Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:

Search for boy and father shifts to Mexican border (OCR and LAT)
RV found today in border town.

Orange County rocks Fourth of July (OCR)
Locals celebrated the holiday with pancakes, parades, family and plenty of good cheer.

O.C. employers warned to protect against heat illness (OCR)
Even though the recent heat wave has eased for the holiday weekend, Cal/OSHA is warning Orange County employers to protect their workers heat-illness.jpgfrom the heat in accordance with state law.

Mother, daughter use beer to escape attacker (LAT)
Convicted sex offender breaks into Cypress home in the middle of the night.

New red Disneyland monorail takes first public guests around the park (OCR)
monorail7opensslideshowAt about 5 p.m. today the first members of the public boarded the new Mark VII Monorail at Disneyland's Tomorrowland station.

Newport-Mesa passes a mostly quiet 4th (DP)
Newport Beach and Costa Mesa observed a mostly trouble-free Fourth of July Friday, although Newport police made more arrests than last year and Costa Mesa responders battled a residential fire that apparently resulted from improperly extinguished fireworks.

RIGONOMICS: Freedom to gather (DP)
Normally I write about the problem issues of the day; high gas prices, political shenanigans and governmental snafus. During this political season you hear a lot about what is wrong with America. But on the birthday weekend of this great nation, I want to write about what is great about America.

UCI study: Dementia affects women more (DP)
Dementia is more likely to affect women older than 90 than men, a new UCI study says.

O.C. immigrant's good works reconnect her to Afghan heritage (LAT)
As a girl, Parisa Popalzai learned that her heritage contained the stuff of fairy tales, that she was in fact descended from Afghan royalty. Imagine, a 19th century emir in the family.

Peter Saul at the Orange County Museum of Art  (LAT)
'Bush at Abu Ghraib': Peter Saul's colorful painting features President George W. Bush and an Iraqi victim. The California-born artist's retrospective includes unsettling works on history and politics.