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Community & Clubs: Our hero, the newswoman
On a quarterly basis, the Newport-Irvine Rotary Club hosts Chief David Maggard and the Irvine Police Department at breakfast to jointly honor a member of our community who has worked to contribute to the safety and benefit of Irvine and the local...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Colleges and Universities, Landforms, Clubs and Associations
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Police collect unwanted prescription pills
As part of the national prescription drug take-back day, Costa Mesa and Newport Beach police collected more than 300 pounds of unwanted drugs, officials said Monday. On Saturday, 35 people turned over 129 pounds of prescription drugs to the Costa Mesa...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Drug Trafficking, Chemical Industry
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It's A Gray Area: Government is meddling in health care
Since my last column about health care appeared in this space, the system has continued to gallop toward disaster. Today, under the federal government's "leadership," we often pay several times more in the United States for the same prescription drugs...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Ayn Rand, Medicaid, Hip Replacement, Insurance
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Man arrested on drug charges by Irvine police (Corrected)
Irvine police arrested a man for allegedly selling prescription drugs Friday, concluding a three-month investigation, according to a press release. Detectives arrested Anaheim resident Anthony Risberg, 37, for sales and transportation of a controlled...
Tags: Interior Policy, Drug Trafficking, Police Arrests, OxyContin (drug), Politics
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Smith: Legal drugs more deadly than guns
About a month ago, I commented on the futility of attempting gun control. I wrote that "there are 270 million privately owned firearms in the U.S. The U.S. is the world leader in both the number of privately owned guns and, more telling, the rate of...Tags: Interior Policy, Students, Vicodin (drug), Los Angeles Times, Hydrocodone (drug)
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Smith: We should secure school campuses
According to gunpolicy.org, a website that covers "international firearm injury, prevention and policy," there are 270 million privately owned firearms in the U.S. The U.S. is the world leader in both the number of privately owned guns and, more telling,...Tags: Interior Policy, Drugs and Medicines, Teaching and Learning, Students, Gun Control
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Driver who hit Harbor student gets 7 years
An impaired Costa Mesa driver who struck a Newport Harbor High School student crossing the street outside the school was sentenced Friday to seven years in state prison. Marnie Jo Lippincott, 39, pleaded guilty in September in Orange County Superior...
Tags: Orange County Superior Court, Head Injuries, Human Interest, Trials, Injuries and Wounds
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Prosecutor: Deaths caused by 'tantrum of a controlling man'
SANTA ANA — A man accused of killing his ex-wife and her father last year is a "control freak" who was cognizant of his actions, an Orange County prosecutor told jurors Thursday. Robert Alan Lehmann's 911 call on May 3, 2011 — the day Emily...Tags: Prosecution, Murder, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Lawyers
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Driver who hit Harbor student pleads guilty
SANTA ANA — A Costa Mesa woman whose SUV plowed into a 17-year-old student outside of Newport Harbor High School shortly after classes let out pleaded guilty Thursday to felony driving under the influence and causing the wreck. Marnie Jo...
Tags: Orange County Superior Court, Crime, Law and Justice, Head Injuries, CEC Entertainment, Inc., Justice System
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Irvine businessman pleads guilty to distributing Chinese-made hormone
The president of a Santa Fe Springs company pleaded guilty Monday to illegally distributing human growth hormone, federal authorities said. David Ji, 50, admitted that his company had distributed a Chinese manufactured drug that contained somatropin -- a...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Food and Drug Administration, Trials, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations
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Arraignment set for lawyers accused of planting drugs
An Irvine couple is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on felony charges that they planted drugs in a PTA president's car because they didn't like how their son was being supervised. Kent Wycliffe Easter, 38, and Jill Bjorkholm Easter, 39, are charged with...Tags: Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Drug Trafficking, Prisons, Justice System
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Newport Beach Film Festival to have 18 world premieres
The Newport-Mesa will become a movie industry magnet this week as more than 400 films from 50 nations land here for the 13th annual Newport Beach Film Festival. Eighteen of those films will be having their world premiere. Festival organizers hope...Tags: Bill Paxton, Entertainment, Music, Big Love (tv program), Jon Lovitz
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