Steven Cuevas

She was born Jamesetta Hawkins to an unwed teenage prostitute in Los Angeles, and had lived in Riverside at the end of her life.

Warehouse workers and their supporters rallied Wednesday outside a Walmart distribution center near Riverside. They’re trying to stop dozens of potential layoffs.

The U.S. Forest Service is waving some visitor fees at all national forests this weekend in honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, including forests here in Southern California.

Riverside County officials begin public hearings this month over a proposed strip mine near Temecula. County planning commissioners rejected the project last summer. Mine officials appealed the decision to the board of supervisors. The board will take the unusual step of holding the upcoming meetings at the Riverside Convention Center.

San Bernardino County authorities arrested dozens of people over the weekend in connection with a cockfighting operation, seizing nearly 100 roosters and thousands of dollars in cash.

The city of Victorville faces a potential $9 million class action lawsuit unless it changes the way it uses red-light cameras. The people who want to sue also targeted the company that installed the camera system.

Arraignment was postponed Friday for two Hemet men charged with misdemeanor counts of conducting a protest on state grounds without a permit. The charges stem from a public Bible reading they staged outside a Department of Motor Vehicles office last year.

San Bernardino Republican Tim Donnelly, a Tea Party member and gun rights advocate in the California State Assembly, has apparently added some walk to his talk. He was detained and cited Wednesday for trying to carry a loaded gun on a plane he was trying to take from the Ontario airport to Sacramento. He faces a misdemeanor charge.

Deep in the foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains there is said to lurk a creature right out of the pages of gothic horror master H.P. Lovecraft. Native Americans call him "Tahquist" and they say he’s a primordial beast who steals the souls of humans. The creature comes alive in a new exhibit at Riverside’s Culver Center of the Arts.

The 24-year-old Iraq War veteran suspected of gunning down a ranger at Mount Rainier National Park over the weekend was a Riverside County native. Search crews found the body of Benjamin Colton Barnes in the park yesterday, one day after the fatal shooting of one of the park's rangers. Authorities say Barnes died from exposure.