RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The suspect in a Southern California triple homicide who died in a shootout with police on Friday is believed to have met with a teenage girl across the country before killing three members of her family. ah, according to the police. Austin Lee Edwards, 28, also allegedly set fire to the family’s …
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Police in Southern California say they have opened a homicide investigation after three bodies were found following a house fire. Police launched a homicide investigation after three people were discovered inside a Riverside, California home Friday morning, KTTV-TV reported. Firefighters were responding to calls of a fire after a welfare check was called around 11 …
Note: The newsletter will be paused until Tuesday, November 29 for the holiday weekend. Happy Thanksgiving! Only one California race for a US House seat is still too close to call on Tuesday, two weeks after the Nov. 8 election: With some 335,000 unprocessed ballots left to count, Republican farmer John Duarte leads Democratic Representative …
From the road, it looks like a goat farm. From above, Riverside County, California sheriff’s deputies were another sight. Four large white tents, known as skin houses, contain $1.5 million worth of illegal marijuana plants. “The legal business is competing with the legal business and it’s putting them out of business,” said Riverside County Sheriff …
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A preliminary magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Baja California on Tuesday, with an aftershock reported in Southern California, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake was reported around 8:40 a.m., 135 miles southeast of San Diego, with a depth of 12 miles, the USGS said. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric …
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Gov. Gavin Newsom left California on Sunday to travel with his family for Thanksgiving, but due to security concerns, his office said the location of the trip will not be known until next weekend. According to Newsom’s office, the California Highway Patrol, which is responsible for the governor’s security, made the safety decision. The CHP …
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A former assistant soccer coach at a Southern California high school was sentenced Friday to nine years and four months in prison for secretly setting up a camera in the girls’ locker room and photographing 21 students. David Arthur Riden, who worked at Los Osos High School, pleaded guilty last month to possessing over 600 …
Californians are notorious for complaining about traffic, housing costs and the overall quality of life. But in recent years, celebrities, businesses and regular people have gone from complaining about the state to abandoning it entirely. So, is California’s population shrinking? It is complicated. According to the US Census Bureau, the Golden State has a population …
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“We are aware that we need to be more proactive as a state in our efforts in Washington.” It was Gov. Gavin Newsom’s delicately worded assessment of how California might fare under Kevin McCarthy, the Bakersfield Republican who took over as speaker of the U.S. House after his party won a narrow majority in the …
California is likely to face a $25 billion budget deficit next year driven by high inflation and the threat of a recession, despite lofty forecasts in May that predicted a surplus of nearly $100 billion for the current fiscal year. The Legislative Analyst’s Office, which provides fiscal and policy advice to state lawmakers, said the …
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