O.C. double-dippers rake in nearly a half million a year

There’s nothing like sticker shock.

That’s just what The Watchdog gets looking at the total amount of dinero county bigwigs like CEO Tom Mauk and Sheriff Sandra Hutchens collect each year.

When you add up the pensions they collect from their previous place of employment, and the salaries and benefits they accrue in O.C., they’re raking in nearly a half million bucks a piece. (More specifically, Hutchens earns $492,243 a year from her pension, salary and benefits, and Mauk gets $487,805. We’ll break down those figures later in this post.)
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Woman kidnapped a block from police station, raped

Police are investigating an alleged kidnapping and rape, in which a female was taken from a street by a group of men who put a rag over her face before taking her to an Anaheim home, where she awoke next to a man she did not know.
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Supreme Court to hear case challenging gun ban in Chicago

The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it would decide whether state and local gun control laws may be challenged under the Second Amendment. This case, a follow-up to DC v. Heller, is expected to set a major precedent in deciding if the Second Amendment applies to the invidual states, something that Heller did not clearly conclude.

Analysts and observers of the Supreme Court expect that the 5 justices of the Heller majority will decide to ‘incorporate’ the second amendment against the states, which may have sweeping impacts on restrictive gun laws all over the country. Indeed, a brief filed by the Attorneys General of 33 states speaks strongly in support of incorporation.

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