OC Blog News Roundup - March 22, 2008
Posted by: Jonathan Constantine | 03/22/2008 10:31 AM
Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:7 arrested in DEA bust suspected of being in drug-robbery crew (OCR)
Orange operation at Castaway Motel netted weapons but no drugs.
Deputies honored for acts of valor (OCR)
Deputy Jon Tomer, who was stabbed on a call in Aliso Viejo, receives top honor.
Temperatures to rise into the low 80s.
Santa Ana honors Cesar Chavez today (OCR)
'He should be recognized throughout the world,' friend and event co-organizer says.
Tiger Woods Park in Cypress? (OCR)
A councilman wants to rename a popular park after the golf star.
Planning Commission OKs Hoag Hospital expansion (DP)
The Newport Beach Planning Commission voted unanimously Thursday night to accept a plan by Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian to allow shifting up to 225,000 square feet of building space from its lower to upper campus, a move the hospital said would allow for construction of more operating rooms and care facilities.
New device may help save lives (OCR)
When rescue workers must halt CPR to navigate a patient to the hospital, the person's blood pressure drops, as do chances the heart will restart.
O.C. 'Scar Face' bandit strikes again (LAT)
Two days after a reward for his capture was announced, the so-called Scar Face bandit committed at least his 11th bank robbery in Orange County, but an exploding dye pack may have left him red-handed today, police said.
San Clemente pair held in child endangerment (LAT)
A woman having sex Monday didn't notice that her shower curtain had caught fire, having disabled her apartment's smoke alarm to smoke methamphetamine, which she stored in an adjacent room where a baby was sleeping, authorities said.
Fullerton aims to rein in rowdy revelers (LAT)
The city's once-sleepy downtown is busy, with alcohol-related crimes growing. A new law has been passed.
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