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In the wake of Tony Rackauckas' decision to charge two on-duty policemen in the beating death of Kelly Thomas last week, families of two unarmed men who were fatally shot by Long Beach police officers within the past year are asking Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley to follow suit. Long Beach police shot and …
There were no illegal drugs in Amy Winehouse's system when she died last month, according to a statement from the Winehouse family. According to spokesperson Chris Goodman in a release, toxicology results “by authorities have confirmed that there were no illegal substances in Amy's system and the time of her death.” ] Toxicology results indicated …
UPDATE, JUNE 23, 8:15 A.M.: As a car approached last night's DUI checkpoint at Bristol Street and Randolph Avenue in Costa Mesa, a beer can flew out of a passenger window. The driver was not only cited for allowing an open container in the vehicle, but a passenger was cited and also arrested for having …
UPDATE, MAY 17, 3:49 A.M.: Autopsy and toxicological reports reveal that the two teens found dead in a Huntington Beach apartment in January overdosed on prescription drugs, with alcohol contributing to one of the deaths, The Orange County Register reports. Aaron Saenz, 15, died from the intoxication of methadone (a narcotic used as a pain reliever), …
UPDATED, MAY 9, 8:39 A.M.: Besides reporting no significant traffic delays, the Irvine Police Department released the following statistics from Friday night's sobriety checkpoint at Campus Drive and Bridge Road: Vehicles stopped: 545Sobriety tests: 9DUI arrests: 2Citations issued: 10 ] ORIGINAL POST, MAY 6, 8:57 A.M.: The Irvine Police Department holds a sobriety checkpoint tonight at …
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UPDATE, APRIL 11, 8:39 A.M.: The Costa Mesa Police Department has released the results of its DUI checkpoint at Newport Boulevard and 17th Street on Saturday night: A total of 2,127 vehicles passed through the checkpoint; 611 vehicles screened; 9 drivers given field sobriety tests; 6 DUI suspects arrested; 12 driver's license investigations; 13 citations …
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A federal jury this afternoon issued mixed results for a group of South County residents–including a male supermodel and world-champion athlete–who sued Orange County Sheriff's Department deputies in Dana Point for false arrest and excessive force during a 2007 incident. The panel rejected the claims of all of four male plaintiffs but found that Deputy …
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A federal jury this afternoon issued mixed results for a group of South County residents–including a male supermodel and world-champion athlete–who sued Orange County Sheriff's Department deputies in Dana Point for false arrest and excessive force during a 2007 incident. The panel rejected the claims of all of four male plaintiffs but found that Deputy …
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UPDATE, FEB. 22, 8:18 A.M.: Despite on and off rain, Garden Grove police did operate a sobriety checkpoint Friday night. Police Sergeant Carl Whitney of GGPD's Traffic Division says four drivers were arrested for DUI and 15 vehicles were impounded, with 15 citations doled out to drivers for DUI, being unlicensed and/or driving on …
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Remember that July 15, 2008, incident where mixed-martial artist Quinton “Rampage” Jackson crashed his Ford F-150 into several vehicles and then led police on a high-speed chase that had him aggressively weaving through traffic, chatting on his cell phone, accelerating away from officers, slamming into another vehicle, running red lights, driving over a median, terrorizing …
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Everyone likes to get in on the fun on April Fools' Day, but perhaps not everyone should…
Kang, Krom and Agran: staying put. Allow me to take you way, way, way back in time to last Thursday, Oct. 30, when the following was posted here (and it was in the print edition that hit the streets that day, too): [Irvine mayoral candidate Christina] Shea and fellow incumbent Sukhee Kang are the only …
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