Temecula Valley wineries and eateries are offering up special winter-themed menu items this holiday season.A total of 19 different businesses throughout Temecula Valley Wine Country and Old Town Temecula have items available as part of “Temecula Chilled” between Dec. 1-31 – “a perfect way to kick off the holidays and get a taste of Temecula Valley’s emerging culinary scene,”...
TEMECULA – Come the holiday season, many people look forward to gatherings with family and friends. Such gatherings are often held in private homes, and that means someone must take on the task of hosting.
There are many advantages to hosting holiday gatherings. Hosts won’t have to travel during a notoriously busy time of year to take to the roads...
Volunteers from Wreaths Across America descended upon Temecula Public Cemetery laying remembrance wreathes on the graves of veterans Friday, Dec. 13.The group laid 278 wreaths on the graves of veterans who fought in wars that took place in the last 150 years.“Wreaths Across America is a national event and it happens at all national cemeteries, generally on a weekend...
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - The application period is now open for residents interested in serving on the Riverside County Grand Jury.The Superior Court is seeking qualified applicants to fill slots on the 19-member civil grand jury, which is in session year-round, investigating citizen complaints about government agencies and conducting inquiries of its own.Current applications, which will be accepted through March...
MENIFEE (CNS) - A Riverside County man who sold methamphetamine to dozens of north San Diego County customers, with assistance from a supplier in Mexico, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison.Orlando Balderas-Guerrero, 38, of Menifee, pleaded guilty in August to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine for sales and distribution of the drug throughout North...
CORONA (CNS) - A woman was mauled by her two dogs today while trying to stop the canines from fighting near Corona Monday.Riverside County Department of Animal Services spokesman John Welsh did not know the severity of the woman's wounds but confirmed that she was transported to a hospital for treatment.The attack was reported shortly before 2 p.m. at...
MICHAEL HILL
Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Drug overdose patients rushed to some emergency rooms in New York's Hudson Valley are asked a series of questions: Do you have stable housing? Do you have food? Times and location of overdoses are noted, too.
The information is entered into a new overdose-tracking system that provides near real-time glimpses into the ravages...
NEW YORK (AP) — A dancer born with one hand is the first person with a visible disability ever hired by New York's famed Radio City Rockettes.
"I don't want to be known as the dancer who has one hand, and not because that's a bad thing," Sydney Mesher, who joined the Rockettes this season, told Newsday. "But because I've...
JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and ANGELA CHARLTON
Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — Holocaust survivors sang at Jerusalem's Western Wall, danced in Paris and lit candles in other cities to celebrate Hanukkah together, recalling Nazi horrors that Jewish community leaders fear are fading from the world's collective memory.
An 86-year-old man in Moscow described being forced by Nazi occupiers into a ghetto as a...