http://topicfire.com/Orange-County 2013-06-19T05:02:53+00:00 text/html 2013-06-19T04:20:24+00:00 http://www.ocregister.com/ http://www.ocregister.com/articles/mae-513354-fannie-granillo.html <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/mae-513354-fannie-granillo.html"><img src="http://images.onset.freedom.com/ocregister/article/mom5rt-mom5rfforeclosuresignap.jpg" /></a><br />An employee with mortgage giant Fannie Mae's foreclosure sales office in Irvine faces a federal trial in August on charges that he sought illegal kickbacks for steering repossessed home listings to an Arizona real estate broker. Federal agents... text/html 2013-06-19T03:34:29+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/jose_moreno_nativo_lopez.php Exposing the bowdlerizing of local history by politicians and the lords of OC has been this infernal rag raison d'etre since its founding, and while we've seen some whoppers over the years (dis... Continue reading "Anaheim'S Latino "Leaders" Continue to Try and Hide Their Role in Creating Curt Pringle's Empire" > text/html 2013-06-19T01:24:11+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/tim_tebow_could_have_been_an_a.php Tim Tebow could be playing for the Anaheim Angels of Anaheim right now instead of possibly holding a clipboard for Tom Brady on the New England Patriots' sidelines (if the controversial lefty quar... Continue reading "Tim Tebow Could Be an Angel" > text/html 2013-06-18T22:32:59+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/dana_rohrabacher_boehner_rubio.php <a href="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/dana_rohrabacher_boehner_rubio.php"><img src="http://media.ocweekly.com/5105623.0.jpg" /></a><br /> John Boehner should be removed as Speaker of the House if he forwards to members the "Gang of Eight" immigration bill being debated in the Senate, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-The Moon) report... Continue reading "Dana Rohrabacher Mad Dogs John Boehner Then Really Goes Off on "Weasel" Marco Rubio" > text/html 2013-06-18T22:23:53+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/james_michael_camp_rape_disney.php James Michael Camp, who was serving a five-year federal sentence in an Arizona prison for issuing bomb threats to Disneyland when he was extradited to Orange County in April to answer to allegatio... Continue reading "James Michael Camp Goes to Prison for the Disneyland Bomb Threats, Stays for the Rapes" > text/html 2013-06-18T19:17:07+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/another_hint_that_mexican_cart.php According to an intriguing item from the local sheriff's blotter in today's San Clemente Patch, an anonymous tipster phoned deputies to say that a 55-year-old man was busy loading bales of mariju... Continue reading "Another Hint That Mexican Cartels Love California's Potpocalypse?" > text/html 2013-06-18T16:05:42+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/tom_tait_curt_pringle.php Last summer, as Anaheim burned, I praised mayor Tom Tait for a job well-done despite his troglodytic party (can you imagine if Deborah Pauly was Anaheim's alcalde? Shudder). In the year since, Tai... Continue reading "Gustavo's Latest "Orange County Line" Commentary for KCRW: On Anaheim's Unlikeliest Radical, Mayor Tom Tait!" > text/html 2013-06-18T06:46:54+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/john_rand_agosta_alejandra_her.php An Anaheim man was found guilty today of following his estranged wife as she took a lunch break from her job at an Irvine preschool and shooting her to death in a quiet residential cul de sac in t... Continue reading "John Rand Agosta Guilty of Murdering Wife Alejandra Hernandez on... text/html 2013-06-17T22:33:53+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/prepping_for_a_porno_shoot.php Every Monday, adult superstar/OC girl Tasha Reign gives us her thoughts on life, sex, politics and everything in between. Today, Tasha weighs in on how she preps for a day shooting porn. Enjoy! L... Continue reading "Tasha Tells All...On How to Prep for a Porno Shoot!" > text/html 2013-06-17T22:10:54+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/center_oc_santa_ana.php <a href="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/center_oc_santa_ana.php"><img src="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/assets_c/2009/07/GayWeddingCake-thumb-200x133-thumb-200x133-thumb-200x133.jpg" /></a><br />Any day now, the Supreme Court is expected to release its decision on whether California's hateful Proposition 8--which banned gay marriage in the Golden State--is legal, and both sides of the iss... Continue reading "OC's Major LGBT Groups: County, Santa Ana Charging Us Thousands of Dollars for Proposed Pro-Gay Marriage Rally"... text/html 2013-06-17T21:29:01+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/truc_ngoc_tran_life_no_parole.php Another sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole has been handed down in the 1995 murder of an 18-year-old man in Costa Mesa that four fellow gang members have been convicted o... Continue reading "Truc Ngoc Tran is the Latest to Get Life with No Parole for Fellow... text/html 2013-06-17T21:15:35+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/world_civilizations_capistrano.php Reversing a district panel that had narrowly recommended the sixth edition of World Civilizations: The Global Experience for use in AP world history classes, the Capistrano Unified School District... Continue reading "Capistrano School Board Shitcans World History Textbook for Leaning Too Far to the Left" > text/html 2013-06-17T19:36:23+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/juan_humberto_avila_363_years.php Juan Humberto Avila is going to have a long time to consider his wayward ways in state prison: 363 years to life.Orange County Superior Court Judge W. Michael Hayes handed down that lengthy senten... Continue reading "Juan Humberto Avila Gets 363 Years to Life for Rape of 16-Year-Old Girl and Past... text/html 2013-06-17T18:03:11+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/orange_county_sheriffs_deputy.php It remains a mystery at this hour why an Orange County sheriff's deputy on routine patrol drove his cruiser into a light pole along Marguerite Parkway near Vista Del Lago in Mission Viejo around 3... Continue reading "Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Injures Head in Single-Car Crash While on Patrol" > text/html 2013-06-17T15:30:26+00:00 http://www.ocregister.com/ http://www.ocregister.com/articles/company-513076-years-services.html <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/company-513076-years-services.html"><img src="http://images.onset.freedom.com/ocregister/article/mojh2n-b781121586z.120130617061514000gme1edp51.1.jpg" /></a><br />Entrepreneurship isn't for sissies. The process of starting and growing a company through seesaw economies, changing markets and terrorist attacks is all-consuming. Ernst & Young recently named six O.C. executives the 2013 Entrepreneurs of the Year,... text/html 2013-06-16T21:21:09+00:00 http://www.ocregister.com/ http://www.ocregister.com/articles/car-513022-aninag-hit.html <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/car-513022-aninag-hit.html"><img src="http://images.onset.freedom.com/ocregister/article/moi2rd-b781127206z.120130616120413000gdj1eg7oo.1.jpg" /></a><br />IRVINE – A man is in the hospital in serious condition after a car ran a red light early Sunday morning and hit another car in the intersection of Barranca Parkway and Jamboree Road. One of the cars also hit a fire hydrant, causing water to spew... text/html 2013-06-15T04:02:59+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/christian_isaiah_barnes_disney.php Over the objections of the prosecutor, a judge in Fullerton ordered the release of a worker who'd been held in connection with two dry-ice bomb explosions at Disneyland last month.Christian Isaiah... Continue reading "Christian Isaiah Barnes, Disneyland Cast Member Held in Dry-Ice Blasts, Ordered Freed" > text/html 2013-06-15T00:34:16+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/michelle_lynn_johnson_brea_olin.php <a href="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/michelle_lynn_johnson_brea_olin.php"><img src="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/michelle-lynn-johnson_brea-pd.jpg" /></a><br /> A letter to parents from the district superintendent today--followed by police confirmation--indicates that Brea Olinda High School's 2009 teacher of the year was arrested Wednesday evening for al... Continue reading "Michelle Lynn Johnson, Brea Olinda High Math Teacher, Accused of Sex with Male Student " > text/html 2013-06-14T21:15:10+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/uc_irvine_stabbing_campus_part.php A man who is not enrolled at UC Irvine stabbed another man during a fight at a party on campus early today, according to UCI officials.The victim's wounds are not considered life-threatening, and ... Continue reading "Man Stabbed at UC Irvine Campus Party; Police Seek Knifeman, Who is Not a UCI... text/html 2013-06-14T20:03:29+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/tuan_thanh_tran_guilty_attorne.php A disbarred Irvine attorney, who was looking at up to 15 years in prison for defrauding clients who'd hired him for traffic crash-related civil litigation, got a year in jail and five years probat... Continue reading "Tuan Thanh Tran, Ex-Lawyer Who Settled Crash Claims and Pocketed Payouts, Gets Year in Jail"... text/html 2013-06-14T19:38:21+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/defense_contractor_cheating_hb.php A federal judge in Orange County has punished a 59-year-old Huntington Beach businessman and national defense subcontractor for cheating the United States Air Force.Keith Randell Faber, owner of ... Continue reading "Orange County Defense Contractor Who Cheated Air Force Gets Punished" > text/html 2013-06-14T15:24:07+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/mark_wesley_anderson_jaeleesa_1.php <a href="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/mark_wesley_anderson_jaeleesa_1.php"><img src="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/assets_c/2013/06/mark-wesley-anderson_mugshotsplanet.com-thumb-200x227.jpg" /></a><br /> Orange County prosecutors have notched their first human-trafficking conviction under California's Proposition 35, the initiative voters overwhelmingly supported last November to increase the pen... Continue reading "Mark Wesley Anderson, Who Forced Woman to Turn Tricks, is OC's First Prop. 35 Convictee" > text/html 2013-06-13T21:01:42+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/fullerton_police_shoot_worker.php A man who assaulted his boss at a Fullerton clothing manufacturer and later returned with a gun was shot and killed by a police officer Wednesday evening, according to authorities.Neither the offi... Continue reading "Fullerton Cop Shoots and Kills Worker Who Allegedly Beat Up Boss and Then Pulled a Gun" > text/html 2013-06-13T19:31:04+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/robert_ornelas_santa_ana_teach.php <a href="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/robert_ornelas_santa_ana_teach.php"><img src="http://media.ocweekly.com/6975012.147.jpg" /></a><br />See the update at the end of this post on the charges, possible punishment and revelation that the victim was a girl relative who was 5 when the molestations began. ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 13, 11:26 A... Continue reading "Robert Ornelas, Phil Spector-ish Former Santa Ana Teacher, Molested Girl Relative Beginning When... text/html 2013-06-13T18:15:47+00:00 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/06/24_illegal_immigrants_laguna_b.php Panga, not to be confused with the Hasbro game Jenga, is a boat used to ferry undocumented immigrants from south of the border into the U.S. illegally. But the crafts are being used in a game of s... Continue reading "Border Patrol Plucks 24 Off Panga in Laguna" >