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UPDATED: Monday, Jan. 6, 3 p.m., With additional details and update from Hemet PD. HEMET — Authorities are continuing to search for a suspect who critically injured a Hemet man while stealing the victim’s expensive camera during a Christmas day robbery. The victim, who is continuing to recover, was dragged several blocks after trying to hold on to his camera […]
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HEMET — Three people were hospitalized after a two vehicle, broadside collision at the intersection of W. Stetson Ave and S. Elk St., Saturday evening, Jan. 5. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: UPDATE: Victim, 63, ID’d after deadly Aguanga crash – Suspect on the run Lake Elsinore search warrant yields more than 11 pounds of meth, heroin UPDATE: Four arrested after […]
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HEMET — Authorities in Hemet are investigating the murder of a 63-year-old man after the victim was found inside his vehicle with a stab wound to his chest yesterday evening, Monday, Dec. 30. Officials say they are speaking with a “person of interest”, but no arrests have been made after the deadly stabbing; which happened outside a business on the […]
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UPDATED: Monday, Dec 30, 9 a.m. See Original Story below. HEMET — Authorities say a third child has died after a massive blaze that also killed the childrens’ father, when he valiantly raced back into his burning apartment in an effort to save his loved ones. According to officials the fire began when a dried Christmas tree began to burn […]
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HEMET — A motorhome was destroyed and a man was hospitalized overnight when a destructive blaze ripped through the recreational vehicle Tuesday, Dec. 24. The Christmas eve fire, which happened on the 1300 block of Slate Ave. just south of W. Thornton Ave, destroyed the RV and caused at least two explosions, according to witnesses at the scene. Last night’s […]
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HEMET — A Hemet woman was reportedly hospitalized after flames ripped through her mobile home this morning, Tuesday, Dec. 24. The blaze, which erupted at the Desert Sky RV Park at 1190 N. Palm Ave., destroyed the residence, leaving it uninhabitable. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: One dead after stabbing at Temecula Motel 6 No injuries after car plows through SJ […]
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HEMET — Santa Claus this year had more than simple gifts or lumps of coal to offer jaywalkers caught crossing a busy Hemet street, in the form of citations issued for anyone caught illegally crossing Florida Ave. yesterday morning, Thursday, December 19. In total, Santa helped City of Hemet police officers nab 27 people who crossed the road outside a […]
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HEMET — A Hemet man was arrested following a months-long investigation into the alleged sexual molestation of at least three children, two of whom are now adults, according to sheriff’s officials. Following the lengthy investigation, the alleged suspect was arrested without incident at his home on the 27000 block of Hemet St. LEADING THE HEMET AREA HEADLINES: SJ valley “Zero […]
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HEMET — A man who was crossing a Hemet street was injured after he was struck by a pickup truck Sunday evening, Dec. 15. Although officials investigating last night’s collision have not specified if the victim was using a marked crosswalk when he was hit near the intersection of Florida Ave. and Lyon Ave., witnesses and the driver who hit […]
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SAN JACINTO VALLEY — Last Friday the 13th was a very unlucky day for forty-three criminals who were arrested for sixty-eight criminal violations, including fifteen felonies, during a “Zero Tolerance” enforcement operation. During the coordinated Dec. 13 sweep, authorities from nearly a dozen agencies partnered to serve forty-six warrants, including three felony and forty-three misdemeanor warrants. The focus of the […]
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