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May 16, 2008 | H.G. Reza, Times Staff Writer
An active-duty Marine was found shot to death Thursday morning in a drainage ditch in a hilly area of San Clemente. The victim was wearing desert fatigues commonly used in Iraq and Afghanistan, and his hat was found nearby, Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino said. The man was shot in the upper torso and was lying face down, Amormino said. Investigators believe he was killed near where he was found.
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April 25, 2008 | Scott Gold, Times Staff Writer
When Richard Nixon made San Clemente his western White House, the late satirist Art Hoppe described the population as "15,000 conservative Republicans, 2,000 surfers, five poor people [and] roughly the same number of liberal Democrats." That was in 1972; today the population is 65,000 or so and it's possible they've chased off the last of the poor people and the liberals. As a matter of politics and philosophy, San Clemente has long been friendly to business, to growth, to builders.
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August 23, 2006 | Seema Mehta, Times Staff Writer
The leak of radioactive material that contaminated groundwater beneath the San Onofre nuclear power plant has not reached a drinking-water source in San Clemente, according to test results announced Tuesday. City officials shut down the drinking-water well last week as a precaution after learning that cancer-causing tritium had been detected two miles away, beneath the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in northwest San Diego County.
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August 4, 2006 | Seema Mehta, Times Staff Writer
In an ocean-view San Clemente neighborhood, firefighters responding to a smoldering garage Thursday morning discovered hundreds of marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $100,000 being nurtured in a sophisticated indoor farm. "It appeared to be just a regular home, a family residence in a nice family neighborhood with a boat parked in the driveway and an SUV in the garage," said Jim Amormino, spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
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July 15, 2006 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A man was rescued Friday when his 50-foot wooden sailboat sank about two miles south of the San Clemente pier, officials said. Michael Scholefield, who lives aboard the vessel, was not injured, said Nicola Lesourd, a U.S. Coast Guard operations specialist. He had left Newport Beach and was heading toward Mexico, officials said. The white boat, named Greyhound, sank about 6:45 a.m. near San Mateo Point after striking rocks, Lesourd said.
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November 27, 2005 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A 58-foot commercial fishing boat overturned two miles off San Clemente on Saturday, spilling about 1,500 gallons of diesel fuel, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said. The boat's four crew members were rescued by the sheriff's harbor patrol about 3 a.m. They suffered minor hypothermia, said sheriff's Lt. Ted Boyne.