Steven Cuevas

Riverside County prosecutors have filed attempted murder and other charges against two men believed to have carried out a seven-month long siege of violence against Hemet police officers. Since December, someone’s tried to harm officers with everything from homemade bombs to an antique bazooka.

With thousands of ballots from last week’s primary election not yet counted, Riverside County’s Registrar of Voters is under fire from Democrats and Republicans.

Senator Barbara Boxer visited the campus of UC Riverside this afternoon to discuss the university’s future medical school and the money needed to open it within the next two years. Right now it’s still under construction, but when it’s completed, the UCR School of Medicine will be California's first new public medical school in about 40 years.

Deep in California’s Mojave Desert, about halfway between Barstow and Las Vegas, a real estate entrepreneur is counting on a big catastrophe. He’s building a string of luxury disaster shelters. Investors believe it’s their best hope in the event of natural disaster, terrorist attack or worse.

Nearly two years after 25 people died in a Metrolink commuter train collision in Chatsworth, the rail agency has unveiled a fleet of crash-resistant passenger coaches. The new cabs and passenger cars are designed with safety in mind.

When Mark Twain was born in 1835, Halley's Comet lit the night. That’s the story he liked to tell anyway. When the great American writer and humorist passed away a hundred years ago this April, the comet supposedly crossed the sky again. Twain's often tumultuous final years are the subject of a new book by Pitzer College president Laura Skandera Trombley called "Mark Twain's Other Woman." It details the relationship between Twain and his much younger female assistant. A relationship that burned as brightly as any comet.

A group of globetrotting Korean street performers is in Claremont this week to spread an environmentally conscious message. You can make music, and fun, out of junk - if you just think differently. That’s why you shouldn’t toss that big plastic Coke bottle yet. You could be throwing away your seat in the orchestra.

Many Christians are celebrating the end of Easter Week. Jesus is said to have been about 33 years old when he died. The man who’s been portraying him on stage for almost 40 years in the rock musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” is twice that age. Ted Neeley just kicked off “Superstar’s” latest tour in Riverside.

A restored World War Two-era bomber is coming to an airport near Temecula – and you can be a passenger.

Last summer, inmates at the California Institution for Men in Chino sparked the biggest and bloodiest riot in the prison's history. Seven months later, state prison officials have issued their report on how prison staff handled the violence. The Corrections report praises corrections officers for showing “extreme bravery” during the riot – some former inmates don’t see it that way.