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Santa Ana bar brawl: Women ‘took cheap shots’ at victim’s head, prosecutor says

A prosecutor used his closing arguments Tuesday to say two women charged with murder “took cheap shots” as they kicked a 23-year-old recent Chapman graduate on the head, causing her blunt force trauma death outside a trendy Santa Ana nightclub earlier this year. The two women, defendants Vanessa Zavala, 26, and Candace Brito, 27, are […]

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Possible video of defendants landing deadly kick sought in Kim Pham trial

The Justice for Kim Pham Facebook page Tuesday night asked supporters for their help in searching for a missing video that allegedly shows one or both of the two women charged in Kim Pham’s death land a kick to Pham’s head in the fateful January 2014 bar brawl. The video, which has been alluded to […]

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Witness who filmed brawl testifies in Kim Pham beating death trial

SANTA ANA – A man who shot a now-ubiquitous cell phone video of the chaotic Crosby bar brawl in Santa Ana earlier this year testified in the trial of two women charged in Kim Pham’s beating death Thursday morning. But, like how that video has been interpreted as showing two different narratives of the brawl, the witness’ […]

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Cell phone videos may be key to Kim Pham beating death trial

Trial will attempt to piece together the chaotic bar brawl that led to Kim Pham’s death SANTA ANA – Attorneys representing the defense and prosecution both said in their opening statements today that witness cell phone videos may play a key role in the trial of two women charged in the January nightclub beating death of […]

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Protesters urge Rep. Royce to pass immigration reform bill

BREA – Police arrested seven immigration reform advocates following a march and protest in downtown Brea to urge Rep. Ed Royce, R-Brea, to pass an immigration bill that has been awaiting Congressional approval for a year, on Friday, June 27, 2014, according to organizers. The bill, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of […]

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Isla Vista shooting resurfaces old debates about gun control, mental health and … the media?

As members of the news media converged to the college town of Isla Vista, a hometown college newspaper decided to withdraw A massacre in the college town of Isla Vista, California, over the weekend has renewed well-oiled debates about gun violence and mental health issues in America. But it has also raised another question: How should […]

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NSA Leaker Snowden a Hero

The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras; photo on CNN. Since the NSA whistelblower identified himself as Edward Snowden, an intelligence official who has worked with the CIA and NSA, on Sunday, reactions have been mixed. Already, two top Congress officials – Senator Diane Feinstein and House Speaker John Boehner – have called Snowden a […]

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Search for Maribel Ramos, missing CSUF student, to expand this weekend

Update May 16, 2013 at 10 a.m.: A post on the “Find Maribel Ramos” Facebook page announced an Awareness Walk scheduled for Saturday, May 18, in Peters Canyon Trail in Tustin. The post said they are not authorized for a search rescue but will pass out fliers. As the search for a Cal State Fullerton […]

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Tweeting the CSUF lockdown (Part I: Chaos)

A SWAT team roamed the campus, a helicopter flooded a searchlight onto Mihaylo Hall and students barricaded entrances to classrooms at Cal State Fullerton Wednesday as the campus went into lockdown. It was like Black Hawk Down. I was at the sixth floor of College Park, the building in the background in the photo above. […]

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Libertarian candidate Gov. Gary Johnson visits Cal State Fullerton

Gov. Johnson speaks about fiscal responsibility while decrying “crony capitalism” By Tim Worden and Chris Konte, published in Tuesday’s Daily Titan. Gov. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s 2012 presidential candidate, visited Cal State Fullerton Monday to promote his message of limited government, saying that voting for a third-party candidate is not a waste of anyone’s […]