Local high school teams gather to compete in past players honorRIVERSIDE - It’s been five years since Kerry and Gina Gorrell were given the news that no parent ever wants to hear. They received word that their oldest son, Austin, had passed away in his college dorm room while sleeping. At the time, Austin was a freshman playing...
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - A 29-year-old woman who joined her husband in illegally manufacturing and modifying rifles to sell out of their Moreno Valley home was given a suspended jail sentence today, avoiding a five-year incarceration.Sarah Anne Leach pleaded guilty last December to 69 felony counts, the majority of which were for manufacturing an assault weapon for sale, with a...
MICHAEL R. BLOOD
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is increasing business tax rates on legal marijuana, a move that stunned struggling companies that have been pleading with the state to do just the opposite.
Hefty marijuana taxes that can approach 50 percent in some communities have been blamed for pushing shoppers into California's tax-free illegal market, which is thriving....
MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former CIA case agent was sentenced to 19 years in prison Friday for an espionage conspiracy in which prosecutors say he received more than $840,000 from China to divulge the names of human sources and his knowledge of spycraft.
The sentence imposed on Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 55, was significantly longer than...
BEATRICE DUPUY and ARIJETA LAJKA
Associated Press
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the real facts:CLAIM: The Department of Defense canceled Fox News from Armed Forces Radio...
MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — After two weeks of public hearings, Democrats could soon turn the impeachment process over to the House Judiciary Committee. They're moving "expeditiously" ahead as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has instructed.
At some point in the coming weeks, the House intelligence panel will submit a report to the Judiciary panel, and then Democrats will...
MICHAEL BALSAMO and FELICIA FONSECA
Associated Press
PABLO, Mont. (AP) — Attorney General William Barr announced a nationwide plan Friday to address the crisis of missing and slain Native American women as concerns mount over the level of violence they face.
Barr announced the plan, known as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative, during a visit with tribal leaders and...
CHRISTOPHER WEBER
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Deputies arrested a 13-year-old boy and seized a semi-automatic rifle after he threatened to shoot other students and staff at a Los Angeles-area middle school, authorities said Friday.
In a separate case, a boy at another school was taken into custody involving a planned shooting.
The arrests came barely a week after deputies were...
MURRIETA (CNS) - A 40-year-old Riverside resident accused with another man of operating an indoor marijuana grow in Wildomar that caused major damage to the property pleaded not guilty today to felony and misdemeanor charges.James Everett Hill was arrested along with 21-year-old Rene Robert Luna in September after a Riverside County sheriff's raid on the illegal grow site in...
ANZA (CNS) - An 80-year-old man who suffers from unspecified medical conditions that may cause him to become disoriented went missing in Anza, and authorities sought help Friday to locate him.The California Highway Patrol, acting on a request from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, issued a "Silver Alert" for Refugio Olivares, who was last seen Thursday about 4:15 p.m....