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Month: March 2013

Budget cuts will close southland air traffic control towers, FAA says

Airport traffic control towers in Riverside,Fullerton, Pacoima and San Diego County will close starting April 7 under theFederal Aviation Administration’s forced spending cuts, the agency announcedtoday. Control towers are scheduled to close at Riverside Municipal Airport,Whiteman Airport in Pacoima, Fullerton Municipal Airport, Brown Field in SanDiego and Ramona Airport in San Diego County, according to

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Local jobless rate rises

Riverside County’s unemployment rate jumped nearly ahalf-percentage point to start off 2013 with job losses in most every sector ofthe regional economy. The county’s non-seasonally adjusted jobless rate in January, based onpreliminary estimates, was 11.5 percent, compared with 11.1 percent inDecember, according to the California Employment Development Department. The rate was still more than a

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Researchers find leukemia cure

Doctors in New York said they may have found a cure for a deadly type of cancer. In a study published Wednesday, doctors said they were able to genetically alter the patient’s own immune cells to fight the a deadly form of leukemia. This revolutionary treatment stems from a very simple idea. Our bodies have

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Palm Springs Art Museum evacuated

Today, at around 12:25 PM, Palm Springs police received a report of two suspicious packages at the Palm Springs Art Museum. One package was located inside the museum and one was located outside the museum. The museum was evacuated as a precautionary measure and Museum Drive was closed between Tahquitz Canyon Way and the north

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Palm Desert girl qualifies for the National Spelling Bee

A Palm Desert eighth-grader with the proficiencyto spell rarely heard words like “mnemonic” and “gnathonic” will representRiverside County at the National Spelling Bee in May. Katie Peterson of Palm Desert Charter Middle School topped 25competitors to take first place Wednesday afternoon at the 36th annualRiverside County Spelling Bee, held at the Moreno Valley Conference &Recreation

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