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HEMET, Calif., — Riverside County Sheriff’s officials yesterday announced the arrest of a man suspected of murdering his girlfriend and dumping her body west of the Lake Elsinore area near Highway 74, commonly referred to by locals as the Ortega Hwy. The murder investigation began as a missing person’s case in December 2019, after the victim’s family reported the woman […]
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LAKE ELSINORE, Calif., — Authorities say a local man was killed after crashing into the back of a big rig that was stopped and parked along the shoulder of Interstate 15 in Lake Elsinore Friday evening, Jan. 28. The deadly accident happened on the southbound side of the freeway, between Franklin Street and Diamond Drive/Railroad Canyon, according to officials. LEADING […]
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UPDATED: Monday, Jan. 31, 3:22 p.m., With additional details and arrest information. Originally Published: Sunday, Jan. 30, 10:13 a.m. LAKE ELSINORE, Calif., — Authorities say a local man was killed in a solo-vehicle rollover traffic crash in the Tuscany Hills community of Lake Elsinore late Friday evening, Jan. 28. The fatal crash happened on Summerhill Drive, about a half-mile north of […]
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UPDATED: Wednesday, Feb. 2, 5:42 a.m., With additional details from CHP. Originally Published: Saturday, Jan. 29, 12:47 p.m. MEAD VALLEY, Calif., — Authorities say a woman was killed in a three-vehicle head-on collision in the unincorporated community of Mead Valley, southwest of Perris, early Friday morning, Jan. 28. The deadly accident, which left a second person injured and trapped inside their […]
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LAKE ELSINORE, Calif., — Authorities say three members of a Homeland family were arrested after allegedly firing a handgun at a pair of teens during a road rage incident on the 15 Freeway in Lake Elsinore early Sunday evening, Jan. 16. The suspects, a mother, father and son, were arrested on Tuesday, Jan. 25. A search warrant served at their […]
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WILDOMAR, Calif. — Kaiser Permanente announced today plans to build a medical office building on approximately seven acres within the Baxter Village Mixed-Use Project located at the Northwest Corner of Wildomar Trail and Interstate 15 in the City of Wildomar. The property is entitled for a future 84,000 square-foot outpatient medical office building. While the land developer for the Baxter […]
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RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif., — Authorities today announced that a woman reported missing from Tustin in 1977 has been identified through the efforts of the Riverside County Regional Cold Case Homicide Team. According to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, in 1986 a Caltrans crew doing survey work along the Ortega Highway in Lake Elsinore located partial skeletal remains, including a skull, […]
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LAKE ELSINORE, Calif., — A man was seriously injured and airlifted from the scene of a rollover crash with ejection in the area of Mission Trail and Sedco Boulevard in Lake Elsinore Saturday evening, Jan. 15. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Pursuit that traveled through San Jacinto valley ends with arrest in Hemet Good Samaritans share details after pulling burn victim […]
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UPDATED: Thursday, Jan, 13, 7:02 a.m., With additional details from Menifee PD. Originally Published: Wednesday, Jan. 12, 5:36 p.m. MENIFEE, Calif., — Authorities say a woman was killed when she was struck by a car while trying to cross a busy Menifee highway Tuesday evening, Jan. 11. The woman killed in the collision, which happened at the intersection of Highway […]
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LAKE ELSINORE, Calif., — Although few details have been released, authorities have confirmed that an elderly woman who had been walking on the Nichols Avenue off-ramp from the northbound I-15 in Lake Elsinore was fatally struck early Sunday evening, Jan. 9. Sunday’s deadly accident follows on the heels of another I-15 pedestrian fatality in the same general area, after a man […]
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