Steven Cuevas

The Occupy Wall Street movement has moved inland to the streets of Riverside. Small groups of demonstrators are camping out near city hall and other locations. Today they gathered at UC Riverside.

Riverside County prosecutors have filed murder and kidnapping charges against a Long Beach man accused of killing Moreno Valley teenager Norma Lopez.

Amateur astronomers are among those speaking out in favor of a Riverside County ordinance aimed at curbing light pollution. The county’s given tentative approval to the so-called “light trespass” law.

Hot air balloonists are suing the owners of a Coachella Valley ranch who tried to ban flights above their property. The farm dropped its lawsuit earlier this year, but not before the balloonists racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

Despite public concerns, the Indio City Council on Wednesday approved a two-year contract with the organizers of the Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals.

A group of Inland Empire warehouse workers are suing a Walmart distribution center and two staffing agencies over alleged workplace and wage violations. Last week, California’s labor commissioner fined one of the companies $500,000 over similar allegations.

The California State Labor Commissioner has slapped an Inland warehouse distribution center with a fine of $500,000 after an inspection uncovered violations that included withholding overtime pay to dozens of workers.

Five years ago, a band of photographers transformed a jet hangar at the El Toro Marine Corps airbase into a giant camera. They used it to create "The Great Picture" - the world's largest photograph. Now "The Great Picture" has a soundtrack, made with field recordings from the decommissioned base.

Riverside County authorities are looking for the culprits who scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti on the home of a Messianic Jewish family in Hemet. The spray-painted message included a large swastika and the word “Jew” on a garage door of the house.

A traveling public exhibit on suicide awareness and prevention among college students is touring universities throughout the Southland.

Riverside County is reporting its first confirmed human cases of West Nile virus this year. Public health officials say there say three women contracted the mosquito-borne illness last month.

The accusers of a Roman Catholic priest convicted of sexually abusing a 12-year old boy are suing him. Attorneys for the victim and his older brother — both teenagers now — are also suing the Diocese of San Bernardino.