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| February 9, 2010 |
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TOP STORIES
 TEHRAN--Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in an official letter that it will begin enriching higher-grade nuclear fuel to a level of 20 per cent from Tuesday.
SACRAMENTO--Ronald Reagan singled out what he called a "welfare queen" for abusing government aid. Newt Gingrich pushed welfare reform as part of his Contract with America.
ENGLAND--Researchers from the University of Leicester and Kings College London say the finding could help spot people at higher risk of age-related illnesses.
EAST HIGHLANDS – A small experimental plane crashed Monday in the Santa Ana River Wash just north of the Redlands Airport. Two people on board, a man and a woman, were killed.
LOMA LINDA – A preacher who presided over a local ministry has admitted to arresting sheriff’s investigators that he molested two of his grandchildren.
RIVERSIDE--'Human directionals’ are the latest addition to Riverside County’s war against Swine flu.
SAN BERNARDINO--Another $42.6 million in funding is likely for the proposed sbX rapid transit project.
INLAND EMPIRE – An incoming storm could broadside Southern California with the same potency as the last one.
MONTCLAIR – Two lives have been snuffed out in a crash that climaxed a weekend police chase.
RIVERSIDE - An indictment charging two men with defrauding the Pechanga Tribe of Temecula out of more than $4 million was unsealed in Riverside County Superior Court Thursday.
RIVERSIDE--‘Inland Empire 511’ is here. Riverside and San Bernardino county transportation officials have teamed up to launch the new service.
SAN BERNARDINO--Rehabilitation is about to start on what was two of the city’s most crime-ridden apartment units.
LOS ANGELES - Dr. Conrad Murray was arraigned Monday and pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of entertainer Michael Jackson.
SOUTHLAND – With the ground saturated, each passing storm packs the potential for mud and debris flows.
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE – Homeowners may shoulder the brunt of the cost to clean-up their neighborhoods inundated by last weekend’s mudslides.
HOLLYWOOD - "Dear John" denied James Cameron's "Avatar" an eighth number 1 weekend.
SACRAMENTO – Another initiative entering the petition phase could impact California’s ‘go green’ campaign. It would suspend several air pollution control laws.
SOUTHLAND – Gasoline prices seem to have lost their volatility.
LOS ANGELES – Frances Reid, who starred on one of television’s longest running soap operas, ‘Days of our Lives’, has died.
BIG BEAR--Scientists at the Big Bear Solar Observatory have detected the beginning of a new solar cycle.
PALM DESERT--Pennsylvania may have Punxsutawney Phil, but the Inland Empire has Mojave Max to predict the arrival of spring.
Super Bowl XLIV made television history and gave advertisers more bang for their bucks. The CBS network says the game was the single, most-watched television program in history. Viewership hit 106.5 million viewers. That eclipses the 1983 finale of ‘M*A*S*H’. A motorist found dead found dead early Monday in his pickup truck at the 91-15 interchange in Corona has been identified. The coroner says that James McCracken, 43, of Norco died when his vehicle left a transition ramp and hit a tree. (INT) At least seven persons died in weekend traffic mishaps around the Inland Empire. Four of the deaths were storm-related. Those occurred in Cajon Pass, Rancho Cucamonga and Lake Elsinore. (INT) Midnight gunfire in Highland has claimed a young man’s life. Sheriff’s deputies found Christopher Johnson, Jr., age 26, dead in the backyard of an apartment complex on Primrose Lane. (INT) Thousands of Riverside County residents are being asked to cut back on their water use. Beginning Monday for six days, Northern California water flowing into the Mills Filtration Plant in Riverside will be cut off because of necessary maintenance. During the water shortage emergency, residents are asked to shut off their landscape irrigation. The shut-down affects all customers of the both the Eastern and Western Municipal Water Districts. (INT) California’s new Solar Panel Law for homes and businesses will be outlined during a symposium Tuesday at UC Riverside. The law is the most cost-effective way yet to install solar panels. So far, only two Inland Empire cities have taken advantage of it, Yucaipa and Palm Desert. (INT) In Murrieta, a prisoner who hanged himself at the Southwest Detention Center has been identified. James Hall, 31, of Lake Elsinore had been arrested twice in 5-days. (INT) Forty-eight people notified the Southern California Earthquake Data Center that they felt a Sunday night micro-quake. The M2.5 quake was centered in the mountains between Cabazon and Morongo Valley. It was felt from Palm Springs to Palm Desert and west to Banning. (INT) The coroner has identified an elderly couple who perished in a Friday night house fire in San Bernardino. The bodies of Gilbert Smith, 77, and Maria Muro, 70, were found at the scene on Mountain Drive. Damage to the tiny 500 square foot home was extensive. An outside generator had been supplying electricity and extension cords had been strung throughout the house. (INT) Two Highland teenagers have been implicated in a December shooting in which the rear window of a sheriff’s patrol car was blown out. The deputy was not hurt, but a prisoner was cut by broken glass. Investigators say that Oscar Guevara, 19, and a 17-year-old juvenile were angry over another deputy’s behavior in an earlier incident. (INT) Quick, painless, free and confidential HIV anti-body tests are being offered Tuesday at Cal State San Bernardino. Results are available within 20 minutes. The testing comes on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. (INT) Last month’s storm caused significant erosion in three areas along the Santa Ana River Trail. It has been temporarily closed from Riverside Avenue to La Cadena Drive in the Colton-Rialto area. (INT) |
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