San Clemente News

Lance Cpl. Oziel Camacho of San Clemente is only 5-foot-6 and 140 pounds, but thanks to hard work and strong 'bearing,' he was selected as his company's top recruit.

U.S. Border Patrol agents say they've seized more than 22 pounds of methamphetamine a man was smuggling in the body of a minivan in Orange County.

A 1-month-old baby was found dead Friday in the trunk of a car in Florida, and the boy's father has been taken into custody, police said.

By the time you read this, it might seem a little late to get a donut. It's never too late to get a donut.

Disturbance. 200 block Avenida Monterey. A married couple were yelling, throwing objects and possibly hitting each other, a caller said.

The Camp Pendleton Fire Department is scheduled to conduct a seasonal hazard reduction burn Saturday and Sunday near the School of Infantry-West area of the base.

Beach rocks that severely burned a Southern California woman when they spontaneously ignited in her pocket contained elevated levels of phosphate.

It's one-eighth of an inch big, but it has the power to bring an entire agricultural community to its knees; and it's been found in San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente.

The beach rocks that ignited and seriously injured a San Clemente mother earlier this month were covered with an elevated level of phosphate, Orange County health officials announced Thursday.

Before school starts Meg Roh, 13, of Dana Point, surfs at San Onofre State Beach south of San Clemente.

"There are goats in my back yard!" my friend texted, pinning hers as the lucky Talega neighborhood of the day.

Investigators seized more than 100 grams of a synthetic drug known as "bath salts" during a raid this week of a San Clemente tobacco shop, the Orange County Sheriff's Department announced.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a three-part series on poverty in Orange County, particularly in the areas covered by our network of Patch websites.

Orange County's biggest beauty secret isn't tucked away in a cozy two-room salon in Laguna Beach or San Clemente.

SAN CLEMENTE Truman Benedict World War II fighter pilot, former San Clemente mayor, retired schoolteacher, principal and superintendent, and namesake of San Clemente's Truman Benedict Elementary School was remembered Wednesday at a crowded memorial service at St.

An appellate court has affirmed the manslaughter conviction of a San Clemente man in street race that killed a millionaire mixed-martial arts entrepreneur.

CRUISE liner Ocean Countess suffered an engine breakdown only hours after a tumultuous civic send-off from Liverpool to inaugurate the new turnaround facility.

The case of a former south Orange County woman missing in Panama is now a homicide investigation, according to a prosecutor there.

Supporters of the late Sgt. Manny Loggins have placed a sign at the first overpass leading in to San Clemente on the I-5 Freeway.