Steven Cuevas

Riverside’s Martin Luther King High School marching band will play a benefit concert Friday to raise quake relief money for Japan. The fundraiser is the latest relief effort by the City of Riverside – the sister city of quake-shattered Sendai on Japan’s northeast coast.

Students at UC Riverside are creating a remembrance banner for victims of this month’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Mountain bikers tearing across snow-capped slopes and kayakers shooting down speeding rivers are among the stars of an annual film festival in Redlands this week.

A Riverside entrepreneur wrapped up his first week of hands-on disaster relief near Sendai, Japan. He’s distributing home heating fuel to blacked-out parts of the region paralyzed by last week’s earthquake and tsunami.

Multimedia museum exhibit "Pulse and Hammer" at Riverside’s Sweeney Gallery uses vinyl sculptures, performance art and audio experiments to address issues that transcend borders.

The Riverside City Council Tuesday night approved the creation of a Japanese earthquake relief fund for its battered sister city of Sendai. The city is also donating $100,000 from its general fund.

Riverside County prosecutors have reached a plea deal that will allow a serial child killer to avoid the death penalty in California. Joseph Duncan already faces multiple death sentences in Idaho. He’s now pleaded guilty to killing a 10-year-old boy in Riverside County.

Riverside has launched a relief effort for victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Riverside’s maintained long and deep ties with the ravaged coastal city of Sendai.

Riverside County prosecutors could be close to reaching a plea deal that would let a convicted child killer avoid the death penalty - at least, in California. Joseph Duncan already faces execution in Idaho for a string of murders. He's also charged with killing a 10-year-old boy in Riverside County.

A Coachella Valley man accused of kidnapping and robbing actor Jeremy London last year has admitted to false imprisonment and stolen vehicle charges.