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An Orange County Superior Court judge who failed to turn over evidence as a prosecutor in a 2010 murder case indicated Tuesday, June 11, that the fault may have been with sheriff’s investigators. Ebrahim Baytieh, testifying in a hearing on whether murder defendant Paul Gentile Smith should go free because of the lack of disclosure,…
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ANAHEIM — Twice on Tuesday the top two batters of the dreaded New York Yankees’ lineup came to the plate in the late innings of a tight game. The Angels’ bullpen not only dispatched the duo, four relievers combined for four perfect innings against an offense that entered Wednesday night’s game leading MLB in home…
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A pair of teenage boys who hopped the fence at Knott’s Berry Farm so they could ride roller coasters and thrill rides for free shouldn’t be hard to find after they posted clear images of their faces in a viral TikTok video with 1.4 million views. The trespassing incident at the Buena Park theme park…
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ANAHEIM — The Angels spent another night pestering one of the best teams in baseball as they appear ready to enter June with a little less gloom. The New York Yankees lost their manager to an ejection in the first inning on Wednesday yet still managed to maintain their resolve. Angels starter Tyler Anderson walked…
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Services for longtime Orange County sports referee Espiridion “Speed” Castillo will be held at Christ Cathedral on June 27 at 11 a.m. A reception is to follow the Mass at Christ Cathedral. Burial is at Riverside National Cemetery on June 28 at 10 a.m. Castillo died May 18 in Anaheim of natural causes. He was…
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Name: Laci Armenta — Age: 18 — High school: Brea Olinda High School — GPA: 3.8 — High School Activities or Groups: I have been apart of ASB for 4 years and have gladly served as ASB president this past year. I have also had the honor of being in Link Crew my last 2…
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NEW YORK — If you can break it here, you can break it anywhere. The Dodgers arrived at Citi Field reeling from a three-game sweep in Cincinnati, slumping offensively and wearing a five-game losing streak, their longest in five years. They snapped the losing streak on Tuesday and broke out of the offensive slump on…
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St. Margaret’s hired Jon Hughes as its boys basketball coach, the school announced Wednesday. Hughes coached the girls basketball team at Calvary Chapel the past two seasons. Before that he was the boys basketball coach at Calvary Chapel from 2019 to 2021. He led the Eagles to the CIF Southern Section Division 5AA championship in…
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The 12-year-old spelling whiz kid from Los Angeles tripped up Wednesday, May 29, on the word “desinent” in the fourth round of the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland and was eliminated from the finals. Oliver Halkett, a sixth-grader at The Mirman School in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the San Fernando Valley, misspelled…
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Virgina Guevera, 66, had been homeless in Orange County since 2016, living in a car for half a decade before moving into a shelter for a few years. But in January, she moved into a new affordable housing complex in Stanton that will be her first permanent home in years. “To me, there’s peace and…
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