The fastest ride in the Wilderness is over at Thunder Mountain, so guests on the classic Disneyland attraction the Jungle Cruise aren't usually in store for more jostling than the scare provided by some animatronic alligators. A lawsuit filed earlier this month, however, implicates a reckless cruise boat driver for a crash that allegedly left a couple seriously injured. more ›

This week the New York Times checked in with the curious case of San Diegans who are no longer afraid of drinking water that was once in someone's toilet. more ›

Got motivation, kids? The Chivas USA pro soccer team and the Orange County Gang Reduction and Intervention Partnership (GRIP) are hoping the promise of free tickets to see a game is enough to keep a few school-aged kids out of ganglife. more ›

Neighbors of San Onofre's nuclear plant in San Clemente are demanding that their city install radiation monitors around town that are available to the public. The residents are on edge after a "tiny" leak was reported at the nuclear plant last month that prompted Southern California Edison to shut down the reactors. more ›

City parks not nice enough for you? Dislike the neighborhood strip joint's employees dancing in their skivvies? Want your street to be renamed? Have beef with big time Hollywood actors? You could go ahead and file a steaming pile of lawsuits and demand cash, which is what one Huntington Beach lady has been busy doing. more ›

Two Orange County cities are considering separate ordinances to ban single-use plastic bags. If approved, Dana Point and Laguna Beach would be the first two cities in the OC to put in place such a ban, similar to a ban already implemented in Los Angeles County and cities within LA County. more ›

Eder Giovanni Herrera, 24, had been accused of murdering his mother Raquel Estrada, 53, and her son Juan Herrera, 34, according to City News Service. But now prosecutors have dropped charges against Herrera and are trying to pin the murders on Ocampo, who is already accused of murdering four homeless men in Orange County. more ›

Burger lovers from behind the Orange Curtain, it's your time to shine! A Banh mi burger, fare from a favorite SoCal chain, the concoction of a gastropub... All's fair in love and the all mighty hamburger wars, including in the OC. more ›

A pet store in Orange County relented and dropped the case against two thieves who snatched a chow puppy from the store last week. Previously, the puppy-nappers sent an "I'm sorry" note and a wad with $600 in cash. more ›

A pair of thieves wanted a pet store in Orange County to know that they were so sorry that they stole a chow puppy, so they sent the store a condolence letter and $600. The couple's puppy heist last Thursday was caught on a surveillance tape. more ›

A 32-year-old husband and father of two who helped capture the serial killer responsible for the stabbing murders of four homeless men in Orange County will be rewarded today with $5,000. more ›

The Canadian company La La La Human Steps brings the U.S. premiere of its newest evening-length work, New Work, down to the Barclay Theater in the OC on Thursday night. Choreographed by much heralded company artistic director Edouard Lock, this new post-modern ballet is inspired by classic Greco-Roman love stories and is set to a score by renowned composers Gavin Bryars and Blake Hargreaves. more ›

Prosecutors claim Juana Perez Valencia, now 21, decided that the newborn baby girl she gave birth to in December 2009 simply "was not part of her plans," and callously suffocated the child, then dumped the body in a trash receptacle. more ›

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of plowing a green SUV into two buildings in Orange County, including a social services facility where he left a mysterious package. The Orange County Sheriff's Department received a call at approximately 7:30pm from a social services employee that a man had rammed the front glass doors of the building at 840 North Eckhoff Street with a SUV. more ›

The man who leapt to his death from a 5 Freeway overpass on Saturday morning in San Clemente has been identified. Officials have released the name and age of the victim as 20-year-old Jeffrey Hurlbut. more ›

A woman told a 9-1-1 dispatcher that a man threatened to commit suicide shortly before he ran away and jumped to his death on the 5 freeway in San Clemente. The upset and screaming woman reported the disturbing incident at 2:39 a.m. on Saturday. more ›

A year ago a plastic surgeon in Orange County agreed to surrender his medical license after he was accused of coming onto one patient in for breast implants and having sex with a tummy tuck patient—while her husband and children waited outside. more ›

The Yorba Linda man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing four homeless men in Orange County was charged today with four counts of murder. Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas says a decision to seek the death penalty against for Ocampo has not been made. more ›

The family of Itzcoatl Ocampo, who was arrested in connection with the murders of four homeless men in the past month, describe him as a deeply troubled Iraq vet who harbored a troubling secret. more ›

A male suspect has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing a homeless man to death in Anaheim, and police are investigating if the arrestee is linked to the three recent serial killer stabbing deaths in Orange County. more ›

Authorities in Orange County are focused on identifying a suspect considered a serial killer of homeless men who has taken three lives so far. A $5,000 reward has been offered by the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs for information leading to an apprehension. more ›

Justice is supposed to be blind, but one judge in Orange County is being booted off the bench for tilting the scales of justice in favor of his family and friends with traffic tickets. more ›

After the discovery of the body of a homeless man in Santa Ana this morning, local authorities are not willing to attribute the death to a serial killer targeting the homeless in Orange County. The body was found beside the truck in which the man lived. more ›

The man we appropriately dubbed "Father of the Year" was convicted Monday for charges stemming from a troubling boating incident involving his 7-year-old son in August 2011. Sloan Steven Briles pleaded guilty to one felony count of child abuse and endangerment and one misdemeanor count of resisting an officer. more ›

Orange County sheriff's deputies are on the hunt for an escaped convict who wiggled through a kitchen window of a local jail. William Scott Woodin, 39, was discovered missing from Theo Lacy Jail around 5:39pm on Wednesday. He was last seen at the jail at 4pm. more ›

The suspected serial killer responsible for the murders of three middle-aged homeless men in Orange County has been captured on surveillance video, along with his vehicle. All three men were stabbed to death in their sleep, and "authorities say each crime scene was extremely gruesome." more ›

Police in Orange County suspect that a serial killer could be targeting homeless men Orange County. Three homeless men have been stabbed to death since late December, and local police agencies and the sheriff's department announced today that are teaming up to investigate the murders. more ›

The Orange County DA's office has charged a man with murdering his wife on Christmas. William Wallace, 30, of Anaheim has been charged with beating his wife 26-year-old Zazell Preston to death more ›

A naked man bolted from the back of an ambulance and got killed after running into freeway traffic in Orange County this morning. more ›

A Buena Park man accused of murdering a roommate who propositioned him for sex is due in court tomorrow. Edgar Salvador Luciozamudio, 22, had been living with Ricardo Rios, 47, in a converted garage for a month. One night last week Rios tried to come on to Luciozamudio — and it went about as poorly as it could have. more ›