RIVERSIDE (CNS) - Four men accused of conspiring in an operation that involved using an ultralight aircraft to smuggle nearly 200 pounds of methamphetamine into Riverside County from Mexico are facing federal drug trafficking charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Monday.Victor Bugarin Perez, 28, of Mecca, Mexican nationals Juan Favela Paredez, 25, and Juan Carlos Iturriaga Centeno, 33, and...
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - The Board of Supervisors is expected Tuesday to direct the Riverside County Transportation & Land Management Agency to start drafting an ordinance to prohibit trucks that exceed certain weight limits from operating on some unincorporated county roads to reduce impacts on residential areas.Last year, Board Chairman Kevin Jeffries first broached the idea of travel restrictions for...
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - The annual survey to identify the number of homeless people dwelling in all areas of Riverside County will, for the first time, include individuals living in cars, officials announced Monday"We want to make sure as many people are counted as possible," said Jennifer Claar, assistant director of the Department of Public Social Services."By getting a more...
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - Thousands of mental health professionals at Kaiser Permanente facilities in Riverside County and across the state hit the picket lines Monday, beginning a five-day strike amid a continued labor standoff.The walkout by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, representing roughly 4,000 psychologists, therapists, psychiatric nurses and other healthcare employees, had been planned in November but was...
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein defended himself as a pioneer in advancing the careers of women in the film industry in the wake of scores of sexual misconduct allegations that launched the #MeToo movement.
"I feel like the forgotten man,'' Weinstein said in an interview published Sunday in the New York Post. "I made more movies directed by women...
ANITA SNOW
Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — Aspen Day-Flynn and her boyfriend, Travis Tolin, were thinking of moving back to her native Washington state this fall when their Phoenix landlord helped give them the push.
The monthly rent on their two-bedroom house jumped from $1,000 to $1,500 because the owner planned to renovate.
"It really pushed us out the door faster," said...
BERNIE WILSON
AP Sports Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Seals indoor lacrosse team will play the Vancouver Warriors on the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on Feb. 22.
The "Rumble on the Runway" will be the first regular-season professional sporting event on an active Marine base and the second ever on an active military base....
RANCHO MIRAGE (CNS) - Democratic presidential hopeful and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will campaign in the Coachella Valley Monday night, beginning a series of California speaking engagements planned in the coming days.Sanders' rally is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Rancho Mirage Amphitheater. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and organizers suggested that people planning to attend confirm online...
STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT
Associated Press
CLINTON, Iowa (AP) — Seven Democratic presidential candidates will stand on stage this week in Los Angeles, a pool of survivors who have withstood almost a year on the campaign trail, sustained attacks from rivals in both major political parties and five rounds of high-pressure debates.
And while the field has been effectively cut...