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Charlize Theron checked out Alcala trial

By FRANK MICKADEIT @ March 10, 2010 # Comments Off

Light moments in the Rodney Alcala trial? Not many, but a couple things made me smile.
One was the incognito visitor my colleague Larry Welborn promised not to write about. Charlize Theron would show up occasionally and sit in the middle of row…

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Crossing the (protest) line on abortion

By YVETTE CABRERA @ March 10, 2010 # Comments Off

If any issue polarizes America, it’s abortion – and nowhere does that polarization play out more dramatically than on the sidewalk in front of the Planned Parenthood medical clinic on Tustin Avenue in Orange.
That’s where a line has been drawn,…

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Weather to warm up Thursday

The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News @ March 10, 2010 # Comments Off

The cool weather will turn warmer on Thursday and Friday in Orange County.

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Shelter snips spay-neuter fees this Saturday

The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News @ March 10, 2010 # Comments Off

Adoption fees will be discounted $40 to $50 for annual Spay Day event.

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Pot dispensary owner pleads not guilty

By ERIKA I. RITCHIE @ March 10, 2010 # Comments Off

LAKE FOREST – The owner and two managers of a marijuana dispensary pled not guilty Monday to charges of illegally selling marijuana and laundering the profits through banks.
Mark Gregory Moen, 50, of Westminster, the owner-operator of 215 Agenda, a…

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Dog dies after car is bumped into crosswalk

The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News @ March 10, 2010 # Comments Off

Pedestrian and driver distractions can prove deadly to people and pets.

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Free money, more steak at El Pollo Loco

By NANCY LUNA @ March 10, 2010 # Comments Off

The Costa Mesa-chicken chain launches two promotions Thursday: free cash cards, and more steak.

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Prosecutor worries Alcala might have killed others

BY LARRY WELBORN @ March 10, 2010 # Comments Off

SANTA ANA – After killer Rodney Alcala was sentenced to death in 1980 for kidnapping and murdering a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl a year earlier, then-Orange County Deputy District Attorney Richard Farnell predicted that Alcala would turn out…

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Treasurer Street’s resume still misleading

Martin Wisckol @ March 10, 2010 # Comments Off

County Treasurer-Tax Collector Chriss Street probably has bigger worries than details in his campaign biography, considering he was just ordered by a court to pay $7 million in damages.

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2nd earthquake occurs off O.C.

The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News @ March 10, 2010 # Comments Off

Two small earthquakes have occurred beneath the seafloor west of Bolsa Chica today.

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