Westminster Archive

  • By Nicole Shine/Garden Grove Journal After a little over a month on the job, Sergio Contreras Jr., Westminster’s new city councilman, is still settling in. He hasn’t yet added his...

    Contreras is living out a family dream

    By Nicole Shine/Garden Grove Journal After a little over a month on the job, Sergio Contreras Jr., Westminster’s new city councilman, is still settling in. He hasn’t yet added his...

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  • By Nicole Shine/Garden Grove Journal The Tet Parade is on. Parade organizers presented a $60,000 check to the Westminster City Council Wednesday night, putting an end to weeks of uncertainty....

    Ted Parade is saved by flood of cash

    By Nicole Shine/Garden Grove Journal The Tet Parade is on. Parade organizers presented a $60,000 check to the Westminster City Council Wednesday night, putting an end to weeks of uncertainty....

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  • Jobless rates in the Garden Grove-Stanton-Westminster area are continuing to fall, according to the latest report from the state Employment Development Department. Figures released Friday showed that overall, unemployment in...

    Jobless rates still dropping in GG area

    Jobless rates in the Garden Grove-Stanton-Westminster area are continuing to fall, according to the latest report from the state Employment Development Department. Figures released Friday showed that overall, unemployment in...

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  • All three local city councils will be in session this week. Garden Grove and Stanton will each meet at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday: Westminster will convene at 7 p.m. on...

    Local councils meet this week

    All three local city councils will be in session this week. Garden Grove and Stanton will each meet at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday: Westminster will convene at 7 p.m. on...

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  • A special event permit for the annual Tet Parade was approved by the Westminster City Council at its meeting Wednesday night. The parade, planned for Feb. 10 in the Little...

    Permit for Tet Parade has a pricetag

    A special event permit for the annual Tet Parade was approved by the Westminster City Council at its meeting Wednesday night. The parade, planned for Feb. 10 in the Little...

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  • By Jim Tortolano/Garden Grove Journal It may be too early to say that it’s “Morning in America” as Ronald Reagan famously intoned years ago, but there are signs that 2013...

    A brighter outlook for 2013?

    By Jim Tortolano/Garden Grove Journal It may be too early to say that it’s “Morning in America” as Ronald Reagan famously intoned years ago, but there are signs that 2013...

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  • Unemployment dropped a couple of notches in November in the Garden Grove-Stanton-Westminster area, reversing an uptick in October, according to the state Department of Employment Development. Across Orange County, joblessness...

    OC jobless rate is still falling

    Unemployment dropped a couple of notches in November in the Garden Grove-Stanton-Westminster area, reversing an uptick in October, according to the state Department of Employment Development. Across Orange County, joblessness...

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  • LOS ANGELES (AP) – A local doctor has been sentenced to prison for an $11 million Medicare scheme that paid kickbacks to patients recruited on Skid Row. Federal prosecutors say...

    1-year sentence for Westminster M.D.

    LOS ANGELES (AP) – A local doctor has been sentenced to prison for an $11 million Medicare scheme that paid kickbacks to patients recruited on Skid Row. Federal prosecutors say...

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  • The seating of board members and the selection of a new president top the agenda for tonight’s (Thursday) meeting of the Westminster School District Board of Trustees. Jamison Power and...

    New president for WSD board will be chosen

    The seating of board members and the selection of a new president top the agenda for tonight’s (Thursday) meeting of the Westminster School District Board of Trustees. Jamison Power and...

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  • Police are searching for three suspects in the armed robbery of a shop in the Little Saigon district of Westminster. According to the Westminster Police Department, the incident was reported...

    Three sought in Little Saigon robbery

    Police are searching for three suspects in the armed robbery of a shop in the Little Saigon district of Westminster. According to the Westminster Police Department, the incident was reported...

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