Norco News

Playing a role in the production of a Hollywood movie was a dress rehearsal for a real-life crisis for Norco resident Nicole Schulz.

How about a little bell-gazing for this year's three-day 4th of July holiday weekend? If your photo is under the dictionary's definition of "procrastinator," you probably haven't made travel plans for the Fourth of July weekend.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered state employees to take off a third unpaid day a month as part of a new round of measures made Wednesday to close a growing budget shortfall.

Outside the traditional barbecues, parades and fireworks on July 4, an event Saturday in Riverside will focus on a remembrance of President Abraham Lincoln, freedom and equality.

John, who helped pitch the Wildcats into the Region IV-4A finals against Moody, was 13-0 with a 0.26 earned-run average.

The Orioles agreed to terms with pitcher Matt Hobgood on Saturday. Baltimore took the right-hander with the fifth overall pick in the 2009 First Year Player Draft.

June 23, 2009... A gathering of Bill Hedrick supporters was held at the home of Julie Bornstein in Palm Desert.

A veteran agricultural science teacher at Norte Vista High School in Riverside has been charged with animal cruelty after parents and students complained that injured and sick lambs, goats and other livestock in the school's Future Farmers of America program suffered without proper veterinary care.

Lake Elsinore, Perris and several other cities and nonprofit agencies will have access to more than $16 million in neighborhood revitalization funds under a plan approved by Riverside County supervisors on Tuesday.

The city of Norco, which is looking to the fire department to help close an estimated $1.8 million budget deficit, spends much more of its public safety budget on fire services than the average California city.

New technology, new programs and a different approach to learning are being readied for when VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary School in Eastvale opens July 6. Principal Russ Schriver has been meeting with parents in the attendance area since March and will lead tours of the new campus, 6744 Carnelian, at 6:30 p.m. today.

In addition to $52 million in lost state funding for Corona-Norco Unified School District for 2009-10, the district will have to decide how to cut another $20.2 million for 2010-11, the school board learned Tuesday evening.

As they pass laws and spend taxpayer dollars, Inland city councils and school boards often face another question: Do you want fries with that? Most cities and school districts in the region provide some kind of food for elected officials when they have meetings.

A woman resisted an attack by a suspected sexual predator then chased him as she called police in Corona on Friday morning, police said.

Laurie Stutzman is relatively new to Norco, but in her position with the horse town's chamber of commerce, she already has taken the reins of the sometimes balky business group.

Three people associated with an Inland Empire company have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly operating a $23 million Ponzi scheme.

After all the "Pomp and Circumstance," high school and college graduates have finished their work.

The gift of time is coming to next year's kindergarteners at Riverview Elementary School in Norco with a full-day program.

Three people accused of running a $23 million Ponzi scheme in the Inland Empire face a slew of fraud and money laundering charges that could bring multiple life terms if they're convicted, authorities said today.

The Corona-Norco Unified School District, which avoided most layoffs for the coming school year, fears layoffs are likely the following year if budget projections hold true.