Breathe easy, Orange County: there is not some sinister serial killer leaving porcelain doll replicas of the little girls he plans to chop up and eat at homes around San Clemente. In fact, it was probably just some weird old grandma!

Today's second-most frightening news story involves a number of porcelain dolls, each crafted to resemble a young girl living in the same Orange County neighborhood.

An Orange County sheriff's deputy stands accused of surreptitiously pepper spraying a teenager's pizza during a routine traffic stop last year.

At least four people are dead after a man reportedly went on a 25-minute shooting spree this morning in and around the Southern California cities of Tustin and Villa Park.

A history teacher at an all-boys Catholic school in Orange County was arrested over the weekend and charged with posing as a female on Facebook in order to convince underage boys to send him explicit photos of themselves.

Some people's strengths lie in child-rearing. Other people's strengths lie in drug-planting. This is a story about three people whose strengths lie elsewhere.

180 bales of marijuana were found floating in the waters near Dana Point, California, this past Sunday, stumping Border Patrol, the Coast Guard, and local authorities looking to identify their source.

On July 5th, 2011, a 37-year-old schizophrenic homeless man from Fullerton, California, named Kelly Thomas was beaten to within an inch of his life by several Fullerton Police Department officers.

Organizers of the Orange County Fair called a halt to the event's twenty-five year tradition of offering elephant rides today.

Real Housewife Alexis Bellino has got herself some new Orange Country digs, and it's pink and plastic-y like the lady herself.

Earlier this month we told you about the man in Italy who stood up during mass and gouged out his eyes right there in front of all his fellow worshipers. Then last weekend, a bull gored Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla through the face and the eye and rendered Padilla blind in that eye.

Prosecutors have charged two Fullerton, California police officers involved in the death of Kelly Thomas, a schizophrenic, homeless man who was brutally beaten during a confrontation with six Fullerton cops in early July. It sounds like they're not kidding around, either.

Worried your computer repairman is a pervert? Here's a handy guide: If the software he installs suggests that take your laptop to the bathroom when you shower, he's probably using remote-controlled software to take pictures of you naked.

The city council in Garden Grove, California, voted unanimously to ban naked waitresses in their coffee houses. Apparently these establishments, mostly in Orange County's Little Saigon neighborhood, have waitresses who wear see-through bras and panties which leave nothing to the imagination. And it gets better!

Ah, spring, when a young man's fancy turns to love, and minor Republican officials start emailing racist JPEGs about the Obama family to one another. This week's casual racist: Orange County Republican Party central committee member Marilyn Davenport.

The Southern California chapter of a Muslim charity called Islamic Circle of North American Relief USA held an event in Orange County last month hoping to raise about $350,000 for "women's shelters, fighting hunger and homelessness in the area." So of course hundreds of people showed up to protest, chanting "go back…

The uber Christian, wife-as-slave couple Jim and Alexis Bellino, from Orange County, are reportedly facing foreclosure on this 6,400sq.ft. Newport Beach, CA mansion, which they're trying to sell for $3.395M, way down from the $6M they paid for it.