Riverside County News

Riverside County's latest attempt to get a federal customs agent to serve the region's foreign trade zone at the former March Air Force Base, making way for an expansion of the tariff-free zone, has been derailed.

An 18-year-old man shot by Desert Hot Springs police after allegedly attacking officers must stand trial on assault charges, a judge ruled Friday.

A debt-ridden Riverside County man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing his wife in an effort to collect $1.3 million from life insurance policies.

This undated image released by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department shows Krissy Lynn Werntz, who was indicted by a Riverside County grand jury in September, along with her boyfriend, Jason Michael Hann, and accused of murdering their two-month-old daughter then putting her in a trash bag and driving her body around the country.

Title: PAGANS OUT OF THE 'BROOM CLOSET' IN SOUTHWEST RIVERSIDE COUNTY It might never be easy to be a witch in southwest Riverside County, but it's getting easier, Ivy Lieberman said.

A Desert Hot Springs man accused of repeatedly molesting a teenage girl pleaded not guilty today to felony and misdemeanor charges.

Sen. John Benoit was appointed to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors today by Gov.

Click to Enlarge; Sketch provided by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department Police were looking Tuesday for a man suspected of exposing himself to one teenager before then attempting to lure another teen into his car.

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved a $2.7 million project to rehabilitate streets, sidewalks, outdoor lighting and other infrastructure throughout the city of Mecca.

Riverside County supervisors today received a &#34very sobering and somewhat grim&#34 first-quarter budget update, showing a larger-than-expected decline in revenue widening the 2009-10 fiscal year budget gap.

The chairman of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians has pleaded not guilty to accepting more than $250,000 in bribes from tribal vendors.

Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly exposed himself to two teenagers while they walked home on a Bermuda Dunes Street Monday afternoon.

Grand Terrace to name city manager Stephen Wall, Staff Writer Posted: 11/02/2009 04:11:16 PM PST GRAND TERRACE - The City Council is expected to appoint a new city manager at a special meeting today.

Riverside County public health workers will start administering free swine flu vaccines to school children in Banning and Coachella this week.

RIVERSIDE - Two Inland Empire men wanted on charges ranging from child molestation to murder were brought back to the United States this week by a fugitive apprehension team that located one defendant in Mexico and the other in Israel, the FBI announced Friday.

A male juvenile remains hospitalized this morning after he suffered multiple gunshots last night following some kind of confrontation with several suspects in North Palm Springs, according to Riverside County sheriff's officials.

The attack, which led to the arrest of one man, took place at about 11:55 p.m. Friday at the Skybox Grill & Tavern on the 30700 block of Benton Road.

A man died after he was stabbed early Saturday morning. Riverside County Sheriff's deputies responded at 12:08 a.m. to the intersection of Mission Boulevard and Campbell Street after getting reports of a fight in the area.

Animal Control officers seized 21 dogs from the property of a 61 year old man in Anza, and the man was then arrested, according to the Department of Animal Services.

A 38-year-old Poway woman is dead as a result of a late-night four-car pileup in Menifee, the Riverside County coroner said Saturday.