Someone sabotaged the feral cat traps that were set up yesterday at an Orange County school by health officials who are trying to isolate the source of typhus, a flea-born bacterial infection. more ›

Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial kickoff of summer and the start of vacation season. Unfortunately for holiday travelers in Los Angeles County today, the average cost of a gallon of regular self-serve gasoline at $4.299 set a record high for Memorial Day. more ›

A 32-year-old man was arrested yesterday for allegedly exposing himself to school children at Esther Walter Elementary in Stanton, Orange County. more ›

The average price of a gallon of regular gas in Los Angeles County fell for a fifth consecutive day. more ›

Officials in Orange County are wondering just how in the heck marijuana with an estimated street value of at least $3 million got left floating in the Pacific about 13 miles off the coast of Dana Point. more ›

An 80-year-old man shot his wife inside their home in Lake Forest this morning before turning the gun on himself. The 68-year-old woman called sheriff's dispatchers around 8:30 am to let them know her husband was armed and distraught and that she feared for her safety. more ›

Scientists still aren't completely sure why the rocks a San Clemente woman picked up off the beach spontaneously ignited in her cargo shorts last weekend. Lyn Hiner, 43, and her children picked up stones streaked with orange from San Onofre State Beach. more ›

Not every burger needs to be made of beef. We definitely have a handle on the cow-less options for burger enjoyment, but what if that burger was made of...ice cream? Now fast food chain Carl's Jr. is in the testing phase for just that kind of item: An Ice Cream Brrrger. more ›

You read that right: Rocks collected by a woman and her kids at an Orange County beach somehow combusted inside her cargo shorts. more ›

A mailer sent out on behalf of a Deborah Pauly, a candidate for the Orange County Board of Supervisors features the face of the former governor of Alabama George Wallace. If you need a refresher on your Civil Rights era history, Wallace was famous for taking a stand in front of the University of Alabama in 1963 to prevent black students from attending. more ›

A lobster poacher -- or, as they say in my hometown of Boston, a lobstah poachah -- in Orange County who was caught in January with more than three times the legal limit of lobsters was fined $20,000 and had to spend seven days in jail. City News Service reports that 30-year-old Marbel Para of Romoland was picking the little red fellows up on Laguna Beach State Marine Reserve on January 15. It's perfectly legal to catch them by hand for your own devices, but you can only take seven a day. more ›

A dude in Orange County tried to rob a bank but it ended up being a total bummer. The dude handed the teller a note, saying he was robbing the bank. The clerk announced that actually they were fresh out of money. more ›

New details brought to light in the case of the death of an Orange County mother and her infant sons have changed the scope of the search for the missing bodies of the two youngest victims. more ›

The man accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend and taking the lives of their two young sons has been charged with three counts of murder. Shazer Fernando Limas, 31, could face the death penalty for the crimes. more ›

Cadaver dogs are headed back to the Brea landfill again today to resume the search for the bodies of two young boys who may have been killed and disposed of by their own father. more ›

The body of a missing Orange County woman turned up in the county morgue, but her two sons are still missing. Authorities had been looking for Arlet Hernandez Contreras, 31, ever since someone sent to clean the Orange apartment where she lived with her two sons found a blood-stained carpet last week. more ›

Authorities in Orange County have launched a search for the bodies of a missing woman and her two young sons, and the woman's ex-boyfriend has been arrested on suspicion of murder. more ›

When you think of the country's most fashionable cities, what comes to mind first? Would you think of Irvine, the obsessively-planned suburb behind the Orange Curtain? Neither would we, but the city topped a list of the nation's most fashionable cities according to a survey put out by Bundle. more ›

Did you feel it? An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude reading of 3.9 shook this morning 1 mile from San Juan Capistrano in Orange County. more ›

A 14-year-old girl was shot this afternoon on the streets of Santa Ana. Police aren't sure what led to the shooting—they said it may have been a gang-related drive-by— but they don't believe that the young girl was the intended target. more ›

Today marks Day 2 of the attempt to rescue a 40-foot gray whale tangled up in a fishing net just off the coast of Orange County. The gray whale was spotted towing 50 to 100 feet of fishing line off the coast of Laguna Beach. more ›

Southland rain ain't nothing to mess with. A homeless man was swept about 2 miles down an Orange County flood-control channel Friday afternoon during the downpour. The man, who is in his forties, survived the ride from Stanton to Cypress and was rescued by police and bystanders near Warland Drive. more ›

For the second night in a row, Occupy Santa Ana members curled up at the Civic Center Wednesday to raise awareness of issues plaguing the homeless. Their new sleeping quarters has been dubbed "Necessity Village," and the group is gearing up for its third night of solidarity slumber. more ›

The Orange County Register announced that tomorrow it will be sending 100 employees—which for a small newspaper certainly qualifies as a "mob"—to cover the Angels' Opening Day. Expect to see every possible (soft feature) that you could ever imagine for the annual event. more ›

The owner of BurgerFi, a farm-to-tray burger joint opening up in the former Laguna Beach spot that belonged to a KFC franchise, is looking to thank the mysterious good samaritan who found the $10,000 he accidentally left behind on a park bench. more ›

Calling all whale watchers, surfers, and sunbathers who also like to smoke: Starting today, if you're going to light up a ciggie in Newport Beach, it's going to have to be beyond 100 feet of the city's parks and beaches. more ›

A Stanton woman reluctantly bid farewell to dozens of pets yesterday as animal control officers removed the animals from her mobile home. Orange County Animal Care officers responded to an anonymous call Wednesday afternoon that claimed a woman in her 40s was housing pets and other living creatures in her trailer at Beach West Mobile Estates at 8051 Acacia Avenue. more ›

A man was nearly killed after he fell into a rock crusher in Irvine today. The worker somehow got ensnared in a conveyor belt that hurled him into a rock shaker. more ›

social worker in Orange County was arrested today after she admitted to helping at 86-year-old man in Laguna Woods commit suicide this fall. more ›

It's known as “Dripping Cave,” for the way the sedimentary rock seems to drip from the ceiling, and also as “Robber’s Cave,” owing to its history as a hideout for gangsters. Whatever you call it, this cave in Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park in south Orange County is well worth a visit, and there are three different ways to get there. more ›