Morning letters: Female troops have no place on front lines
BREA, Bill McMillan, USMC, retired: Letter-writer Annette Abajian-Rosenow nails it in her letter regarding the women suing the Pentagon over its policy barring women from ground combat [“So you want to...
View ArticleBreast cancer site marks year
An Orange County breast surgeon's website to help women navigate a diagnosis of breast cancer has marked its first year. Dr. Jay Harness, who practices at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, said the videos...
View ArticleToday's cartoons: Lil' Obama goes for broke
Also: A Grinch of a budget; Obama's 3 a.m. call from Egypt
View ArticleRecord 63,000 apply to Cal State Fullerton
Cal State Fullerton has received nearly 63,000 applications for admission for fall 2013, the most ever, officials said Friday. The campus, with an enrollment of 37,677, received about 9 percent more...
View ArticleMom gets life in prison in toddler's death
SANTA ANA – A 34-year-old mother dabbed at her eyes with tissue Friday as she was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for killing her 23-month-old daughter when, prosecutors said, she squeezed the...
View ArticleThe Five: Stories that'll make you wonder about Costa Mesa, Newport Beach
1. Transplant man meets family behind his heart She laid her head on his chest and listened to the heartbeat she hadn't heard in more than 20 years. Debbie Atkinson, whose husband, Dusty, was the...
View ArticleMcGlinn: Homeless deserve the quality of our mercy
As we enter the season of good will, I continue to reflect on the challenges of our homeless population, as often the phrase "good will toward man" does not apply to the homeless. To some in our...
View ArticleCelebrations Special Section
Celebrate engagements, marriages, births and milestones around Orange County.
View ArticleSneezing can be a sign of something serious
Cats sneeze, and often it is hard to know whether sneezing warrants medical attention. Almost every day I see patients who sneeze and are congested. Most sneezing is due to mild upper-respiratory...
View ArticleKoltnow: 2012's most annoying celebrities
It's time for the annual "This is so easy that I shouldn't get paid for doing it" column. That's right; it's my "Most Annoying Celebrities of the Year" list. Who doesn't love a good annoying...
View ArticleDec. 7 celebrity birthdays
These people of the present and past were born on this date: Actor Eli Wallach is 97. Linguist, philosopher and author Noam Chomsky is 84. Bluegrass singer Bobby Osborne of the Osborne Brothers is 81....
View ArticleAt the Child Guidance Center's annual fundraiser, Nintendo guitars grew on trees
Just outside of the Balboa Bay Club's Grand Ballroom earlier this month, a young pianist in a bow tie filled the lobby with Christmas music, and a magician wowed children with card and coin tricks....
View ArticleA law degree for animal advocates
Mitzi Bolanos adopted a pit bull a few years ago, only to find that discrimination was part of the deal. Because of her dog, she was often told where she could or couldn't live or work. "I am a...
View ArticleDing: Will Lakers' spat be a turning point?
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Metta World Peace watched and listened, a bit stunned like everyone else around, as Dwight Howard yelled toward a seated Kobe Bryant, even pointing a finger toward Bryant's face. Once...
View ArticleYour guide to luxury linens
There are exotic vacations, fancy cars and Louboutin shoes. But those are fairly brief in terms of how much pleasure they give us. But since we spend up to a third of our life in bed, does it make...
View ArticleWhat happened to dichondra lawns?
Just wondering the other day if anybody grows a dichondra lawn anymore. My mother had one back in the 1970s and '80s and I do remember that all it wanted was water. Not that much, by the way, and no...
View ArticleGrauman's Chinese Theatre tries to make a fresh impression
Grauman's Chinese Theatre is a landmark in a town where the old and historic tend not to survive more than a handful of decades past their splashy debuts. But the theater Sid Grauman built marked its...
View ArticleJob cuts hit KOST-FM, other stations
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment swung the year-end axe on many staffers at soft hits KOST/103.5 FM Thursday. The programming names were as familiar as the talent to most KOST listeners. Losing...
View ArticleDwight Yoakam still blurring the lines
Seven years had passed since Dwight Yoakam put out any original material, and the Grammy-winning country maverick was beginning to get restless. At 56 he had still managed to keep plenty busy,...
View ArticleWeilerstein, Shelley debut with Pacific
The Pacific Symphony must have spun its masterpiece wheel once again to come up with this week's program at Segerstrom Concert Hall. Round and round she went, where she stopped ...Handel's "Music for...
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