News From Around The County
JURUPA VALLEY, Calif. — Authorities say a pedestrian was critically injured after being struck by a pickup truck in Jurupa Valley early Friday evening, Dec. 4. Alcohol and/or drug intoxication are not suspected as contributing factors in the collision, which happened at Mission Boulevard and Glen Street, according to authorities. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Children, 1 and 2, “found unconscious” […]
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MURRIETA, Calif. — Authorities say DUI saturation patrols in Menifee – held on Thursday, Dec 3 and Friday, Dec 4 – led to two significant drug and gun-related arrests. Funding for this DUI Patrol was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Murrieta Police Sergeant Matthew Bloch later reported. […]
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A Boy Learns a Lesson Thomas S. Monson In about my tenth year, as Christmas approached, I longed for an electric train. The times were those of economic depression, yet Mother and Dad purchased for me a lovely electric train. Christmas morning bright and early, I thrilled when I noticed my train. The next few hours were devoted to operating […]
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RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. — In a move joining other California law enforcement agencies across the state, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco yesterday announced his deputies would not be enforcing California Governor Gavin Newsom’s recently updated stay-at-home orders, curfews, and other mandates regarding the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis and pandemic. Calling the Governor’s orders “hypocritical”, “dictatorial”, and “flat out ridiculous”, […]
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — An Orange County mortuary transport employee was arrested earlier this week after a months-long investigation into the reported theft of a ring worth thousands of dollars from the hand of a deceased elderly Riverside woman last September, authorities announced Dec. 3. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Children, 1 and 2, “found unconscious” in car at Walmart – Pregnant […]
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The Postman Lifted Us From Depression Martin Klapper My parents, at the height of the Depression, were forced to go on home relief, which is known as welfare today. It was 1935, when I was 10 years old, and we lived on the first floor of a walk-up apartment on 43rd Street, in Brooklyn, New York. A few days before […]
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REDDING, Calif. — Authorities say a handgun and rifle-wielding man was arrested in Redding after the suspect fired multiple rifle rounds from his apartment in the 1200 block of Bundy Court afternoon, Thursday, December 3. Witnesses later reported hearing more than a dozen rounds fired. The small cul-de-sac where the shootings occurred, which sits southeast of Churn Creek Road and […]
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AGUANGA, Calif. — Two people were killed and three others were hospitalized after a three-vehicle, rollover traffic collision on Highway 79 South just north of Dugan Drive Thursday afternoon, December 3. The fatal accident happened in the unincorporated county area of Aguanga near Vail Lake, about five miles east of Temecula, according to officials. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Children, 1 […]
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Waiting….. Waiting for Christmas Elizabeth English Herman and I finally locked our store and dragged ourselves home. It was 11 p.m. Christmas Eve. We’d sold almost all of our toys; and all of the layaway, except one package, had been picked up. But the person who had put a dollar down on that package never appeared. Early Christmas morning our […]
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ANZA, Calif. — Authorities have released the name of a man who died after a two-vehicle traffic collision that happened at the intersection of Highway 371 and Howard Road in Anza late Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 2. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Children, 1 and 2, “found unconscious” in car at Walmart – Pregnant mother arrested Banning father of four killed, 5 others […]
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