Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:

Frank Mickadeit: Help A Single Mom Claim Her Money (OCR)
Get-rich-quick opportunity

Small World, Big Controversy (OCR)
Proposed changes to popular ride, such as adding Disney characters, upsets some fans of Disneyland.

Spring Break Lifeguards Scarce At State Beaches (OCR)
Superintendent at 3 O.C. stretches says, 'We do not have the funds to put the lifeguards out there.'

Inmate Dies After Deputies Restrain Him And Use Taser (OCR and LAT)
Jason Jesus Gomez was taken off life support Tuesday night, his brother says. Family says Gomez was trying to get his life together.

Sheriff's Investigator Found Shot To Death In Unmarked Car (OCR)
District Attorney's Office investigating the death in Aliso Viejo.

Road Work Ahead (DP)
The just-started work on West Coast Highway is jamming up traffic, and it'll get worse before it improves, but officials hope it will all be done in a couple of months.

The Political Landscape: Vets Give Props To DeVore (DP)
The California branch of the Veterans of Foreign Wars recently named Assemblyman Chuck DeVore as one of its Legislators of the Year for his efforts to boost educational and funeral benefits to veterans in the state.

That's Debatable: How Should The Government Solve Mortgage Crisis? (DP)
GOP presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain stopped by Orange County last week to raise money and participate in a roundtable discussion with Latino small business leaders.

Bill To Check Felons Fails (OCR)
Assemblyman Van Tran's attempt to have the state screen and verify the immigration status of prisoners failed to make it out of an Assembly committee Wednesday. Assemblyman Jose Solorio votes against it.