BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for New York real estate heir Robert Durst acknowledge that he penned a note tipping off police to the location of the body of a friend he's accused of killing, according to court documents. In a court filing Christmas Eve in Los Angeles Superior Court, lawyers for Durst conceded he had written...

CORONA (CNS) - A domestic violence call turned into an overnight standoff between Corona police and suspect, who surrendered peacefully today, with no injuries to officers or civilians. Scott Augustine was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats and domestic assault and taken to the Corona jail, but was expected to be transferred to the Robert Presley Jail in Riverside. According...

AGUANGA (CNS) - A man was killed and a 7-year-old girl suffered minor injuries this morning when he crashed his SUV into a tree that had been knocked down by gusty winds northeast of Palomar Mountain, authorities said. Dispatchers received reports shortly before 5:45 a.m. that a tree had fallen in the middle of the roadway on state Route 79...

TEMECULA (CNS) - The city of Temecula tonight will greet 2020 with a salute to fruit, lowering a batch of grapes from the city's clock tower to mark the final moments of the current year to welcome the New Year. The annual "grape drop'' celebration will begin at 6 p.m. in Town Square Park, which has undergone a temporary conversion...

LA QUINTA (CNS) - The Riverside County Sheriff's Department urged the public today to celebrate New Year's Eve responsibly, and warned revelers to avoid firing guns into the air. "Celebratory gunfire is considered illegal discharge of a firearm and can be dangerous,'' according to a sheriff's statement. "Discharging a firearm for celebratory purposes could result in injury or death to...

HEMET (CNS) - A 63-year-old man was fatally stabbed in his car outside a Hemet business, and police today were questioning an individual possibly connected to the deadly assault. Inder Jit of Winchester was killed shortly before 6 p.m. Monday in the 1300 block of E. Oakland Ave., near San Jacinto Avenue. According to Hemet police Lt. Jeff Davis, paramedics and...

JIM LITKE AP Sports Writer Karma had a career year in 2019. She draped a green jacket on Tiger Woods, handed soccer's World Cup to a tough-as-nails U.S. women's national team, shipped the NBA's Larry O'Brien Trophy to a cool-as-they-come rookie coach and players from the Great White North, righted a wrong that happened a quarter-mile from the finish line at...

MICHAEL REZENDES Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — One day in May of 1970, an 11-year-old boy and his disabled sister were sitting on the curb outside a Chicago tavern, waiting for their mother to come out. When a priest with crinkly eyes and a ready smile happened by and offered the family a ride home, they could not have been...

ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE  Associated Press CHARLESTON, W. Va. (AP) — West Virginia plans to begin training its corrections department staff about the Holocaust after a photograph of correction officer cadets giving Nazi salutes led to dozens of firings and widespread outrage, officials said Tuesday. A spokesman for the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety said the leader of the regional...

JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Every movie year offers up a parade of hits and flops. But in 2019, no winner was in the same galaxy as the Walt Disney Co. And the biggest loser might have been anyone less thrilled about the box-office domination of franchise films. When the year closes out Tuesday, the top 10...