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By Karina Tsui, Maria Aguilar Prieto, Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department on Friday ordered California election officials to identify suspected noncitizens on voter rolls and set aside their mail-in ballots — warning that officials who knowingly count ballots cast by noncitizens could face criminal liability. The action marks an escalation in the
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is looking for the county to foot the cost of his legal contests stemming from state lawsuits over his investigation into alleged election fraud. According to published reports Friday, Bianco has filed a claim in Superior Court looking to obtain in excess of $10,000 to
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A Los Angeles federal court hearing was scheduled for Tuesday in the Trump administration’s expedited bid for a temporary restraining order seeking to purge more than 20,000 “likely non-citizens” from California’s voter rolls in the days before the midterm elections. The closely watched lawsuit, United States of America v. State of
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Los Angeles County health officials today announced the first two flu-related deaths of the season. Both people who died were older adults who had pre-existing medication conditions, which were not specified by the county Department of Public Health. One of the patients had not received a flu shot, while the
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KESQ) – The California Department of Education issued a notice about a data breach that may have impacted some Coachella Valley schools. Educational Testing Service (ETS), the organization that supports California’s statewide testing programs, reported the breach. ETS says an unauthorized person used a compromised login credential to access and copy student information
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – More than 100 cases have been filed in a statewide crackdown on Medi-Cal schemes that defrauded the public health insurance program out of over $4.5 million dollars, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced today. The probe targeted California’s in-home supportive services program providers who unlawfully billed Medi-Cal, claiming hours for care
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A Glendale firefighter was ordered today to stand trial on a murder charge for allegedly bludgeoning his wife with an ax inside their North Hollywood home. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Theresa McGonigle said she found sufficient cause to allow the case against Andrew Jimenez to proceed to trial. Deputy
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MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – Riverside County sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday uncovered a likely chemical drug lab illegally established in a Moreno Valley hotel room, leading to at least one arrest and raising concerns about the law enforcement officers’ exposure risks. The probable PCP manufacturing lab was discovered shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday at
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By Holmes Lybrand, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to stop certain investigative actions in its hunt for noncitizen voters, writing that the department’s efforts rely on faulty data that includes US citizens legally allowed to vote. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín wrote in the order that DHS’s
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) Proposition 44 asks California voters to set a spending floor for the nonprofit community clinics that care for low-income and uninsured patients. If it passes Nov. 3, those clinics would have to spend at least 90% of their total revenue each year on providing health care services, according to the Legislative
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Lynette Niebla EL CENTRO, Calif. (KYMA) – The California Highway Patrol (CHP) officially has a brand-new place to call home in Imperial County. Local and state leaders, families, and area law enforcement partners gathered in El Centro to cut the ribbon on a state-of-the-art facility built to serve the expansive needs of the Imperial Valley.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (KESQ) – Four Southern California lawmakers called today for an independent federal investigation into an encounter between immigration agents and a Long Beach resident who suffered injuries during his detention, demanding answers about the agents’ use of force and whether the man’s civil rights were violated. Rep. Nanette Barragán, D-San Pedro, joined
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A Riverside County man who admitted his involvement in a scheme to kidnap migrants to the United States and hold them for ransom pleaded guilty today to federal charges. Miguel Angel Avila, 24, of Hemet, was among five defendants charged in the case. Avila pleaded guilty Wednesday in Los Angeles to
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ORANGE, Calif. (KESQ) – Chapman University has established a scholarship fund in memory of Eliana Moreno, the NBC4 reporter who died along with two other people in the September crash of a news helicopter in Chatsworth, her family announced today. Moreno, 38, was born in Orange County and graduated from Chapman University in 2010 with
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CORONA, Calif. (KESQ) – Two 15-year-old girls suspected of planning an attack at Corona High School, allegedly in act of revenge, remained in custody today, while classes resumed as usual at the campus. Authorities announced the girls’ arrests Tuesday, culminating a chain of events that began Oct. 6 when the FBI notified the Corona Police
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WILDOMAR, Calif. (KESQ) – A Wildomar business owner allegedly caught selling kratom-based products to teenagers in violation of local and state law was out of custody today. The suspect, a 46-year-old man from Fontana, was arrested last week following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation at his shop in the 22000 block of Palomar Street.
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – California voters will choose a new governor next month as Gavin Newsom completes his second term in office and is term-limited out. News Channel 3 has caught up with the two men who want to replace him. Democrat Xavier Becerra visited the Coachella Valley this past weekend, and republican Steve Hilton came
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (KESQ) – Santa Ana police today were investigating the theft of collectible cards valued at nearly $1 million. The theft happened Oct. 13 at 1610 E. St. Andrew Place, police said. Professional Sports Authenticator reported two pallets of trading cards were stolen from a FedEx truck, police said. The cards
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – There is no basis to support the Trump administration’s 11th-hour assertion that 20,000 suspected non-citizens were illegally registered to vote in the upcoming election, attorneys for Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan contend in newly filed court papers. Any alleged evidence suggesting that tens of thousands of people in Los
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The Los Angeles Police Department today reported a rise in antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in parts of the San Fernando Valley and West Los Angeles, part of a slight overall increase in reported hate crimes in the city in the last year. The city’s Board of Police Commissioners reviewed an
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