A two-month investigation into drug smuggling throughout the Riverside County correctional system netted nine arrests, with the majority of the suspects in custody today. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, the probe was initiated in October to ferret out sources of the fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine being funneled into the county’s five jails. Sgt.
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A 59-year-old man was killed in a two-vehicle collision in Desert Hot Springs, and the man who allegedly drove through a red light and crashed into the victim was arrested, police said today. The suspect, a 38-year-old man from Arcata, was arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter, according to the Desert Hot Springs Police
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Six people were injured after a rollover crash near Interstate 10 in Banning Thursday afternoon. The three-vehicle crash was reported just before 1:00 p.m. at Ramsey Street and 22nd Street. According to the California Highway Patrol, crash involving a grey Toyota Corolla, a white GMC Sierra, and a white Dodge Ram. A Cal Fire spokesperson
Continue ReadingBy NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer It’s one of the biggest debates of the 2023 NFL season: Brock Purdy, superstar or game manager? His next opponent already sounds convinced of the answer. “Seems like he gets a lot of hate from the stuff that I see. I don’t know why,” Baltimore cornerback Marlon Humphrey said.
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A dispute erupted this week between police officers from the Muscogee Nation and jailers at the Okmulgee County jail that led to one jailer facing a battery charge in tribal court. The confrontation underscored the tension between tribal authorities and some state officials over the limits
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden believes “serious scrutiny” is warranted for the planned acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel. The transaction has drawn alarm from the steelworkers union and others. Lael Brainard, the director of the National Economic Council, said
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require restaurants in rest stops throughout the state to be open seven days a week. That could potentially force some Chick-fil-A locations along state highways to drop a longstanding policy of closing on Sundays for
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Cristina Pacheco, the foremost chronicler of street life in Mexico City for half a century, has died at 82. With her newspaper column and television shows, Pacheco shed light on the common, unsung heroes who kept Mexico’s economy and culture alive. Pacheco was most often seen walking the streets of Mexico
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is asking a federal appeals court to delay his defamation trial set for next month in a lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll so he can consider other legal moves, including potentially taking the case to the US Supreme Court. A federal appeals court rejected
Continue ReadingBy KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Prague’s police chief says a lone gunman opened fire in a university, killing at least 14 people and injuring 25 more. Police and the Czech Republic’s interior ministry say the gunman in the mass shooting Thursday is also dead. Authorities have not released the shooter’s name, but
Continue ReadingHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A man accused of attacking a Connecticut state representative outside a Muslim prayer service was ordered Thursday to undergo a mental competency evaluation. Thirty-year-old Andrey Desmond appeared in Superior Court on several charges, including attempted sexual assault in the June attack on state Rep. Maryam Khan, who was attending a service
Continue ReadingFRISCO, Colo. (AP) — The former owner of two funeral homes in central Colorado has been sentenced to a year of probation after pleading guilty to charges that her funeral home included the cremated remains of an adult when it gave the ashes of a stillborn boy to his parents in December 2019. Summit Daily
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Miracle, Eric Levenson and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A jury found Tacoma police officers Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine not guilty on all charges Thursday in the 2020 death of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a Black man who died in custody after saying he couldn’t breathe. After a monthslong trial, Burbank
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A 34-year-old man suspected of stabbing three of his family members, one fatally, following a dispute in Indio, must stand trial on murder, a judge ruled today. In addition to the murder charge, Anthony William Piña-German of Indio is charged with two felony counts of attempted murder, according to court records. He also faces sentence-enhancing
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By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Time is running out on a Friday deadline for North Dakota’s Legislature to enact new lines for legislative districts encompassing two tribal nations that successfully challenged the state’s 2021 redistricting map as violating the Voting Rights Act. It’s unclear what a federal judge will do after
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democrats running California’s government have passed some of the strictest gun laws in the country, but those efforts to restrict firearm access are increasingly facing successful challenges in court. Gun rights groups have been aggressively fighting the laws, often winning initial rulings in their favor before
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democrats running California’s government have passed some of the strictest gun laws in the country, but those efforts to restrict firearm access are increasingly facing successful challenges in court. Gun rights groups have been aggressively fighting the laws, often winning initial rulings in their favor before
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Yoshinobu Yamamoto already has New York Yankees pinstripes with No. 18, the numeral prized by many Japanese pitchers. “I gave him that jersey. It’s his if he wants to keep it,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Thursday. Some Japanese pitchers covet No. 18 because the
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A Connecticut man who pleaded guilty to planning to fight for the Islamic State group in Syria has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Former Hamden resident Kevin McCormick was sentenced on Thursday. A judge also ordered McCormick to be placed on supervised release with GPS monitoring for the
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