffeehouses, Orange County, Lt. Jeff Nightengale, Vietnamese Coffee House, Garden-Grove-California, Crime on the Rise, Orange County Vietnamese Immigrants, Los Angeles News

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. -- At Cafe Miss Cutie, the windows are tinted but not pitch black. The waitresses are wearing negligees but not naked. And patron...

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The Groom Did Not Kiss The Bride: Rare Jailhouse Wedding

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Weird California, Marissa-Star-Bilotti, Iftekhar Murtaza, Orange County, Jailhouse Wedding, Video, Weird News News

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Man Lies Down In Front Of Girlfriend's Car, Gets Run Over

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Joel Santos, Run Over, Kim Montes, Blood Tests, Highway Patrol, Orange County, Christina Santiago, Undercarriage, Speed Bump, Gloribeth Santiago, Florida, Weird Florida, Weird News News

An angry boyfriend became a speed bump when he tried to stop his girlfriend from driving away. Joel Santos didn't want to call it a night when his ...

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