Santa Margarita News

The task of the day: digging a trench for a French drain separating the Santa Margarita Community Center's basketball and tennis courts from a hillside leading up to the Community Church, and filling it with gravel.

A San Luis Obispo judge sentenced Rhonda Wisto and her son Frank York Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for their roles in the brutal murder of 15-year-old runaway Dystiny Myers on Wednesday.

Since 1962, the Reno Jazz Fest has endeavored to bring together talented students and renowned professional artists which in turn consistently attracts some of the best school bands in the nation to participate in concerts and workshops.A A A1 2 The adjudicators and clinicians come from all over the U.S. Over 300 school groups, 9,000 participants, ... (more)

When Thuan Le, a single mother of four boys, entered the CVS Pharmacy on Santa Margarita, she followed her usual routine.

Six balls spit randomly from a machine Wednesday night made one Mission Viejo customer a multi-millionaire. Someone had a one-in-14-million day when they bought a lottery ticket recently from the CVS drug store on Santa Margarita Parkway near Trabuco Hills High .

Jury selection is slated to continue Wednesday in the murder trial of a Lake Forest man accused of stabbing two Mission Viejo friends outside an all-night restaurant.

A memorial service will be held May 19 in Santa Barbara for Alanna Nicole Cousins, a UC Santa Cruz student who was killed in a car crash on Highway 101 earlier this month.