Jurisprudence, Sticky Situation, Police Bladder—er, Blotter

1. It rained this week but that didn't create the kind of leak that bothered one Coto de Caza resident—and rightfully so. After a man sat in his car for several hours, he got out and did his business in the neighboring yard. It's unclear whether this is what Neighborhood Watch is really supposed to be about. Nevertheless, it made . 

2. It looks like the logistics aren't adding up, and the Capistrano Valley Unified School District is readying for a worst-case scenario as it relates to the 2011-12 budget. Gnashing of teeth? It's possible. Read .

3. Todd Robert Sousa, accused of having sex with a 15-year old girl, . The swim instructor whose business had used a number of South Orange County pool sites, including Trabuco Hills High, was ordered not to be in the presence of any girl aged 14-18 unless she was immediate family.

4. On this day in history, March 26, 1943, scientist Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a vaccine for polio, a discovery that virtually wiped out the disease in America. In 1979, working through President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Isreali prime minister Menachem Begin signed a peace agreement that ended three decades of hostilities and earned them the Nobel Prize. In 1997, the Heaven's Gate religious cult was found in a Rancho Santa Fe mansion, its 39 members having committed peaceful suicide in order to catch a ride on an alien spacecraft hidden behind the comet Hale-Bopp. In 2000, Vladimir Putin—the former chief of the KGB—was elected president of Russia.

5. A couple of major players in their fields were born on this day, the late Tennessee Williams (1911) and  Robert Frost (1874), as well as Teddy Pendergrass (1950). Others, too, among the living include Diana Ross (67), Steven Tyler (63), Sandra Day O'Connor (81), Leonard Nimoy (80), Alan Arkin (77), James Caan (72), Erica Jong (69), Bob Woodward (68), Vicki Lawrence (62), Martin Short (61), Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa (57), Marcus Allen (51), Kenny Chesney (43), Amy Smart (35) and Keira Knightley (26).

For What it's Worth: March is Optimism Month. This is Act Happy Week. Today is Make  Up Your Own Holiday Day, which may explain why it is also Legal Assistants Day.