Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:

Thompson helps Santa Margarita boys capture state Division III title (OCR)
Magnolia's girls unable to muster another comeback, lose in state title game.

IN THE SPIRIT: At 81, Robert Schuller still learning, still inspiring (OCR)
Crystal Cathedral is home to the "Hour of Power" broadcast and the preaching of positive Christianity.
UCI ranked among world's 150 best universities (OCR)
The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), a London-based magazine, ranked UC Irvine 140th among the world's top 400 universities for 2007, placing the campus ahead of such well-known international schools as Japan's Hokkaido University and Tel Aviv University.

Area home sales drop (DP)
February didn't turn out to be the worst month for Southern California home sales in the last two decades -- that dubious honor went to the month before, when fewer people bought houses in the region than in any other month since 1988.

Naked man caught by bystanders after car crash (LAT)
Deputies say bystanders helped capture a naked man after he ran from a car crash in Laguna Niguel.

Dad arrested, 12-year-old son detained in case of dead opossums in Anaheim (LAT)
A man and his 12-year-old son could face charges related to animal cruelty after an incident that left a mother opossum and four of her babies dead, police said.

O.C. gas prices soar to new record (LAT)
The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in Orange County rose 9.4 cents to $3.541, breaking the record of $3.479 set May 8, the Automobile Club of Southern California reported.