JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California environmental officials say a popular agricultural pesticide they say has been linked to brain damage in children will be banned after next year under an agreement reached with its manufacturer.
Under the deal announced Wednesday, all California sales of chlorpyrifos will end on Feb. 6, 2020.
Farmers will have until the end of...
TIM REYNOLDS
AP Basketball Writer
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday that the league is still expecting them to play as scheduled this week, even while the rift between the league and Chinese officials continued in ways that clearly suggested the two planned games in Shanghai and Shenzhen were anything but guaranteed.
The...
LAKE ELSINORE — A Temecula couple has been arrested and charged with felony child endangerment and other charges after Riverside County Sheriff's Department Lake Elsinore Station deputies learned that two toddler-aged children were left in their Lake Elsinore hotel room for more than three hours on Tuesday, Oct. 8.
Deputies responded to a call of a 1-year-old toddler walking alone...
True crime stories are very popular right now. So, it only makes sense that the Fine Arts Network Theater Company would bring “Bonnie and Clyde” to the Old Town Temecula Community Theater starting Friday, Oct. 11 and continuing through Oct. 27. "I always love looking at history from as many viewpoints as possible, and telling the infamous story of Bonnie...
JANET McCONNAUGHEY
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — FEMA buys flood-prone homes more often in wealthy, populous counties than in poor, rural areas, even though lower-income rural areas may be more likely to flood frequently, a new study finds.
The reason is probably that better-off local governments have the resources to apply for and administer the programs — and that could...
MORENO VALLEY (CNS) - All of the westbound Moreno Valley (60) Freeway from just west of Beaumont to just east of Moreno Valley will be shut down Wednesday and Thursday night in preparation for a weekend-long closure of the westbound side of the freeway for construction.
According to the Riverside County Transportation Commission, a roughly five-mile stretch of the westbound...
Paul J. Young
City News Service
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - Several dozen people protested outside the Riverside County District Attorney's Office on Wednesday, demanding that the region's top prosecutor reconsider his decision not to file criminal charges against an off-duty Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot a developmentally disabled man and wounded his parents during a confrontation in the...
GEIR MOULSON and JENS MEYER
Associated Press
HALLE, Germany (AP) — A heavily armed assailant ranting about Jews tried to force his way into a synagogue in Germany on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, then shot two people to death nearby in an attack Wednesday that was livestreamed on a popular gaming site.
The attacker shot at the door of the...
City News Service
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - Temperatures are expected to remain cool Wednesday, but winds will increase and humidity will drop to bring an increased risk of fire danger throughout Riverside County for the end of the week.
The National Weather Service issued a Red Flag warning that will be in effect from 3 a.m. Thursday to 8 a.m. Friday in...
City News Service
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - Riverside County students again showed slight gains on state standardized tests, although less than half of them met or exceeded the state standards in English and math, according to scores released Wednesday by the California Department of Education.
The performance of Riverside County students on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress tests generally...