The Temecula city council conducted its annual reorganization at its Dec. 10 meeting, naming a new mayor and mayor pro tempore.James “Stew” Stewart will serve as mayor in Temecula's 31st year as a city, along with Maryann Edwards as mayor pro tem.Stewart, the current mayor pro tem, is a local barbershop owner who has served on the council since...
JOSH DUBOW
AP Pro Football Writer
OAKLAND (AP) — Let the outsiders mock the dirt infield, flooding locker rooms and antiquated facilities.
For coach Jon Gruden and many of the players who have called the Oakland Coliseum home during the team's 41 seasons there, it was a special and unique venue that had no match across the NFL.
That all comes to...
DAVID KOENIG
AP Airlines Writer
After the first crash of a Boeing 737 Max last year, federal safety officials estimated that there could be 15 more fatal crashes of the Max over the next few decades if Boeing didn't fix a critical automated flight-control system.
Yet the Federal Aviation Administration did not ground the plane until a second deadly crash five...
JOSEF FEDERMAN
Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's deadlocked parliament on Wednesday failed to meet a midnight deadline to form a coalition government, triggering an unprecedented third election in a 12-month period while giving scandal-plagued Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a welcome break as he fights to save his political career.
The move prolongs a year-long political stalemate that has paralyzed the...
MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed two conservative, Justice Department lawyers to posts on a California-based appeals court that President Donald Trump has tagged as a liberal bastion.
The two nominees won seats on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers a wide swath of Western states from Alaska to Arizona, despite...
KATHLEEN RONAYNE
Associated Press
STOCKTON (AP) — Michael Bloomberg took his Democratic presidential campaign to California on Wednesday, pledging to launch a "war on poverty" at an event in a city once known as the nation's foreclosure capital.
"As president, my job will be to move all Americans ahead, and that includes committing our country to new and innovative ways to...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer
For the first time since the early 1900s, more Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals, a trend that reflects more hospice care and progress toward the kind of end that most people say they want.
Deaths in nursing homes also have declined, according to Wednesday's report in the New England Journal of...
The California Highway Patrol (CHP), Temecula Area will conduct a sobriety/driver license checkpoint on Friday, Dec. 13, in the unincorporated area of Southwest Riverside County.Motorists approaching the checkpoint will see informational signs advising them that a sobriety checkpoint is ahead. Once diverted into the lane, motorists will be detained only a few moments while an officer explains the purpose...
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein and his former film studio's board have reached a tentative $25 million settlement that would end nearly every sexual misconduct lawsuit brought against him and his company, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
The Times cited a half-dozen lawyers in its report, some of whom spoke about the proposed terms on the condition of...
MURRIETA (CNS) - A 38-year-old man accused of fatally beating his wife at her Lake Elsinore home was charged Wednesday with murder.Marchello Jonathan Hill was arrested last Friday following a Riverside County sheriff's investigation into the death two days before of 44-year-old Vonshone R. Walker.Hill, who is being held without bail at the Robert Presley Jail in Riverside, was...