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Freedom Newspapers Buys San Clemente Daily: Irvine-based Freedom Newspapers Inc. announced Friday that it has purchased the Daily Sun-Post in San Clemente from South Coast Newspapers. No price was disclosed. The Daily Sun-Post, an 8,500-circulation afternoon newspaper, will continue to publish in its current form and retain its existing staff for the time being, Freedom officials said. The Sun-Post also serves San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, Capistrano Beach and Laguna Niguel. Freedom Newspapers’ Golden West Publishing division will continue to publish the weekly San Clemente News, said N. Christian Anderson, associate publisher of Freedom’s Orange County Register.