Riverside CA

Riverside County is receiving a major financial boost in its ongoing effort to crack down on drug-impaired driving. The Board of Supervisors has approved a 970,000-dollar grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, slightly higher than last year’s award. The money will continue funding the District Attorney’s...

AAA is urging Southern California drivers to prepare for significant delays as Thanksgiving week brings some of the heaviest traffic of the year. According to new data from INRIX, a national traffic analytics firm, major congestion is expected to hit beginning Tuesday and continue through midweek as millions take to...

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Riverside County dropped Monday for the 13th time in 14 days, falling two-tenths of a cent to $4.63. The average price has dropped 13.8 cents over the past 14 days, including 1.2 cents Sunday, according to figures from the AAA and the Oil Price...

In an attempt to preserve its only hospital, several Blythe citizens are trying to dissolve that institutions’s five-member governing body and transfer its responsibilities to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. That proposal is a response to the Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing in September by the Palo Verde...

A multi-convicted felon accused of intentionally running over and injuring a man near Lake Mathews was behind bars Monday. Brian Charles Paul, 48, of Riverside was arrested last week following a three-month investigation by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Paul is charged with assault with a deadly weapon...

A 23-year-old motorist who allegedly fled from California Highway Patrol officers trying to catch him for illegally racing on an Inland Empire freeway and collided with a big rig, fatally injuring the trucker, will stand trial for murder and other offenses. Modesto Daniel Carpio of San Jacinto allegedly killed...

Four people pleaded no-contest to felony insurance fraud and assault after being accused of staging a freeway crash to get an insurance payout, officials say.

RIVERSIDE (CNS) - California Highway Patrol officers will ramp up operations beginning Wednesday night to snare drunken and drug-impaired drivers throughout the Thanksgiving holiday period. The agency will initiate its annual Thanksgiving "maximum enforcement period" beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday, when all available...

It’s been nearly 20 years since Chris and Lori Coble first made headlines—a story of unimaginable grief after their three young children, Kyle, Emma and Katie, were killed in a freeway accident on Interstate 5 in Southern California in 2007. That tragedy was followed by what many called a miracle: through IVF, the...

Santa Ana, California – A sprawling Orange County staffing empire collapsed under federal scrutiny this week, as prosecutors