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  From the Fullerton Public Information office – Fullerton City Manager Joe Felz today (Feb.3) announced that Michael F. Sellers has informed the city that he will retire from his position as chief of the Fullerton Police Department. The retirement will be effective Feb. 18. Felz, who wished Sellers well, said the retirement will...
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By Mimi Ko Cruz – The pressure was on. Would Cal State Fullerton’s Welebaethan be proclaimed the best student history journal in the nation for the 25th year in a row? Absolutely, the journal judges for the National History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta, decided. The journal’s writers and editors and their faculty advisers...
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For John and Janice Lee, “It’s all about community.” That’s why they opened My Giggle Place, a play and Tae Kwon Do center for kids one to eight years old. The center on Imperial Highway just celebrated their first year in Fullerton. John says, “The idea for My Giggle Place came to me after...
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The body of a missing Fullerton woman was discovered Wednesday afternoon, the victim of an apparent suicide. Hongyuan Li, 72, was reported missing on Tuesday morning. Her family reported that she had left their home on the 600 block of W. Valencia Mesa Drive between 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Li, who had been...
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A 72 year-old woman walked away from her home sometime after 10am Tuesday morning, and has not been located. Fullerton police are asking for the public’s help in locating the woman. Fullerton Police Sgt. Andrew Goodrich said that Hongyuan Li resides in the 600 block of W. Valencia Mesa Dr. with her family and...
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Compiled by Jeanne Hoffa – Craigslist Scam Dupes Prospective Renter, Jan. 27, 2012 A woman found a Fullerton home for rent listed on Craigslist, and called the phone number listed in the ad.  She spoke with a man who said he lived in Texas. He gave her the address on the 1700 block of Sumemrwood Drive,...
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By Megan Alyse Hanson – Occupiers from Occupy O.C. who brought their movement from Irvine on January 11th moved from their tent village at the Brea Dam to Lion’s Field on Brea Blvd. for their third week of camping in Fullerton.  The Occupy O.C. website states that the entire movement is going on its...
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By Corky Nepomuceno – As heart-wrenching and harried as it can be, theatre life still possesses a certain magic that attracts hundreds of talented thespians every year, if merely for the gratification of artistic expression. Testament to this is Stages Theatre‘s impressive 20th Anniversary season as an independently run and non-profit organization. And from...
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From the Orange County District Attorney’s Office – SANTA ANA – A man was sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for the bludgeoning-murder of a married father of two in order to rob him under the pretense of meeting for sex. Jaime Jezzuel Lopez, 29, Garden Grove, was...
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After two years of serving from a food truck, brothers Alex and Andrew Honoré have settled down and opened Shortstop BBQ in a brick and mortar location. The Honorés were inspired at an early age by their great-grandfather, who in the 1950‘s opened Doug’s Hickory Pit Barbeque in Amarillo, Texas. With 12 years in...
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