Los Angeles Times Orange County Edition

A dozen individuals and nonprofit groups were honored Friday and given a total of $45,000 for their charitable work throughout Orange County. For the sixth year, the Times Orange County presented its Volunteers of Distinction Awards, this year adding Community Partnership Awards for outstanding charitable organizations. Winners of the individual awards each received $2,500 for their groups.

Roger Oglesby, editor of the Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., on Wednesday was named president of The Times' Orange County edition, effective March 1. Oglesby, 49, was also appointed a vice president of The Times. He will succeed Robert G. Magnuson, who was promoted in October to senior vice president of The Times overseeing all regional editions. Magnuson, 46, has been president of Times Orange County since June 1996.

Roger Oglesby, editor of the Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., on Wednesday was named president of The Times Orange County edition, effective March 1. Oglesby, 49, also was appointed as a vice president of The Times. "This is kind of like coming home for me," said Oglesby. He previously lived in Orange County for 12 years, first as a lawyer for the firm of Kindel & Anderson and later as a Times Orange County assistant city editor.

Lennie La Guire, deputy metropolitan editor and city editor of the Los Angeles Times, was named editor of the Times Orange County edition Wednesday as part of a series of moves designed to bolster the newspaper's regional coverage. La Guire, 41, succeeds William Nottingham, who was named to a newly created position of senior editor for regional editions to help coordinate news coverage among the Orange County, Valley and Ventura County editions of The Times.

Veteran Times columnist Bill Boyarsky was named The Times' city editor Wednesday in one of a series of promotions that management said were aimed at strengthening the paper's regional coverage. Boyarsky, 63, who wrote "The Spin" column twice weekly, replaces Lennie La Guire, 41, the former deputy metropolitan editor and city editor. La Guire was promoted to editor of the newspaper's Orange County edition.

The Los Angeles Times Business section was named one of the best in the nation Tuesday in the annual Society of American Business Editors and Writers business journalism contest. The Times Orange County edition also received an honorable mention in the spot news category for its coverage of Merrill Lynch & Co.'s agreement to pay $30 million stemming from its role in the Orange County bankruptcy.

Staff writers from The Times Orange County edition won 39 Orange County Press Club awards, including the top investigative prize, at the club's 43rd annual awards ceremony Sunday night. Among the paper's prizes were eight first-place awards. The Orange County Register earned 34 awards, 14 of them first-place honors. Other local publications honored were OC Weekly, Orange Coast Magazine and OC Metro. Times staff writer Michael G.

Times business writer Russ Stanton has been named business editor of The Times Orange County Edition. He succeeds Michael Young, who last month became managing editor of the edition. "Russ is a talented journalist with a wealth of experience in Orange County," Young said Monday. A veteran reporter and editor, Stanton, 39, joined the Times Orange County Edition business staff in November, covering the region's sprawling retail industry.

Times business writer Russ Stanton has been named business editor of the Times Orange County edition. He succeeds Michael Young, who last month became managing editor of the edition. "Russ is a talented journalist with a wealth of experience in Orange County," Young said Monday. A veteran reporter and editor, Stanton, 39, joined the Times Orange County edition business staff in November, covering the region's sprawling retail industry.

Lawrence M. Riley has been promoted to director of circulation for the Orange County edition of the Los Angeles Times. Riley, 38, has been with The Times since April 1997, when he joined the paper as circulation manager in Orange County. Before that, he was circulation manager at the Bakersfield Californian. Riley began his newspaper career at the San Diego Union-Tribune in 1982 and held a variety of circulation management positions there, including acting director of circulation.