Strikes Riverside County

Striking drywall workers lost a round in court Wednesday when a Riverside Superior Court judge barred them from stationing more than 10 picketers near the entrance to a Corona subdivision. Lawyers for the strikers, who are demanding a union and higher wages, asked Judge Charles S. Field in a hearing Tuesday to lift his temporary restraining order against the strikers. The judge refused, but did accede to a few minor changes requested by the strikers in issuing a preliminary injunction Wednesday.

A shallow, magnitude-3.0 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning in Riverside County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:43 a.m. PDT at a depth of 9.9 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was four miles from Idyllwild-Pine Cove, 11 miles from Valle Vista, 13 miles from East Hemet and 14 miles from Palm Springs. In the past 10 days, there have been five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service and this post was created by an algorithm written by the author.

A shallow, magnitude-3.0 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning in Riverside County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:43 a.m. PDT at a depth of 9.9 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was four miles from Idyllwild-Pine Cove, 11 miles from Valle Vista, 13 miles from East Hemet and 14 miles from Palm Springs. In the past 10 days, there have been five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service and this post was created by an algorithm written by the author.

Striking drywall workers lost a round in court Wednesday when a Riverside Superior Court judge barred them from stationing more than 10 picketers near the entrance to a Corona subdivision. Lawyers for the strikers, who are demanding a union and higher wages, asked Judge Charles S. Field in a hearing Tuesday to lift his temporary restraining order against the strikers. The judge refused, but did accede to a few minor changes requested by the strikers in issuing a preliminary injunction Wednesday.

Scott Andrew Hove tucked a spool of welding wire and work gloves inside his waistband and headed for the Home Depot store's exit without paying. As he made his way out of the Lake Elsinore store, employees stopped Hove and found the stolen merchandise hidden under his sweat shirt. "I was stupid," the certified welder told them. The items were worth only $20.94. But the theft cost Hove, 45, a life prison sentence recently, when a Riverside County judge ordered him to spend 29 years to life behind bars under California's three-strikes law. His sentence points to the legal debate that continues to rage 17 years after voters approved the law: whether its tough sentences sometimes far exceed the crimes.