The whirlwind of the high school volleyball girls’ playoffs has taken Vista Murrieta from being ousted in the second round of the CIF Southern Section playoffs, to winning their first ever CIF State girls’ volleyball title. The Lady Broncos qualified for the State playoffs by advancing to second round of the CIF-SS playoffs, where they fell to Marymount High...
Jeff Pack
Staff WriterMurrieta Fire & Rescue (MFR) on Tuesday, Nov. 26 announced that memorial services for Dean Hale, a firefighter/paramedic who died last Friday following a long battle with job-related cancer. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 7 at The Bridge Church, 38801 Calistoga Drive in Murrieta and will be open to the public. Hale served in the...
LAKE ELSINORE (CNS) - The Ortega Highway between Lake Elsinore and San Juan Capistrano will be completely shut down for a brief period a week from today to enable crews to safely remove several boulders that might otherwise roll onto the two-lane corridor.According to Caltrans District 8, the "slope stabilization" operation is slated for 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m....
BANNING (CNS) - A woman accused of pulling a knife and slashing a Hemet police officer who was trying to take her into custody after she flew into a rage outside a mobile home park was charged Tuesday with felony battery on a peace officer with a deadly weapon.Misty Marie Wagner, 49, is being held in lieu of $1...
Jeff Pack
Staff WriterThere's a lot more to Bret Michaels than one might guess if they have only been exposed to his wild life as the 1980s Poison frontman.During a phone interview with the multi-platinum selling musician, the winding conversation covered everything from family, to veterans, to his charitable foundation and activities.First and foremost, he talked about music and his...
Hard-to-study mutations in the human genome, called short tandem repeats and known as STRs or microsatellites, are implicated in the expression of genes associated with complex traits including schizophrenia, inflammatory bowel disease and even height and intelligence.That’s the conclusion of a study published in the Nov. 1 issue of Nature Genetics by a team of researchers at the University of California...
MURRIETA (CNS) - Jury selection got underway Monday for the trial of a 50-year-old Riverside man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl at a home- based daycare facility.Hubert David Edgin was arrested in September 2018 following a Riverside police investigation centered at his residence on Sun Court, near Patterson Park, in the city's Eastside quarter.Riverside County Superior Court...
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - Gusty winds will continue Tuesday morning in the Inland Empire before a major storm system moves into Southern California on Wednesday and drops moderate to heavy amounts of rain and snow through Friday, according to the National Weather Service.A high wind warning in the Coachella Valley, the Riverside County mountains and the San Gorgonio Pass near...
The Temecula Valley High School Golden Bears have done it again, pulling out a last second victory, advancing them to their first CIF Southern Section final game in 26 years. In their CIF-SS Division 7 semifinal game, the Golden Bears, who are the only remaining local team still in the hunt for a CIF title, scored with 10 seconds...
MURRIETA – The Creative Bar in Murrieta and 60 Grit Studios in Temecula will meet at Los Alamos Hills Sports Park, Field 4, Saturday, Dec. 7, for a friendly, yet highly competitive, game of softball. The softball game is about more than just fostering relationships and bragging rights though. The company owners, Justin Lawler of The Creative Bar and...