MENIFEE (CNS) - Demolition of a freeway overpass in Menifee is scheduled to resume Saturday night, requiring a full closure of Interstate 215 and detours around the project site.Crews began removing the original two-lane Scott Road bridge Friday night, and the final segments are expected to be taken down between 10 p.m. tonight and 9 a.m. Sunday.The old overcrossing...
BANNING (CNS) - A convicted felon and his sidekick who tried to kill a Riverside County sheriff's deputy in San Jacinto were both convicted Friday of attempted murder of a peace officer and other offenses.After four days of deliberations, a Banning jury found Andre Marsalis Sanchez, 27, and David Alexander Almeras, 25, guilty of the 2015 attack, but jurors...
Jeff Pack
Staff Writer The McKinsey Global Institute reports that 3.5 million homes in California will be needed by 2025 in order to address a housing crisis in the state. Combine a reported lack of affordable housing statewide with a poverty rate of 13.45% in the Inland Empire, just lower than the national average of 14.9%, and the need becomes even more...
Local 10U team Florida bound for National Championships
JP Raineri
Sports EditorThe 10U Fighting Kodiaks are a Temecula Pop Warner team that has been nothing but unstoppable this year. A couple of weeks back, the Valley News reported on their undefeated season and put information out about their quest to get to Florida for the National Championship game. During the time...
GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Although Chip Kelly's tenure at UCLA has been pretty rough so far, the Bruins' win over Southern California last November was a thing of beauty for his players and alumni.
In the ensuing year, the Bruins have made the most of their biggest achievement under Kelly, the high-priced coach whose rebuilding project...
Leonard hits winner to lift Clippers over Rockets 122-119
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Down five points with a minute to go, the Los Angeles Clippers turned to a trio of veterans.
Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and Lou Williams combined to outscore the Houston Rockets 10-2 the rest of the way and Leonard hit the winning jumper with 15 seconds remaining for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents released late Friday show Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was in contact with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the months before the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was abruptly recalled.
The State Department released the documents to the group American Oversight in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. They show that Pompeo talked...
ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Nkeze wasn't home when Cameroonian militants came knocking, probably to deliver their signature ultimatum to join their separatist movement or have his writing arm cut off.
The 24-year-old economics student escaped to Douala, the country's largest city, only to learn that the government wanted to arrest him for participating in a university protest....
MICHAEL R. SISAK
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — At another time in history, the indictment of two jail guards responsible for monitoring Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself might have served as an emphatic rebuttal to suspicions that the wealthy sex offender was actually murdered.
Not in 2019.
Conspiracy theories continued to flourish, even after prosecutors took pains to point...
MIKE SCHNEIDER
Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — With billions in federal aid and seats in Congress at stake, some states are dragging their feet in carrying out one of the Census Bureau's chief recommendations for making sure everyone is counted during the 2020 census.
Five states — Florida, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas — have not set up "complete...