If you were worried that your local bomb squad wasn't on top of things, fret not -- a team of explosives experts in Riverside County is so ready to act that they blew up a suspicious-looking iPad case belonging to one unlucky musician over the weekend. more ›

Riverside County could soon be getting a little bit quieter. After discovering that houses in residential neighborhoods are being routinely used for massive parties, county officials are looking for a way to ban such goings-on. more ›

A Beaumont police officer accused of permanently blinding a woman with pepper spray during a DUI arrest pleaded not guilty Thursday to four felonies. The incident occurred February 21 as officer Enoch Clark attempted to handcuff 32-year-old Monique Christina Hernandez during an arrest for suspicion of driving under the influence. more ›

We've seen it on the big screen (and maybe in real life!) and hoped it would never happen to us. The baby of a 19-year-old expectant mother could hardly wait to enter the world last weekend and decided to do so on the side of the 15 Freeway in Riverside County. The baby's grandmother helped deliver the anxious infant. more ›

A Southern California high school student is accusing an English teacher of seducing him and having sex with him in the classroom, and that among her appeals to the minor, she said he resembled "Twilight" star Taylor Lautner. more ›

A new report, "Racially Balanced Cities in Southern California, 1999 to 2010," released by the University of Southern California (USC) today shows that SoCal cities are on average more racially balanced than they were 20 years ago. However, the study also reveals that some cities show a decline in multiracial balance. more ›

A Lake Elsinore teacher is on paid administrative leave after allegations she made an autistic boy sit in a cardboard box as punishment were raised by the boy's mother. Kimberly Rollins has filed a claim against Lake Elsinore Unified School District, after her 10-year-old son revealed he had been made to spend class time inside a box. more ›

Onetime "Celebrity Rehab" participant Rodney King won't be doing any jail time for a DUI arrest last summer in Riverside County. TMZ reports the headline-maker made infamous by another encounter with the law twenty years ago has struck a plea deal that lets him avoid time behind bars, "despite the fact he has a prior DUI conviction on his record." more ›

The long-awaited, incredible journey for a 340-ton rock in Riverside is (finally!) set to begin this week. LACMA says that the massive monolith that is the centerpiece for artist Michael Heizer’s piece "Levitated Mass" will begin its 105-mile trip this Tuesday from the Inland Empire all the way to the museum on the Miracle Mile. more ›

There aren’t many hiking trips in Southern California will show you both a rare natural phenomenon and some of the state’s history, but the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve does just that. more ›

Stephens' kangaroo rats, a species endemic to Southern California, have a comfortable living situation in southwestern Riverside County. But the hopping rodents felt their mecca was missing one vital component - grass. more ›

A 14-year-old boy was accidentally shot to death by his cousin while the two were on a deer hunting trip in the San Jacinto Mountains over the Thanksgiving weekend. Isreal Delatorre was killed while he was on a trip with his uncle Guillermo Delatorre, who was a local hunting safety instructor. more ›

Inmates in Riverside County could soon find themselves having to pony up cash for their "stay" in jail. Today the Board of Supervisors "tentatively approved an ordinance to require inmates in county detention facilities to reimburse the county for the cost of their incarceration." 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 ›

If you're a sex offender and you've already moved away from nearby schools, parks, swimming pools and libraries in Riverside County, you've got to one thing to your rather lengthy not to-do list. When Halloween rolls around this year, you have to tear down your decorations, turn off your lights and promise not to open your front door. The supervisors of Riverside County believe that Halloween is a loophole for sex offenders, because it's the one day every year when the children come to them instead of vice-versa. more ›

Gear up the parental fear machine, it's Halloween! Adding to a long list of regulations that deliberately ignore the uncomfortable fact that most children are sexually abused by people that they already know, Riverside County is considering a rule that would prohibit registered sex offenders from hanging Halloween decorations on October 31, would require them to leave their outside lights off that day, and would ban them from answering the door during the same hours. more ›

An atypical act of gang violence occurred on August 30 in Riverside County, and the culprits - three gang members of Jurupa Vallery - were finally apprehended Friday night. Riverside County sheriff's deputies arrested Daniel Delshawn Green, 19, Dequan Matthew Green, 26, and Daymen Qionel Tolbert, 20. more ›

Two bodies found Monday evening in the Riverside County portion of Joshua Tree National Park have been identified today as being a couple visiting the U.S. from the Netherlands, according to the Huffington Post. 44-year old Agustinus (Guus) Van Hove, and his girlfriend, 38-year-old Helena Nuellett, were discovered within about a mile of each other inside the park. more ›

33-year-old Ninderjit Singh was arrested on Friday at his home in San Jacinto, a community in Riverside County, after being a fugitive from his native Canada for several years. Singh is wanted for the 1999 murder of then-18-year-old Poonam Randhawa in Vancouver, British Columbia, explains CBS2. The suspect had previously been featured on the popular television show "America's Most Wanted." more ›

CVS Pharmacy got called out, and now they're going to be paying out: The company announced today they will pay $2 million as a result of a consumer protection civil lawsuit filed earlier this month by the District Attorneys of Los Angeles, Riverside and Ventura counties. The suit alleges CVS used false advertising by not providing an immediate discount for some advertised items. more ›

A body was found this afternoon on the side of I-15 in Riverside County, reports CBS News. Police are searching local homeless camps as part of their investigation, and have closed down El Cerrito Road near where the body was located. more ›

A manhunt launched five days ago to find two young Ventura County inmates who broke free from their labor crew in the Hollywood Hills has concluded with the pair's apprehension. Pablo Ladislow Ontaneda, 18, and Christopher Ochoa, 19, were located last night to a home in Jurupa, according to NBCLosAngeles. more ›

Apparently "Celebrity Rehab" had little effect on Rodney King. He was pulled over and arrested on Tuesday in Riverside County on suspicion of drunk driving. more ›

Over 220 campaigns aiming to section California into halves or even thirds have been defeated since the 1850s. Supervisor Jeff Stone of Riverside County introduces the latest secession proposal. Blaming left-wing Sacramento for the state's economic crisis, Stone’s proposal gathers thirteen conservative Republican counties, including Riverside, and forms them into the nation’s 51st state - “South California.” more ›

Two experienced skydivers were killed after the canopies of their parachutes collided and deflated about 300 feet from the ground Thursday afternoon, according to authorities. more ›

A student at Paloma Valley High in Menifee was branded a "sinner" by their teacher after the student wore a t-shirt that said "Gay is Good" to class. The teacher, whose identity has not been released, "drew an “S” on the hand of a student," to symbolize "sinner," according to CBS2, and referred to the student, whose identity is also being kept private, multiple times as such. more ›

Up until Monday, Wally spent his days and nights guarding a large-scale marijuana grow operation at a home in the Hemet area. Who is Wally? Well, he is a four-foot long, 55-pound alligator who "worked" from inside a cement pond on the property, says NBC. Now Wally is calling Forever Wild Exotic Animal Sanctuary home, since both he, and the 2,285 pot plants he was keeping an eye on are illegal in California. more ›

A 17-year-old Riverside County high school student was arrested Wednesday morning after threatening a teacher at his former school armed with a shotgun, knives and ammunition. The teen appeared at Lakeside High School in Lake Elsinore around 7:30 a.m. in the classroom of a former teacher who was able to alert another teacher. The teen, whose name hasn't been released because he is a minor, was quickly detained by police and booked into juvenile hall without incident, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. more ›

The body of Angela Wright, 39, was found inside her rainwater-flooded vehicle in a wash near Canyon Lake, according to KTLA. The Menifee resident "drove through a flooded intersection and was carried away by floodwaters shortly after 3 a.m. Wednesday." "Rescue divers were called out and found the vehicle submerged in the lake with the body inside," said Melissa Nieburg of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, according to LA Now. more ›

Two major solar power projects in Southern California were announced today, proving that the state's commitment to reducing greenhouse gases may be on target. Locally, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power pushed forward plans for what will become the city's largest solar array. Meanwhile, the federal government approved... more ›