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View ArticleMariachis do battle at mission Saturday
Mission San Juan Capistrano presents its eighth annual Battle of the Mariachis festival Saturday as performers compete for cash prizes before a panel of judges between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.Along with the...
View ArticleO.C. spring football: Top returning quarterbacks
Slideshow: Every year a number of quarterbacks make an indelible mark on the high school football season in Orange County. Some, like El Toro's Conner Manning and Santa Margarita's Johnny Stanton...
View ArticleClosing time: They’re dropping like flies all over baseball
It might be the most difficult job in baseball – to keep. Barely a month into the 2012 season, closers are losing their jobs to injuries, blown saves and ineffectiveness. The list starts with the...
View Article‘The Vow’ among this week’s new video releases
The actor Channing Tatum has been on a nice movie roll in 2012, seeing box-office success with both "21 Jump Street" and "The Vow."But he may also want to send a thank-you note to Nicholas Sparks.While...
View ArticleCostco’s head wine buyer causes a stir with her remarks
Annette Alvarez-Peters is the most powerful wine-industry person you've never heard of. But any vintner can tell you exactly what she does: buys more wine than anyone in the world. Alvarez-Peters is...
View ArticleDefense hammers at cause of Kelly Thomas' death
SANTA ANA - Defense attorneys for two Fullerton police officers hammered away at a trauma doctor regarding the cause of death for transient Kelly Thomas, who died in an Orange County hospital five days...
View ArticleNo Doubt announces CD release date, premieres behind-the-scenes webisode
Following the official announcement of the release date (Sept. 25) of it's yet-to-be-titled sixth studio album via YouTube yesterday, No Doubt put up its very first behind-the-scenes webisode of the...
View ArticleWho will leave ‘Dancing With The Stars’ tonight?
"Dancing With The Stars" is set to boot two celebrities to the curb tonight, cutting the Top 6 to the Final Four after all the votes are tallied and the judges' scores from Monday night added in. There...
View ArticleCoroner: Valium, alcohol killed painter Kinkade
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Officials are confirming that artist Thomas Kinkade died from an accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription tranquilizers. The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner's...
View ArticleThe biggest surprises in baseball so far
Overlooked amid Albert Pujols' slump during his first season with the Angels is the resurgence of Kendrys Morales, who entered Tuesday night's game at Minnesota with a batting average of .318, the only...
View ArticleMississippi levies $945,000 fine against O.C. man
The Mississippi Public Service Commission announced today that it has levied a $945,000 fine against Santa Ana telemarketer Roy M. Cox Jr. and five of his businesses for violations of that state's "no...
View Article'Lost' actor Matthew Fox arrested for DUI
Actor Matthew Fox, star of the television series “Lost,” has been charged with drunken driving in Oregon.Police in Bend say the 45-year-old who lives in the Central Oregon city was stopped late last...
View ArticleUCI celebrates NCAA volleyball title at home
IRVINE – UC Irvine fans cheered from a distance Saturday night at USC's Galen Center to celebrate the third NCAA national title for the men's volleyball team. Tuesday afternoon, some of those same fans...
View ArticleFind out which two celebrities left 'Dancing With The Stars'
"Dancing With The Stars" bid farewell to a pair of celebrities on Thursday as the show held a double elimination to quickly get down to a Final Four with two weeks left in this 14th season. We know the...
View ArticleO.C.-based Christian radio host Rich Buhler dies at 65
Christian talk broadcaster Rich Buhler died in a local Orange County hospital Monday evening, according to an announcement posted by his son Keith on Tuesday on the website caringbridge.org. He was 65....
View ArticleMorning letters: Too many games with labor statistics
CORONA DEL MAR, Bill Cool: Our government is seldom is forthright and honest when it has to report “bad” news. The Bureau of Labor Statistics should count everyone who is unemployed but subtracts...
View ArticleMay 9 celebrity birthdays
See some of the people celebrating birthdays today. Notable personalities of the past who were born on this date can be found at the end of this slideshow. SEE BIRTHDAYS FOR A PREVIOUS DATE Celebrities...
View ArticleEva Mendes: ‘Sexy is a hat I wear’
Until now, Britney Spears had the scariest bodyguard of any celebrity I've interviewed. He was a 300-pound former professional football player who mastered the art of scaring interviewers with a glare....
View ArticleWoodbridge’s MacKenzie pitches a no-hitter
Woodbridge senior Cameron MacKenize pitched a no-hitter tonight for Woodbridge in the Warriors 3-1 Pacific Coast League baseball victory over Northwood at Ryan Lemmon Stadium, according to Woodbridge...
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