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 ›

Ricardo Aldana, a male teacher at JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, was fired yesterday after being accused of molesting a female student who was 14 or younger at the time. But students aren't reacting well to the news, and today, some showed up to school wearing t-shirts that read "Free Aldana," reports the OC Register. more ›

Sometimes when you're chatting with the 13-year-old girl who replied to your ad for a mom/daughter team to have sex with, you're actually chatting with a law enforcement officer. Such was the case with 21-year-old Shaw Bruce Warrington, who was busted through the efforts of an investigator with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. more ›

Derek Reeve of the San Juan Capistrano City Council, the man who refused to apologize for naming his dog Muhammad, is no longer teaching at Concordia University in Irvine. Neither side will say why Reeve is no longer employed, though he continues to work part-time at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. more ›

Derek Reeve might just be the Michael Scott of the San Juan Capistrano City Council. At a discussion about opening up a dog park in city limits, the councilman casually mentioned that he wanted to bring his basset hounds America and Muhammad to play with other dogs in the park. "That's right," Reeve said at the September 6 council meeting. "I named my dog Muhammad." more ›

A business executive in Orange County confessed this week to killing his partner and sending phony e-mails from his account, so that his family would think that he was in Africa. The plan of confessed murderer Edward Shin worked for a while, according to the Los Angeles Times. But this December Shin wrote that his partner Christopher Ryan Smith was going into the Congo and Rwanda, and that's when the story began to unravel. more ›

A store employee opened fire on three alleged robbers at a jewelry store in a San Juan Capistrano mall, killing two on Friday morning. The incident occurred at 11:30 a.m. at Monaco Jewelers inside Capistrano Beach Mall. more ›

A man was convicted Wednesday for killing his acquaintance with a knife over who was a better singer, according to the Orange County Office of the District Attorney. more ›

A fire that broke out shortly before 11:30 a.m. has burned about 10 acres off Ortega Highway in San Juan Capistrano area. It's expected to grow, say fire officials, because of various downed power lines due to the tractor crash and the fires direction, which is uphill. No structures appear to be threatened, reports the OC Register. more ›