San Jacinto News

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.

Share + Jul 4, 2009 5:41 pm US/Pacific SAN JACINTO 1 of 1 A San Jacinto mother was taking her 2-year-old son out of the car in a Walmart parking lot when the boy's father allegedly showed up and threatened to use force if she didn't hand over the boy.

Cal Fire is battling a brush fire burning west of San Jacinto, on Gilman Springs Road near State Route 79, though it has now been contained.

The defense attorney for the man accused of masterminding a 2007 heist at Soboba Casino told jurors Tuesday that they should find his client guilty of 10 of the 12 felony charges he faces.

Jurors have convicted the mastermind of a $1.5 million Soboba Casino vault heist inspired by the movie "Ocean's 11." But the Riverside County panel on Wednesday acquitted 27-year-old Rolando Luda Ramos on a pair of kidnapping charges that could have led to life in prison.

A 27-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting a man in a San Jacinto alley was charged today with first-degree murder and is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

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.

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.

Authorities in the San Jacinto Valley are cracking down on gangs police say are responsible for an increase in violence over recent months.

Desert Hot Springs' origins are rooted in water, health and art. Local folks are often surprised to hear this on their tours through Cabot's Pueblo Museum.

All five Riverside County supervisors, as well as several other elected county officials, will have their pay cut by 10 percent as a way to help ease their agency's financial woes and possibly head off a potential budget crisis.

Years of worry create a permanently wrinkled forehead. Laughter and a lifetime of smiles lead to deep creases near the nose and mouth.

Q. Nancy Klein of San Jacinto wanted to know more about California's Lemon Law and the protections that it can offer her as she shops for her first new car.

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.

Latina superstar Paulina Rubio will perform at the arena at Soboba Casino in San Jacinto tonight.

Deliberations in the trial of a man charged with a murder at the Soboba Indian Reservation began anew today after two jurors were replaced -- one for illness and the other for reading news stories about the trial.

The Riverside County District Attorney's Office is considering whether to file embezzlement charges against the president of the Parent Teacher Organization at a San Jacinto elementary school.

Police today sought whoever slashed tires on as many as 20 vehicles in a San Jacinto neighborhood.

Lolly Ortega must have spent more years supervising kids on a school playground than anyone in the region.

Gamblers are still spending money at California's Native American casinos, although they appear to have spent less each time they visited last year, a recently released report indicates.