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Sunday, September 7, 2008

Counties: Santa Barbara, San Diego and Riverside

Business | September 7, 2008
This chart lists median prices in thousands of dollars for sales of existing single-family homes and condominiums. Read more
 

Monday, August 25, 2008

Resident charged in fatal fire at Perris home for mentally disabled

California | Local | By Victoria Kim | August 25, 2008
Authorities Sunday arrested a mentally disabled man who said he set fire to the Perris group home where he lived, killing one man and injuring two others, officials said. Read more
 

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Duroville gets deadline to meet building codes

California | Local | By David Kelly | August 5, 2008
Saying there needs to be “an endgame” to the ongoing problems surrounding Duroville, a federal judge set a trial date Monday that could determine whether the sprawling trailer park in Thermal remains open. Read more
 

Friday, June 6, 2008

A jolt to comfy Temecula

California | Local | By Scott Gold | June 6, 2008
For almost 20 years, they’ve been painting the town red in Temecula. Read more
 

Friday, May 30, 2008

Two Republicans wage vitriolic battle

California | Local | By Nancy Vogel | May 30, 2008
Few of the primary contests that voters will decide Tuesday are as rancorous as the one between two Republicans who once served together in the Legislature. Read more
 

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Agents arrest doctor over fatal overdose

California | Local | By Tim Reiterman | May 7, 2008
State narcotics agents arrested a doctor at his Lake Elsinore hotel room Tuesday for illegally writing numerous painkiller prescriptions that led to the death of a 28-year-old man in November, the California attorney general’s office said. Read more
 

Monday, April 28, 2008

The poorest of the poor’

California | Local | By David Kelly | April 28, 2008
Thermal, Calif. Read more
 

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Plant faces fines over dust

California | Local | By Janet Wilson | April 19, 2008
Southern California air regulators on Friday charged a Riverside County cement plant with violating dust-control statutes, days after revelations that the site was believed to be emitting high levels of carcinogenic hexavalent chromium. Read more
 

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Off-duty officer cleared in killing

California | Local | By David Kelly | April 16, 2008
Investigators say an off-duty Costa Mesa police officer acted in self-defense when he shot and killed one man and wounded another after he was attacked last month outside a restaurant in Old Town Temecula. Read more
 

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Reflective collars may save burros

California | Local | By David Kelly | April 13, 2008
Former rodeo rider and jockey Kim Terry has been around all sorts of animals his whole life, but it’s the wild burros that have snorted and kicked their way into his heart. Read more
 

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Town reels from violent episode

California | Local | March 11, 2008
An off-duty Costa Mesa police officer who fatally shot one man and wounded another during an altercation outside a Temecula restaurant was recovering at home Monday from serious head injuries, a department spokesman said. Read more
 

Friday, February 29, 2008

Pilot in crash is called a hero

California | Local | February 29, 2008
The lights from the plane were heading right at Steve Kiser, and there was no time to run. Read more
 

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Fatally injured girl is mourned

California | Local | February 19, 2008
Paola Montufar was well-known in her tight-knit, working-class neighborhood just off a busy thoroughfare leading to Pechanga Casino in Temecula. Read more
 

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Judge names overseers for Duroville

California | Local | February 12, 2008
A federal judge took partial control of the Duroville mobile home park Monday, appointing three overseers, including a former diplomat, to investigate conditions, make emergency repairs and temporarily take over all financial operations of the Thermal shantytown. Read more
 

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Resident acquitted in fires at Duroville mobile home park

California | Local | January 26, 2008
A woman accused of setting a fire that destroyed six trailers, rendered eight families homeless and resulted in the evacuation of a notorious mobile home park in Thermal was acquitted on all charges Friday by a jury in Indio. Read more
 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Judge says he may shut Duroville

California | Local | January 15, 2008
A federal judge in Riverside said Monday that he was prepared to close a sprawling trailer park in Thermal within two weeks unless its owner presented a detailed plan to repair water, electricity and building code violations at the property that is home to 6,000 tenants. Read more
 

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Kern County closes trash storage operation

California | Local | By Louis Sahagun | December 22, 2007
Law enforcement authorities have closed down a trash storage operation in Kern County linked to a recycling firm already under investigation for allegedly violating health and safety codes in Long Beach and the Riverside County community of Blythe. Read more
 

Monday, December 10, 2007

Property tax payment is due today

California | Local | December 10, 2007
Today is the deadline to pay the first installment of property taxes to avoid penalties. Read more
 

Dog’s story fetches limelight

California | Local | By Francisco Vara-Orta | December 10, 2007
Her name is Oleander, and her freeway drama gripped the residents of Riverside County like few car chases ever could. Read more
 

Sunday, December 9, 2007

City refugees go to the flow

California | Local | By David Kelly | December 9, 2007
Leonard Hook hangs dead catfish from a tree as testimony to his angling prowess and tribute to the river that still fortifies his spirits six decades since it first drew him here as a kid. Read more
 
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