Five family members found dead in San Clemente: Sheriff's Lt. Erin Giudice said the bodies were discovered by a relative who  went to check on the family this afternoon. The person called 911 at about 3:50 p.m. Anderson, holding a news conference outside the neighborhood's gates, described the victims as an elderly woman, a man and woman ages 40-50, and two women in their early 20s, all related. No names were released. [Photo by Eugene Garcia, Orange County Register]

Sheriff says he's ready to put mattresses on jail floor: Acting Sheriff Jack Anderson on Friday said he may be forced to come up with unpalatable alternatives to ease jail crowding during an expected spike in arrests over Memorial Day Weekend. "I'll put mattresses on the floor if I have to," Anderson said after he and two high-ranking members of his command staff met behind closed doors with Assistant Presiding Judge Kim Dunning.The meeting was arranged by Orange County Counsel Benjamin DeMayo less than a day after Superior Court Judge Thomas Borris, the presiding judge of the court's criminal division, rejected Anderson's request for authority to release some inmates from their sentences early to relieve crowding.

Am I Going To Die?: Oksana Grishuk, 36, an Olympic gold-medal skater from Aliso Viejo believed a business dinner with an aquaintance last month at the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort was for all the right reasons. Instead, she found her head swirling, her stomach aching and wondering "Am I going to die?"

Secret cameras found in former Sheriff's office: Evidence of cameras that fed video to computers spirited away in a "secret compartment" in a "clandestine" room within former Sheriff Mike Carona’s old office have been turned over to federal prosecutors. Acting Sheriff Jack Anderson made the discovery recently and notified the five members of the Board of Supervisors in a confidential memo The Orange County Register obtained through a public records request.

Suspects ID'd in Marine Shooting Death: Two fellow Marines, including an Iraq veteran, are believed to be responsible in the shooting of another Marine who was found shot dead in a San Clemente ditch last week, authorities said. One suspect is in custody and another is being sought by authorities, said John McDonald, spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department.