Beaumont News

Looking for something to do this Memorial Day?A There are a few nearby events that may interest you.

Anthony was kicked out of a Beaumont foster home because he's gay. He endured anti-gay taunts from a roommate at a group foster facility.

The National Weather Service was predicting some "scattered showers" in the Banning and Beaumont areas Friday night, but the clouds and moisture should lift as we head into the Memorial Day weekend.

Law enforcement agencies throughout Riverside County will be ramping up patrols Friday night and through the holiday weekend to nab drunken or drug-impaired drivers.

In the small city of Banning, about 13.5 percent of the 28,000 or so residents are unemployed.

If you're out and about this weekend and notice some people selling poppies in front of your local grocery store or home center, it's all for a good cause.

The Rev. Bill Dunn, vicar of St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Beaumont, is hosting a community fundraiser at the historic site on Friday, June 1, 2012.

A national campaign titled "click it or ticket" kicked off this week-- with hundreds of law enforcement agencies cracking down on drivers who don't wear their seat belts.A The campaign, sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is aimed at bringing heightened awareness to the need to buckle up correctly, and runs through the ... (more)

He started jotting down the names of the dogs and their owners he met at the park because it was just too many names to remember by heart.

Here are a collection of shots captured by my Facebook buddies. I'd love to see more.

In 1990, Ventura resident Melvin E. Blake wrote this letter to the city of Beaumont and confessed he was partly respontly for the ice cream that went missing from a cake and ice cream social in 1924 in Beaumont, when he was just a boy.

Banning's hospital was on high alert Thursday, as staff prepared for a real life possibility of tragedy.

Inland Leaders Foundation is hosting a golf tournament on Saturday, June 2, at the Morongo Golf Club at Tukwet Canyon in Beaumont.

City leaders, business members and the community alike gathered Thursday to hear the city's latest report card and honor those who've helped shape the area.

Beaumont police, which adopted what may have been the latest and greatest non-lethal weapon, is now scaling back after one of their officers was indicted for improper use of his department issued pepper spray gun.

When I was young, Julia Child was as much a fixture in my family's kitchen as she was on television.

As residents prepare for a march on city hall, and an accused police officer prepares for his next day in court, more details are emerging in the pepper spray blinding case of a Beaumont woman.

The authors of "Mexican American Baseball in the Inland Empire," which documents pre-1960s men's and women's teams from the area, will host a book-signing Saturday in Beaumont.

Jordan Villegas, left, Joshua Villegas and Joseph Villegas, committee chairman for Beaumont Boy Scouts Troop 322, sketch out plans earlier this year at the Beaumont post office, which the troop is helping to landscape.

Thirty-nine certificated employees of the Beaumont Unified School District can expect to receive final layoff notices, the school board decided in special session on Friday, May 11.