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Don't mess with the Seacrest. That's the Los Angeles District Attorney's message to Chidi Uzomah Jr., who is now facing a felony stalking charge for last week's drop-in at E! HQ for an unwanted meet-and-greet with Ryan Seacrest .

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JROTC CELEBRATES VETERANS DAY The Veterans Day Commemoration and Marine Corps Birthday celebration will be held at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov.

Hundreds of newborn cats and dogs have been saved from almost certain death this year by a growing foster-care program at OC Animal Care, shelter officials say.

An Orange County man who aimed a laser beam at two airliners as they approached an airport has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for disrupting the flights.

The fast-casual barbecue wars begin today in Orange. Beach Pit BBQ , which has locations in Tustin and Costa Mesa, opens its third Orange County restaurant today in Old Towne Orange.

David Tarloff lives in a deeply troubled inner world. He was diagnosed as schizophrenic and hospitalized more than a dozen times before hacking a Manhattan psychologist to death with a meat cleaver.

Several missing CDs containing unencrypted personal data on 68,000 members of the CalOptima managed care plan have been traced to a secure postal facility in Atlanta.

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Is Diane Harkey the scariest politician in Orange County? The wacky blue guys at theA LiberalA OC blog have put up a list of the scariest bloggers in Orange County.A On that list you will find our bloggers Terry Crowley, Red Vixen, Tony Bushala and Paul Lucas.A They even listed our anonymous bloggers on their top ten, so half their list is made up ...

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OUSD to deny Global Tides “Spam” Charter School In a scathing 14 page Board of Education Resolution, the Orange Unified School Board will reject the Charter School Petition of Global Tides for the Orange County Charter School at their October 29, 2009 regular OUSD Board Meeting. Action Agenda Item 12 A (pages 3-21) on the OUSD Board of Education October 29 Agenda has a staff recommendation denying the application on three of five legally required areas and notes that at the September 9 OUSD Board Meeting at a legally required Public Hearing no speakers, including anyone from any of the organizations involved in the proposal, spoke at the hearing. The unprecedented Agenda recommendation also noted that five OUSD administrative offices spent time working on the legally required review of the application: Administrative Services; Educational Services; Human Resources; Pupil Services; and the Superintendent’s Office. The Resolution, which reads more like an indictment of facts, cites the fact that Charter School Development Systems, one of a web of players involved in application that are named in the Resolution, has filed 91 similar petitions across the state. The “partner” of Charter Schools Development Systems is named in the Resolution as Ed Futures Inc., a for-profit California corporation. The Resolution reveals the investigations about both entities claims and cites experiences with the firms from other school districts across the state including Long Beach Unified. .

The Orange City Council passed an amendment Tuesday night to an existing law aimed at cracking down on so-called party houses in Old Towne Orange adjacent to Chapman University.

Ruh roh! Another Ackerman scandal is brewing!

Our friends at the OC Progressive blog are going after him on the issue of the sale of the O.C. Fairgrounds. It turns out that former State Senator Dick Ackerman, whose wife Linda is running for the 72nd Assembly District, lobbied the Governor and the State Legislature to sell the Fairgrounds – but he is not registered as a lobbyist! Here are a few excerpts from their post:

There’s an incredible scandal brewing at the Orange County Fairgrounds and Attorney General Jerry Brown better get on top of this before it blows up in his face. The deal to sell the fairgrounds has stunk, and the Attorney General’s office is right in the middle of the muck.

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Police have been tracing the final steps of Mary Bowman , a 75- year-old Anaheim woman who died a few days after her daughter found her on the floor of her condominium.

Are you wondering where our post about Mike Duvall, Desiree Mouzoon and Dick Ackerman went? We received, via email, a letter from an attorney named Corbett Williams, and signed by another attorney named Thomas Reed Malcom, who is a partner at Jones Day, tonight at 6:30 pm that demanded, amongst other things, that we remove that post.

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Malcolm states in his letter, as you can see in the excerpt atop this post, that Mouzoon did not in fact work for Duvall and that she did not have “intimate contact” with him. The letter does not however indicate whether or not she was a contracted fundraiser for him. Her website previously included a testimonial from Duvall about her services.

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An Anaheim man was been charged with raping two women he met at bus stops in Orange after a second victim came forward when she saw news accounts of the other case, prosecutors said David Julian Stieglitz, 32, is scheduled for arraignment this afternoon in the Central Justice Center here on four sexual-assault counts, plus sentencing enhancements ...

WOMEN'S CLUB NEWS The Women's Club of Orange will hold its general meeting and luncheon at noon on Monday, Oct.

A man was partially scalped in a fight outside a Stanton karaoke bar Saturday that ended with three suspects in custody on suspicion of attempted murder.