Home Gardens News

Maria Hernandez stood at the edge of a nearly vacant dirt lot in Home Gardens surrounded by scampering dogs and running children near a ramshackle single-bedroom home.

Candidates for three seats on the Alvord Unified School District board say they want to improve communication among administrators and staff, the teachers union and parents.

Ruben Raymond Hernandez, 30, allegedly walked into a Circle K around 1 a.m., brandished a butcher knife and forced the clerk to empty the cash register and give him scratch-and-win Lottery tickets and cigarettes, said sheriff's Sgt.

A 30-year-old Home Gardens man was arrested early Sunday on suspicion of robbing two convenience stores and threatening employees with a butcher knife, authorities said.

Prosecutors charged five men Monday in connection with the shooting of a church bishop in Home Gardens during an armed robbery spree.

All five men have been charged with attempted murder with an allegation of the use of a firearm causing great bodily injury.

A bishop is recovering from a gunshot wound he suffered during an apparent robbery attempt outside his Riverside County church, according to sheriff's officials.

Some operate home-based businesses. Others are instructors at community colleges or in one-on-one tutoring sessions.

A brush fire threatened several homes today in Homeland before firefighters, using tanker planes and a water-dropping helicopter, stopped the blaze at one-half acre, according to Cal Fire.

County supervisors tentatively approved an ordinance today establishing new speed zones in a number of unincorporated communities, reducing posted speeds by 10-20 mph in some places and increasing speeds marginally in others.