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WASHINGTON – The U.S. will resume airlifting injured earthquake victims out of Haiti. The White House says it has received assurances additional medical capacity exists in the U.S. and among its international partners. According to White House spokesman Tommy Vietor, the flights are on track to resume by early Monday. The U.S. military on Wednesday

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Child welfare organizations in Haiti are calling an American church group’s plan to take children from Haiti to the Dominican Republic reckless. The 10 Baptists say they were just trying to do the right thing and save vulnerable children from the chaotic aftermath of the earthquake when they were arrested. The group

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Mexican law enforcement officials say a group of armed men stormed a party in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez Saturday night, killing 13 people and injuring about two dozen. The victims ranged in age from 15 to 20. Police officials say witnesses told them there were at least 15

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget proposal is dripping with red ink. A congressional official says the $3.8 trillion plan, which will be released tomorrow, would add up to a record-breaking $1.6 trillion budget deficit in the current fiscal year, followed by a tamer $1.3 deficit in 2011. The proposal calculates deficits over the

LAKEWOOD, N.J. – Toyota’s plan for a fix to its huge recall problem is coming Monday. The head of the automaker’s North American sales division, Jim Lentz, is scheduled to appear on NBC’s “Today” show to detail the company’s plans, which have been approved by federal regulators. Toyota yesterday used ads in newspapers to characterize

RIVERSIDE – French film gets its time to shine in Riverside this winter as the Tournees Festival returns to the UCR campus. The film festival, which was conceived as a way to help colleges shine a spotlight on French film, returns to UC Riverside Feb. 11 and will run through Feb. 25. The theme of

RIVERSIDE – A 40-year-old transient was arrested on suspicion of stabbing and killing a man near the UC Riverside campus today, police said. Richard Lockhart, 40, was arrested on suspicion of murder after witnesses said he stabbed a man shortly before 1:15 a.m. today on the 3900 block of Iowa Avenue in Riverside, according to

COACHELLA – Authorities say a teenager has died of injuries suffered during a shooting that took placeearly Sunday morningin Coachella. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department says the shooting happened around 2:15 a.m. on the 50-000 block of Calle Mendoza. Deputies found the victim about a block away, on the 86-000 block of Calle Olivia. The

CENTURY CITY – Kathryn Bigelow won the top Directors Guild of America award tonight for her Iraq drama “The Hurt Locker,” becoming the first woman to do so and beating out ex-husband James Cameron and his blockbuster “Avatar.” The winner of the DGA’s best director award often goes on to win the Oscar for that

PALM DESERT – Police are making sure the streets are safer this weekend. Palm Desert Police held aDUI checkpoint that wrapped up earlySunday morning. Police screened 595 vehicles on Monterey Avenue and Magnesia Falls. A total of four people were arrested, two forDUI and two for driving with an invalid license. One vehicle was impounded.

CATHEDRAL CITY -Cathedral City Police are on the search for suspects this morning, accused of holding up two people at gunpoint. It happenedSaturday night around 11:45 on the 68800 block of Cedar Road. That’s where officers say two men held up two people at gunpoint demanding they give up their belongings. The suspects then took

KABUL, Afghanistan- NATO is promising a full investigation of a joint U.S.-Afghan force airstrike on what turned out to be an Afghan army post. Four Afghan soldiers died in the strike, which was called after Afghan soldiers opened fire on a group of U.S. Special Forces and Afghan commandos. NATO says the Afghan soldiers believed

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office is putting off a determination in the Dec. 20 death of actress Brittany Murphy while trying to gather more information about what medications she may have been taking, it was reported today. TMZ.com reported that Murphy was anemic and being treated for other conditions around the

RIVERSIDE – The brother-in-law of convicted arsonist and murderer Raymond Lee Oyler pleaded not guiltyFriday to jury tampering charges linked to Oyler’s trial. Christopher Vaughn Hillman, 47, faces seven felony counts of jury tampering and could be sentenced to seven years in state prison if convicted. He remains free on $250,000 bail. Hillman appeared before

WASHINGTON – Regulators have shut down a big bank in California, along with two banks in Georgia and one each in Florida, Minnesota and Washington. That brings to 15 the number of bank failures so far in 2010 atop the 140 shuttered last year in the punishing economic climate. The failure on Friday of Los

MECCA -Hammond Road is closed between Johnson and Grant due to an accident that has left a pole across the roadway. The CHP tells News Channel 3 that a truck flipped over in the area, hit that pole, and knocked it over. Officials expect the roadway to be shut down at least half the day,

RIVERSIDE -The “stop action” trend has traveled from YouTube and into the Southland, prompting students to “freeze” on cue. At noon, the area around the bell tower at the University of California Riverside was bustling with the kind of energy you’ll find at most college campuses. But at 12:04 p.m., approximately 200 students quite literally

INDIO- Close to 500 Verizon land line phone and internet customers still aren’t able to use the services they are paying for. The recent storm that swept through the valley damaged some underground wires. A 4-inch pipe that holds the telephone wires wasn’t pressurized. The water got in and destroyed the entire main cable. Right

MORENO VALLEY – A Riverside County Sheriff’s deputy was hospitalized Friday morning after being hit by a car at a DUI checkpoint in Moreno Valley. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department was setting up a DUI checkpoint along Alessandro Boulevard just west of Covey Quail Lane at around 11 p.m. Authorities said the deputy was putting

DETROIT -Toyota Motor Corp. says it will begin telling millions of customers how it will repair their sticky gas pedal systems next week, and repairs will be finished in less than a month. Company spokesman Brian Lyons says he can’t state specifically when repairs will begin. But he says the automaker is moving quickly to