One Orange County cocaine distribution network has lost 88 pounds of its inventory following a discovery by officials this weekend. The cocaine, with an estimated street value of $4 million, was found early Saturday morning in a Lake Forest house "that narcotics investigators believe was used as a stash house to hide and distribute the drug throughout the country." more ›

A 47-year-old man was struck and killed by the driver of a van late last night as he rode his bicycle in Lake Forest. The cyclist, whose name has not yet been released, was turning from Ridge Route Drive to Serrano Road about 10 p.m. Tuesday when the driver of a white, northbound van on Serrano Road struck him. more ›

A YouTube video produced and posted by 14-year-old Jonah Mowry of Lake Forest in August has gone viral, raking in over 7 million views. In the silent video, the teen holds up note cards detailing his heavy life as a closeted gay teen and essentially comes out of the closet to his parents and the online world. more ›

More than 30 dead mallard ducks have been discovered in Lake Forest ponds and lakes, notably in and around the Village Pond Park and the Forest Gardens Mobile Home Park. Despite signage instructing residents and visitors to not feed the birds, the ducks are consuming bread provided by the hands of ignorant humans. Residents and experts fear the starchy treat is one of the culprits. more ›

Described by witnesses as "an all-out brawl," a fight at an Orange County restaurant ended with a 20-year-old man being stabbed to death, another man stabbed and in critical condition and third man severely beaten, according to ABC Local. The melee reportedly began when friends of the victim "began spitting at two women standing in line." more ›

For those in search of a little consumer-based titillation in the OC city of Lake Forest, your options will remain strictly limited. Yesterday, the Lake Forest City Council "established a temporary moratorium on adult businesses," of at least 45 days, according to the OC Register, giving them time to evaluate if they can allow them to open up anywhere in the city at all. more ›

The Orange County city of Lake Forest doesn't allow medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits, which prompted a lawsuit. Today a judge sided with the city, according to the LA Weekly. "State law does not allow or require cities to allow dispensaries,'' an attorney for Lake Forest said. "A lot of cities were waiting for this ruling because a lot of them have ordinances that work the same way. If they're not identical, they're nearly identical.'' In L.A., the city asserted the right to limit how many and where dispensaries could be located. more ›

Los Angeles' medical marijuana ordinance was signed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last Friday, meaning city workers today began the process of informing unauthorized storefronts to close. "The letters will start going out Tuesday to more than 400 marijuana retailers in the city that are alleged to be in violation of the law, which prohibits the outlets from being within 1,000 feet of schools, churches, parks and other 'sensitive use' sites," explained the LA Weekly. more ›

Imagine heeding the call of a craving for some Annie's Sour Cream and Onion Cheddar Bunny crackers and opening the box to find $10,000 in cash instead. It happened to a Tustin family, who had bought the box of crackers at their local Whole Foods. Instead of being greedy, though, the Rogoff family brought the cash to the cops, who thought at first it could be part of a drug drop. According to abc7.com,

Police later heard from store managers at Whole Foods in Tustin that an elderly woman had come in a few days earlier, hysterical because she had mistakenly returned a box of crackers with her life savings inside. The Lake Forest woman, whose identity was not released, had lost faith in her bank and decided the box would be a safer place for the $10,000.

A largely known Prop 8 proponent has been selected to do President-Elect Barack Obama's inauguration invocation on January 20. Rick Warren of Lake Forest's Saddleback Church was chosen by the Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which is causing the LGBT community to go a little nutsy on the blogosphere. more ›

Yesterday brought both presumptive Presidential nominees to Orange County to Pastor Rick Warren's Lake Forest mega-church for question-and-answer sessions that overlapped only briefly. It was the first time John McCain and Barack Obama shared the stage for quite some time. Warren posed the same set of questions to each candidate, and both seemed to frequently frame their responses in the context of Christianity in light of their audience, reports KNBC.com. The questions covered several of this campaign's primary areas of interest, including abortion, gay marriage, and other topics from a "range of moral, foreign and domestic issues." more ›

Evangelical mega-pastor Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church and author of "The Purpose-Driven Life" has done what nobody else could. No, Warren has not established peace on earth or claimed an end to global poverty, but this morning he announced that he'll be bringing the two major 2008 presidential candidates together (or, rather, back-to-back) on August 16. more ›

Since Thursday, LAist has been covering the wild adventures of a young woman named Sarah from Brentwood who has been having the strangest Super Bowl adventures. As a transplanted Bears fan, originally from Mr. T's home of Lake Forest, IL, Sarah got caught up in the Super Bowl hype and threw herself on eBay in hopes of finding a generous benefactor to pay her money and give her a ticket. She claimed to have... more ›

1/31: Update: Click here to read our exclusive, updated interview with Sarah the Bears fan Super Bowl tickets are expensive. So are airplane tickets. So are rooms in Miami next weekend. So what's a pretty 26-year-old on the West Side to do when her favorite team makes it to the Super Bowl? Auction herself off on eBay, of course. Meanwhile, there are single, successful gentlemen everywhere who occasionally find themselves with an extra Super... more ›

An 81-year-old Lake Forest woman shot and killed her ex-grandson in law as he tried to pick up his toddler son from her house. Technically, we suppose that makes her a pistol-packing great-granny. Reasons for the shooting remain a mystery. more ›