Murrieta News

More than 50,000 children from Central America, many unaccompanied by parents, have crossed over the border illegally this year to seek safe asylum in the United States.

Posted by Alexander Nguyen Jury selection is slated to get underway Wednesday for the trial of a Wildomar man accused of shooting at his neighbor during a dispute and later stabbing the victim multiple times in a roadside confrontation.

Posted by Alexander Nguyen A U.S. Army paratrooper-medic killed in Afghanistan will be honored by the Murrieta Police Department at a flag ceremony Wednesday, marking the second anniversary of his death.

Janet Murguia, president of the country's largest Latino advocacy group, has a formal warning for Republicans: Help the child refugees at the border and act on immigration reform, or say goodbye to the idea of winning the White House.

Organizers of a nearly 400-mile walk to highlight immigration policy in the United States say the timing has worked out well.

National focus has turned back to immigration, after a group of locals in Murrieta, Calif.

Labor union members and community leaders gathered Monday on the steps of the Federal Court House in Sacramento to raise awareness and donations for unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America crossing the United States border.

The bigotry and fear greeting busloads of Central American mothers and children is almost word for word what Steinbeck's Joads heard 75 years ago.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas put a prominent, public face on the immigration crisis this week when he was detained by the U.S. Border Patrol in McAllen, Texas.

Recently, the Riverside County, California newspaper Press Enterprise denied my request to respond to an op-ed that 20-year incumbent Republican Congressman Ken Calvert wrote for the newspaper regarding the situation in Murrieta - which is in California's 42nd Congressional District.

According to a recent Syracuse University report, about 90% of unaccompanied children seeking asylum without an attorney were deported.

Swiss oatmeal served chilled is an European muesli made with low fat yogurt, rolled oats, green apples, bananas, currants, cranberries and skim milk i... The newest restaurant in Temecula, Corner Bakery, is a hit.

FALLBROOK The Pfeil family is pleased to announce the upcoming marriage of Katey Grace Pfeil, daughter of Sherry Pfeil, to Frank Ramos of Murrieta.

Hundreds of U.S. sites are set for anti-immigration demonstrations today and tomorrow, Saturday, July 19. The coordinated protests are being billed as: 'The National Day of Protest Against Immigration Reform, Amnesty and Border Surge,' and if you live in a U.S. city, there's a chance one is happening near you.

Saturday is the second day of protests by those opposed housing migrant children in their towns.

LONG BEACH >> More than 50 people gathered at Grace Methodist Church on Friday night to show their support for the immigrant children and families from Central America.

More than $50,000 has been donated to two pregnant sisters and their mother who were all widowed when their husbands were killed in a plane crash earlier this month near Lake Elsinore.

Opening statements are scheduled for Monday, July 21, in the case of an Indio man charged with 69 counts related to a robbery spree in western and southwestern Riverside County in 2010 and 2011.

Opening statements are scheduled for Monday, July 21 in the trial of an Indio man accused of multiple robberies in western Riverside County in 2010 and 2011.

Protests all day today and Saturday at the Murrieta Border Patrol station are among more than 320 protests against illegal immigration scheduled across the nation.