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Students from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, are among 14 teams of undergraduates from around the U.S. that have been selected by NASA to participate in research flights that simulate weightlessness. A NASA statement Wednesday says the teams will build experiments at their campuses and then bring them to Johnson Space Center in Houston in

Riverside County sheriff’s deputies have shot and killed a man they say tried to run them over. The Riverside Press-Enterprise says no deputies were hurt in Tuesday’s confrontation. Sgt. Lisa McConnell says a report of a man shooting at a home sent deputies to the Glen Avon area of Jurupa Valley at around 3:15 p.m.

The news that the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for same-sex marriages in California is drawing a subdued reaction from a crowd gathered at San Francisco City Hall. The high court let stand a trial court ruling that overturned the state’s voter-approved gay marriage ban. But lawyers for the ban’s sponsors plan to

An excessive heat watch will be in effect for the Coachella Valley and Riverside County mountains Friday morning through Sunday evening, as temperatures soar well into the triple-digits, meteorologists said. Starting Friday, weekend highs in the Coachella Valley will be 115 to 120 degrees and 100 to 105 degrees in mountain areas near 3,000 feet,

In a major victory for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California. The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped

The Supreme Court is meeting to deliver opinions in two cases that could dramatically alter the rights of gay people across the United States. The justices are expected to decide their first-ever cases about gay marriage Wednesday in their last session before the court’s summer break. Hours before the court was to issue its rulings,

The Board of Supervisors today approved a contract with Banning to pay the city $450,000 a year to offset the expansion of a Riverside County jail there. The contract would not become operative until the board formally approves a project to enlarge the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility by 400-1,600 inmate beds. A memorandum of

“It’s OK to own a business but we can’t have a marriage, it’s second-class citizenship,” said Chad Gardner. Gardner and his partner Roly Carvajal met online 15 years ago. Together they own Dash and a Handful Catering in Palm Springs. Now they’re looking to finalize their commitment to each other. “We would get married right

Desert Hot Springs councilman Russell Betts says construction crews are profiting from illegal mining in his city. He wants to stop it, but the land owner says, they’re just following city orders. It’s happening on a busy construction site at an open lot just off Highway 62, in the northwest part of Desert Hot Springs.

Two half-brothers being sought in the shooting of a 23-year-old Hemet resident found dead inside a vehicle in San Jacinto have ties to the Coachella Valley and should be considered armed and dangerous, authorities said today. Abram Daniel Palacios, 24, of San Jacinto and Juan Javier Mejia, 39, of Hemet are charged in the death

For the next few months, you will see young teens at Eisenhower Medical Center. One hundred and six of them to be exact. “Its very important to various departments because of a lot of our regular volunteers are snowbirds so they leave us so we really need that extra help in the summertime,” Sharon Pogue,

Saying they want to ensure taxpayer funds are spentconservatively, Riverside County supervisors today approved limiting the amountof money that can be expended on groundbreakings and other ceremonies forcounty projects. “We need some guidelines,” Supervisor Jeff Stone said. “We don’t needto host big parties to tout our accomplishments.” Stone and Supervisor John Tavaglione proposed a policy

The state Senate is poised to vote on a modified version of Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to revamp the state’s enterprise zone program. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg scheduled a vote late Tuesday on AB93, which requires two-thirds votes in each house. The bill would redirect $750 million in business tax credits by using

The head of California’s prison system says a court order to evacuate thousands of inmates from two Central Valley lockups hit hard by an infectious disease could lead to racial conflicts elsewhere. Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard said Tuesday that officials had been awaiting the results of a U.S. Centers for Disease Control study on the

A government watchdog says lax oversight by the Internal Revenue Service allowed workers to use agency credit cards to buy wine for an expensive luncheon and, in one case, romance novels, diet pills and baby clothes. Two IRS credit cards were used to buy online pornograpIG: IRS credit cards used for wine, pornographyhy, though the

The U.S. Forest Service revised its estimate forcontaining The Hathaway Fire in the San Gorgonio Wilderness because of wherethe fire is burning. The estimated date for full containment — it had been 95 percentcontained, or surrounded, on Sunday — is now open-ended or undetermined. The northeastern head of the fire is burning in a rocky,

President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete Tuesday as he announced a wide-ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming. In a major speech at Georgetown University, Obama warned Americans of the deep and disastrous effects of climate change, urging them to take action before it’s

Police are looking for two men this morning suspected of robbing a Coachella RadioShack a gunpoint Monday night. At around 7:40 p.m., police responded to reports of an armed robbery at the RadioShack near the corner of Harrison and Westerfield. When they arrived, they learned a man wearing a black cloth mask entered the store