Fauria proving to be a big catch for UCLA
LOS ANGELES – Joseph Fauria is bigger than you. That's the message the nation's most dangerous red-zone target has tried to communicate to those who have covered him this season — his final year at...
View ArticleRadio host Frank Pastore in serious condition after crash
KKLA/99.5 FM Christian radio talk host Frank Pastore was reported to be in serious condition Friday following a Monday night accident on the 210 Freeway in which a driver lost control of her car,...
View ArticleBlack Friday in O.C.: shopping, wishing, grooming
Nobody waved a gun. Which made Black Friday in Orange County a safer and apparently saner event than what took place in San Antonio, Texas. There, early morning shopping sparked a fistfight that...
View ArticleMiller: Villa Park finds its way to the Big A
TUSTIN – A great high school football game was played here Friday night. From what we understand. You see, we couldn't see, the second half played in a fog that could be correctly described as...
View ArticleNotable deaths of 2012
See personalities from the worlds of entertainment, sports, politics, business, literature and world affairs who departed this year. Related: Celebrities we lost in 2011 Celebrities we lost in 2010...
View ArticleFailing TV shows start to get the ax
It was a tough Thanksgiving week in TV world, as several prominent primetime turkeys got their heads chopped off. The victims: ABC's underperforming rookie dramas "Last Resort" and "666 Park Avenue,"...
View ArticleDeftones thunderous at the Palladium
After a standout performance at Epicenter in Irvine in September, Deftones returned to Southern California just before Thanksgiving for a sold-out show at the Hollywood Palladium in support of their...
View ArticleFamilies tune into tradition with holiday TV specials
The boxes of decorations may have just made it out of the garage, and chances are this year's tree may not even be at the lot yet, but you probably have started soaking up the Christmas spirit – via...
View ArticleFinal council vote tally confirms: Hamm, Baker win
More than half of San Clemente's 41,488 registered voters turned out for Nov. 6 municipal elections that awarded City Council seats to Chris Hamm and incumbent Bob Baker.The Orange County Registrar of...
View ArticlePets of the week: Autumn and Romeo
BRUSSELS GRIFFON MIX AUTUMN Age: 1 year Sex: spayed female Size: 15 pounds Autumn's story: This energetic and playful little girl gets along with other dogs and kids. She's house-trained and healthy....
View ArticleMaryanne Dell: It's never too late to be thankful
By the time you read this, the holiday will be days old (or still coming, depending on which holiday you're thinking of). But because I'm writing on Thanksgiving, I have to give thanks for the many...
View ArticleWhicker: Edison emerges out of the fog
COSTA MESA – When your punter gets crossed up by a bad snap, and then gets hit when he gets the kick away, and then the ball hits an official in the back of his shoulder and bounces back to your...
View ArticleToday's Cartoons: U.S. consumers put to work
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View ArticleSteve Greenhut: Few smoke signals for freedom
SACRAMENTO – When it comes to real political change, the people almost always are light years ahead of the politicians, most of whom are so worried about re-election that they take only carefully...
View ArticleIrvine police blotter: Nov. 5 to 11
CROSSROADSNOV. 116:38 a.m. Vandalism, 100 block Springvale. Vandals destroyed toilet facilities at Springvale Park. NOV. 10 1:52 a.m. Defrauding innkeeper, 14160 Culver Drive. Three subjects who ate at...
View ArticleHome prices continue to rise across SoCal
Southern California home sales rose sharply in October as move-up buyers joined investors, shifting the mix of homes selling up a notch. The median price paid for a home rose nearly 18 percent from a...
View ArticleHeeding call of nature can benefit garden
There is lots of snickering in newspaper circles about this front-page story from The Chapel Hills News: "CARRBORO – Roy Mars was peeing in his compost last weekend – it adds nitrogen – when he looked...
View ArticleGwynne Dyer: Anti-nuclear madness grips developed world
After the loss of 10 million American lives in the Three-Mile Island calamity in 1979, the death of 2 billion in the Chernobyl holocaust in 1986 and, now, the abandonment of all of northern Japan...
View ArticleEntrepreneur ideas 'survive' in O.C.
In a pitch to win $25,000, Anthony Ferraro showed off the waist band of his underwear to 150 people. His display was part of a pitch at the recent Tech Coast Venture Network's Survivor 7 at Chapman...
View ArticleChristian Milord: Will Obama pull a Clinton?
Perhaps many voters who cast their ballots for the Obama/Biden ticket did so assuming they would receive an array of services from Washington over the next four years. They forgot that in the big...
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