Orange County Register: Eighth sign of the Apocalypse: Ambulances spontaneously combusting in Fountain Valley. . . . It won't be galloping from four white horses South County residents hear Wednesday and Thursday, but F-18s bombing Camp Pendleton. Don't worry, the Marine base planned it. . . . Former La Habra resident Melissa Huckaby, 28, could face additional charges of rape and molestation in the murder of a little girl in Tracy. . . . Andrew Thomas Gallo, 22, San Gabriel, cried in court as he faced triple murder charges in the crash that killed Angels rookie Nick Adenhart. . . . Mickadeit: The jury pool questions need for Steve Rocco's petty theft trial.
Los Angeles Times: Study shows illegal immigration continues to slow in California. . . . State Fair Political Practices Commission chairman Ross Johnson, a former longtime Orange County legislator, says campaign fund-raising laws have so many holes in them candidates for state office collected an average of $344,503 a day. . . . The last of the octuplets arrived at Octo-Mom's La Habra home today. (The Times picked up AP's story on it. Sigh…) . . . Seventies porn star (actually, back then, it would have been porno star) Marilyn Chambers, the one-time Ivory Snow detergent model who made her X-rated debut in Behind the Green Door, dies at 56. . . . To you fans who thought the Angels should take a serious run at then-free agent Manny Ramirez: He's already squawking about leaving the Dogs.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.