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2 men face rat, reptile breeding cruelty charges
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Two men have been charged with more than 100 counts each of felony animal cruelty for the way they treated many of nearly 20,000 rats and reptiles found dead, dying or diseased at a...
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Lake Elsinore fire 20 percent contained; evacuations off
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire threatening 250 homes in Riverside County was 20 percent contained on Tuesday but it didn’t grow much overnight, authorities said. Fire spokesman Marc Peebles...
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3 hurt in Silver Fire, some can’t evacuate
BANNING, Calif. (AP) — Residents and sheriff’s deputies were left without an escape route and stuck inside an evacuation area Wednesday night as a huge and growing Southern California wildfire left...
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Former ‘Today’ news anchor Lew Wood dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lew Wood, who marched with Martin Luther King, covered John F. Kennedy’s assassination and was a news anchor for NBC’s “Today” show during a distinguished broadcast career that...
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Riverside County critics want stop to night jail releases
FRENCH VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of people are urging Riverside County to stop releasing inmates from a detention center at night, saying they roam streets and loiter near businesses. The...
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Powerful storms hit inland Southern California
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Powerful thunderstorms are lashing inland areas of Southern California east of Los Angeles. The National Weather Service has posted flash flood warnings through 6 p.m. Thursday...
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Brush fire erupts in Riverside County
HEMET, Calif. (AP) — Southern California firefighters are battling a 15- to 20-acre wildland fire south of Hemet in Riverside County. The fire was reported at 12:55 p.m. Wednesday and is burning in...
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SoCal man sentenced for suitcase body murder
MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) – A Riverside County man who strangled his girlfriend in bed, then stuffed her body in a suitcase which he dropped at a motel was sentenced Friday to 56 years to life in prison....
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Wild weather brings heat, rain to Southern CA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Portions of Southern California sweltered in triple digit temperatures while inland areas saw thunderstorms that flooded roads and caused mudslides. The California Highway Patrol...
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Arsenic in water at Thermal mobile home park
THERMAL, Calif. (AP) — Federal officials say a high level of arsenic has been found in the water at a Riverside County mobile home park. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports sampling at D&D...
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Judge dismisses ranger’s claims for Dorner reward
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A judge has dismissed all claims against Riverside County in a lawsuit by a camp ranger who argued he should have received the $1 million reward for apprehending rogue ex-Los Angeles...
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Calif. death row inmate who killed 2 deputies dies
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — An inmate on California’s death row for the 1997 killing of two Riverside County sheriff’s deputies has died at San Quentin State Prison. The California Department of...
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Cal contractor sting leads to 75 arrests
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – California authorities arrested 75 people, some with shady pasts and most of them accused of working without proper licenses, during an undercover sting operation conducted last...
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Large tortoise hit and killed on I-10
WHITEWATER, Calif. (AP) — The California Highway Patrol says a tortoise weighing an estimated 150 pounds was killed as it tried to cross a Southern California freeway. The Desert Sun reports that the...
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Riverside prosecutors want boy in state facility
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy who shot and killed his neo-Nazi father two years ago should be incarcerated in a state juvenile justice facility for his own safety, prosecutors said...
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Dispute over Dorner reward continues
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A Los Angeles Superior Court judge today refused to give out any information about a panel of retired judges who decided how to divide $1 million in reward money offered for the...
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4 hurt in So Cal hot air balloon explosion
TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) — Officials say the explosion and crash-landing of a hot air balloon over Southern California wine country left four people hospitalized, one with severe burns. The Riverside...
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CA man suspected of double murder, throat slashing
HEMET, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Southern California man suspected of killing a woman and 5-year-old girl and slashing the throat of a woman about 1 1/2 miles away. Riverside County...
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1,500 tested for TB at Southern California school
INDIO, Calif. (AP) — More than 1,500 staff and students at a Southern California high school were tested for tuberculosis after one student was diagnosed with the bacterial infection last month,...
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