Temecula News

That's Richard T. Nixon and Michael J. Kennedy, private criminal defense attorneys who declared their candidacies this week for Riverside County Superior Court offices.

In order to reduce congestion and improve safety between I-15 and Winchester Road and the I-15/I-215 Junction, the city of Temecula is seeking bids for Phase 1 of the French Valley Parkway project.

TEMECULA Students living in Temecula and in the surrounding Southwest Riverside County are able to receive education from Cal State University San Marcos at the Temecula campus located on Margarita Road.

Teacher Kim Larson waits for more books to be inventoried in an empty class room at Context Middle School as students and teachers spent their last day together at the charter school before closing Friday in Temecula.

Tyler Brown, left, and Anthony Fowler, both 11, shown in a 2008 photo, were injured Feb.

Over the past several months, Investigators from the Temecula Police Department have been working with Investigators from the Murrieta Police Department regarding a series of residential burglaries in the city of Murrieta, the city of Temecula, and the Southwest area of Riverside County.

A registered sex offender who was recently released from prison was arrested Thursday at his home in the Wine Country area near Temecula, authorities said.

Love was "swinging"A in the air Thursday night at Old Town Temecula Community Theater.

Today will be sunny with a high near 72. Tonight, expect patchy fog, mainly after 10 p.m., increasing clouds and a low near 40.

A final public hearing on a proposed mining project near Temecula will go ahead, as scheduled, Tuesday, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors decided today, during a specially convened meeting called after two members indicated they might have a scheduling conflict preventing them from attending.

E.P. McKnight, author of the play "Catch the Spirit," will perform Feb. 16 in a Black History Month Program at the Temecula Valley Museum.

Deputies are searching for a man who tried to steal a boy's bicycle at gunpoint in Temecula this afternoon following a botched home break-in, authorities said.

A Murrieta gas station that had its request to sell beer and wine denied by the city Planning Department won its appeal to the Murrieta Planning Commission.

Law enforcement are working to return two sixth-grade girls to their families after sheriff's officials said they ran off together more than a day ago.

The Temecula Valley Elks Lodge, No. 2801, joined with The Dictionary Project, a national organization, to give student dictionaries to third graders.

University of Redlands professors and staff will provide information for working adults interested in earning teaching credentials, master's degrees and other qualifications from the School of Education and School of Business during open houses planned for Feb.

Celebrated musician, vocalist, songwriter and producer Brian McKnight is set to perform at 8 p.m. on Feb.

GM noted that Fox has issues with the Volt. They give Eric Bolling a Chevy Volt for a week.

The city of Murrieta Economic Development Department is proposing leasing out the former City Hall for $1 a year to serve as a regional technology center.

Mt. San Jacinto College has received a six-year accreditation. The community college has campuses in San Jacinto and Menifee -- shown here on the first day of fall 2011 classes -- a campus in the works in Banning, and an education center in Temecula.