News From Around The County
HEMET — Citing numerous recent major injury and fatal vehicle versus pedestrian accidents, one area law enforcement agency has decided to try to tackle the problem – which many from throughout the San Jacinto Valley are calling an epidemic – with a new Pedestrian Safety Campaign aimed at educating the public about laws that affect both motorists and pedestrians alike. Other […]
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UPDATE: Thursday, Apr. 12, 4:30 p.m. HEMET — Area real estate agent Greg Treadwell, injured yesterday afternoon when another Hemet resident plowed into the 70-year-old man’s motorcycle and fled the scene, is recovering and grateful for the outpouring of love and support he has been receiving from the community he has called home for much of his adult life. Although […]
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PERRIS — Sheriff’s investigators have arrested a San Jacinto resident who has since been charged for the murder of a person whose body was found inside a burned vehicle, Monday night, Apr. 9. The victim’s body was discovered by firefighters after extinguishing a vehicle blaze in the area of Monument Parkway and Monolith Trail, southwest of Ethanac and Goetz Roads, in Perris. SEE […]
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PERRIS — Officials are investigating a shooting that left a man dead Sunday evening, Apr. 8. The victim was fatally shot on the 2000 block of N. Perris Boulevard in Perris and died later at an area hospital, according to sheriff’s officials, who have released almost no other details regarding the shooting or their ongoing investigation. SEE ALSO: PERRIS: San Jacinto man arrested […]
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HEMET — Sheriff’s officials have confirmed they are conducting an unattended death investigation after a man’s lifeless body was found along a hiking trail Sunday afternoon, Apr. 8. The victim’s body was discovered between Hemet and Mountain Center, along a hiking trail off SR-74, about seven miles east of Bee Canyon. Area resident Cindy Haskin later explained her adult son and a friend […]
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HEMET — Very few details are known and officials have not yet released any information following a stabbing in downtown Hemet, early Saturday morning, Apr. 7. Although the incident reportedly happened at Rob Kelly’s After 5 Cocktail Lounge at 133 North Harvard Street, between E. Latham and E. Florida Avenues, officials have not yet confirmed the exact location where the stabbing occurred. SEE ALSO: Hemet police […]
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MECCA — Sheriff’s homicide investigators are searching for a man they allege fatally shot another man just after midnight, Sunday morning, April 8. The deadly, early morning shooting happened on the 91000 block of 5th Street, northeast of the Salton Sea – between Highway’s 86 and 111, in the unincorporated community of Mecca. During their initial investigation officials identified the suspect as Gilbert […]
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UPDATED: Tuesday, Apr. 10, 9 p.m. SEE ORIGINAL STORY AND PHOTOS BELOW FRENCH VALLEY — An allegedly intoxicated man who officials say ran a red light and plowed broadside into a car was briefly hospitalized and then arrested Sunday, April 8. The DUI-related accident caused a fiery, four-vehicle, chain-reaction accident that killed a Winchester woman. The accused drunk driver remains in custody on $1 million bail. Riverside […]
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MORENO VALLEY — Family and friends are mourning the tragic loss of an off-road motorcycle enthusiast after a man was thrown from a dirt bike earlier this afternoon. Officials are now trying to determine what led to the deadly crash that happened in the area of Big Nash and Sutherland Canyon Roads, about one half mile west of Quail Ranch Golf Course, off […]
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HEMET — A man who fled from a traffic stop and reportedly ditched a gun in some bushes inside a busy shopping center was apprehended and arrested Thursday evening, Apr. 5. The incident began about 7:15 p.m., when City of Hemet police officials conducted a traffic enforcement stop on a gold Mazda sedan along the northeast corner of Sanderson and Florida Avenues in Hemet. After the car stopped a […]
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