Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:

City worker accused of stealing gas is arrested (OCR)
Westminster public works employee is suspected of stealing hundreds of gallons of gas from city pumps.

Friends, family bailed out indicted Broadcom billionaire (OCR and LAT)
Former dean of the engineering at UC Irvine personally posted a $150,000 bond as evidence of his faith in Henry Nicholas.
Pioneering UCI economist Lave dies at 69 (OCR)
Charles A. Lave, a pioneering transportation economist who helped shaped some of UC Irvine's best known programs in the social sciences as well as guiding the rise of several of the university's larger buildings and the University Hills housing complex, has died at age 69.

Friend's murder charges dropped (DP)
Prosecutors dropped charges against an Illinois man implicated in a 2006 Costa Mesa drive-by shooting Friday, days after he testified against the man convicted as the killer.

O.C. Museum of Art to move to Costa Mesa (OCR)
Officials hope to break ground near the performing arts center by 2013 and open by 2016.

A new kind of inflation (DP)
Grass-roots group places huge, pneumatic ATM by entrance of Orange County Market Place to grab attention for anti-tax campaign.