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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – California’s minimum wage is set to rise to $16.90 an hour on January 1, 2026 according to California’s Department of Finance. While California’s cost of living varies, recent data indicates cost of living is about 12.6% above the national average according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Some supporters said
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WESTMINSTER, Calif. (KESQ) – A 62-year-old Costa Mesa woman is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on charges of registering her dog to vote and twice casting ballots in her name. Laura Lee Yourex, who will turn 63 next Friday, was accused of illegally casting ballots in her dog’s name in the 2021 gubernatorial recall
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The Chargers will kick off their 2025 season tonight with an international spotlight, facing the Kansas City Chiefs in São Paulo, Brazil. The Chargers are still trying to shake off the sting of their listless first-round playoff exit against the Houston Texans eight months ago. The Chiefs, by contrast, marched all
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The United States Attorney’s office announced two lawsuits against Southern California Edison Co., today, alleging that faulty transmission and power lines led to the devastating Eaton and Fairview fires. The filings cite “a troubling pattern of negligence,” and allege that the company’s negligence caused the deadly fires, which burned tens of
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Taxpayers will cover the $120 million bill for President Donald Trump’s illegal move to federalize the National Guard and put the U.S. Marines on the streets of Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed today. With 300 National Guard members still deployed to Los Angeles under what Newsom calls “the guise of
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SAGE, Calif. (KESQ) – A 16-year-old girl who went missing today in the Hemet Valley was located, the California Highway Patrol confirmed.
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MURRIETA, Calif. (KESQ) – A felon who joined a cohort in a fatal robbery at a 460-acre illegal marijuana grow in Anza was awaiting sentencing today after being convicted of first-degree and other offenses which carry a mandatory life sentence. Brandon Noll Pollard, 33, of Escondido killed Khamsene Singnolay in 2019. After two days
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CORONA, Calif. (KESQ) – Two Chinese nationals living in Riverside County pleaded guilty today to participating in a scheme in which counterfeit iPhones and iPads were imported from China, then exchanged at Apple stores across the Southland. Yushan Lin, 31, and Shuyi Xing, 35, both of Corona, pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to
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By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Pledging communication about vaccines that will be “grounded in science, not ideology,” the governors of California, Washington and Oregon announced Wednesday they will form a West Coast Health Alliance to begin coordinating public health guidelines separate from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The new alliance represents
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Jasveen Sangha — the so-called “Ketamine Queen” — pleaded guilty today in Los Angeles federal court to illegally selling the ketamine that killed “Friends” actor Matthew Perry in October 2023. The North Hollywood woman pleaded guilty to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine and
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SILVERADO CANYON, Calif. (KESQ) – A 38-year-old Alabama man was charged Tuesday with making a series of threats toward a Roman Catholic abbey in Silverado Canyon, and he was carrying body armor, ammunition, brass knuckles and knives in his vehicle, sheriff’s officials said today. Joshua Michael Richardson was charged with criminal threats, possession of a
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A months-long investigation into vehicle thefts throughout the Inland Empire and neighboring locations culminated in multiple arrests and the recovery of stolen cars and trucks, authorities said today. The Riverside Auto Theft Interdiction Detail, a multi-jurisdictionaltask force, last week completed a nine month investigation with a bevy of search warrants
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By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated federal law by using the US military to help carry out law enforcement activities in and around Los Angeles this summer. US District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that Trump’s use of thousands of federalized
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By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — California’s redistricting battle has now reached the airwaves, unleashing an advertising blitz that is expected to grow only more urgent – and staggeringly costly – in the post-Labor Day sprint to the November special election. On Tuesday, groups on both sides of the fight in California launched their first
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A parolee and his girlfriend accused of putting a runaway girl to work as a prostitute in Riverside and surrounding locations will ask a judge tomorrow to consider reducing their bail requirements so they can get out of jail. Michael Jay Johnson, 28, of Los Angeles and Bonnie Edney Fingerson, 23,
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Riverside County was at its lowest amount for Labor Day since 2020 today, $4.476, despite rising 11 of the past 12 days. Check Out Our Gas Gauge Section For Coachella Valley Gas Deals The average price has increased 15.8 cents
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – Three people were stabbed in the Core-Columbia neighborhood of San Diego and a suspect was arrested, police said today. Shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday, three people were standing at 1000 Kettner Blvd. when a male suspect “walked up to them and started arguing, for no reason,” the San Diego
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A 37-year-old woman who walked away from a San Diego County Female Community Reentry Program was apprehended today in Perris. Angel Rayburn was taken into custody without incident by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation agents, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced. The San Diego County District Attorney’s
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HEMET, Calif. (KESQ) – A motorcycle rider was killed in a collision with a Hemet Fire Department truck tonight in Hemet. The crash occurred at 9:09 p.m. at Chambers and State streets, according to the California Highway Patrol. Additional information was not immediately available.
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – The U.S. Air Force will provide full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the San Diego woman who was fatally shot during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach. The decision reverses a Biden administration denial of a military funeral for Babbitt, 35, and comes months after the federal government
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