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WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL Orange Coast def. Santa Ana SANTA ANA - Freshmen Karlee Riggs and Morgan Link had 11 kills to help the Pirates to a 25-18, 25-18, 25-17 Orange Empire Conference win Friday. Freshman setter Allison Lumsden had 29 assists, while sophomore Katherine Wichner and freshman Andi Frisina had 10 digs each for OCC (14-2, 10-1 in conference). Santa Ana is 2-13, 0-11. The Pirates play host to rival Golden West for first place in the OEC Wednesday at 7 p.m. * UC Santa Barbara def. UC Irvine SANTA BARBARA - Aly Squires had 14 kills and 14 digs to pace the visiting Anteaters in the 25-22, 25-21, 25-20 Big West Conference verdict Friday.

Santa Ana Heights would switch council districts if the Newport Beach City Council approves a redistricting plan under consideration. The council will review that plan during a study session Tuesday before its regularly scheduled meeting. Every 10 years, to coincide with the release of U.S. Census data, a special committee recommends new council district boundaries to evenly divide the city in seven parts. This year, the city's roughly 85,000 residents would be split into groups between 11,000 and just over 13,000 people, while the previous maps had more lopsided districts.

A man accused of drunk driving was charged with killing his nephew and severely injuring his brother-in-law after he crashed into a light pole in Irvine. Tapu Aniceto Sitagata, 27 of Santa Ana, was drinking at Newport Five Cocktails in Tustin on Dec. 20 when a bartender asked Sitagata and his friends and family to leave because they were being rowdy, according to an Orange County district attorney's office news release. Both the bartender and a Tustin police officer offered to call a cab for Sitagata, but he told the officer he was waiting for a cab, prosecutors said.

It is a small and wonderful community zoo. Friends of the Santa Ana Zoo gathered within the compound on Saturday night to celebrate another year with our fur-covered friends sharing the planet. The passion and the purpose of the zoo staff, led by Director Kent Yamaguchi , is infectious. The Orange County crowd of nearly 400 patrons came to pledge assistance, ensuring the zoo's vitality and ability to properly care for and protect its residents. In particular, the funds raised will help to purchase a much-needed "bobcat" tractor.

Player turnover is fast and furious at the junior college level, but Irvine Valley College men's soccer Coach Martin McGrogan doesn't seem to accept the notion of a "rebuilding" year. McGrogan was the program's first coach in 1990, and since then the team has had just three losing seasons, winning one national title and two state titles and was runner-up in the state once. McGrogan, though, deflects praise and gives thanks to the athletes in the Irvine and surrounding areas. "We've been really lucky the past 20 years, we've been fairly consistent," he said.

Three medicinal marijuana dispensaries in Newport Beach have decided to close, rather than face a civil order from the city, officials said Thursday. The West Coast Cure, 2814 Newport Blvd., Nature's Alternative Solutions, No. 117, 3400 Irvine Ave., and The Healing Tree, 4120 Birch St., shuttered last month after the Newport Beach City Council authorized nuisance-abatement proceedings in late May. Two of the dispensaries were in Santa Ana Heights, while the third was on the Balboa Peninsula.

A man accused of fatally squeezing an 18-month-old baby girl is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Santa Ana. Juan Carlos Aguilar, 25, of Santa Ana is accused of squeezing Megan Rodriguez to death on the morning of July 9 after he was left at home alone to care for her, the Orange County district attorney's office said in a news release. Megan's mother, the sister of Aguilar's girlfriend, had gone to work at a hotel in Newport Beach, and his girlfriend had gone to the market.

Jake Knapp, who will be a senior at Estancia High, won the Toyota Tour Cup in thrilling fashion at Santa Ana Country Club Tuesday. Knapp beat Jonathan Sanders of Chatsworth on the second playoff hole to secure the championship on the Southern California Professional Golfers Assn. Junior Tour. Knapp and Sanders both finished at 10-under-par 206 after three rounds. Sanders shot his second five-under 67 round of the tournament to set up the tie. Knapp went 67-70-69, Sanders 67-72-67.

COSTA MESA — Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed a longtime Santa Ana official to the Orange County Fair Board. Gerardo Mouet, the executive director of Santa Ana's Parks, Recreation and Community Services Agency since 2004, is the Fair Board's newest member, the governor's office announced Tuesday in a news release. Mouet, 53, has served in multiple positions for Santa Ana since 1990. In 2007, Mouet received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living by Design Leadership Award, and has been a speaker at the National Assn.

The Newport Beach-based PIMCO Foundation donated $300,000 to fund programs for at-risk youths through Olive Crest's NOVA Academy, the Santa Ana charter school announced this week. The grant from the PIMCO Foundation, the charitable arm of money management firm Pacific Investment Management Co., will go to math and English skills student assessments, a college preparation program and college scholarships, according to the announcement. "PIMCO has been an unparalleled partner to NOVA, and the company's employees at all levels have provided a tremendous example of leadership and social conscience," said Donald Verleur, Olive Crest's chief executive, in a prepared statement.