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Fundraiser today at Tutto Fresco for 18-year-old Diana Leung, who has inoperable brain cancer. Where are drivers out of control in RSM? And read John Weyler for a well-deserved laugh.

1. Print the coupon featured with this story and take it to Tutto Fresca and 20 percent of the bill—in-restaurant or takeout—will go to Diana Leung's family in Rancho Santa Margarita. Diana, 18, has inoperable brain cancer. She is the second of five children in the family to have cancer; her older brother Michael, 22, has been cancer-free since 2002 after being diagnosed with lymphoma. Diana hasn't been so fortunate.

2. At which spots in Rancho Santa Margarita are drivers most out of control? That's what we want to find out. There have been on this side of the 5 freeway since Dec. 12, essentially on side streets. In Laguna Niguel over the weekend, Mara Steves was killed when she was while on the sidewalk. E-mail martin.henderson@patch.com with the places that are most dangerous and why. 

3. When John Weyler covered the Angels, he locked away some stories about the boys of summer. Read some hilarious tales from the clubhouse in . You could use the laugh.

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4. On this date in history, 1898, one of America's first battleships, the USS Maine, blew up in the harbor outside Havana, reputedly by a Spanish mine; it was a flashpoint in what became the Spanish-American War that broke out in April, though in 1976 naval investigators determined the explosion was caused on board by a fire that ignited the Maine's ammunition stocks. In 1998, Dale Earnhardt won the Daytona 500 for the first time but would perish in the race three years later. In 1950, Cinderella opened in movie theaters. In 1984, the lights went out on Broadway legend Ethel Merman; she was 76.

5. Celebrating a birthday today is Matt Groening (57), who created The Simpsons. Others include Jane Seymour (60) and Melissa Manchester (60), and the late Chris Farley (1964), Harvey Korman (1927), Cesar Romero (1907), John Barrymore (1882), Susan B. Anthony (1820) and Galileo Galilei (1564).

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For What It's Worth: February is National Black History Month. This is Children of Alcoholics Week, and it's National Gum Drop Day.


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