Kendrick 'truly wanted' to stay at home with Angels
ANAHEIM -- By signing a four-year, $33.5 million contract extension with the Angels this week, Howie Kendrick traded a measure of security for the freedom -- and potential salary-boosting properties –...
View ArticleFound military explosive forces Aliso Viejo street closure
ALISO VIEJO – The discovery of a small military explosive forced authorities to temporarily close an Aliso Viejo street on Tuesday afternoon, Sheriff's officials said. A landscaper noticed what looked...
View ArticleRomney's Anaheim business deal rouses controversy
One of the most controversial businesses taken over by Bain Capital, the company Mitt Romney ran for 15 years, was Anaheim's DDi, which makes printed circuit boards. The company would eventually...
View ArticleWho will USC play in next BCS title game?
Spraying to all fields, wondering which team USC will face in the next BCS title game on Jan. 7 in Miami: •Odds say it will be an SEC team, because that conference has produced the winners of the past...
View ArticleIs Angels' Aybar next in line for extension?
A core of homegrown players like Howie Kendrick is “a strong piece of our foundation,” Angels GM Jerry Dipoto said Thursday. He put Arte Moreno’s money where his mouth is by signing Kendrick to a...
View ArticleSlide Show: A look back at Coachella 2011
With the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival line-up announced earlier this week, we decided to take a quick look back at the shenanigans from three-day fest in 2011. Click here to see a...
View ArticleStars turn out for People’s Choice Awards
The People' s Choice Awards kicked off awards show season on Wednesday, filling the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles with celebrities there to reap the benefits of their popularity, a big chunk of plastic...
View ArticleBryant helps Lakers end road woes
SALT LAKE CITY – While the romantics swoon over Kobe Bryant's poetic scoring, the Lakers also are winning because of new Lakers coach Mike Brown's "hard hats." One day and one plane flight after...
View ArticleClippers' Paul brings heat to Miami
LOS ANGELES – They have built themselves out of the nice-try phase of their history. Chris Paul is not running for Mr. Congeniality. Home games are supposed to be won, without qualification. (Away...
View Article‘Beauty and the Beast’ leaps from the screen in 3D
That "tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme" returns to the screen, now in 3-D. But "Beauty and the Beast," the greatest animated film ever made and one of the screen's great musicals, hardly needs...
View ArticleGaede: Rock star plays Brea with family
BREA In the did-you-know department: 30 years ago, the forming of the heavy metal band Metallica started in the home of David and Lorraine Hale on Evening Canyon in Brea. Brea Olinda High Class of...
View ArticleFriedman & De Rugy: Defense cuts won't gut military
The prospect of $500 billion in cuts to the U.S. defense budget from 2013-2021 has Washington in a panic. In unveiling a barely updated military strategy yesterday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta...
View ArticleSally Pipes: Hi, Doc. I’m from the government
Officials in California just announced that they were working with Harvard University doctors Jerry Avorn and Michael Fischer to overhaul how painkillers are prescribed to disabled workers in the...
View ArticleNominate a volunteering youth
The Women's Division of the Anaheim Chamber is looking for nominations of the outstanding young people of Anaheim. Each year, the Women's Division honors youth in the city of Anaheim for their...
View ArticleDaxon: Changes on the menu for Brea
The New Year always brings changes – some we like and others that we do not. One that really disappoints me is the discovery that the elegant La Vie en Rose Restaurant will close Jan. 28, and not...
View ArticleMeet Irvine’s own autism expert
Meet Melissa Reiner, Irvine resident, wife, mother of three young boys and an autism consultant.The Reiners live in South Irvine, but Melissa's work takes her all over Orange County. She is a certified...
View ArticleLisa Lampanelli brings the raunch to O.C. and ‘Celebrity Apprentice’
It's no secret by now that Lisa Lampanelli has a foul, very foul, mouth. She's one tough comic who makes audiences cringe, especially during her appearances on Comedy Central's celebrity roasts, but...
View ArticleEditorial: The year of the ferret?
Ferrets aren't for everybody. A domesticated relative of weasels, they require a lot more expense and care than your average cat or dog. But only California and Hawaii ban them among the 50 states....
View ArticleEditorial: Gov. Brown: ‘We’re broke but must spend more’
Gov. Jerry Brown earned the nickname "Moonbeam" during his first stint as governor, 1975-83. Remember when he thought it would be a good idea to give government workers collective-bargaining rights,...
View ArticleAward-winning singing group in town Jan. 20
Canyon Hills Presbyterian Church will welcome the award-winning acappella group "Pitch Slapped" Live on Tour to its sanctuary at 7 p.m. Jan. 20. And the community is invited to this special concert....
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