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Political briefs from the Daily Pilot.

Glen Thomas Kauffman, 55, a Laguna Niguel girls softball parent volunteer, was convicted Oct. 15 of nine felony counts in the molestation of three young girls.

Carmen Villegas woke up in Soledad Saturday morning, applied some hot pink lipstick and gathered up the kids.

Veterans surveyed for a recently-published UC Irvine study said it’s easier for them to accept comrades lost in combat than those who died by suicide.

When Portola High School in Irvine first opened its doors in fall 2016, students were able to start their own clubs.

Thanks largely to the popularity of television shows centered around food and cooking, we have in recent years elevated culinary pursuits to a new level in our culture.

The 10 people who assembled in front of the Heroes Hall veterans museum Friday morning hailed from diverse walks of life.

News briefs from the Daily Pilot.

Noah Domingo, 18, died in January due to alcohol poisoning at an off-campus fraternity party. Five of his fraternity brothers were charged with misdemeanors related to his death.

Orange County has its share of restaurants with book-length wine lists, but South America is usually underrepresented even at the best of them.

A recent study examined 88,673 readings from syllabi and reading lists for political science graduate programs and found that women were the lead authors on only 18.7% of them.

A new exhibit on witchcraft and its rise as a feminist identity is opening at the Langson Library at UC Irvine. “We Are the Witches You Couldn’t Burn” tracks the history and evolution of witchcraft between the 16th and 21st centuries.