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San Juan Capsitrano's Mission will present "Movies at the Mission" on October 25th.  Move night will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. " Night at the Museum" will be shown on a big screen in the Mission's courtyard. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets, and picinic dinner. At...

This August, existing home sales continued to fall and prices took a record drop, but inventories declined sharply. Home re-sales dropped to a 4.91 annual pace, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. In August, the median home price was $203,100 , down 9.5% from 224,400 in August 20...

Thousands of people a year are forced to put their animals down because they can't afford to get the treament their ailing pet need. " So many people come in and can't pay for a problem that could be remedied,"  said Dr. Matthew Wheaton.  Wheaton has seen this situation time and time again and de...

As layoff mounted, Orange County continues to bleed jobs in August, state officials reported on Friday. Over the past 12 months, the county has lost 26,600 jobs, said the state Employment Development Department. Two years ago, the county added that many jobs in a year.  Local unemployment in Augu...

Laguna Woods has become the first Orange County city to allow medical marijuana establishments. In just 30 days, ailing residents of Laguna Woods will be able to buy medically prescribed marijuana from a dispensary within their city of 18,500.  The Laguna Woods City Council voted 4-0, with one ab...

 This years South County's Hunger Walk will take place Sunday, October 5th. The 2 p.m. walk is 5K and will begin at the San Clemente Community Center. Family Assistance Ministries are signing up walkers and donors and hope to enlist 500 walkers and raise $75,000 for FAM. For more information visi...

Sanford Edward, developer of The Strand at the Dana Point headlands, said he expects to gross around $680 million after selling all 118 ocean-view lots in the development and building a 90-room hotel. Edward, who hosted a grand opening ceremony for the project Wednesday night, declined to say how...

The average price of a gallon of unleaded regular in Orange County has dropped for the 11th consecutive week this week, but the declines were the smallest of the past eight weeks. The average of $3.852 is 4.5 cents less than last week, 36.9 cents less than at this time last month and 77.4 cents ...

         Inner Coastal Clean Up Day - Sep. 20 Where: Aliso & Wood Canyons Wildnerness ParkAlicia Parkway Entrance28373 Alicia ParkwayLaguna Niguel, CA 92677 When: 8:00am - 12 Noon Attention Anyone and everyone looking to save our beautiful oceans from trash! On September 20th, 2008 the city of La...

 Analysis show that Notices of Default, which indicate the start of he foreclosure process, increased in California by 4.8 percent; while both Notices of Trustee Sale and actual foreclosure sales dropped.  Although a traditionally slow month, with the exception of February, Notices of Default hav...