Hemet News

Four alleged white supremacists accused of beating a Latino so badly at a Hemet trailer park that he suffered brain injuries must stand trial on felony charges, a judge determined today.

The rocky soil in Jack Flanagan's Menifee community did not yield easily to the shovel.

Two traffic fatalities were investigated by the California Highway Patrol over the Fourth of July weekend -- one less than last year and well below the two-county total in 2005 when eight died, according to CHP statistics.

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.

What's summer without a killer summer soundtrack? Nada, my friends, so you can count on a slew of great shows, festivals and other musically-oriented extravaganzas to thrill your eardrums and keep your air-guitar muscles in check! SKA IN THE PARK If you missed the dynamic show-closing set by The Skeletones at the recent Inland Empire Music Awards , ...

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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