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Lee Chapin Sammis passed away February 12, 2013, in his home in Newport Beach, CA, where he lived and built his business for the past 50 years.  He was born on February 15, 1931 in Los Angeles to MIT graduates Ford Woodruff and Constance Sharp Sammis. ...

A Costa Mesa man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and business partner pleaded not guilty to a murder charge Friday morning in Orange County Superior Court, according to the court's website. On July 8, Thomas Michael Wilhelm, 48, drank cherry vodka,...

Being hit by a drunk driver and watching her parents divorce doesn't sound like the recipe for creating a business that fosters romance, but that's what happened for one 19 year old. Alyssa Shapiro has used her negative experiences to start Seaside...

Police arrested a Costa Mesa man Sunday after he allegedly shot his former business partner in the Redwood Avenue home they shared. Thomas Michael Wilhelm, 48, was booked on suspicion of murder and is being held in Orange County Jail in lieu of $1-...

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Forgive the rhyme, but big-city tap water is the secret to a pizza pie capable of making a full-grown New Yorker cry, says the co-owner of Johnny's Real New York Pizza in Corona del Mar. John Younesi, a Queens native who moved to Newport in 2000, and his...

A review of some of the recent decisions of the Costa Mesa Planning Commission and the City Council may lead one to believe the city is flush. Last February, for example, the council blew an opportunity to collect an easy $39,000 by renting out the...

How do the wealthy stay wealthy? The mandatory financial disclosure released last week by commerce secretary nominee Penny Pritzker provides a rare look at an American billionaire's entire investment portfolio. Pritzker inherited much of her wealth,...

Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker intends to resign from corporate boards, including that of Hyatt Hotels Corp., and reported that she received nearly $54 million in consulting fees last year from an off-shore Bahamian trust, the U.S. Commerce...

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said Friday that an unusual plan to finance construction of the I-95/Pennsylvania Turnpike connection "raises alarms" and may prompt an investigation by his office. DePasquale said he was especially...

(MCT) — To help pay for the construction of the long-awaited connection between the Pennsylvania Turnpike and I-95, turnpike officials plan to borrow $200 million from wealthy foreign investors. The investors, expected to be primarily from China,...

"The past is never dead. It's not even past," William Faulkner wrote more than 60 years ago, long before the sound and the fury of online chatter and the Internet's capacity for keeping one's personal history ever-present and unburied. The road people...