The case of the pot-smoking, gambling-crazed granny—who shopped at Wal-Mart for an alibi after she allegedly hired hit men from Target to... More >>

You might guess that a person worth $12 billion or $15 billion and approaching his 80th birthday would have already bought everything he wanted:... More >>

On the eighth day in the retrial of Sandra Jessee—the pot-smoking grandmother accused of hiring Orange County Target store employees,... More >>

For 14 years, Gordon Dillow served as the lead columnist at The Orange County Register, where he happily upended the old journalism adage about... More >>

On Oct. 15, as an Orange County Register writer's column headed to the printer to advocate weakened pro-consumer regulation, higher corporate... More >>

In March 2010, Paul Roper entered the secret, Santa Ana confines of the Orange County grand jury, swore to tell the truth, and then gave... More >>

Could there be more of an embarrassment to Orange County Democrats than Beth Krom, the Irvine city councilwoman who doubles as chairwoman of the... More >>

There's a long list of scary characters Orange County homicide prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh has put away: drug-crazed, Nazi-loving white... More >>

From his days as a record-setting, star high-school and college running back in Fullerton in the late '70s and early '80s, Tony Bushala learned... More >>

Just after 5:45 p.m. on Jan. 23, 2010, Chris Adrian Smith started a $1 DVD for his kids and entered the kitchen to fix dinner in preparation for... More >>