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Our top ten Santa Ana news stories of 2012

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Angelica Amezcua - or Angie Oliver, courtesy of the OC Register

Angelica Amezcua, courtesy of the OC Register

The year 2012 was a great year for news in Santa Ana.  I have reviewed all of our readership data and come up with our top ten stories in Santa Ana this year. Here they are:

  1. Mayor Miguel Pulido easily reelected as Council Member David Benavides loses badly, as we predicted.
  2. Council Member Carlos Bustamante busted for alleged sex crimes – and his twin brother Alfonso faced a civil suit too.
  3. The unknown and unfunded Ward 3 Council candidate Angelica Amezcua soundly defeats Team Benavides ally Eric Alderete. Continue reading→

Cheerios’ flashlight has gone out but the memories remain

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His real name was Kenneth Pierre.  But folks in Santa Ana knew him as “Cheerios.”  He was “the old guy who hangs around high school football games, shining a flashlight at passing cars to remind the drivers to turn on their headlights,” according to the O.C. Register.

Robert Sanchez started a Facebook group devoted to Cheerios and it was there that he posted this sad goodbye today: Continue reading→