Anaheim News

PLACENTIA Orange County firefighters quickly extinguished a fire at a home on the 200 block of South Melrose Street on Saturday afternoon.

A group of Real Mex Restaurants investors has made a bid to buy the Cypress-based parent company of El Torito and Chevy's. A federal bankruptcy judge is reviewing the bid today , company spokesman Rick Van Warner said.

Sixty three year-old LAUSD teacher Mark Berndt has been charged with 23 counts of lewd acts on children. Berndt allegedly regularly told children they were going to play a “tasting game”, then blindfolded them and in some cases put tape over their mouths. He then fed students a “milky” substance on a spoon and on top of cookies. Later DNA testing confirmed that this substance was indeed Berndt’s own semen. He also ran cockroaches over the faces and mouths of the children. Berndt took pictures of these encounters, according to USA Today.

Berndt is going to keep getting his benefits – and he even kept his job back in 1993 when he was first charged with molestation. And he got a $40K payment so that he would retire. How did all this happen? Because of rules that the teachers’ union bartered for – the same union that is now supporting ultra-liberal Democratic Assembly candidate Julio Perez, who is running for the 69th A.D.

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National Association Of Music Merchants - blew into Anaheim, California from January 19-22. The event brings together retailers, store owners, musicians and devotees in a mad cacophony of drum kits being beaten, guitars being strummed, while every new and ultra-cool gizmo, gadget and geegaw is unveiled by literally thousands of exhibitors from ... (more)

Surfersvillage Global Surf News , 10 February, 2012 : - - Costa Mesa -- Rip Curl is both ecstatic and honored to win the 2011 SIMA Image Awards' "Wetsuit of the Year" for the FLASH BOMB, which took place at The Grove Theater in Anaheim, California last night.

Mariachi Vargas de TecalitlA n was founded in 1898 in TecalitlA n, a small town in Mexico's Jalisco state, yet it remains renowned in the world of Mexican music.

Remember when Supervisor Janet Nguyen bullied her fellow Supervisors into appointing her to the CalOptima board for two more years? Well now we know why. ”A $250-per-person campaign fundraiser for Supervisor Janet Nguyen will be held Feb. 28 at the home of Dan Brothman, the CEO of Santa Ana’s Western Medical Center,” according to the Voice of OC.

The “Tribute to Supervisor Janet Nguyen” follows Nguyen’s successful drive last year to give hospitals a permanent seat on the board of the $1.4-billion CalOptima health plan for Orange County’s poor and elderly.

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Candice Jolly drives Montser Mutt during a Monster Jam event at Lluis Companys stadium in Barcelona, on October 24, 2009 in Barcelona.

SANTA ANA - A 36-year-old man who murdered a prostitute in a hotel room near Disneyland was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Walt Disney was the kind of man who believed in his ideas, no matter how those ideas went against popular convention.

Two men died and a third man was injured and arrested on suspicion of drunken driving early Friday following a solo-car crash on the La Mirada border, authorities said.

ANAHEIM The City Council here took the first major step toward sharing resources or fully merging the Anaheim, Fullerton and Orange fire departments.

It's Thursday, and you've got no idea what you'll do for the weekend. Patch is coming to the rescue.

Jose Mangin , host/producer MTV.com 's web-only show "Headbangers Ball" , conducted an interview with vocalist Chuck Billy and guitarist Eric Peterson of San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT at the Dean Guitars booth at the 2012 NAMM show, a massive music-products convention that took place January 19-22 at the Anaheim Convention Center in ... (more)

A female passenger was injured in an Anaheim car accident , which officials say may have involved a driver making an unsafe lane change.

If you have an event to share, contact Andrea Manes by e-mail , phone or fax . Also, Anaheim Historical Society President Arthur Beas will present a program on Anaheim history.

A South Dakota inmate pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder in the killing of a prison guard during a botched escape attempt.

A lot of attention has been paid the past few days to Seattle's interest in the Kings.

A bloody glove left at the scene of a 35-year-old man's slaying in an Anaheim home on Halloween night 2006 ties a Lake Elsinore man to the crime, an Orange County prosecutor told jurors Wednesday, but a defense attorney insisted his client was out of the country when the killing occurred.

A 3-year-old girl was killed and her mother was seriously injured when the driver of a stolen car struck them as they crossed a street in an unincorporated portion of Anaheim and then drove away from the scene, authorities said.