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OC Blog News Roundup - Feburary 16, 2008

Posted by: Jonathan Constantine | 02/16/2008 9:18 AM

NewsRoundupGraphic.gifToday's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:

Minuteman founder Gilchrist may challenge Rep. Loretta Sanchez
(OCR)
The anti-illegal immigration activist takes out papers to seek GOP nomination in the heavily Democratic, Latino congressional district.

Man 'sent from God' sentenced
(DP)
A man who illegally entered the St. John the Baptist elementary school campus and refused to leave after administrators confronted him has been released, Costa Mesa police said. He was not, as was erroneously reported in another publication, a registered sex offender, police said.
Disney workers picket at hotels (OCR)
Hotel union members protest over stalled salary negotiations with Disney management.

Carona lawyers seek to suppress statements
(OCR)
Defense team claims federal investigators improperly wired Haidl to secretly record conversations with Sheriff Carona.

South Coast Plaza says it's opening nine new stores (DP)
Shopping fanatics unite: One of the world's largest and highest-grossing malls just got a little bigger.

Copper signs taken from Santa Ana neighborhood
(OCR)
Police suspect the signs were stolen to be sold as scrap.

Some in public still angry about salary increase (OCR)
Yorba Linda city manager's nearly $210K base salary too much, some claim.

Jail remodeling may compromise ICE work
(DP)
Suspects whom the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent at Costa Mesa jail might normally detain may be slipping through the cracks since the jail's been shut down for remodeling, police officials said Friday.

O.C. child's death from flu is first in state (LAT)
Vaccine doesn't protect against most of the spreading flu bugs, officials say.

RIGONOMICS: You win some, you lose some
(DP)
The last two weeks were politically a little rough for me. Super Tuesday was almost two weeks ago, and I am still feeling the pain.

Hundreds of O.C. officers attend officer's funeral (OCR)
Officer Randal Simmons, 51, was the first LAPD SWAT member to die in the line of duty.

Juror questionnaire submitted in Carona case (OCR and LAT)
Topics include questions on infidelity, swearing and the ethics behind undercover tactics by law enforcement

Court rejects challenge of medical marijuana ban
(OCR)
Dispensary plans to appeal ruling that supports Anaheim's ban.

Hearing called on state insurance agency
(OCR)
Panel will probe finances and meeting practices of the quasi-governmental entity that insures insurers.

South Coast Plaza says it's opening nine new stores (DP)
Shopping fanatics unite: One of the world's largest and highest-grossing malls just got a little bigger.

Buena Park pastor again prays for critics' demise
(LAT)
Wiley Drake issues the call after finding that the IRS is investigating, at Americans United's request, his endorsement of candidate Mike Huckabee.

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