Headline Rewind: Alleged Kidnapper Shoots Himself, New Budgets

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Patch spoke with a couple of the other jewelers in town this week in the wake of the deadly heist June 24 at Monaco Jewelers. It turns out, the robbery and subsequent shootout .

A Laguna Niguel man is recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. He shot himself after allegedly from their former residence in San Juan Capistrano.

SCHOOLS

A Marco Forster student was honored recently for with the help of the Orange County Sheriff's Department gang prevention program.

YOUR MONEY

The Capistrano Unified School District and the city of San Juan Capistrano each adopted their fiscal year 2011-12 budgets this week. The school than originally anticipated, with some maintenance projects bearing the brunt of cuts. In the city, next year's .

CITY HALL

Thursday was the first day on the job for San Juan's new city manager, . She appeared at a ceremony to induct residents Mike Darnold, Matt Gaffney and Jean Vincenzi to the city’s Wall of Recognition. She also was present at

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT (a story from our archives)

The assistant principal at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Upper School, Ryan Dahlem has been mountain climbing with his dad, John Dahlem, 67, of Huntington Beach, for nearly 30 years. Perhaps their