News From Around The County
BURNEY — A felon on probation was arrested again after an early morning encounter with deputies, Friday, March 22. The probationer, later identified as Quentin Winn, 44, of Hat Creek, was arrested after a traffic enforcement stop for a minor vehicle code violation led deputies to the discovery of a stolen rifle, ammunition, and methamphetamine. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: No […]
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HEMET — A driver escaped serious injury but the vehicle she was driving was totaled after the woman reportedly lost control, jumped a curb, and plowed head-on into a large tree in Hemet this morning, Sunday, March 24. The minor-injury crash happened on E. Menlo Ave., west of Buena Vista St. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: AZ man identified after fatal […]
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JURUPA VALLEY — Authorities are investigating the hit and run death of a 56-year-old Riverside man, who died in Jurupa Valley after he was struck by a motorist who then fled the scene. The deadly collision happened early Saturday morning, March 23, on Van Buren Blvd., 75 ft north of Jurupa Rd., according to officials investigating the man’s death. Riverside […]
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UPDATED: Saturday, March 23, 6 p.m., With coroner’s release of information. SAN JACINTO — Officials have identified a man who died when his Top Fuel dragster crashed during yesterday’s opening day of races at San Jacinto’s Soboba Sand Drags. The deadly crash happened on a specially prepared dirt track in the 23300 block of Soboba Rd. Friday afternoon, March 22. […]
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DESERT CENTER — Authorities remain at the scene of a wreck involving an overturned tractor-trailer big-rig that forced a SigAlert and is continuing to cause delays of several hours on the eastbound I-10. The rollover crash, which may have involved a second vehicle, happened near Red Cloud Mine Rd/Exit 182, this morning, Saturday, March 23, according to a CHP incident […]
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HEMET — A neighborhood was evacuated and a felon – who was out of jail on bail for previous charges – was arrested again, Friday, March 22, after a probation compliance check uncovered a suspected improvised explosive device. Sheriff’s bomb squad members later detonated the device, which officials later described as a pipe bomb. Yesterday’s incident happened in the 44000 […]
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MORENO VALLEY — A Hemet couple is behind bars after authorities allege they abducted a 10-year-old boy who was the biological child of the pair, but had been removed from their custody and placed into foster care. After an intensive, six-hour search Thursday, March 21, officials eventually found the missing juvenile with his parents at the couple’s Hemet residence. The […]
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MORENO VALLEY — One person was seriously injured and hospitalized after a fire erupted inside the kitchen of a home, yesterday evening, Thursday, March 21. The kitchen mishap occurred in the 30000 block of Live Oak Canyon Rd., in a rural and unincorporated area north of Moreno Valley. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Murrieta man, 50, killed in fiery I-15 wreck […]
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ANDERSON — Despite rain-slicked roads and dangerous highway conditions, two motorists decided to engage in an illegal street race earlier this morning. “Unfortunately for the drivers, they did this in front of an unmarked patrol vehicle,” Anderson PD later wrote in a social media release. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: UPDATE: Family grieving after crash kills Australian native, Shasta College student, […]
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MURRIETA — A 50-year-old, Murrieta resident died in a fiery, solo-vehicle crash after his SUV plowed at high-speed into a freeway overpass pillar yesterday morning, Thursday, March 21. According to CHP, witnesses later reported the victim was possibly trying to pass a tractor-trailer big-rig when he suddenly veered onto the shoulder of the southbound Interstate 15 and plowed into the […]
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