MURRIETA (CNS) - A Feb. 13 trial date was set today for a convicted felon accused of robbing the same two banks in Southwest Riverside County twice, as well as burglarizing area grocery stores during the same general time frame.Donovan Oscar Dintelman, 47, of Canyon Lake, was arrested last month following a sheriff's investigation that began in June.Dintelman is...
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - A 46-year-old man accused of igniting 10 fires around Diamond Valley Lake south of Hemet, burning acreage dedicated to wildlife preservation, is slated to be arraigned Friday on arson and other charges.Noel Lopez Mejia was arrested last week following a months-long investigation by Cal Fire peace officers.Mejia is charged with 10 counts of arson and one...
JURUPA VALLEY (CNS) - A U.S. Postal Service vehicle making the Christmas Eve rounds today in Jurupa Valley caught fire and was destroyed, but the driver escaped uninjured.The fire was reported about 11 a.m. in the 2800 block of Razor Way, near Hall Avenue, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.According to the fire department, the blaze, which apparently...
MENIFEE (CNS) - A convicted felon and another man were arrested Tuesday after they were allegedly caught stealing gas from trucks parked at a Menifee storage facility, where authorities say they may have perpetrated prior burglaries.Roger Michael Guerra, 43, and Juan Antonio Godinez, 30, both of Perris, were booked into the Cois M. Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on...
JOCELYN GECKER
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new cafe culture is brewing in the San Francisco area, where a growing number of coffee houses are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars to rental mugs and BYO cup policies.
What started as a small trend among neighborhood cafes to reduce waste is gaining support...
PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral is unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution, because the Paris landmark was too deeply damaged by this year's fire.
So its exiled clergy, choir and congregation are celebrating the holiday in another Gothic church next to the Louvre Museum instead.
The accidental April blaze consumed the medieval monument's...
MOHAMMAD DARAGHMEH and PATTY NIEBERG
Associated Press
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Thousands of Christian pilgrims on Tuesday flocked to the West Bank town of Bethlehem, celebrating Christmas Eve in the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
Visitors converged on the town's large Christmas tree in Manger Square, near the spot believed to mark Jesus' birthplace. Uniformed Palestinian scouts wearing yellow and gold...
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that it has become the only country in the world to deploy hypersonic weapons.
Speaking at a meeting with top military brass, Putin said that for the first time in history Russia is now leading the world...
ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump called members of all five branches of the military stationed across the world to share greetings ahead of the Christmas holiday.
Speaking Tuesday by video conference from his private club in Florida, where is he is on a more than two-week vacation, Trump said, "I want to wish you...
LAKE ELSINORE — The California Highway Patrol is asking for the public's help in locating a suspected hit-and-run driver that killed a man in the Lakeland Village last Friday night.At approximately 9:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20, the California Highway Patrol said, a red 1990-1992 Honda Accord driven by an unknown suspect was traveling on northbound Grand Avenue north of...