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TEMECULA -Temecula-based cyclist Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France win for using a banned performance-enhancing drug, was being sought today on international arrest warrant issued by a French judge. Landis, 34, was rumored to be at the Tour de Palm Springs event this past weekend, but News Channel 3 has

INDIANAPOLIS -Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana says he won’t seek a third term in Congress. Bayh says he’s lost passion for serving in the senate and wants to quote”contribute to society in another way.” His departure continues a trend in which several senators and house members from both parties have decided to retire. Bayh’s

CATHEDRAL CITY -Firefighters have put out a fire in a mobile home park. The fire was reported around 9:15 p.m. inside the Tramview Mobile Home Park, off East Palm Canyon, near Perez Road. Firefighters knocked down the flames by 10:00 p.m. The Cathedral City Fire Department says one home was completely destroyed, while two others

CATHEDRAL CITY-A Coachella Valley bakery is celebrating 25 years of whipping up tasty treats. But not without hurdles. A blaze burned part of their successful business exactly three months ago today. This local bakery enjoys the sweet smell and taste of success. This month marks a major milestone for the pastry swan, 25 years and

PALM SPRINGS – Hundreds of people from around the country got a peek into some of the valley’s hidden gems; it’s mid-century architecture. “Palm Springs was put on the map by modernism,” says Nat Gozzano, Racquet Club Estates Neighborhood Organization. As part of Modernism Week seven homes throughout the Racquet Club Estates opened up to

LOS ANGELES -Kevin Smith says he’s “way fat,” but that shouldn’t stop him from flying. The director and actor says a pilot ejected him from a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Burbank, Calif., saying he didn’t fit properly in a single seat. Smith raised a stink about the incident on his Twitter page Sunday,

REDLANDS – A magnitude-4.1 earthquake and a series of aftershocks have rattled San Bernardino County but there are no reports of damages or injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck at 1:39 p.m. Saturday about three miles south of Redlands. It was followed by at leastfourteen aftershocks, including two of magnitude 2.5. Several

HEMET – Highway 74 between Hemet and Mountain Center was open today, thanks to the faster-than-expected repair of a section that was washed out last week. Caltrans awarded an emergency $1 million contract to the construction company Skanska, which started work Wednesday and had the roughly 40-foot section of road repaired by yesterday afternoon, according

LOS ANGELES – People who live within 100 meters of Los Angeles freeways develop atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, at twice the rate of those who live farther away, it was reported today. The study by USC and UC Berkeley researchers and colleagues in Spain and Switzerland examined 1,483 people whose homes were within

SACRAMENTO – California – with its state worker furloughs and IOUs – became the poster child of the budget crisis gripping statehouses across the country last year. Unless Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers learn to get along, the state is likely to face more of the same this year. California already is more than

WHISTLER, British Columbia – Hannah Kearney has won America’s first gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics. Kearney won the women’s moguls by defeating Canadian Jenn Heil. American Shannon Bahrke took bronze to add to her silver medal from 2002. Kearney’s win came after a 22nd-place finish at the Turin Olympics where she came in as

RICHMOND – Authorities say two teenagers were shot and wounded when a man opened fire at a church service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Richmond police Sgt. Bisa French says three men in hooded sweat shirts walked into the church at about 12:30 p.m. Sunday and one of them fired a gun, hitting a

ROSTRAVER, Pa. – Emergency crews say everyone is accounted for and OK after a partial roof collapse at a suburban Pittsburgh ice rink where a youth hockey tournament was taking place. The collapse happened Sunday afternoon at the Rostraver Ice Garden, about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Officials found nothing after searching the building with

CICERO, Ill. – The death toll in this morning’s suburban Chicago apartment building fire has risen from four people to seven. Officials say the victims include a newborn, a toddler and four teenagers. The seven may have been related. The fire started around 6:30 a.m. and was extinguished in an hour. The death toll rose

PHOENIX – A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says a helicopter crash has crashed in north Phoenix, killing a child and two adults. FAA spokesman Ian Gregor says the Eurocopter EC135 went down at about 3 p.m. MST on Sunday in a rural area known as Cave Creek. He says the helicopter caught fire after crashing.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The biggest U.S. military surge since Iraq and Afghanistan is scaling back, a month after troops arrived to aid victims of Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake. Great gray ships have been departing Haiti’s battered shores, as thousands of American troops pack up their tents. Troop strength is down to 13,000 from a Feb. 1

LONDON – A spokeswoman says best-selling British thriller writer and former jockey Dick Francis has died in his home in the Cayman Islands. He was 89. Francis was the author of 42 novels. He was also a successful jockey, winning over 350 races. He retired from racing in 1957 and took up writing, first as

HEMET – A man killed in a vehicle crash in Hemet was identified Saturday. Gary A. Buckley, 44, of Homeland, was driving a full-sized Chevrolet pickup truck on Stetson Avenue about 5:30 p.m. Friday when, witnesses said, he went through a red light at Cawston Avenue and collided with a woman driving a Scion on

MARJAH, Afghanistan – NATO troops are pressing on with their offensive against a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan, battling sniper fire, booby-traps and a sandstorm. A U.S. Marine spokesman says troops are meeting “light to moderate” resistance as they move into Marjah. He says in some areas “the enemy has chosen to stand and fight.”

MORENO VALLEY – A Moreno Valley High assistant football coach, his wife and their two children were killed in a six-vehicle crash in San Bernardino County, it was reported Sunday. Ryan Villalpando, wife Veronica Villalpando and their two children died yesterday in the crash on Interstate 15 south of Jurupa Avenue near Ontario, Moreno Valley