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| September 2, 2010 |
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TOP STORIES
 HATTERAS ISLAND, N.C.--Hurricane Earl was barreling toward the Eastern Seaboard Thursday with winds swirling at around 145 mph, as forecasters issued a new warning for New York's Long Island and tried to work out how badly North Carolina would be hit.
GRAND ISLE, La.--An offshore oil platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast. All 13 workers were rescued from the water, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret. Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice. Today, its peaks are covered by lush tropical "cloud forest".
 RIVERSIDE – Health officials are gearing up early for another flu season.
MURRIETA – Firefighters pounced on a potentially destructive wildfire Wednesday that threatened the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Preserve.
ONTARIO – A Riverside County gang member with a long criminal record is dead after an encounter with two police officers and an assault vehicle.
SAN BERNARDINO – The BNSF rail yard has been deemed by the California Air Resources Board to pose the worst health risk among the state’s 18 rail yards.
RIVERSIDE – Caltrans is assuring motorists that the structural integrity of a bridge at the 60-91-215 interchange was not compromised by Tuesday’s separation of a section of concrete.
INLAND EMPIRE – There are continuing mixed signals about the local economy.
RIVERSIDE – Customers in the Western Municipal Water District are braced for a 10 percent rate hike that kicks in Wednesday.
SAN BERNARDINO – City Manager Charles McNeely admits his city is on a fiscal tightrope.
SAN BERNARDINO – September brings some sweeping changes in Omnitrans bus service throughout the San Bernardino Valley.
SAN BERNARDINO – Mark Christian admitted illegally obtaining his father’s veterans pension. But, a jury declared he did not murder him.
 MORAGA - In a bitter debate filled with personal attacks Wednesday night, Senator Barbara Boxer repeatedly slammed Republican rival Carly Fiorina's record as the CEO of tech giant Hewlett-Packard
SOUTHLAND – The last big weekend of summer will be in a holiday mood.
SACRAMENTO – California’s budget is now two months overdue as Republicans and Democrats duel over their own versions.
SOUTHLAND-Travel experts say more people will be hitting the road for the last big holiday of summer.
SOUTHLAND – Southern California motorists planning their Labor Day weekend won’t have to worry about gasoline price spikes.
SACRAMENTO – Paper or plastic will still be an option in California supermarkets.
HOLLYWOOD – Actor Michael Douglas faces "an eight-week struggle" against throat cancer.
SACRAMENTO – More than 9,000 people in California are estimated to die prematurely each year as a result of exposure to fine particle pollution.
BAKERSFIELD - Alcohol may have played a part in the death of a Bakersfield doctor whose decomposed body was found in the chimney of her estranged boyfriend's house.
LOS ANGELES – A crackdown targeting vendors of counterfeit goods in the greater Los Angeles area resulted in the seizure of more than 47,000 individual items and the arrest of thirty people.
HUNTINGTON BEACH - Two swimmers from Banning are presumed dead after being swept away by a rip current over the weekend.
A murder victim found in a vehicle near Hemet last weekend has been identified. Todd Owen Brown, 44, of Hemet had been shot. The vehicle containing his body came to rest in a field off Lincoln Avenue. (INT) A guilty verdict has been returned in another local ‘cold case’ murder. A San Bernardino jury convicted William Arroyo, Jr. Wednesday for the 1999 slaying of an 83-year-old Colton woman. Dorothy Roquet was raped and set on fire in her home in 1999. Earlier this week, a Riverside jury focused on DNA evidence to convict a fugitive in another ‘cold case’ murder. (INT) A proposed expansion of the Mt. Palomar Winery in the Temecula Valley has been put on the fast track. The $80 million project will create 70 new jobs. (INT) A DNA analysis of some strands of hair has solved the 1977 slaying of Rubidoux bar owner ‘Jimmy the Greek’ Anagnos. The evidence linked Frank Wright to the stabbing. Wright was never charged and died 8-years ago. (INT) A Riverside jury has convicted Crispin Garcia for killing a 13-year-old girl in 1996 over a would-be relationship. Garcia was 17 when he stabbed Sophia Briseno with a screwdriver and left her body in a field near a Murrieta cemetery. Garcia fled to Mexico, but was captured and returned to the US 2-years ago. (INT) Two masked gunmen knocked over a Riverside bank Tuesday. The pair fled from the Silvergate Bank in the Magnolia Center with an undisclosed amount of money. (INT) In baseball, Philadelphia turned aside the Dodgers 5-1. The Angels were 4-2 victors in Seattle. (INT) Drought conditions and dry heat have ramped up the wildfire danger. More restrictive camping and picnic rules have been imposed in the San Bernardino National Forest. The fire danger level in the Cleveland National Forest has been boosted to ‘very high’. (INT) In Moreno Valley, authorities may have a break in this summer’s kidnap-murder of Norma Lopez. Investigators are processing a green SUV that was towed from a home near where the Valley View High School student was abducted. The home is also being searched for evidence that may be linked to the teenager’s slaying. (INT) Victorville has declared itself a ‘Safe City’. Thirty-one cameras placed throughout the city including parks and high crime areas have been switched on. (INT) Another 185 pounds of Mexican marijuana won’t reach its destination in Southern California. It was intercepted at a Border Patrol checkpoint south of Temecula. Two Mexican nationals were arrested. (INT) The number of parolees-at-large in California has dipped to its lowest in 15-years to just over 13,000. That’s down by more than 6,000 from the peak reached 7-years ago. The California Parole Apprehension Team has located or arrested 2,598 in the past eight months. (INT) |
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