Garden Grove News

Shady Grove courtyard garden demolished
Photo by Max Cooper The Shady Grove courtyard was demolished today, Feb. 6, reportedly in order to make room for a new walkway connecting Lexington and Rankin avenues. The beautiful courtyard garden behind the flower shop at 64 N. Lexington Ave. was originally started by Perri Crutcher in the late ‘90s. At this writing, Courtney Bloomfield, current owner of Shady Grove Flowers, hadn’t been ...

Garden Grove looks ahead to water park resort
GARDEN GROVE-Some 15 trailers sit abandoned at Travel Country RV Park.The last few remaining residents took their belongings and moved to a motel. Most still don't have a permanent home.City officials are paying the residents' stay at a local motel for two weeks. It was the...

Garden Grove to see broader Tet festival
GARDEN GROVE - A human chess board and cultural village filled with re-creations of Vietnamese landmarks will help bring the country's culture and traditions to life this weekend at the 31st annual Tet Festival.The festival, celebrating the

Garden Grove Man, 29, Gets Life Sentence For Beating Bisexual Married Father Of 2 To Death
A 29-year-old Garden Grove man convicted of bludgeoning to death a married father of two who had invited him to his Fullerton apartment for sex was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Garden Grove Woman Pleads Not Guilty to Cutting Off Husband's Penis
A Southern California woman pleaded not guilty Friday to allegedly cutting off her estranged husband's penis and throwing it in a garbage disposal.

Next at NBC Sports: The Olympics...And Baseball?
As the network looks to add content, NBC Sports chief Mark Lazarus calls baseball a premiere...

Football only unsold 2012 sport
1.5 million football tickets remain available for London 2012 after the sport is identified as the only discipline which has not sold out its allocation

Egypt Football Riots a Reminder that Sport Isn't Life
Football isn't life. No sport is life. Nothing is life except, of course, life . 74 people are dead, and that number may very well go up sooner than later, after the post-match violence that occurred in a football stadium located in Port Said, Egypt.

Historic Venues of the 2012 Olympics
London has evolved from a rich, historic background, to a modern city. Likewise, the Olympics now combine both old and new sporting traditions. The London 2012 Olympics will make use of some of the city's oldest buildings and grounds as venues for international competition.

From heaven to hell, Greek sport in freefall
ATHENS (Reuters) - Peeling paint flakes from Athens' Olympic park. Its entrances locked, this once sparkling edifice to sporting greatness lies rotting and largely unused -- maintenance costs too high for near-bankrupt Greece to operate. The rate of decay and dilapidation in just eight years provides a visual clue to the Greek scenario, one as effective as any economist's report or politician's ...