School field trips are officially cancelled forever now that more information has come out about the drug and alcohol-fueled romps two high school teachers took with their students last year. The Orange County teachers, formerly accused only of sexing and boozing, are now being charged with handing out cocaine as well.

Goodbye field trips, last bastion of anything good about school: No parent will ever allow one of their kids to leave school with a teacher (which is fine, they sex there too) after two teachers have been arrested for having sex with students while on some kind of booze-filled spring-break style recapturing of their…

Tom Mauk, the CEO of Orange County — or the O.C. as the kids were calling it not a few days ago — will resign over criticism of how he handled (or mishandled, as the case may be) allegations that Santa Ana City Councilman Carlos Bustamante sexually assaulted women working in the Orange County Public Works department.

Last night, someone hung a noose on the door of gay rights group Equality California's office. The police response: "Sometimes you just have to live with being a victim."

One big baby was born in Orange County, California last week. The hefty newborn boy weighed in at 14.2 pounds, and is probably the largest baby ever delivered in the O.C. [Telegraph]

Remember Jameelah Medina, the Muslim woman forced to take off her hijab in front of a male deputy? Watch a new video of her recounting the harassment she faced by clicking on the pic.

Sure, us common folk are cutting back in the current economic climate, but how are the nouveau riche faring? Gretchen Rossi, the newest "housewife" of The Real Housewives of Orange County says that struggles with the economy will be reflected in the upcoming season of the show. Does this mean the women will be scaling…

A judge in Orange County, California signed an agreement last week that will allow Muslim women to wear county-issued headscarves in jail. The change came after a Muslim woman named Jameelah Medina filed a lawsuit against the county after she was arrested in 2005 for having an invalid train pass and forced to remove…

Lauren Conrad was spotted "getting very cozy" and swapping tales of C-list level celebrité with Orange County actor Kyle Howard. So she went from dating actual OC losers to dating someone who played one for a movie? Upgrade! • You know you are really pushing the limits of a story when the moms start commenting to…

• Hot new trend: polygamist pastels? Yeah, whatever.• Facials that involve steam and extractions are bad for your skin. • NPR's "Fresh Air" host, Terry Gross, once got fired from a job as an inner-city school teacher. • Indigenous girls in Australia were forced to get contraceptive implants when they were as young as…

Here's some Friday cuteness: animal control officers in Garden Grove, CA made a rare rescue mission to save a group of 14 ducklings that had fallen into a storm drain. The article comes with a video, complete with peeps and worried quacks from the mother duck who was "frantically pacing around the drain opening" when…