Rubidoux News

Brad Basinger looks forward to the days before Independence Day when he can help the Pyro Spectaculars crew set up the fireworks.

Immigration, Latino and religious activists will gather at the Riverside U.S. Border Patrol station today to denounce what they call "dirty tactics," including checking the immigration status of local bus passengers and dressing in civilian clothing during operations.

Two people were arrested Tuesday after Riverside County Sheriff call.'s deputies answered a disturbance.

Statement from 17 year old arrested and deported on public RTA bus in Rubidoux , and from witnesses of yesterday's incident taken this morning while on foot and riding bus around 7:30 am.

A man suspected of stealing an SUV in Rubidoux today with a 7-year-old boy inside was arrested and the child was found unharmed, a sheriff's sergeant said.

Supporters of an effort to oust Jurupa school board member Noreen Considine from her seat have received the go-ahead to begin collecting signatures on a recall petition.

For connoisseurs of the mysterious, the strange and the just plain out of the ordinary, Saturday's tours of the Mission Inn's catacombs were just the ticket.

Many residents at Mt. Rubidoux Manor, a high-rise senior apartment complex in Riverside, were excited to watch a crane hoist a 34-ton steel and aluminum dome atop Regency Tower, said resident Janet Gilmore.

Riverside Councilman Mike Gardner likes to say that Mount Rubidoux Memorial Park is a victim of its own success.

A fire in a Rubidoux apartment complex forced two dozen people, including children, out of their homes Monday in the 5600 block of Tilton Avenue.

A woman walking with children on the campus of a Rubidoux elementary school was shot in the back, but didn't realize it until she checked into a hospital, authorities said today.

The most-popular story on the website of the Barstow Desert Dispatch is the one about the valedictorians for Barstow High's Class of 2009, and is there a better illustration of the special joys of small-town life? No, probably not, especially if we're talking about the joys of vicious gossip and backbiting .

Officials said six people were injured, two critically, in a three-vehicle crash MondayA in Rubidoux.

A group of Longfellow Elementary School students and their families walk up Mount Rubidoux in Riverside every Saturday.

The second in command at the Riverside County Regional Park and Open Space District has been tapped to become its new leader.

A suspicious object found this afternoon at a Rubidoux intersection, which was cordoned off until bomb squad personnel could investigate, ``turned out to be nothing,'' a Riverside County sheriff's deputy said.

Sierra Aluminum Co. has taken its first step toward going solar with the installation of 4,488 solar panels on the roof of one of its manufacturing buildings in Fontana.

Inland rapper Alex Kermith Mendoza was sentenced this morning to 25 years to life in prison for his conviction of the 2005 beating death of 3-year-old Michael "Mikey" Vallejo-Sieber. Judge Roger Luebs, in Superior Court in Riverside, sentenced Mendoza, 30, to the maximum term.

About 2,500 Riverside County teenagers and young adults will have summer jobs, thanks to nearly $2.9 million in federal stimulus funds.

For parolee Bradley Thrash, the tattoos on his arms and face are not just a constant reminder of a past he's trying leave behind -- they are an obstacle to the successful future he sees for himself.