OC Blog News Roundup - May 31, 2008
Posted by: Jonathan Constantine | 05/31/2008 1:52 PM
Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:
Measure would limit height of 272 homes in San Clemente's Shorecliffs neighborhood (LAT)
Residents are pitted against one another over whether one-story hillside homes can grow to two levels, potentially blocking neighbors' ocean views.
County leaders get a free ride (OCR)
With fuel prices soaring, attention focuses on little-known perk for top county officials.
2.1 earthquake jiggles Laguna Beach (OCR)
A magnitude 2.1 microquake occurred at 10:09 a.m. in the Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, lightly and briefly shaking nearby Crystal Cove and the Newport Coast, says the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake began close to the Earth's surface, probably on the San Joaquin Hills fault, a blind-thrust fault system that appears to be linked to the nearby Newport-Inglewood fault.
Fundraising for quake victims (DP)
The day of the massive earthquake in China, a UCI graduate student heard his mother in China cry. They were talking on the phone as she watched video of the bodies of middle school children being pulled out of the debris of their building.
Bay science center opens (DP)
Construction of the new Back Bay Science Center on Shellmaker Island had to be delayed for a pair of osprey nesting in the area. Building plans for the center were put on hold until the pair's eggs hatched.
Experts: Fullerton police acted properly on the teacher case (OCR and LAT)
When allegations are made of a shotgun and drugs on campus, different rules come into play.
Murder trial set for local man, 29 (DP)
A Newport Beach man accused of shoving a liquor store owner so hard that he sent him sprawling to his death will stand trial for murder, a Santa Ana Court judge ruled Friday.
Measure would limit height of 272 homes in San Clemente's Shorecliffs neighborhood (LAT)Residents are pitted against one another over whether one-story hillside homes can grow to two levels, potentially blocking neighbors' ocean views.
County leaders get a free ride (OCR)
With fuel prices soaring, attention focuses on little-known perk for top county officials.
2.1 earthquake jiggles Laguna Beach (OCR)
A magnitude 2.1 microquake occurred at 10:09 a.m. in the Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, lightly and briefly shaking nearby Crystal Cove and the Newport Coast, says the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake began close to the Earth's surface, probably on the San Joaquin Hills fault, a blind-thrust fault system that appears to be linked to the nearby Newport-Inglewood fault.
Fundraising for quake victims (DP)
The day of the massive earthquake in China, a UCI graduate student heard his mother in China cry. They were talking on the phone as she watched video of the bodies of middle school children being pulled out of the debris of their building.
Bay science center opens (DP)
Construction of the new Back Bay Science Center on Shellmaker Island had to be delayed for a pair of osprey nesting in the area. Building plans for the center were put on hold until the pair's eggs hatched.
Experts: Fullerton police acted properly on the teacher case (OCR and LAT)
When allegations are made of a shotgun and drugs on campus, different rules come into play.
Murder trial set for local man, 29 (DP)
A Newport Beach man accused of shoving a liquor store owner so hard that he sent him sprawling to his death will stand trial for murder, a Santa Ana Court judge ruled Friday.
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