SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Covered California announced on Wednesday that those looking for health insurance through the state-operated marketplace now have until midnight of Feb. 9, 2024, to enroll. The previous deadline was set for the end of January, but due to increased demand and recent difficulty getting ahold of Covered California representatives, the open-enrollment period has
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California residents don’t have to pay for and pass a background check every time they buy bullets, a federal judge has ruled. The Tuesday ruling by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez took effect immediately. California Attorney General Rob Bonta asked Benitez on Wednesday to delay the
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A former Texas lawman pleaded guilty today to fatally hitting a man stranded on the shoulder of Interstate 215 and fleeing the scene, and he was immediately sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison.  Giovanni Ceja, 31, admitted the second-degree murder charge under plea agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. In
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Nine Southern California residents — including three from Riverside County — have been charged in federal indictments targeting an alleged drug pipeline in which suspected members of an organized crime ring imported hundreds of pounds of cocaine and other narcotics from Mexico through Los Angeles for export to Canada or distribution throughout the United States,
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And now we have two! Jackie the Bald Eagle laid her second egg of the 2024 season up at the Big Bear nest. According to the Friends of Big Bear Valley, Jackie laid her egg Monday at around 2:00 p.m. Jackie laid her first egg on Thursday. But this might not be it for Jackie
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Five men have been arrested in the investigation surrounding six bodies found last week at a remote dirt crossroads west of Victorville. The dispute was over marijuana, sheriff’s officials said Monday. Authorities discovered the bodies in the Mojave Desert outside El Mirage after someone called 911 and said he had been shot,
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A tractor-trailer hauling a load of apple juice overturned today at the 60/91/215 interchange in downtown Riverside, spilling juice all over a transition ramp, forcing the California Highway Patrol to shut it down. The crash happened just after 6 a.m. on the eastbound Pomona (60) Freeway transition to northbound Interstate 215, according to the CHP.
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A 24-year-old ambulance attendant from Riverside County who groped and solicited sex from a teenage girl being transported to a hospital pleaded guilty today to felony charges. Jason Dean Anderson of Wildomar admitted two counts of sexual battery on a restrained person for the purpose of arousal under a plea agreement with the Riverside County
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EL MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Deputies found the bodies of six people at a remote dirt crossroads in the Mojave Desert, a scene described as so grisly that Southern California TV stations blurred some of the images captured by their helicopters overhead. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies responding to a request for a wellness check
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — In-N-Out is permanently closing one of its restaurants for the first time ever, announcing that its Oakland location will soon shutter because of rampant crime in the California city. The burger chain said in a statement that “despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our customers
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A high-speed rail line connecting Southern California with Las Vegas got a major boost today with the approval of $2.5 billion in bonds. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the funding, via private activity bond authority allocated for the Brightline West High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail project. The 218-mile rail line will primarily run along the
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Updated post by Olga R. Rodriguez (AP): SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California State University faculty members reached a tentative contract agreement Monday, the same day that nearly 30,000 professors, librarians, coaches and other workers struck at the nation’s largest public university system, their union announced. Members of the California Faculty Association will return to work
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By The Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Flash floods inundated homes and overturned cars in San Diego on Monday afternoon as torrential rain swept through a large swath of the U.S., toppling trees and overflowing streets across California. Early morning flooding hit the town of Guerneville, north of San Francisco, where a creek overflowed
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Health officials in Southern California are warning people to avoid eating raw oysters from parts of Mexico after more than 200 people recently fell ill with suspected cases of norovirus. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has reported more than 150 suspected cases of gastrointestinal illness linked to raw
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Jurors deadlocked today in the trial of a former Los Angeles police officer suspected of fatally shooting a developmentally disabled man and critically wounding the victim’s parents at the Corona Costco. Salvador Alejandro Sanchez, 33, of Corona, is charged with voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. He additionally faces sentence-enhancing
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A Los Angeles City commission today voted to preserve the Brentwood home of Marilyn Monroe and recommended it be designated a historic-cultural monument after it was almost demolished last year at the request of the property owner. The five-member Cultural Heritage Commission voted unanimously to prevent demolition efforts of the movie star’s iconic home, located
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Home prices declined across Riverside County in December 2023, mirroring a statewide trend, while statewide home sales in 2023 experienced their steepest decline since 2007, the California Association of Realtors said today. Â Â The median price of an existing single-family home in Riverside County in December was $607,500, down from $620,000 in November but higher
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A 58-year-old transient who ignited the 2013 Silver Fire near Banning, which blackened more than 20,000 acres and injured multiple people, pleaded guilty today to over a dozen felony charges and was immediately sentenced to 16 years in state prison. During a hearing at the Banning Justice Center, Stephen Patrick Medlock admitted 14 counts of
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer A federal appeals court has decided to revive a U.S. sales ban on Apple’s premium watches while it referees a patent dispute revolving around a sensor, raising the specter that the company will pull the devices from stores for the second time in less than a month. The ruling
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will not ban tackle football for children under 12 after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom publicly promised he would not sign the bill if it were to reach his desk, blocking a proposal that had become a proxy for parental rights in a presidential election year.
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