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Missing Foothill Ranch girl, 14, found safe at apartment

The Orange County Register Rancho Santa Margarita

FOOTHILL RANCH – A 14-year-old missing girl who was the target of a search since Friday was found Monday, police said. Cearra Moawad, of Foothill Ranch, was found by Orange County Sheriff's deputies at a Rancho Santa Margarita apartment following a... »

Morning letters: Critiquing the gospel of economic morality

The Orange County Register Opinion

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Michael O’Guin: President Barack Obama keeps saying he wants the rich to pay their "fair share." Does he understand the word “fair”? “Fair” means free of bias, dishonesty and injustice. “Bias” means to judge... »

Premium burger bar among 3 closures

The Orange County Register Economy

Here's the latest list of Orange County restaurant closures: OC Burger in Rancho Santa Margarita is closed. The phone is disconnected, and the website is down.  We also spotted a for lease sign on the door. Movers were spotted Jan. 30 hauling... »

Water district rejects $360,000 leaks claim

The Orange County Register Rancho Santa Margarita

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – Santa Margarita Water District officials have rejected a claim by Standard Pacific Corp. that alleges water provided by the district is causing pinhole leaks in copper piping in homes in San Clemente and Ladera Ranch. The... »

Recruiting: On National Signing Day, Where Are The Athletes Headed?

Rancho Santa Margarita Patch

Kyle Murphy is the plum that everyone is watching today, one of the nation's most highly rated—and recruited—athletes who has yet to announce a college decision. But that changes sometime this afternoon when Murphy, a massive offensive lineman for San ... »

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Jared Petrovich, Garrett Aguilar: Life In Prison for John Chamberlain Murder Trial Defendants

OC Weekly Navel Gazing

​Jared Petrovich and Garrett Aguilar, two of six former Theo Lacy Jail inmates charged in the Oct. 6, 2006 beating death of John Chamberlain, a Rancho Santa Margarita software engineer facing trial fo »

Peter H. Gleick: Mining Groundwater for Profit: The Cadiz Project

HuffPost LA

If there were no adverse consequences of this kind of water mining, and if all that mattered was money, then perhaps using up this stock of water and turning it into a private good would make sense -- at least to the project owners. »

The Network of Patch.com Features A Sample of Sheriff's Calls for Service

The Orange County Sheriff's Department Blog

Some of the calls have been edited or removed for reasons of....cooth.   OC's Bizarre Minor Crimes of 2011 From gesturing pandas to yelling naked on strangers' porches, the Orange County Sheriff's dispatch log didn't fail to disappoint in 2011. January... »

John Steven "Sinjin" Burgess Gets Out of Jail Early for Dumping Donna Jou's Body in Pacific

OC Weekly Navel Gazing

​A Rancho Santa Margarita family and their supporters are protesting outside the Criminal Justice Building in Los Angeles this morning over today's scheduled release of an inmate who only served half »

Rancho Santa Margarita Christmas Tree Collection December 26 – January 6

OC Community Connect

Christmas tree collection will begin on Monday, December 26, 2011 for a two week period through Friday, January 6, 2012. »