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Moreno Valley police arrested an 18-year-old woman yesterday after an undercover operation connected her to the prostituting of a 14-year-old girl. On March 7th, police were investigating information theyreceivedthat a 14-year-old runaway girl was acting as a prostitute.Apparently, the girl was being advertised in postings on a popular social networking site. The postings offered sexual

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regulargasoline in the Inland Empire declined today for the eighth consecutive day,dropping six-tenths of a cent to $4.243. The average price in Riverside and San Bernardino counties is 4.3 centsless than one week ago and 11.5 cents less than one year ago, but 15.7 centsmore than one

Undefeated junior middleweight Hugo Centeno Jr. will fightKeAndrae Leatherwood in the scheduled 10-round main event tonight of a seven-bout card at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino. The 22-year-old Centeno, an Oxnard resident, is 17-0 with nine knockoutsin a professional career that began in March 2009. Leatherwood, a 24-year-oldfrom Tuscaloosa, Ala., is 12-1-1 with eight knockouts.

The seeded women’s singles players will make their debuts in the 2013 BNP Paribas Open today, while the men will complete their first round of main draw singles play at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. All 32 seeded players in the 96-player women’s singles draw received first-round byes. Russian Maria Sharapova, who is seeded second,

Sentencing is scheduled Friday for Moreno Valley school board member Mike Rios, who was convicted of nearly two-dozen felony charges connected with a sex-for-money operation that he ran out of his home. An eight-man, four-woman jury in Riverside found Rios guilty on Feb. 8 of a dozen counts of pimping, five counts of pandering and

The internet makes it easy to find out if there could be sex offenders living in your neighborhood with websites like familywatchdog.com and www.meganslaw.ca.gov. Unless of course they are not registered or tracked. Ever since Governor Jerry Brown’s realignment law took effect 17 months ago, more offenders are cutting their GPS linked ankle bracelets and

The attorney for an 18-year-old La Quinta High Schoolstudent who was allegedly driving drunk in a crash that killed his friend inIndio said today that the young man is prepared to face legal consequences andis “broken up” about his friend’s death. Eighteen-year-old Victor Regalado Jr. of Indio was killed when he wasthrown from a Jeep

Palm Springs will celebrate its 75th anniversarynext month with a free party and fireworks show, a city official said today. The event, “Thanks for the Memories! Palm Springs through the Decades”is scheduled for April 20 at the O’Donnell Golf Club and will feature anexhibit of the city’s history and culture from 1938 to the present.

Rafael Nadal is not sure how his injured left knee will respond to his first hardcourt match of the year at the BNP Paribas Open. Nadal is a two-time champion and three-time finalist at this event. He has not played a match on a hard court in almost a year and is only a month

Residentes de California que sean de bajos recurso son elegibles para recibir servicio de telfono celular completamente gratis. Y sin importar su estatus migratorio. El programa se denomina “Assurance Wireless” un programa federal de “lifeline assitance”, auspiciado por la compaa Virgin mobile.Al rededor de 5 millones de californianos de bajos recursos se vern beneficiados de

Border Patrol agents arrested a 53-year-old man at 3:30 this morning after finding nearly 40 pounds of cocaine hidden inside the gas tank of his truck. The agents searched the truck after a canine unit at the Highway 86 checkpoint alert them that the vehicle was possibly smugglingillegaldrugs. The agents moved the vehicle to a

Telecommunications giant AT&T today announced plansto hire more than 500 workers in the inland region and throughout California inwhat company officials describe as a workforce expansion to meet growing demandfor the carrier’s products and services. “I’m proud that AT&T is creating new job opportunities in Riverside,”AT&T California President Ken McNeely said. “As a leader in

In addition to the thousands of fans set to call the Indian Wells Tennis Garden home over the next two weeks, hundreds of media outlets from all over the world will set up camp. This year, the tournament welcomes a new member to the media team, the British Broadcasting Corporation. If you cannot sit courtside,

Men’s main draw singles play in the 2013 BNPParibas Open will begin today at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden with 16matches, while the first round of women’s singles play will conclude. Like in the women’s draw, all 32 seeded men’s players received first-round byes. Play is set to begin at 11 a.m. with four matches.

In a unanimous 5-0 decision on Wednesday, the Palm Springs City Council denied a resident-driven group’s request to have a public vote on the hotel portion of the downtown revitalization project. One right after the other, Palm Springs neighbors voiced spirited support of the plan to move forward with the project and not allow a

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will speak to a sellout crowd in Indian Wells Thursday evening. The talk is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa. The 60-year-old son of former President George H.W. Bush and younger brother of former President George W. Bush served two terms as Florida governor from

An Indio man who allegedly struck his 23-day-old son to stop him from crying goes on trial Thursday on charges of second-degree murder and assaulting a child. The trial of Joseph Roy Scott, 24, is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., when Jury selection gets under way. Police found an infant with “severe” head trauma

The four-day La Quinta Arts Festival opens Thursday. The festival, which goes through Sunday, will feature 230 contemporary artists exhibiting their work at the La Quinta Civic Center. The event is ranked the No. 1 fine art festival in the country by Art Fair SourceBook, a guide for art and craft fairs in the United

Women’s main draw play began at the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday. The top 8 women in the tournament all received byes into the second round. It gives them some time to meet with the media, and to push some of their own projects. Fan favorite Maria Sharapova introduced the Coachella Valley to her latest

The first day of the BNP Paribas Open brought out fans from all over the world, ready to see the best of the best, and for free. A big crowd made their way out to the Indian Wells Tennis Garden for the first round of WTA qualifying. World class tennis aside, the BNP offers a