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A 19-year-old man who stole a big rig truck in Temeculaand crashed it into several cars during what he told authorities was anattempt to flee “zombies” will get up to five years in prison, a DistrictAttorney’s Office spokesman said today. Jeremiah Clyde Hartline pleaded guilty on Monday at the SouthwestJustice Center in Murrieta to a

The Board of Supervisors today authorized RiversideCounty fire Chief John Hawkins to close access to seven hiking and off-roadsites where fire danger is high in the summer months. In a 4-0 vote, with Supervisor Jeff Stone absent, the board withoutcomment gave its nod for Hawkins to continue a policy he began in 2007. Since that

A 40-year-old Riverside man crashed his car into a parked pickup truck in Riverside Tuesday and died, authorities said. Frank Juarez Jr. died in the wreck at Mitchell and Campbell avenuesshortly after it was reported at 12:10 a.m., Riverside police said. Juarez was driving a 1996 Honda Civic north on Mitchell “at a high rateof

Contina la bsqueda de un sujeto que ayer intent raptar a una estudiante de Indio High cuando se diriga al plantel escolar. El incidente fue reportado a las 9:45 a.m. La joven que caminaba sobre Aladdin Street en Indio se percat de que una Ford Explorer de modelo no muy reciente la segua, el conductor

Federal accident investigators recommended Tuesday that states cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half, matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries. The National Transportation Safety Board said states should shrink the standard from the current .08 blood alcohol content to .05 as part of a series of recommendations

A research firm says Southern California home prices neared a five-year high last month as sales picked up in more expensive markets. DataQuick said Tuesday that the median price for new and existing homes reached $357,000, rising more than $11,000 during the month of April alone and up 23 percent from the same period last

Police in Indio were on the lookout Tuesday for a man whotried to kidnap an Indio High School senior as she walked to school. The attempted kidnapping was reported about 9:45 a.m. Monday, around anhour after it happened. The girl, whose name was withheld, told police she was walking south on Aladdin Street from Shadow

Angelina Jolie says she’s had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that makes it extremely likely she’ll get breast cancer. Jolie authored an op-ed for Tuesday’s New York Times where she writes that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts. The 37-year-old Jolie says she

San Francisco-based hotel and restaurant companyKimpton will manage a four-star hotel to be built on North Palm Canyon Drive indowntown Palm Springs, a city spokeswoman said today. The hotel, which is expected to open in 2015, will have 190 rooms, arooftop bar and pool, restaurant and more than 24,000 square feet of event andmeeting space,

A recall effort is a step closer to gathering signatures in Yucca Valley against four of five town council members. Ron Cohen of Concerned Citizens said he delivered Proof of Publication with blank copies of two recall petitions to Yucca Valley Town Clerk, Jamie Anderson. The move takes the recall one step closer to gathering

A spell of unseasonably high temperatures in Riverside County will end today before a cooling trend sets in for the rest of the week, meteorologists said. The heat wave that began last weekend is being caused by a ridge of high pressure over the region, according to the National Weather Service. Several record-high temperatures were

A state Senate oversight report finds that at least 23 sex offenders have been approved to work as drug and alcohol counselors in California over the past eight years. A Fresno Bee investigation concludes there is nothing in state law to prevent sex offenders and others with criminal records from becoming counselors in California, even

The eighth edition of the Tour of California begins two days of racing in Los Angeles County today with a 110.3-mile stage from Palmdale to Santa Clarita. The 121 cyclists will leave from Marie Kerr Park at 11:20 a.m. for a stage that will feature racing through the hills north of Santa Clarita along San

A 17 year old male person of interest has been taken into custody, after barricading himself inside a home on the 53000 block of Avenida Madero, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff’s say this man was wanted in connection to a robbery at a small business in Indio. Police say a suspect, wearing

Amgen’s 8th annual Tour of California made it’s way through the Coachella Valley for the first time in the race’s history today. The scenery hopefully made a lasting impression, because the weather was something most would not desire. Norman Henderson is a local cyclist and even he knows Monday’s ride through the valley was unbearably

Under a scorching mid-afternoon sun, 128 cyclists made their way down Highway 74 and into Palm Desert during Stage 2 of the Amgen Tour of California professional bicycle race. Spectators lined Palm Desert’s El Paseo Drive more than an hour before the racers would arrive. Others drove up Highway 74 to be the first to

Police Officers put their lives on the line, every day, to serve and protect. We’re getting a look at how they prepare in part two of the three part series “training day” News Channel 3’s Chris Alvarez shows us how Cadets learn to make arrests and defend themselves at College of the Desert’s Public Safety

What does it take to get into law enforcement? News Channel 3’s Chris Alvarez received an all access pass to the College of the Desert’s Public Safety Academy. That’s where the next generation of Police Officers is training, to be prepared to serve and protect. It’s 7:30 am on a Saturday, no time for sleeping

A man tried to kidnap an Indio High School student this morning as she was making her way to school, according to Indio police. At around 8:50 a.m., as the girl walking on Aladdin Street south of Shadow Palms, a man in a beige Ford Expedition pulled up next to her and asked her if

May 13, 2003 is a day Riverside County Lt. Matt Jimenez says he will never forget. It was the night his friend and colleague Deputy Bruce Lee was killed, beaten to death by a mentally disturbed man in La Quinta. “Even though it’s been 10 years, it’s still very hurtful,” he said. Celebrating his life