March 28, 2024
TOP STORIES
BALTIMORE, MD - The bodies of two people have been recovered from a red pickup truck which was submerged under the waters where the Baltimore bridge collapsed. An operation to recover the bodies of four more people presumed dead continues, after a container ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
WASHINGTON – Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic nominee for vice president who later became a political independent, died of complications from a fall, his family announced Wednesday.
Disney and the state of Florida have reached a settlement agreement in their lawsuit about who controls Walt Disney World’s governing district, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board announced Wednesday.
Melting ice at the poles due to climate change may impact the Earth's spin, altering our global clock.
COLTON – (INT) – A suspect in a series of armed robberies is the latest individual killed in a rash of unrelated offer-involved shootings.
INLAND EMPIRE - (INT) - March will close on a decidedly wet note.
INLAND EMPIRE – (INT) - The wildflower season is expected to be an impressive one.
MURRIETA – An Inland Empire police department has been handcuffed by Lego.
HESPERIA – (INT) – The California Department of Justice (DOJ) will investigate a deadly officer-involved shooting.
INLAND EMPIRE - (INT) - The latest rate of unemployment across the Inland Empire is unchanged, but the ranks of those looking for work is growing.
INLAND EMPIRE – (INT) – Allocations approved by the California Transportation Commission (CTC) may translate to improvements on Inland Empire highways.
JOSHUA TREE – (INT) - A new air and climate report ranks the Joshua Tree National Park among the worst parks in the nation for air quality.
SAN BERNARDINO - (INT) – Litigation over an officer-involved shooting in San Bernardino has been settled.
SAN BERNARDINO – (INT) – The annual ‘green up’ has flourished across the Inland Empire and that means that weed abatement can’t be far behind.
MENIFEE – (INT) – California’s largest battery storage facility is being showcased in Menifee.
SAN BERNARDINO – (INT) – The nation’s geographically largest county is getting better connected.
INLAND EMPIRE – (INT) – Riverside County is now the nation’s tenth most populous county.
TEMECULA – (INT) – The next generation of freeway ramp meters will make their debut on Interstate 15 in the Temecula-Murrieta area.
SAN BERNARDINO – (INT) – A week after the Super Tuesday primary election, more than 10-thousand ballots have yet to be counted.
INLAND EMPIRE – (INT) – More people are looking for work across the Inland Empire than at any time in the past three years.
RIVERSIDE – (INT) – A draft of Riverside County’s 2024 Traffic Relief Plan (TRP) is up for public review and comment.
LOS ANGELES – (INT) - A former deputy Los Angeles mayor has been convicted in a bribery scheme.
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among young people.
SACRAMENTO – (INT) – February’s storms have allowed state water regulators to double the percent of allocations along the State Water Project.
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani has vehemently denied any involvement in the sports betting world.
The tax season is in full swing.
SAN CLEMENTE - Full passenger train service between Orange and San Diego counties is expected to resume this week.
HOLLYWOOD - “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” rules over the domestic box office.
GEORGETOWN - A mountain lion attack left one brother dead and another injured.
SAN FRANCISCO – (INT) – A lawsuit has been filed challenging Apple’s anticompetitive behavior related to iPhone smartphones.
SOUTHLAND – (INT) – There is growing evidence that the current edition of El Nino is on its last lap.
SACRAMENTO – (INT) – New estimates reveal a modest reversal of recent downward job trends in California.
SACRAMENTO – (INT) - The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has launched a 'brain healthy' education and awareness campaign.
SACRAMENTO - (INT) - A survey of 95 potential groundwater basins across California has been completed.
The University of California has drawn a quarter-million applicants for fall 2024.
SACRAMENTO – (INT) - The California Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Missing Persons DNA Program has reached a milestone.
SACRAMENTO – (INT) - Recent cumulative enrollment data shows that at least 4-percent of California’s students experienced homelessness at some point last school year.
SACRAMENTO – (INT) - California is taking advantage of this winter’s storms to expand its water supplies.
SOUTHLAND – (INT) – With the proliferation of new warehouses, the AQMD has begun enforcing limitations on emissions of nitrogen oxide.
State school superintendent Tony Thurmond has thrown his support for legislation that would require a personal finance education course for high school graduation. Assembly Bill 2927 would add the completion of a one-semester course for pupils graduating in the 2029–30 school year. (INT)

Hemet police are reaching out in hopes the public can provide some information about a lone suspect who shot two women. One died in the March 24th incident on West Fruitvale Avenue. Identities of the victims were not disclosed. (INT)

The California Highway Patrol is investigating the apparent traffic death of a Riverside man in Mead Valley. The coroner reported that Daniel Jones, 57, was found dead alongside the Cajalco Expressway. (INT)

Two convicted felons and a fugitive from Apple Valley got a return visit to jail when they showed up at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga. A search warrant for their pickup truck turned up guns, ammunition, knives, illegal drugs and hypodermic needles. Investigators identified the driver as Christopher Mclane and his two passengers, Monique Gandara and Nicole Denning. It wasn’t immediately clear why the trio had driven onto the jail compound. (INT)

San Bernardino is launching its new Mobile Veterinary Clinic. It debuted Tuesday (March 19th) at Seccombe Lake Park. The clinic will travel throughout the city to conduct spay and neuter procedures, vaccinations and microchipping. It was made possible by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. (INT)

Two million dollars will help Fontana’s developing technological advancements to improve transportation safety. The federal grant is earmarked for smart traffic signal technology. (INT)

Moreno Valley is being applauded for the largest public works project in the city’s history. Over the past 2-years, MoVal has repaved and rehabilitated 190 miles of city streets at a cost of 50-million dollars. The League of California Cities praised the project’s cost-effectiveness, financial sustainability, employment of emerging technologies, improvement of pavement conditions, and efficient utilization of resources. (INT)

Installation of public and shared private electric vehicle chargers has reached 100,000 in California. That figure is in addition to over 500-thousand at-home chargers. One in every four new cars sold last year in California were zero-emission. (INT)

The Riverside Transit Agency (RTA) says those riding the new microtransit buses in Hemet and San Jacinto have exceeded expectations. GoMicro has carried more than 50-thousand passengers since its launch in January 2023. That’s 42-hundred boardings a month. (INT)

Construction was to begin Wednesday (March 27th) on the North Heritage Fiber Optic Project in Fontana. It’s designed to provide traffic solutions and enhance safety in the developing area along Baseline Avenue. (INT)

Twenty-one schools throughout San Bernardino County are getting state recognition. They are either California Distinguished Schools, Schools to Watch or Model Continuation High Schools. (INT)

Activities have resumed at the Redlands Community Center now that three suspects in a March 20th shooting have been arrested. The only victim who suffered a bullet wound is recovering. Police say the shooting was in retaliation for a stabbing several months ago near the Mountain Grove shopping center. (INT)

In Rancho Cucamonga, a man who’d been causing security concerns at an apartment is dead following a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies. They say that Mohd Hijaz, 32, struck a deputy in the face. There was a ‘use of force’ causing Hijaz to suffer a medical emergency and his death at a local hospital. (INT)

Two students have been crowned San Bernardino County’s finest spellers. Etiwanda School District 6th grader Shrey Parikh and 8th grader Srikanth Kumar will represent the county at the National Spelling Bee in May. (INT)

Riverside is taking another step toward affordable housing. The city is creating a Local Affordable Housing Trust Fund, the 42nd of its kind in the state. It will allow the city to apply for as much as $1.5 million in matching housing trust funds from the state and federal government. Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson says affordable housing “is one of the most pressing issues” of our time. (INT)

The California Public Utilities Commission is moving forward on a plan to put electric distribution cables underground. Southern California Edison, which serves a large portion of the Inland Empire, would submit undergrounding plans covering 10-years. (INT)

More than 300 students representing 19 high schools from throughout San Bernardino County participated in this year’s Academic Decathlon. Of the 53 competing teams, Chaffey High School Team Black claimed first-place overall in the County. Nine decathletes from the winning team will go on to represent the County at the California Academic Decathlon State Competition in Santa Clara from March 22-24th. (INT)

Another massive solar power project has been proposed in the Riverside County desert. It would cover 27-hundred acres of public land adjacent to another 990 acres of private land north of Desert Center. The Easley Renewable Energy Project could generate and store up to 400 megawatts of photovoltaic solar energy. (INT)

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