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Disappearance of wealthy Riverside County ranch owner still a mystery after 3...
What happened to Dia Abrams? Bonita Vista Ranch owner Dia Abrams, right, and ranch hand Jodi Newkirk. (Illustration by Staff Artist Jeff Goertzen) The answer has eluded Riverside County sheriff’s...
View ArticleTesla is under investigation again after 12 drivers complain of steering...
U.S. auto safety regulators have opened yet another investigation into safety problems with Tesla vehicles. This time the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into a dozen...
View ArticleEl Monte officials used ‘disappearing message’ app Signal to coach cannabis...
El Monte’s city manager and then-mayor used an application that automatically deleted text messages, potentially in violation of state law, to coach an applicant attempting to secure a retail cannabis...
View ArticleVA Loma Linda mismanaged more than $1 million in patient transportation...
The VA Loma Linda Healthcare System mismanaged more than $1 million in patient transportation funding over a three-year period by colluding with ambulance companies through informal “handshake”...
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San Bernardino County officials expected milder storms before mountains were...
The winter storms that battered San Bernardino Mountain communities in February and March might have been the worst ever faced in San Bernardino County. Between Feb. 21 and March 13, more than 4 feet...
View ArticleJuvenile accused of shooting 5 people outside Denver bar is arrested in Barstow
The Denver Post The juvenile who allegedly shot five people after she was denied entry to a Denver bar in September was arrested in Barstow on Thursday, Oct. 19. Keanna Rosenburgh is suspected of eight...
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Wrongly convicted, they ‘lost hope’ after 17 years in prison. Then an OC mom...
They seemed destined to die in prison, but two men serving life sentences were set free because the daughter of a Laguna Beach lawyer needed a driving lesson. When attorney Annee Della Donna hired...
View ArticleTop investigator says close calls at US airports show aviation is under stress
By David Koenig | The Associated Press The nation’s top accident investigator said Thursday that a surge in close calls between planes at U.S. airports this year is a “clear warning sign” that the...
View ArticleSouthern California poultry processor fined $3.8 million for hiring,...
A Southern California poultry supplier that employed children as young as 14 to operate power-driven lifts and debone chickens with sharp knives has agreed to pay nearly $3.8 million in back wages,...
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State, creditors bring down hammer on embattled developer of homeless housing...
A developer that accepted millions of dollars from a massive program to house the homeless is under investigation by the state for failing to live up to its contractual obligations and stiffing...
View ArticleIdaho expands investigation of volleyball coach Chris Gonzalez
A University of Idaho spokesperson said Monday that the school has instructed an outside law firm to investigate the “climate and culture” within the school’s women’s volleyball program under head...
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Loose bolts found on grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 jets; lost door plug from...
By CLAIRE RUSH and DAVID KOENIG PORTLAND, Ore. — United Airlines said Monday it found loose bolts and other “installation issues” on a part of some Boeing 737 Max 9 jets that were inspected after a...
View ArticleAlaska Air passengers sue Boeing over Max 9 door blowout
By Madlin Mekelburg | Bloomberg Boeing Co. was sued by passengers on an Alaska Airlines Inc. flight that was forced to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon, last week after a mid-air blowout...
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Why Cheesecake Factory wage theft case in Orange County matters for California
By Jeanne Kuang | CalMatters National restaurant chain The Cheesecake Factory and some of its contractors have paid $1 million to settle a major California wage theft case, in which state labor...
View ArticleEl Monte officers fatally shot in ambush were not verbally warned that...
An El Monte police dispatcher failed to tell two officers fatally shot by a convicted gang member that the suspect reportedly had a gun and was under the influence of PCP and methamphetamine, reveals a...
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Commerce turned blind eye to bulk liquor store operating illegally out of a...
The City of Commerce allowed a tenant with ties to a businessman favored by City Hall to openly use a city-owned warehouse to sell bulk liquor, food products and energy drinks for nearly a year in...
View ArticleSold your home to Opendoor? California sellers getting piece of $62 million...
Nearly 2,500 homeowners in California who sold their homes to Opendoor Labs are getting payments from a $62 million settlement after the FTC found they were deceived by the company’s marketing claims....
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Federal review slams Redlands Unified’s failures to address sexual abuse...
The Redlands Unified School District has entered into an agreement with the federal government to address concerns that the district failed to respond properly to reports of sexual misconduct against...
View ArticleIRS addressing wide disparity in audit rates between Black taxpayers, other...
By Fatima Hussein | The Associated Press The IRS said Thursday that it has taken steps to address a wide disparity in audit rates between Black taxpayers and others filers, and is more closely...
View ArticleCoroner: Former Palm Desert Assemblymember Brian Nestande died of drug overdose
Brian Nestande, a former state assemblyman and county administrator found dead in his Palm Desert home on March 6, died of a drug overdose, the Riverside County Coroner’s Bureau has determined. An...
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