Banning News

A "PUBLIC salon" on the topic of the Inland Empire's economic bust is set for today in downtown L.A., which is the sort of place you might expect to host a public salon, but not the sort of place you'd expect a discussion of Rancho Cucamonga and Banning.

State Sen. John Benoit was tapped Wednesday to fill the Riverside County supervisor seat representing most of the Coachella Valley.

Facing an operating deficit upwards of $70 million and amid warnings that revenue continues to decline, Riverside County supervisors on Tuesday maintained they still must find a way to staff the new jail expansion in Banning.

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Voters in four Southern California counties on Tuesday chose among scores of candidates for local offices and weighed in on a range of tax measures and other proposals, while voters in a Northern California congressional district picked a Democratic political veteran to fill a vacancy.

Banning voters have approved the city's request to double a local tax on hotel and motel visitors.

Amid strong warnings that discretionary revenue continues to decline and more staffing reductions are on the horizon countywide, Riverside County supervisors today maintained they still must find a way to staff the new jail expansion in Banning.

The security guard at a Banning bar and another man were stabbed Sunday while trying to break up a fight, police said.

An Orange County man will be charged with 127 additional counts of posing as a 14-year-old girl and contacting underage girls to send him nude photos on MySpace.

Riverside County public health workers will start administering free swine flu vaccines to school children in Banning and Coachella this week.

Following a 24-year career with the Rancho Cucamonga Fire Department, Mike Bell has been promoted to fire chief, leading an organization of 125 employees.

A man killed in a drunken driving crash Thursday in Banning has been identified by coroner's officials as 26-year-old Dominic Becerra of Beaumont.

One man was killed and another arrested in a drunken driving crash this morning in Banning.

Many women survive breast cancer, often at great cost. And when they do, what then? Terracina Surgical Arts hosted a fashion show Oct.

They arrived at the Capitol in the days of Brown and Reagan . Some of their colleagues are young enough to be their grandchildren.

A driver lost control of his vehicle today, causing it to go into a flood channel, and had to be cut out of his vehicle, RiversideCounty Fire Department officials said.

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday unanimously approved a new traffic light on a major thoroughfare alongside Banning High School in Wilmington.

What are the effects of Super Wal-Mart? As in so many areas of life these days, there are lots of rumors, innuendos, distortions, and outright lies that many of us are too quick to accept as "fact." We think that if we read it in the newspaper or hear it from a politician or on TV, it must be true.

"If you can't keep the house of God clean, you can't keep no house clean," says one of the principals in Patrick Shen's terrific documentary about janitors - yes, janitors.

A $30 million medical plaza with an outpatient surgical center and urgent care has opened in Beaumont.