Imperial News

Struggling Imperial Capital Bank thinks it could catch a break from new federal legislation that allows more businesses to receive rebates for taxes paid in previous years as an offset to current losses.

The eastbound Orange Line trolley leaving Lemon Grove at 4:44 p.m. on Tuesday, November 24, collided with a bicycle rider at the Greenwood Cemetery grade crossing.

Nominations for the rejuvenated Hall of Fame will be accepted through December 11.

Nearly 200,000 four-wheelers, sand-duners and off-roaders will flock to Southern California's Imperial Sand Dunes this month.

Tommy Jacquette, the longtime executive director of the Watts Summer Festival, died Nov.

Several vehicles initially blocked 3 lanes at Imperial Highway. BREA A big-rig truck tire tread sparked a traffic collision involving at least five vehicles that held up traffic on the northbound 57 past Imperial Highway.

Posted October 17, 2009, 11:56 a.m. Consuelo isna t her real name. Where I used to live, the neighbors on one side lived in a small two bedroom, the front half of a duplex, then moved to the three bedroom house on the other side.

Cecilia Cid-Contreras remembers waking up underwater, unable to breathe. A migrant smuggler had just plunged a GMC Suburban packed with about 20 suspected illegal immigrants into a canal, including Cid-Contreras' parents and 10-year-old brother.

Veterans from across Riverside and Imperial counties on Saturday offered state lawmakers ideas on how to better address the needs of those who have served.

Commander Ron Meredith says the first call came from the Owl Caf on Main Street in El Centro.

Barrio Logan?" says Dave. "I tell you, soon there won't be a Barrio Logan. It'll be swallowed up by downtown." Dave and Tennessee and I stand in the dark on National Avenue, by 16th Street, right where the barrio begins.

No one accuses William T. Vollmann of taking shortcuts. The Sacramento writer's latest nonfiction release, "Imperial," was reported over 10 years, spans several centuries of history and includes hundreds of interviews.

For The Associated Press= The Mid-Atlantic was expected to continue to see messy weather Friday as a storm system just off the New Jersey coast continued to spin in place.

Law enforcement agencies in Imperial County can now check the immigration status of people they arrest when fingerprints are taken during booking.

Mobile strip shows, women flashing their breasts and drunken guys riding nude on motorcycles isn't what the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had in mind when it envisioned "multiple uses" for public land.

Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced today that agents from his office have once again "successfully disrupted" operations of the dangerous Sinaloa drug cartel, seizing more than $1.1 million in U.S. currency and arresting six individuals who attempted to purchase approximately 160 pounds of cocaine this week.

IMPERIAL, Calif. -- The majority of drugs entering the United States is smuggled through a 72-mile stretch of desert along the border of California and Baja California, which earned it the nickname Cocaine Corridor in the 1990s, reports La Opinion.

Smugglers continue to get more creative in the ways they sneak drugs - and people - into the country.

IMPERIAL, Calif. - California Attorney General Jerry Brown says 16 people have been indicted in a drug-smuggling probe that netted hundreds of pounds of cocaine and marijuana and nearly $2 million in cash.

A multicounty pursuit that led to a brief standoff between a suspected car thief and officers from several police departments ended with an arrest on the 91 freeway at Imperial Highway early this morning.