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SAN JACINTO – A driver was uninjured when his truck overturned Tuesday evening, Jan. 3. The vehicle ended up in a ditch along Ramona Expressway east of N. Warren Road in San Jacinto. The single vehicle, rollover accident happened when the driver reportedly fell asleep at the wheel and his vehicle overturned along the side of the roadway. California Highway Patrol […]
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HEMET – Few details have been released after a three vehicle, rollover traffic accident that happened on Domenigoni Parkway west of Sanderson Avenue in Hemet Monday, Jan. 1. Hemet Police and Fire personnel, AMR medics, and CHP officers were dispatched to the location after City of Hemet emergency dispatchers received several 911 calls reporting the rollover accident about 6:30 p.m. […]
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HEMET – A pedestrian was seriously injured when he was struck by a pickup truck while crossing a busy street during rush hour traffic Monday, Jan. 2. The vehicle versus pedestrian accident happened in the 1200 block of W. Florida Avenue between S. Elk Street and S. Hamilton Avenue in Hemet. The accident was reported to City of Hemet emergency […]
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SAN JACINTO – Firefighters from Riverside County, City of Hemet, and Soboba Fire Departments spent about 40 minutes knocking down a residential fire in the 1000 block of Alexandra Drive in San Jacinto Friday, Dec. 30. The fire was reported as an unusual odor and smoke billowing from a chimney about 9:46 p.m. The first arriving engine company confirmed a two-story, […]
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HEMET – Hemet police and fire officials responded to multiple 911 calls reporting a vehicle rollover and fire in the area of S. Lyon Avenue and Peppertree Drive in Hemet Friday, Dec. 30. Callers reported a Jeep Liberty had overturned and caught fire after it smashed at full-speed into a row of concrete K-Rail dividers about 7:19 p.m. Hemet fire […]
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SAN JACINTO – Deputies investigating reports of shots fired were led on a nearly forty-minute-long pursuit after they located the vehicle involved in the shooting Friday, Dec. 23. The shooting incident that led to the pursuit happened in the area of E. 5th Street and S. Jordan Avenue in San Jacinto. Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s San Jacinto Police […]
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MORENO VALLEY – Sheriff’s officials arrested three women who were accused of attacking a man with a baseball bat and shooting at him Monday, Dec. 26. The violent incident happened in the 22000 block of Adrienne Avenue near Courage Street in Moreno Valley. Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Moreno Valley Police Department responded to the shooting and assault about […]
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UPDATE: 12/23/2016 10:30 p.m. Coroner’s officials have identified the two victims killed in a four vehicle, rollover traffic collision Friday, Dec. 23 as Hemet residents 31-year-old Elizabeth Vera and 61-year-old Joan Hoffenberg. According to a coroner’s release Vera died at the scene of the accident and her time of death was listed as 9:54 a.m. Hoffenberg also died at the scene […]
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UPDATE: 12/23/2016 11:30 a.m. With additional information from Riverside County Sheriff’s Department SAN JACINTO – Details are still emerging about a major-injury, multiple-vehicle, rollover traffic collision that happened Thursday, Dec. 22. The wreck happened at the intersection of N. State Street and Cottonwood Avenue in San Jacinto and involved seven vehicles, including one vehicle that had been involved in a dangerous, […]
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More than 35 firefighters battled the blaze at popular Hemet eatery, El Patron. George Evans photo HEMET – A popular Hemet restaurant, El Patron, was destroyed by a blaze that burned out of control for more than five hours after it caught fire Thursday Dec. 22. The restaurant is located in the 41000 block of Highway 74 in the Little […]
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