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Orange County's Mulligan Field Hockey Club, home of "The Divots" U19 team are gold medal winners for the 2008 National Festival.  This USA National Festival is one of the most premier tournament events in the country to win while players are looking to catch the eyes of college coaches. What an exciting week of field hockey lead by our team captain Clair "Bear" Layton, Newport Harbor HS and anchored by our two exceptional standout senior players, Shannon Rohan, Newport Harbor HS and Colleen Ryan, Huntington Beach HS, !

Campaign signs have been blooming like perennials around Newport-Mesa in recent weeks, and some residents complain the signs are being trampled or uprooted like weeds. And while signs disappear or get wrecked in pretty much every election, it has people angry. "It is not the American way," Newport Beach resident George Margolin said. Late last week, signs in his yard supporting Newport Beach council candidates Barbara Venezia and Dolores Otting were knocked down several times in one afternoon, and some of the wooden sign stakes were broken off, Margolin said.

There have been a few shows (“Noises Off” comes to mind) in which one gag is piled onto another and the cast quickly establishes and sustains an atmosphere of perpetual pandemonium. One such play, which curiously has seen little attention locally, is George Furth’s early 1980s howler “The Supporting Cast.” It’s now holding forth (as a replacement vehicle) at the Newport Theater Arts Center under the inspired direction of Michael Ross. Furth wove some sure-fire location chuckles into his mix. Four of the five characters are New Yorkers transplanted briefly to the Malibu beachfront in the midst of California’s fire and earthquake seasons.

PASADENA - The Newport Harbor High's distance medley relay squad won first place at the Pasadena Games at Pasadena City College Saturday, as the Sailors' boys track and field team completed some personal best times. Harbor's distance medley relay consisted of junior Jesus Santana, who ran the 1,200, senior Rich Weber ran the 400, senior John Peschelt took the baton for the 800 and senior Chris McMillen completed the victory with his run in the 1,600.

Costa Mesa is blaming the weak economy and the foreclosure crisis for the significant increase it’s seen this year in the number of dilapidated houses around town and illegal advertising signs on major traffic arteries, according to a report compiled by the city. Code enforcement officers investigated more than 20,600 cases in 2008 — up 9% from last year — as many vacant homes have gone without necessary maintenance. The city has also seen an increase in the number of businesses with illegal signs and billboards out front, especially in the retail strip of Newport Boulevard.

Ellen Johnson loves to throw parties, large or small, at her home. She said she's outgrown the days of meeting friends at restaurants for dinner and cocktails, and instead loves visiting at her friends' homes or extending the same invitation to them. Having friends over at least once a month can make for a fairly hectic, but fun, entertaining schedule, but Johnson and her husband Scott are always prepared. And they made sure they were prepared before they even moved into their second Crystal Cove home.

As the sun rose, Lindsey Eastman paddled through the Pacific Ocean, miles out to sea, salty water lapping in her face. For the past few hours she had been fighting a 102-degree body temperature, nausea, and exhaustion and she still had more than 30 miles to go. Regardless, the 22-year-old from Huntington Beach pulled herself through the water, stroke by stroke, until her hour was up. Gruelingly, Eastman lugged herself out of the water and into...

Young the Giant is just one of the acts billed for the Pacific Amphitheatre's Summer Concert Series' at the 2012 Orange County Fair. The lineup offers genres of popular music that should resonate with different generations, ranging from reggae to country and rock. On Wednesday and Thursday nights, two "American Idol" alumni will perform separate shows. First, Season 10 "American Idol" Scotty McCreery will play songs off his debut album, "Clear As Day. " Attwater, a Sacramento-based country band will open the show.

A Huntington Beach woman accused of cheating mortgage loan modification customers out of more than $77,000 pleaded not guilty Friday to 33 criminal counts during her arraignment at the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach. In high heels and a snug-fitting, short black skirt, suspect Vickie Khanhavi Dang, 28, strutted into the courtroom, clutching a Tory Burch designer handbag. The 33 counts against her include grand theft and deterring a witness from reporting a crime. Dang and her attorney strongly deny the charges.

Hours before he played the romantic lead in a play opposite his real-life fiancee, authorities allege Daniel Patrick Wozniak shot and killed his neighbor. Not long after that performance, he slipped out of the Costa Mesa apartment he shared with his then-fiancée, Rachel Buffett, 25, and allegedly killed the first victim's tutor, according to police, prosecutors and Buffett's account of events. Authorities say that when they questioned Buffett, she lied to protect Wozniak, 28. More than two years after the May 2010 crimes, she was charged with being an accessory to murder after the fact.