When George Toubbeh began drinking the 24-oz can of Heineken he’d bought at Ralph’s Grocery in Fountain Valley, California, he could tells something was amiss. The beer had a “foul taste,” reminiscent of Heineken, but not quite right; nonetheless, he downed it. Then came the vomiting and abdominal pain. Then he…
Dr. Bob Sears, a pediatrician from a family of vaccine-criticizing doctors, could lose his license after California’s state medical board says he failed to immunize a toddler who didn’t truly need a medical exemption. The board accuses Sears of “gross negligence” for not vaccinating the child after relying on an…
Alexa Curtin, daughter of former Real Housewives of Orange County star Lynne Curtin, has accused an Orange County police officer of rape.
Another reason why messing with suburban moms is always a bad idea: Kelli Peters, a former PTA president and Orange County resident, won $5.7 million in a civil suit in damages over an incident in which a pair of two other parents, whose son attended her child’s school, planted weed and narcotics in her car.
A high school in California’s Orange County recently won a contest awarding them a visit from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, as well as a plump $10,000 grant for the school’s music department. But Aliso Niguel High School principal, Deni Christensen, declined both Mack and money because parents objected to the Ed Sheeran…
Meghan Alt, a 25-year-old mother and former pageant queen from Irvine, California, was arrested after confessing to creating and distributing child pornography. The victim was a four-year-old female family member.
School field trips are officially cancelled forever now that more information has come out about the drug and alcohol-fueled romps two high school teachers took with their students last year. The Orange County teachers, formerly accused only of sexing and boozing, are now being charged with handing out cocaine as well.
Goodbye field trips, last bastion of anything good about school: No parent will ever allow one of their kids to leave school with a teacher (which is fine, they sex there too) after two teachers have been arrested for having sex with students while on some kind of booze-filled spring-break style recapturing of their…
Someone's either playing a cruel trick or issuing some kind of cryptic warning to the children of San Clemente, California. Police report that an unidentified person is leaving porcelain dolls in front of homes where 10-year-old girls live. And what's even creepier is that the dolls resemble the children.
Tom Mauk, the CEO of Orange County — or the O.C. as the kids were calling it not a few days ago — will resign over criticism of how he handled (or mishandled, as the case may be) allegations that Santa Ana City Councilman Carlos Bustamante sexually assaulted women working in the Orange County Public Works department.
Last night, someone hung a noose on the door of gay rights group Equality California's office. The police response: "Sometimes you just have to live with being a victim."
On last night's episode, a boozy, weekday afternoon for the gals went from jokes about vaginal tightness and big dicks to a tear-filled pity party about how hard it is to raise teenagers in a wealthy community.
Remember Jameelah Medina, the Muslim woman forced to take off her hijab in front of a male deputy? Watch a new video of her recounting the harassment she faced by clicking on the pic.
Sure, us common folk are cutting back in the current economic climate, but how are the nouveau riche faring? Gretchen Rossi, the newest "housewife" of The Real Housewives of Orange County says that struggles with the economy will be reflected in the upcoming season of the show. Does this mean the women will be scaling…
A judge in Orange County, California signed an agreement last week that will allow Muslim women to wear county-issued headscarves in jail. The change came after a Muslim woman named Jameelah Medina filed a lawsuit against the county after she was arrested in 2005 for having an invalid train pass and forced to remove…
Lauren Conrad was spotted "getting very cozy" and swapping tales of C-list level celebrité with Orange County actor Kyle Howard. So she went from dating actual OC losers to dating someone who played one for a movie? Upgrade! • You know you are really pushing the limits of a story when the moms start commenting to…
• Hot new trend: polygamist pastels? Yeah, whatever.• Facials that involve steam and extractions are bad for your skin. • NPR's "Fresh Air" host, Terry Gross, once got fired from a job as an inner-city school teacher. • Indigenous girls in Australia were forced to get contraceptive implants when they were as young as…
Here's some Friday cuteness: animal control officers in Garden Grove, CA made a rare rescue mission to save a group of 14 ducklings that had fallen into a storm drain. The article comes with a video, complete with peeps and worried quacks from the mother duck who was "frantically pacing around the drain opening" when…
