Hemet News

Samantha Korich, on left, Gabriel Diaz and Laura Cherland are featured in Inland Stage Company's performance of "Communicating Doors," a comedy/mystery that opens Thursday, June 20, at Esplanade Arts Center in San Jacinto.

A golf tournament is scheduled June 29 in honor of the late Keith Lundy, on right, who roganized golf clinics for the disabled at Golden Era Golf Course, and events for veterans.

If the city can afford it, two police officer positions that were frozen because of the economic downturn will be reinstated next year.

As a foster child and a Mormon he knew he was destined for some tumultuous times.

Members of The Lee DeForest Amateur Radio Club will participate in the annual ARRL Field Day on Saturday and Sunday, June 22 and 23, in Simpson Park in Hemet.

The Hemet Elks awarded scholarships to local high school gradautes. Pictured, from left, are Elks Exalted Ruler Woody Dooms; scholarship committee member Joan Watts, Hemet High seniors MacKenzie Hawkins and Amy LeClair, San Jacinto High seniors Daniel Martinez, Xavier Putnum and Vanessa Quinones Zarza, and Elks scholarship chairman Jeannie Lowe.

Jury selection could get underway as early as tomorrow for the trial of an ex-con accused of killing a Hemet drug counselor with whom he was living and stuffing her body in a suitcase that he dumped in a motel room.

Shelby Shamblin speaks with one of his attorneys during the first day of testimony in his trial June 17 at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley.

Buidlings in Hemet, like the vacant Walmart on Florida Avenue and Kirby Street, could not be converted to nonretail uses without the city permission under a proposed ordinance.

The Hemet-San Jacinto Valley Chamber of Commerce awarded its annual Olympus Awards on Friday, June 14, at Community Christian Church.

Janie Washburn, a Hemet High teacher and volleyball coach who pitches in with the family Washburn Ranch Fruit Stand enterprise, reported that the crowd of shoppers at Farmer's Corner in San Jacinto thankfully was about as large as the assembled organic produce-selling vendors could handle.

Dwayne Jefferies, a 21 year old resident of Hemet and two juvenile suspects were arrested after a vehicle pursuit and a foot pursuit in Hemet.

If you have ever been to Golden Era Golf Course and clubhouse for any veterans events, you would know Keith Lundy.

Graduating with the group was another Hemet Police Department college intern, Arnino Vincente.

A Hemet chiropractor who allegedly sexually assaulted two of his patients must stand trial on six felony charges, a judge ruled today.

San Jacinto resident Ken Brass shows the front of his 1938 Packard loaded up in a trailer for the trip to St. Paul, Minn., where he will start the 2013 Great Race.

If you picked up The Press-Enterprise today, June 14, you might have seen my interview with Ryan Burian from the band Beisbol .

When Sen. Mark Leno , D-San Francisco, introduced a motion in the Senate on Thursday to move the budget trailer bills to the floor, it sparked heated debate from several Republican senators.

Austin country singer Jimmy LaFave and Candy Harsany, a fan and Valle Vista resident who is underwring his June 30 concert at the Esplanade Arts Center in San Jacinto.

Hemet police chased and captured two people Thursday morning, June 13, after a Lo-Jack signal led officers to a car stolen in Lake Elsinore.