Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:

Two more octuplets home in La Habra (OCR)

Nadya Suleman snuck home two more octuplets today, without the mob scene we saw Tuesday, according to online reports. (But she did fight with her mother — story here.) The hospital apparently kept the release of the babies quiet and La Habra police blocked off Suleman’s cul de sac.

Gulp! The swallows don't visit San Juan Capistrano much anymore (LAT)
There was a time, people here say, when the swallows swarmed San Juan Capistrano in the days just before winter gave way to spring. Every year, locals say, the white-bellied birds filled the sky like a rain cloud. They returned to their nests in the old adobe mission as church bells rang, heralding their arrival.

Ex-LAPD official runs into trouble as O.C. assistant sheriff (OCR)
Standing aboard a sheriff's harbor patrol boat just off the Seal Beach coast, Mike Hillmann, Orange County's newest assistant sheriff, stares at an offshore oil rig nicknamed Esther and lets his fears run wild.

Surf City Realtor: ‘Under $550,000 is the hot market now.” (OCR)
This house on Belfast Lane, a few blocks from Golden West College, is still getting offers, a dozen and counting as of this week, real estate agents tell me. It was on the market less than a month when it went into escrow. It’s in backup-mode now.

When will the great plan become the Great Park? (OCR)
As Great Park leaders make the leap from drawing boards to bulldozers and plan to create some soccer fields, a lake and a farm, they will need a few creative financing ideas to build out their great dream for the future.

Small city attracts more presidents than just Obama (DP)
For a small, suburban town with little more than 100,000 residents like Costa Mesa, it seems like it would be impossible to match the spectacle of wildly popular, newly elected President Barack Obama stopping by for a town hall meeting.