SAN BERNARDINO – Some sweeping changes are being announced after a recent list put eleven San Bernardino schools among the state’s lowest-performing 5-percent. Six schools will be converted to charter ...

RIVERSIDE--Prosecutors are laying out their evidence in Riverside County’s largest murder case. The first of thirteen defendants are on trial at the Riverside Hall of Justice. Curlee Mitchell, Robert ...

RIVERSIDE – County judges have handed out their second death penalty in as many days. George Hernandez, Jr. has been ordered put to death for a gang-execution killing in Riverside more than five years ...

TEMECULA – (INT) – Investigators say Monday’s fire at the Pechanga Resort Casino originated in an elevator shaft in the main building. Pechanga spokeswoman Ciara Green said that the flames were ...

Twenty-one alleged members or associates of a Chino street gang have been charged in a drug-trafficking operation. All had ties to the Mexican Mafia. Federal indictments capped an investigation known ...

SAN FRANCISCO--In late January communities around the country conducted a point-in-time count of their homeless populations. Last year’s count revealed that about 130,000 Californians were homeless, ...

SAN DIEGO--The skull and other remains from an adult mammoth, a mega-mammal that went extinct in the last Ice Age, were unearthed this week at a downtown construction site. The bones, including a tusk ...

TEMECULA – (INT) – The ongoing divisive debate over the Liberty Quarry project came to an abrupt end Thursday when the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians and Granite Construction announced an agreement ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – (INT) – A custody battle with her husband over their children has sent a Yucaipa woman and two others to prison. Amy Hillrich, 42, was sentenced to 26-years-to-life for arranging ...

GARDEN GROVE--Crystal Cathedral founder Robert Schuller and his son have not healed their differences. The younger Schuller has stepped down as senior pastor of the mega-church, a month after he was ...

HESPERIA--Estimates continue to mount in San Bernardino County as repairs to storm-damaged public facilities shift into high gear. Losses from last week’s storms have exceeded $12 million, putting the ...

CORONA--Christopher Laurie, son of prominent Riverside pastor Greg Laurie, perished Thursday when his car hit a Caltrans sweeper on the Riverside Freeway. The younger Laurie of Newport Beach was ...