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An off-duty San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy is accused of assaulting a tow truck driver who had attempted to aid a burning big rig, handcuffing and threatening to kill him while twisting the barrel of a pistol in his ear, officials said. Read Full Artice...
A Mexican national living in Good Hope fled the Perris home where another man was fatally shot to avoid jail, lawyers agreed during their opening statements in the man's murder trial Tuesday. Read Full Artice...
A wildfire south of Vail Lake burned about 100 acres by Monday evening in the Cleveland National Forest, resulting in minor injuries to two firefighters, authorities said. Read Full Artice...
Authorities seized more than 60,000 marijuana plants during four separate raids in remote areas of the San Bernardino National Forest over the past two weeks, arresting seven people with suspected ties to Mexican drug cartels, officials said Monday. Read Full Artice...
Sentencing was postponed Friday for a woman convicted of fatally shooting her husband in their Corona home to allow her new attorney to file motions seeking a new trial. Read Full Artice...
Outside a Murrieta-area coffee shop, a man used about $5,000 worth of drugs as a down payment to hire an undercover agent, posing as a hit man, to kill a woman who used to supply him with drugs, a federal agent testified Friday. Read Full Artice...
They talk to first-graders about water safety and about Stewie the Duck learning to swim, but every speaker Thursday morning at Rialto Fire Station 3 knows the anguish of losing a child to accidental drowning. Read Full Artice...
A fiery collision sent a policeman to the hospital, burned his patrol car and tied up Highway 60 in Ontario for more than six hours Monday, police and California Highway Patrol officers said. Read Full Artice...
The back tire of a Riverside police cruiser ran over a suspect's leg during a pursuit Monday afternoon, a police news release said. Read Full Artice...
RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court judge on Friday sentenced one man to death and a second man to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 2003 torture-murder of an Ontario woman. Read Full Artice...
A fight behind a Colton apartment complex turned deadly when one man apparently used a car as a weapon, but hit and killed a friend by mistake, a police detective said Friday. Read Full Artice...
A man was fatally injured at the Four Seasons apartments on the corner of Rialto Avenue and Laurel Street in Colton on Thursday night, police said.
Colton police responded to a call about a fight in the apartments at 9:20 p.m. Read Full Artice...
A man shocked by a Taser last Saturday by a deputy during an incident in Hemet has died, a Riverside County sheriff's investigator said in a telephone interview. Read Full Artice...
Details about a brutal assault and gun crimes emerged Thursday after a judge unsealed court records in the Murrieta Fight Club case. Read Full Artice...
A day after Riverside County health officials warned the public that a 9-year-old boy who swam in Lake Elsinore died from a rare brain-eating amoeba, the lake still drew visitors. Read Full Artice...
Insisting that his tribe's casino is safe, the chairman of the Soboba band of Luiseno Indians on Saturday told members to cooperate fully when federal commissioners visit this week.
In a previously scheduled community meeting, Robert Salgado Sr. Read Full Artice...
A Lake Elsinore man convicted of murder and facing the death penalty wants a jury to decide whether he is mentally retarded, but his lawyer wants a trial judge to make that call. Read Full Artice...
Patricia Menchaca dishes dirt to help solve crimes.
For the last four months, the doctoral student in geology at UC Riverside has painstakingly dug, collected, analyzed and catalogued 255 soil samples to create a database for forensic sleuths. Read Full Artice...
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