Winchester News

A hospital worker accused of raping a woman at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo while she was receiving medical care is expected to appear in court this morning, authorities said.

Capstone Advisors , a Carlsbad-based real estate services, investment and development company, purchased 104 partially developed lots in the Winchester area of unincorporated Riverside County.

Mortgage rates, rising quickly from near-historic lows earlier this year, are already having negative consequences in the capital region.

Inland traffic accidents killed at least three people over the Memorial Day weekend.

The lunch bell at Winchester Elementary signals throngs of students to head for the cafeteria and for 7-year-old Tanner Tucker to scamper to the principal's office.

Until recently, biking, jogging or just plain walking along Murrieta Creek in Temecula was a bumpy, dust-filled experience.

"Andrew was a victim of a failed system of criminalizing mental illness and warehousing sick people in jails without adequate facilities and qualified medical staffs for the treatment of their sickness," said Geri Lynn Green, attorney for Martinez's mother, Esther Krenn.

In the fall, Westfield Valley Fair announced a major expansion that included two new anchors, an additional 500,000 to 600,000 square feet or more of retail space and 3,000 additional parking spaces, to be finished in 2011.

If you thought things couldn't possibly get any worse than the recently announced Creed and Limp Bizkit reunions, you were wrong.

An aggressive response by firefighters and helicopter crews -- one of which came from Orange County -- kept a wildfire in check at 200 acres Tuesday, with no homes damaged and no injuries reported.

A fast-moving grass fire blackened about 200 acres of rolling hills in the French Valley area Tuesday, briefly threatening a few homes, burning perilously close to a flock of sheep and creating a plume of smoke that could be seen for miles.

Riverside County fire officials say a 20-acre wildfire is burning in the community of Winchester but there have been no reports of damage or injuries.

Two Cal Fire/Riverside County firefighters are on a nine-day, 940-mile quest. Their goal is to visit every county fire station by bicycle or on foot.

A sweep of skinhead lairs throughout the Inland Empire on Monday twice took sheriff's deputies to maternity wards where pregnant women were trying to bear babies on Adolf Hitler's birthday.

On Monday, April 20, 2009, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Specialized Enforcement Division High Desert Crime Impact Team executed arrest and search warrants of members and/or associates of the Inland Empire Skinheads Gang.

A swarm of swallows has descended upon the county courthouse in French Valley, building mud nests in window alcoves by the dozen and making a royal mess.

Decades after the initial rumblings about a planned high school in Grand Terrace, the moment of truth finally has arrived.

Craving a taste of Holland? The Palm Springs Certified Farmers' Market has a Gouda fix for you.

Prosecutors began laying out their case Friday against four former Camp Pendleton service members accused of torturing and murdering a Marine sergeant and his wife last October.

Gouda cheese from Winchester, but with direct ties to Holland, is the spotlight product this week at the farmer's market in Palm Desert.