Kim HarrisManaging EditorYoko Isaac, 43, of Temecula entered a plea of “not guilty” to 14 felony charges of abuse Friday, Dec. 20. She was arraigned following an investigation by Riverside County Sheriff’s Department ending in her arrest for abuse of her foster children Wednesday, Dec. 18. The charges stem from the arrival of a 3-year-old child to an area hospital...
HEMET (CNS) - A Hemet man suspected of sexually assaulting a girl over the course of a year had been employed as a teacher by the Hemet Unified School District for more than 30 years, district officials confirmed today. Allan Joseph Mikolaycik, 71, pleaded not guilty Thursday to committing lewd act on a child under 14 years old....
LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hand gestures flashed by West Point cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen during the televised Army-Navy football game were not racist signals, military investigations have concluded. A Navy probe of the event found that the students were participating in a "sophomoric game" on Saturday and had no racist intent. An Army...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will deliver the State of the Union to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 4. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to the president on Friday formally inviting him to deliver the address at the U.S. Capitol. "In the spirit of respecting our Constitution, I invite you to deliver your...
NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse complaints has seen a record 1,000 cases reported from around the world this year, including from countries it had not heard from before — suggesting that the worst may be yet to come in a crisis that has plagued the Roman Catholic...
CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Health officials now blame vitamin E acetate for the "vast majority" of cases in the U.S. outbreak of vaping illnesses and they say doctors should monitor patients more closely after they go home from the hospital. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the updated advice Friday. And, in a...
MICHAEL R. BLOOD and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates offered two very different debates during their final forum of 2019. In the first half, they spent much of their time making the case for their electability in a contest with President Donald Trump. The second half was filled with friction over money in...
JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An American diplomat's wife who left the U.K. after being involved in a road accident that killed a British teenager has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, British prosecutors said Friday. The Crown Prosecution Service said it had begun extradition proceedings against Anne Sacoolas. The decision to charge Sacoolas, who...
ELANA SCHOR and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump blasted a prominent Christian magazine on Friday, a day after it published an editorial arguing that he should be removed from office because of his "blackened moral record." Trump tweeted that Christianity Today, an evangelical magazine founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham, "would rather...
SACRAMENTO (AP) — More than a million California homes are now protected under a new law that temporarily bans insurance companies from dropping customers in areas affected by recent wildfires, officials announced Wednesday. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a moratorium earlier this month covering about 800,000 homes affected by recent wildfires. Lara extended those protections this week...