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RIP George Jones: The Story of How He Learned to Sing

The King is dead. Country singer George Jones, who entered Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center on April 18 with a fever and irregular blood pressure, checked out for good early this morning. Cause of death has yet to be made public, but it's amazing that the hard living honky tonk singe ... More >>

Sex Slave Case In SoCal Alleges Abuse, Prostitution For 12-Year-Old Girl

An Oceanside couple was arrested this week for allegedly keeping a 12-year-old girl against her will and using her as a sex slave, prostitute and housekeeper. Inez Martinez Garcia, 43, and husband Marcial Garcia Hernandez, 45, were arrested by San Diego County sheriff's deputies yesterday morning, ... More >>

Junior Seau Dead of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound in Oceanside

Updated at the bottom with the San Diego County coroner confirming suicide as the cause of death. First posted at 12:27 p.m. Wednesday. Junior Seau, the hometown hero and onetime USC player who became a star linebacker for the San Diego Chargers, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound thi ... More >>

CHP and Copter Catch Guy in High-speed 100-Mile Motorcycle Chase -- Then Guy Makes Out with His Girl

By Andra Lim Police chased a motorcyclist for 100 miles until he ran out of gas in northern San Diego County and began making out with his passenger on Sunday afternoon. It started when the California Highway Patrol tried to pull over the bike on I-5 in the San Fernando Valley, because the motorc ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Adam Roberts of The Amateur Gourmet

Adam Roberts is one of those food blogger-turned-published authors whose success makes the rest of us drool. He created his blog, "The Amateur Gourmet," in 2004 while studying law at Emory University. "I'd come home from a long day of law school, my brain would be fried, and the only thing I could ... More >>

Top 5 Halloween Pumpkins from Your Local Farmers Markets

Felicia FriesemaOne of many pumpkin displays at the Hollywood market.​Second only to fireworks and the old Victorian tradition of lighting actual candles in a dead pine tree (the stuff of California nightmares), the Halloween jack-o'-lantern tops the list for ways to make your local fire depar ... More >>

Southern California Blackouts in San Diego, South Orange County During Heatwave

​Updated at the bottom: As power seems to be coming back on, California electricity officials issue a "flex-alert" for the entire state. A power outage affecting all of San Diego County has been reported today, and now we're seeing tweets that the lights have gone out in Dana Point, Laguna Ni ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden's Soggy Remains to Be Hunted by SoCal Shipwreck Diver

ABC7Bill Warren, 69-year old American hero​Before his May 2011 takedown, Osama bin Laden was one of the most hunted men alive: Many a bounty hunter and U.S. soldier gone freelance vied for his $25 million head. And in death, turns out, the Al Qaeda mastermind is still relatively popular: Bi ... More >>

Coachella 2011: Same Festival, Polar Opposite Crowds

photo by Wendy GilmartinThis guys wasn't at Duran Duran​ Coachella is all about variety and sure there are those fleeting chocolate-in-my-peanut butter moments when scenesters, hippies and douchebags all get down together (see Animal Collective, Saturday night). But right now we're talking ab ... More >>

Terrorist Dry Run at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Complex in Southern California? Three Middle Eastern Men Try to Drive on Base

The Daily MailAhmad Rahmani Naeem, Vahik Petrossian and Sengekdi Avanosian.​A scary situation unfolded at Southern California's Camp Pendleton, one of the nation's largest military bases, over the weekend. Marine Corps officials are downplaying the events, but what happened at the San Diego ... More >>

#Banksy and the #Oscars: Our Fave Tweets About the Artist and the Big Show Are More Entertaining Than James Franco

OK MagazineBanksy?​Banksy seemed to get more positive buzz from the Oscars on Sunday than James Franco. And the artist wasn't even there. After a few weeks in L.A. in which the British wall painter saw his work taken down, stolen and vandalized, it was only fitting that he would then be dis ... More >>

(Video) John Tyner Refuses TSA Groping At Southern California Airport, Is Turned Away From Flight

jesus-is-savior.comTSA gets all up in your T 'n' A -- officially so.​Almost 10 years after 9/11, you get the feeling Americans are getting sick of airport security measures. We reported Monday morning about the L.A. "food stylist" who was kicked off a weekend flight as a result of his "ATOM BO ... More >>

Malibu Lagoon Dredging War Erupts Between Heal the Bay and Wetlands Defense Fund as Coastal Commission Decides Fate

Tibby RothmanStart your bulldozers​ Updated Wednesday afternoon with unanimous vote by Coastal Commission. When Heal the Bay waded into Malibu Lagoon to devise a way to "restore" the rebuilt-by-man lagoon, they probably weren't thinking their blue chip environmental credentials might get bogg ... More >>

Craigslist's Defunct 'Erotic Services' Ads Live On In Tijuana, And Some Women Offer North-Of-The-Border Sessions

A "spicy blonde" advertises on Craigslist Tijuana.​Under pressure from law enforcers who said it was a haven for prostitution, Craigslist quietly shut down its "Adult Services" advertising section earlier this month, replacing it with the word "Censored." But U.S. users of the classified adver ... More >>

Former NASCAR Driver Nabbed After High-Speed Chase Now Suspected Of Attempted Rape

​This is the story of a guy who really could get arrested. A couple weeks ago we told you the how a former NASCAR driver, despite getting away from authorities in a high-speed chase, got caught when the Corvette he was lead-footing croaked in an engine FAIL that would make BP proud. James Ed ... More >>

The Next Wave of Fast Food: The Sushi Popper?

Sushi PopperSushi on a Stick!​ Here's a pop quiz: Name a few items, food or otherwise, that are sold in a tube. Toothpaste? Check. Push Pops? Double check. Yoplait Go-gurt? Yuck (but a check nonetheless). Soon we can add sushi to that list as culinary entrepreneurs Lucas Furst and Evan Kaye a ... More >>

Is Beverly Hills A Big Spender's Town? Survey Says ... Not So Much

​Swimming pools, movie stars ... and cheapskates. We always said rich people don't get that way by being loose with their pocketbooks. A survey by spending-data site Bundle might confirm that fact: Although its real estate values often rank at the top of national lists, Beverly Hills ranked a ... More >>

Today in Photographs: March 16, 1980

Klansmen attack demonstrator during Oceanside riot. Thirty armed KKK members had marched through town and battled with hecklers.Photo: Dean Musgrove, L.A. Herald-ExaminerLAPL CollectionClick image to enlarge

JOURNALISM'S DEAD-- LET'S LEAVE TOWN!

The March That Got Away

The flyer from SMC Students Against Budget Cuts was impressive: A cartoon of the Guv all buffed up, standing behind a podium bearing the California state seal, while brandishing a gun. Out of the weapon's viewfinder poured the words: Hasta la Vista Education!!! Schwarzenegger's new budget will slice ... More >>

Warrior on Trial: A Kilo 3/1 Marine Faces Criminal-Homicide Charges

Before Haditha: Jose Nazario came home from Iraq a hero for valor in the Battle of Fallujah. Now they're calling some of his actions criminal.

Minuteman Divisions

Internal squabbles tear at anti-immigrant movement

Sk8er Girl in Z-Boy Land

Director Catherine Hardwicke on being the Lady of Dogtown

Split Over Atoms

Who will pay for San Onofre’s rehab?

Openly Rational

A straight, Republican judge rules for the home team

Surf’s Way Up

Riding Giants puts the history of big-wave riding on the big screen

On the Border of Hypocrisy

The unintended consequences of getting tough on illegal immigration

Beaching the Cleanup Plan

How a one-man crusade to overturn pollution controls became a $1 million legal fight

American Idols: Director Jack Hill, Grindhouse Guru

Full Metal Jeer

God, the Marines and American Idol

The 2nd Annual List Issue