Associated Press  SACRAMENTO (AP) — California is sending 31 disaster specialists to Puerto Rico after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the island's southern coast on Saturday, the latest in a series of quakes over the past week that have toppled homes and schools and left more than 4,000 people in shelters. Gov. Gavin Newsom said the deployment comes in response to...

MURRIETA — Get Shamrocked Music Festival producers on Friday announced that the annual music festival that featured live Celtic music for the last seven years would not return in 2020."Get Shamrocked has been a labor of love to bring high-quality Celtic Music from across the United States and Europe to the southwest Riverside County communities and Southern California at...

MURRIETA (CNS) - Two felons accused of robbing and fatally shooting a 61-year-old Anza man must stand trial on first-degree murder and other charges, a judge ruled on Friday. Brandon Noll Pollard, 28, of Escondido, and Maxwell Hakole Reynolds, 29, of Anza, were arrested last summer for the alleged slaying of Khamsene Singnolay. Following a preliminary hearing, Riverside County Superior Court...

RIVERSIDE (CNS) - Jury selection is slated to get underway Monday for the trial of a 30-year-old probationer accused of attempting to abduct two Lake Elsinore boys -- one of whom he briefly held and ran away with -- at a park playground. Marcus Joseph DeWitt of Lake Elsinore was arrested in March after the alleged offenses at Rosetta Canyon...

TEMECULA (CNS) - One person was killed and three juveniles were injured in a solo vehicle crash in Temecula Saturday morning. The crash was reported just before 9:10 a.m. at De Portola Road and Calle Arboles, a residential neighborhood, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. The three juveniles suffered injuries ranging from minor to moderate and were taken to a...

MURRIETA — The Temecula Valley Golden Bears varsity boys basketball team overcame a big first quarter by host Murrieta Valley to go on to a 97-83 win on the road on Friday, Jan. 10.The Nighthawks led 27-16 after the first quarter, but the Golden Bears flipped the script in the second quarter, outscoring Murrieta Valley 28-12, then scored 26...

SCOTT SONNER Associated Press SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday blamed President Donald Trump's withdrawal from a nuclear agreement with Iran for the current instability in the Middle East and touted his own foreign policy experience as a key reason he's the Democrat with the best chance to unseat him in November. Biden said at a...

DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to overhaul California's probation system by greatly reducing the time a convict is under supervised release, but increasing rehabilitation programs at the outset of the probationary period, when they are considered the most effective. He wants to put what he called "an unprecedented amount of money" into a new...

NASSER KARIMI and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Saturday acknowledged that it accidentally shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 people aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations and mounting evidence that it was responsible. The plane was shot down early Wednesday, hours after Iran launched...

JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain battered large swaths of the country. Storm-related fatalities were reported in Texas due to icy weather, in Alabama...