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In an odd mix of dress styles, visitors to Disneyland were dressed in either their “Dapper best” or “dark Goth” as both Dapper Day and Bats Day took place Sunday.
Both days are unofficial days, in that the Disneyland Resort is not officially...

Dozens gathered in Anaheim Sunday morning for the annual May Day march in support of international worker’s day and immigrant rights. The international demonstration, held every year on May 1, assembled at Pearson Park and marched to Anaheim’s...

Last Monday’s U.S. Senate debate clearly displayed some of the differences in the candidates.
Democratic Attorney General Kamala Harris was composed and stately. Loretta Sanchez, D-Orange, was spontaneous and at times bordering on giddy. Republican...

When Martin Welc asks his real estate classes at Saddleback College if one agent should represent both the buyer and the seller in a negotiation over a house, the students widely disagree.
“We ask them: ‘Dual agent or double agent?’” said...

“Life in the underwater world is three-dimensional,” says Linda Blanchard, president of the Orange County Underwater Photographic Society.
Taking pictures of that life – pictures that can tell a story and move a heart – isn’t easy.
Consider...

Even as Orange County’s then-treasurer was making wrong-way investment bets with public money and illegally skimming millions into county accounts, the county got a clean bill of financial health from its auditor.
Even as Bell was paying enormous...

WESTMINSTER – As the North Vietnamese took control of Saigon on April 30, 1975, Tony Huu Thai Tang watched the only home he had ever known fade from view.
Thanks to his role as an officer in the South Vietnamese Air Force, he secured a helicopter...

Bill Cook gazes upon fields of strawberries and, in his mind’s eye, he sees thousands of his Marine brothers leaving for Vietnam, never to return.
He also sees hallowed ground – and an opportunity for healing, homecoming and honor.
Since the 1999...

California’s housing market enters its prime shopping season with a decided lack of momentum.
The common wisdom is that limited options for house hunters has made the shopping process so distasteful that many owners are just opting to stay in their...

It’s apparently not just the fine weather that makes Californians smile. California’s consumers are the most optimistic among eight large U.S. states, according to the widely watched Consumer Confidence Index. My trusty spreadsheet tells me...