Obituaries

Steve Plesa, editor at Register was 55

Over two and a half decades, Steve Plesa was the Orange County Register's features editor, cities editor and special sections editor overseeing coverage for the Food, Travel and Home & Garden sections. He left the paper last year. The Register obit says that Plesa, a native of North Hollywood who also worked at the Herald Examiner, died today after a long illness.


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