Hemet News

A 65-year-old San Jacinto man was fatally injured today when a motorist in a car apparently failed to see his motorcycle and they collided at an intersection in Hemet, a police corporal said.

A man who allegedly took his 2-year-old son from his wife by force in a parking lot remained at large Saturday.

Call it one of the sour economy's few silver linings. As many as three-fourths of homeowners in Hemet can expect to pay less -- sometimes hundreds of dollars less -- in annual landscaping assessments over the next few years.

A wildfire broke out today south of Beaumont and rapidly spread, forcing the closure of a highway in the Hemet Valley area.

San Jacinto police and Riverside County sheriff's homicide detectives chased a man through the city's streets Friday night, arresting him on suspicion of fatally shooting a 20-year-old man in the back last month, authorities said Monday.

In a move heralding changing times in Hemet, Gottschalks department store will become Forever 21.

You can fish Diamond Valley Lake without a license on July Fourth, but don't bring your boat.

Reporting from Hemet, Calif. -- A nubby black cloth covers the sole window in Frank Lucero's living room, casting a perpetual dusk over his refuge, a space as cramped as the prison cells where he spent a decade.

Jay Glasser, president of the Hemet Valley Dolphins swim team writes to us wanting to let Menifee families know that they're welcome to enroll their kids into their swim team program.

Prosecutors have set a $1 million bail for a U.S. Marine charged with pimping, kidnapping, and intending to rape a 14-year-old girl.

There are no notches in Hemet police Officer Derek Maddox's belt tallying the number of car thieves he has put behind bars.

Inland fire departments whose funding has been siphoned amid the economic downturn are finding other revenue sources.

A multi-agency gang task force arrested 16 adults and one teenager during a sweep operation in the Hemet-San Jacinto region, a sheriff's spokesman said today.

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A young woman was shot in the leg today by a gang member who apparently was playing with a pistol as both of them sat in an SUV in San Jacinto, a sheriff's investigator said.

Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone speaks at a May event at Pechanga Resort and Casino.

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Despite protests from more than a dozen area residents, the Hemet City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved extending a moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries to a full year.

Police arrested a Hemet woman on suspicion of using her telemarketing position to steal customers' credit card information and purchase and resell at least $133,000 worth of items online.

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