Hemet News

The big tortoise belongs to heartbroken Ginny Packham, a longtime obstetrics nurse at Hemet Valley Medical Center.

A gunman escaped after robbing a liquor store clerk in the Hemet-area community of Valle Vista, sheriff's officials say.

A free beginner's class on how to draw anime will be offered from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 25, at the Hemet Public Library.

Share/BookmarkThe District Office of Assemblyman Jones has just announced his mobile office hours in Riverside County on May 22.

A San Jacinto woman was arrested Saturday night after allegedly making "terrorist threats" aimed at a roommate and her family members.

Steve Covington and Patricia Yepremian talk near a planter that was put in outside the Harvard BrickYard Bar and Grill in an effort the beautify Harvard Street in downtown Hemet.

Eastern Municipal Water District Board President Phil Paule and General Manager Paul Jones stand with the five winners from the 2013 Student Poster Contest an award ceremony at EMWD's Perris-based headquarters on Thursday, April 25, 2013.

Army Pvt. Kyle Alcarez has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson in South Carolina.

Nine people were injured, three seriously, in a head-on collision at Highway 74 and Winchester Road west of Hemet late Saturday, May 18.

The Saturday, May 19, Casey Abrams concert at the Hemet Theatre produced lots of great music captured in pictures by readers, including exceptional shots by Eric Galletta of Park Hill Music Group.

Tahquitz Rock, also known as Lily Rock, is a popular destination for rock climbers, one of whom died there on Friday, May 17, 2013.

The City Council voted unanimously in favor of the project as part of the consent calendar at its meeting Tuesday, May 14.

Phil Paule, Eastern Municipal Water District board member, on left, and Rosemary Morillo,chairwoman of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, talk in June 2012 to Behrooz Mortazavi, who at the time was an Eastern staff member about imported water delivery to percolation ponds in the San Jacinto Riverbed.

The West Valley High School Dance Department will be present its spring dance concert, "On Broadway," at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 18.

Soccer players Denise Aguilar and Karina Precido will both attend Missouri Valley College next season.

DeSantis, 50, was named to the position Wednesday, May 15, by City Manager Michelle Dawson, who was appointed to her position the previous night.

The Highway 74 paving in the San Jacinto Mountains involves one-way traffic controls with flaggers during daylight hours.

Federal agents served a search warrant on a Hemet home on Wednesday, May 15, but the nature of the investigation at the house in the 1200 block of Palomino Court was not disclosed.

Bishop Gerald Barnes, right, will preside over a mass on Sunday, May 19, in the Ramona Bowl that will include all four Catholic parishes from the San Jacinto Valley.

Abraham Saldana is one of the participants in the EEK Fitness children's weekly art classes at the newest Cops 4 Kids venue in Hemet.