Etta James, the soulful American singer whose powerful voice famously crooned the classic "At Last," has died, just five days ahead of her 74th birthday. Her death was confirmed by her longtime manager and friend, Lupe De Leon. more ›

The rock was scheduled to be moved from a rock quarry outside Riverside to LACMA in August. It missed that deadline, then a few more and now there isn't even a deadline — just a promise from LACMA officials that they'll let the eager masses know when it's finally going to happen. more ›

A fatal accident occurred on the 60 Freeway on Sunday night when a 12-year-old darted across the westbound side of the roadway. Eunice Flores of Riverside was attempting to retrieve clothing that had fallen from a suitcase strapped to a car roof when a white Mercedes struck her. more ›

Four Riverside and Norco teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of stealing nine goats from a Riverside high school. The animals were heisted from Norte Vista High School's agriculture students. Police were able to recover seven of the nine goats. more ›

Bandits stormed Fremont Elementary School in Riverside early Saturday morning to steal - not money, children or school lunches - but high-voltage electrical breakers. They escaped with an estimated $50,000 worth of electrical equipment, leaving behind a rather chilly Monday for students and school staffers. more ›

Authorities in Riverside responded to the civil disobedience of the Occupy Riverside protesters Sunday afternoon by arresting 11 participants, according to L.A. Now. Police were called out the their camp site near City Hall at around 3 p.m. and "ordered protesters to take down their tents, saying that erecting structures in the pedestrian plaza was not allowed." more ›

A local reporter crossed the border to do a report on Americans involved in sex slavery in Tijuana. He found a pimp from Merced and a local teen from Riverside who said she's trapped in the sex trade. more ›

Riverside County wants its residents to turn off the bright lights. The county's board of supervisors has given a tentative OK to a law meant to fight the kind of light pollution that makes it hard for residents to see stars from their backyards. The law that would require residents to shield bright exterior lights and point them away from their neighbor's homes and public streets. It wouldn't affect public street lights, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise. more ›

An arrest has been made in the 15-month-old murder case of Moreno Valley teenager Norma Lopez, who was abducted and killed on her way home from summer school classes in the summer of 2010. more ›

For his latest exhibit at LACMA, artist Michael Heizer is practically moving mountains. Preparations have been underway for years to help Heizer move a massive 340-ton, two-story rock from a quarry outside Riverside to LACMA where it will be suspended above the heads of visitors, as if floating. The piece is called "Levitated Mass" and LACMA says that it's one of the biggest pieces of earth moved since ancient times. more ›

A mother in Riverside pushing her baby's stroller at a railroad crossing was struck by a Metrolink train last night. She managed to push her 2-year-old daughter out of the way just in time, according to the Los Angeles Times. more ›

A 19-year-old Riverside man has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy with a toy light saber, according to KTLA. Javier Enrique Perez was found guilty on four felony counts, including "sexual penetration by foreign object by force." more ›

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake rattled the Riverside area at 7:44 Wednesday morning. The quake was centered 5 miles SSW from Yucaipa. more ›

Two skydivers from the British Army were critically injured after colliding in the skies over Lake Elsinore last night. One of the skydivers suffered cardiac arrest and required CPR, as he was rushed to the hospital. The other skydiver also had serious injuries, according to the Associated Press. more ›

Four women pleaded guilty in court yesterday to jumping Banning's 2005 "Peach Queen" and slashing her face with box cutters. After the attack in 2008, the beauty queen Shanice Wilson was left with permanent scars that required plastic surgery, The Riverside Press-Enterprise said. more ›

Wednesday night's Riverside gang sweep, Operation Tampa Bay, apprehended 20 suspects, reports KABC. By mid-morning, members of the 1200 Blocc Crips, one of Riverside's most dangerous street gangs, were behind bars. more ›

Though singer Etta James has been confined to her Riverside home and seriously ill for some time now, she is not dead, no matter what you may have read online, reports L.A. Now. The 73-year-old blues singer's son Donto James attests: “She’s fine. I just saw her last night and she was fine." more ›

Today's announcement by the California Office of Historic Preservation (OHP), a division of California State Parks, delivered highly favorable news for California parks and historic sites. Ten cities and counties will receive $184,500 in federal grants to assist local historic preservation programs. more ›

A Department of Justice task force arrested two men in Riverside last Friday, July 15, and seized 28 pounds of methamphetamine, worth an estimated $1.27 million. Martin Pinedo Cedillo and Alfonso Gutierrez Ibarra of Mexico were busted while attempting to sell all 28 pounds to an undercover Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (BNE) agent in Riverside. more ›

A man was struck and killed by a Metrolink train in Riverside Thursday morning. The man was struck around 5:30 a.m. about 2 miles west of the Downtown Riverside station, on a stretch of track where trains travel at speeds up to 60 miles per hour, according to Metrolink. more ›

The 10-year-old Riverside boy who allegedly shot and killed his father, neo-Nazi Jeffrey R. Hall, told police that he was "tired of his dad hitting him and his mom," according to court documents released by LA Now. Hall, a leader of the National Socialist Movement, was found dead in his home on May 1, lying on the couch with a gunshot wound to the head. His son later told police that he had retrieved a gun from a closet -- where all of the kids knew it to be located -- took aim at his father's ear, and shot. more ›

A 19-year-old Riverside man has been convicted of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy with a toy lightsaber, according to KTLA. Javier Enrique Perez was found guilty on four felony counts, including "sexual penetration by foreign object by force." more ›

32-year-old white supremacist plumber Jeff Russell Hall, the Southwestern regional director of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement group who last year ran for a post on the Riverside Municipal Water District board, was shot to death on Sunday by his young son. more ›

According the USGS, at 9:30 and 43 seconds this Saturday morning, the Inland Empire got a minor 3.7 magnitude morning jolt with their coffee. Preliminary reports center the quake in the mountains about 7 miles WSW of Idyllwild with Palm Springs folk reporting the a strong shake about 19 miles to the east. more ›

Former Beverly Hills Mayor Charlotte Spadaro "was found guilty of one misdemeanor count of animal cruelty by a San Bernardino County jury Thursday, nearly six years after the charges were brought," according to the Press-Enterprise. more ›

A brush fire in Riverside County that blazed through 45 acres of light grass is now contained, reports ABC7. The fire was spotted at 12:20 p.m. in the area of Pacific Avenue and Canal Street in Rubidoux and spread quickly causing concern, however no injuries or evacuations were reported. more ›

Grief-stricken family members and angry Riverside residents might be one step closer to getting some answers in the Sunday slaying of Riverside police officer Ryan P. Bonaminio, 27, as a suspect was arrested outside a Target Store at about 8 p.m. last night, according to the LA Times. more ›

Modern-day Nazi party members who believe in "a breakaway white nation" and who celebrate Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party are among the candidates on Tuesday's ballots in the Inland Empire, according to an AP report on CBS2. more ›

Can a giant multi-national fast food restaurant do some good in the world? One Riverside McDonald's seems to think so, after they remodeled the 44-year-old location to "become more sustainable and energy-efficient," reports KTLA. The normally "golden" arches are now green, beckoning customers to check out their drought-tolerant landscaping and low-flow plumbing. Of course nothing has changed about the food: You can still buy your kid a Happy Meal and have faith that it will still look exactly the same if you happen to not eat it for six months. more ›

The news isn't so surprising for a state that saw a housing boom like no other, only to see it crumble with the recession. And with the national foreclosure rate up 25% since August 2009, some are saying the worst has yet to come, according to ABC News, which today released a list of the top 10 foreclosure cities. more ›