"Ryan Jenkins is an animal," said a friend of the victim's at an emotional news conference seeking help in finding the fugitive
An arrest warrant for murder has been issued for the ex-husband of a former swimsuit model whose nude body was found over the weekend, Orange County police said Thursday.
The man charged with murder in the deaths of three people, including Major League Baseball pitcher Nick Adenhart, pleaded not guilty Monday.
Your home value has sunk like a stone, and you're so far underwater you'll have to hold your breath for years. Can you at least get a break on your property taxes?
A former professional football player and his ex-girlfriend have been charged in the killing of her wealthy boyfriend for money, a breakthrough in a cold case dating to 1994.
1. Finding one has become easier
Accusing local media in the Orlando, Florida, area of a "barrage" of coverage, Casey Anthony's lead defense attorney asked Monday to have her death-penalty case moved from Orlando to Miami, Florida.
Nicole Ganguzza was a newlywed in grad school at the University of Central Florida when she was dragged off a trail and strangled to death while jogging in a park in June.
Jasmine Rocha learned a valuable budgetary lesson when planning her quinceañera, the 15th birthday celebration that represents a rite of passage from childhood to womanhood for Latinas.
Investigators carried away several bags and boxes of potential evidence from the home of Caylee Anthony's grandparents on Saturday, shortly after they finished searching woods nearby where the toddler's body was found.
"Ryan Jenkins is an animal," said a friend of the victim's at an emotional news conference seeking help in finding the fugitive
An arrest warrant for murder has been issued for the ex-husband of a former swimsuit model whose nude body was found over the weekend, Orange County police said Thursday.
The man charged with murder in the deaths of three people, including Major League Baseball pitcher Nick Adenhart, pleaded not guilty Monday.
Your home value has sunk like a stone, and you're so far underwater you'll have to hold your breath for years. Can you at least get a break on your property taxes?
A former professional football player and his ex-girlfriend have been charged in the killing of her wealthy boyfriend for money, a breakthrough in a cold case dating to 1994.
1. Finding one has become easier
Accusing local media in the Orlando, Florida, area of a "barrage" of coverage, Casey Anthony's lead defense attorney asked Monday to have her death-penalty case moved from Orlando to Miami, Florida.
Nicole Ganguzza was a newlywed in grad school at the University of Central Florida when she was dragged off a trail and strangled to death while jogging in a park in June.
Jasmine Rocha learned a valuable budgetary lesson when planning her quinceañera, the 15th birthday celebration that represents a rite of passage from childhood to womanhood for Latinas.
Investigators carried away several bags and boxes of potential evidence from the home of Caylee Anthony's grandparents on Saturday, shortly after they finished searching woods nearby where the toddler's body was found.
Remains found last week in a wooded area have been identified as belonging to missing Florida toddler Caylee Anthony, authorities said Friday.
Investigators said Friday that they think remains found near a home where Caylee Anthony lived with her grandparents are those of the missing toddler.
Motorist one, let's call him Jim, just bought a used car from his neighborhood auto dealer. Meanwhile, motorist two, let's call her Jane, just lost her new car to repossession.
A wildfire that destroyed more than 200 structures, including several mansions in a community where celebrities own homes, was sparked by a bonfire that its makers apparently thought was extinguished, authorities said.
Someone got cut off. They bleeped their horn. You bleeped back. They gesticulated, you gesticulated.
Authorities in Orange County, Texas, were using dump trucks to rescue residents trapped on their roofs by flooding resulting from Hurricane Ike, a county judge said Saturday.
The sheriff's department in southern California's Orange County said the 911 emergency call system shut down for 90 minutes
Alabama's largest county appears headed for the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, a $3.2 billion mess created by the nation's credit crunch and a colossal, corruption-riddled sewer project
• Audrina Patridge, kissing her new man, Tal Cooperman, at the grand opening of bowling lane Strike Orange County in Tustin, Calif. The Hills star and Cooperman – who co-owns the DCMA Collective clothing line with pals Joel Madden and brother Benji – kept their PDA low-key and bowled with a posse including her tattooed sister Casey. Though Patridge didn't hang out with Hills costars Lauren Conrad, Lauren "Lo" Bosworth and Whitney Port, who did their best to get a strike several lanes over, she did send over a round of Patron shots.
The video is hard to turn away from. A sobbing 16-year-old sits in her bedroom and, staring into a camera, says she has been raped.
Spring in southern Orange County has come on spectacularly. The autumn fires that blew smoke and ash into neighborhoods here also destroyed a lot of dark-hued scrub and chaparral. Now the hills along the 241 tollway are painted in bright green grasses and yellow and violet wildflowers. Near the end of the 241 lies Ladera Ranch, a nine-year-old (and still growing) planned community of 25,000. Nestled into the foothills, the place is a visual metaphor for the American dream, California division, in which the residents of the postmodern townhouses at the lower elevations aspire to the gated $4 million spreads at the top.
The number of homes for sale was on the rise again in April, according to figures from Zip Realty, a California-based real estate broker.
Runway incursions are on the rise and an air traffic vet thinks he knows why
Gas prices hit another all-time high of $3.50 a gallon - and that's bad news for businesses that rely on the summer travel season.
The surprise success of Under the Same Moon shows that Latino audiences will respond to films that tell their own stories
Yes, I admit this wasn't the first time I'd forgotten an important event. Let's not get hung up on that. What's important is that I quickly and admirably redeemed myself.
Emergency officials in Orange County braced Saturday for a major storm expected to strike overnight in canyons near Los Angeles, while the bodies of three avalanche victims were discovered in mountains north of the city.
Severe storms that have brought heavy rain, snow and high winds to California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado claimed their first victim and probably triggered a levee break Saturday.
Officials are searching for the driver of a white truck seen on Santiago Canyon Road on Sunday, near the time the Santiago fire started, Orange County authorities said Friday.
It was the second day of the massive 2002 Hayman wildfire that charred nearly 138,000 acres just outside Denver, Colorado, destroying more than 100 homes and sending 8,000 fleeing for safety.
One of the larger fires in Southern California was deliberately started by someone with apparent knowledge of arson, a fire official said Thursday.
Snoop Dogg is ready to "make music, not court appearances," his lawyer said Thursday, after the rapper pleaded guilty to felony possession of a deadly weapon in an Orange County, Calif., court.
A Florida fugitive was captured after authorities found him skinny dipping in the Hudson River, police said.
What we have here is an attempt to intimidate.
A 19-year-old who was taken into custody following a school shooting Wednesday afternoon was charged with killing his father earlier in the day, according to the Orange County, North Carolina, sheriff's office.
What's the last purchase you made that you later regretted? "A digital camera. If I had waited a few weeks, I could have gotten a better model."--Anne Torres, Manila, Philippines
A 49-year-old woman who died after riding on Walt Disney World's "Mission: Space" ride suffered a stroke linked to her high blood pressure, according to preliminary autopsy results released Friday by the Orange County medical examiner.
If you want to know where real estate prices are headed in California's Orange County, the man to talk to is Gary Watts. The Mission Viejo broker has 35 years of experience and doubles as a spokesman for the O.C.'s Association of Realtors.
If you want to know where real estate prices are headed in California's Orange County, the man to talk to is Gary Watts. The Mission Viejo broker has 35 years of experience and doubles as a spokesm...
THIS MONTH: Tear-down sales
John D. Rockefeller once said that "a friendship founded on business...is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship."
These days, investing in Southern California real estate is no walk in the park. "Overheated jungle" is more like it.
How many home cities can the Angels perch on the head of a pin?Apparently, two is too many.
Something strange is happening in Orange County, the Southern California paradise of beaches, amusement parks, and endless rows of postwar tract homes. There, in the very breeding ground of the con...
Forget book clubs and poker nights. America's property craze has spawned a new social network: the real estate investment club. Across the country, dentists, retirees, janitors and even teenagers g...
Forget book clubs and poker nights. America's property craze has spawned a new social network: the real estate investment club.
The nation's housing boom has experienced more deaths and shocking resurrections than Friday the 13th monster Jason Voorhees.
A recent decision by defense lawyers to retain former jurors from an Orange County gang-rape trial as consultants for the retrial is drawing both praise and criticism.
Forget about hopped-up Mustangs and high-octane Hemis; today's hot-rodders prefer Honda Civics and nitrous-oxide upgrade kits. Known as "tuners"--a reference to their exquisitely tuned, highly cust...
Don't laugh: though it sounds like something out of a Farrelly brothers movie, the latest technological breakthrough in law enforcement is in fact a stun gun.
After peaking during the third quarter of 2003, the housing market slowed down a bit during the fourth quarter, a real estate group said Thursday.
THE BATSONS Shopping for a home
Orange County is nothing if not suburban, but don't call it a suburb of Los Angeles. Two of its cities -- Anaheim and Santa Ana -- are bigger than either Pittsburgh or St. Louis, and both are growing fast enough to rank ahead of L.A. on the MONEY Popularity index.
Coastal dwellers take note: Before the 2000 hurricane season ends in November, climatologists are predicting that 11 tropical storms will form in the Atlantic, seven of which may become hurricanes....
You may not put much thought into how you invest your cash. Let's face it, money-market funds all look the same, so why devote much time to picking one? Here's why. The Federal Reserve's six rate h...
If you were walking in a rough neighborhood, wouldn't you want a street-smart tough guy who also has integrity by your side? In the complex world of derivatives, Merton H. Miller is that guy. With ...
When Joe Kandra, 36, needs a break from work, he takes his dog Kali and heads for the woods. The fragrant eucalyptus trees of Stern Grove Park, Calif. are more than an hour's drive from Cisco Syste...
Although it's called Orange County, most anyone involved with the place these days is as bitter as a lemon. The county--bankrupted by the derivatives-related miscues of ex-treasurer Robert Citron--...
To the investor buying individual municipal bonds, the tax-free market can resemble Russia as it was famously described by Winston Churchill: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. You can...
If you're counting on your mutual funds for income to pay living expenses, you can look forward to an outstanding year. With the economy slowing and inflation apparently restrained, investment pros...
It was the year of the derivative. From last spring on, as if a blockade of ice had suddenly given way, bad news about these exotic financial innovations started to flow, and victims, corporate and...
As Deep Throat supposedly said about Watergate, "Follow the money." That's good advice for investors too. The financial world is in a constant state of flux, with billions of dollars, Deutsche mark...
EXCLUSIVE
As bill clinton might put it, we feel your pain. after all, 1994 delivered a George Foreman-like pounding to most fund investors' portfolios. Wham! The Federal Reserve Board hikes interest rates an...
Orange County plunged into bankruptcy with virtually no warning from either Standard & Poor's or Moody's Investors Service, the two major evaluators of municipal credit. Like the Titanic, the count...
For the individual investor who has, or wants to have, a portfolio including municipal bonds, the Orange County disaster sends three important messages. The first is the importance of diversificati...
The typically lackluster world of municipal finance was thrown into the spotlight when Orange County, California, filed for bankruptcy last December 6. Former county treasurer Robert Citron leverag...
No sooner had we shipped our upbeat 1995 Forecast issue three weeks ago than the stock market plummeted 150 points, former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell shook the White House by coppin...
When you get your year-end bond fund statement in a few days, you may be tempted to swear off fixed-income securities for- ever. And who could blame you? American bond investors have suffered throu...
The scourge of derivatives continues to plunder portfolios all across the U.S., not just in bankrupt Orange County, Calif. (For advice on how to minimize that debacle's impact on you, see the arti...
Then a municipality mismanages its money, taxpayers and muni bond investors can get crushed. In the case of Orange County, Calif., the pain is intensified by the fact that nobody knows how bad it i...
With traffic on America's urban highways getting worse, and land and money for new roads scarce, transportation planners are concocting high-tech schemes to improve routes that already exist. By th...
Too often, travelers seem to leave their street smarts at home. ''There aren't any new scams,'' says Bob Louden, a 21-year veteran of New York City's police force who trains cops at John Jay Colleg...
No version of the American dream is fully realized without the addition of some things we don't really need -- but would be poorer without. In MONEY's poll (see page 20), 43% of the respondents sai...
THEY TROWEL ON the glitz and hype their newest building as ''the eighth wonder of the world.'' Their chest-thumping antics are calculated to coax lenders to pile ever more money on their illiquid l...
The Great American Dream of Home Ownership Is Dead. That dark declaration is what the scare headlines in newspapers and weekly magazines would have you believe. ''The Great Housing Bust,'' thunders...
Over the next year, house prices around the country won't fall as far -- nor rise as high -- as they did in the year that ended in March, according to the WEFA Group, an economics forecasting firm ...
THE LONG-RUNNING BOOM in Southern California is the stuff most chambers of commerce can only dream of: a soaring population, office buildings sprouting everywhere, and prices on some single-family ...
Patrick and Susan Lee of Irvine, Calif. dream of buying a home. Like many young couples, however, they haven't yet saved enough for a down payment and the other initial costs of home ownership. Mor...
Decades of breakneck building have transformed Southern California into a spaghetti maze of freeways that weave through a sun-drenched oasis of tract houses spilling across the boundaries of towns ...
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