Jeff Hallock

A homeless man in San Francisco who reported sighting a stolen van being used by two jail fugitives could end up collecting $140,000 in reward money, according to a newspaper account.

Two of the three inmates who escaped from an Orange County jail fought over whether they should kill a taxi driver they kidnapped and held at a San Jose motel before one of them drove back to Southern California and surrendered to authorities, sheriff’s officials said on Monday.

Investigators reached out to the public Monday in an effort to track down information on three inmates who escaped over the weekend from an Orange County jail.

A reward of up to $50,000 has been offered for information leading to the recapture of three inmates who escaped from an Orange County jail, authorities said Sunday.

A former Mrs. Orange County was behind bars Thursday on suspicion of creating child pornography with a 4-year-old relative and selling it to a Marine stationed in Southern California, authorities said.

Orange County residents were urged to prepare for emergencies and disasters less than a week after Time magazine ranked the county as the second-most dangerous area in the United States when it comes to natural disasters.

A Southern California woman who attends her Orange County community’s church decided to clear out her doll collection and surprise her neighbors with the dolls, leaving some residents stumped and “disturbed” by a resemblance to some neighborhood children.