Local book store | Femme Fire Books
Femme Fire Books is a woman owned bookstore located in Riverside. The bookstore offers a carefully curated collection of books that celebrate diversity and encourage reading for all. Many different kinds of books can be found on the shelves that highlight underrepresented voices in literature. Diversify your bookshelves by visiting Femme Fire Books brick and mortar location, or visit them online at Femmefirebooks.com
Family of slain California deputy calls for judge to resign
The family of a slain Southern California sheriff's deputy on Friday demanded the resignation of a judge who had previously released the lawman's shooter despite a violent criminal record. Riverside County Deputy Isaiah Cordero, 32, was fatally shot Dec. 29 during a traffic stop in the city of Jurupa Valley, east of Los Angeles. Cordero had pulled over a pickup truck and the driver, 44-year-old William Shae McKay, pulled a gun and shot the deputy as he approached the vehicle, authorities said.
news.yahoo.comA Virginia sheriff's deputy catfished a California teenager, drove across the country, killed 3 of her family members, set fire to her house, and tried to kidnap her
Austin Lee Edwards of Virginia was killed in a shootout with police in Riverside, California, after committing the triple homicide, officials said.
news.yahoo.comHigh school football ‘22: Results from Friday night’s Week 11 games; playoffs up next
The high school football regular season is in the books and the playoffs are on tap. Who’s in, who’s out and who’s going where? That will be finalized on Sunday morning when the FHSAA releases its first brackets for its new Suburban and Metro state playoffs.
An interactive story-time for kids with Mr. Joe
Pizza Party with Hello Mr. Joe at Sun-Ray Cinema’s Pizza Cave in Riverside’s Five Points is a monthly story-time with music featuring children’s performing artist Joe Gaskin’s creatively themed, literacy-based entertainment for kiddos. Singalongs, creative percussion and a guitalele (just what it sounds like!) that move the whole family to dance at this party, plus the best pizza slice you’ve ever eaten in a Cave. 11AM the first Saturday of the month. Full menu also available, open Tues - Sat for lunch and dinner.
Welfare check leads to discovery of man’s body in Riverside home, Jacksonville police say
A sergeant with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said investigators who were called Wednesday to perform a welfare check at a home in Riverside are treating the cause of a man’s death as undetermined, but noted there appeared to be “suspicious circumstances.”
143 roosters euthanized after California cockfighting bust
Authorities broke up a large cockfighting event over the weekend and said they were forced to euthanize nearly 150 roosters found at a Southern California home, animal control and sheriff's department officials said. Deputies late Friday discovered about 200 people at the residence in the city of Jurupa Valley and “evidence of an illegal cockfighting event and multiple deceased or severely injured birds,” the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said a statement. Officers with the county's Department of Animal Services gathered all of the live roosters “and humanely euthanized them, a process that lasted until about 6 a.m.,” according to a statement from that agency.
news.yahoo.comFreed California siblings feared opposing rundown housing
A year after they were freed from the horribly abusive home of their parents in Southern California, some of the 13 children said they felt pressure to move to a rundown apartment in a crime-ridden area by the county agency tasked with their care.
Freed California siblings feared opposing rundown housing
Several adult children among the 13 siblings freed in 2018 from virtual imprisonment in their abusive parents’ Southern California home found themselves a year later feeling pressured by the county’s guardian to move to an apartment in disrepair in a crime-ridden area, court documents showed. Court documents are slowly being released in Riverside County that were previously sealed in the disturbing case that attracted international attention when details emerged showing the parents shackled and starved their children for years. In a 2019 court filing, an attorney for the adult children of David and Louise Turpin wrote that three of the siblings were taken to see the apartment by an employee for the Riverside County Public Guardian's office and were “fearful to object so they indicated that the apartment was okay with the expectation that other apartments would be viewed."
news.yahoo.comPolice: Man fatally pushed woman into California train
A man accused of fatally pushing a woman in front of a freight train in Southern California has been arrested, authorities said. The woman, whose name has not yet been made public, was hit by the train Monday morning in the city of Riverside, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) from downtown Los Angeles, police said Thursday. Riverside police said in a statement that the woman and the man, Kevin Errol Lewis, were in an argument next to the railroad tracks that turned physical.
news.yahoo.comJudge won't readmit 4 students involved in slavery petition
A federal judge declined to lift the expulsion or suspensions handed out to four suburban Kansas City high school students who were disciplined for their involvement in an online petition to “start slavery again." U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough acknowledged in his ruling Tuesday that the four students from Park Hill South High School will likely suffer harm if they aren't allowed to return to the school immediately or ever, in one student's case. The four ninth-graders sued the Park Hill school district and several administrators after one was expelled and three others were suspended for 180 days over the online petition.
news.yahoo.comAbused Turpin kids now 'betrayed' by social services system
The 13 Southern California siblings rescued three years ago from horribly abusive conditions that included being locked in their home for years, shackled to beds and starved by their parents have been failed at different points by a social services system that was supposed to help them transition to new lives, according to an investigation by ABC News. The network reported Friday that Riverside County has hired a private law firm to look into allegations the seven adult and six minor children in the Turpin family did not get basic services after they were freed from their parents' prison-like home. There also is a criminal investigation of a foster family suspected of mistreating several children, including one of the Turpins, ABC reported.
news.yahoo.comCalifornia man gets prison for fatally torturing puppy
A Southern California man who fatally tortured a Chihuahua puppy and posted a video about it online was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison. Angel Ramos-Corrales, 19, of Riverside was sentenced for a February assault during which he brutalized his 4-month-old puppy named Canelo, breaking its skull and ribs, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office. “The dog’s injuries caused it to continuously fall headfirst, and Ramos-Corrales recorded a video of the injured puppy and posted it on his Instagram account,” the statement said.
news.yahoo.comJury awards $17M in deadly shooting by off-duty LAPD officer
A federal jury on Wednesday awarded $17 million to the parents of a mentally ill man who was shot in a Costco store by an off-duty Los Angeles police officer. The jurors in the lawsuit trial concluded that Salvador Sanchez, a seven-year LAPD veteran, was acting within the scope of his employment even though he was off duty. Sanchez was shopping at a sausage sample table in the Corona store, southeast of Los Angeles, when French struck or shoved him from behind without warning, authorities said.
news.yahoo.comGOP lawmakers hold California protest after 3 cancellations
Republican House Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene held a protest Saturday after a third venue in California canceled their event. Instead, they held a protest outside City Hall in Riverside, where one of the events was canceled. “Here’s what they need to understand,” Greene told the crowd, according to the Press-Enterprise.
news.yahoo.comCoronavirus: Mayors, first responders urge Trump to help them get protective equipment 'now' to fight pandemic
Major groups representing U.S. mayors, county executives, police and fire chiefs and first responders are urging President Donald Trump to use a federal act which he so far has refused to tap to get them "essential personal protective equipment" quickly to help them respond to the coronavirus pandemic. "Our nation's first responders call on you to address the shortage of essential personal protective equipment needed to keep them healthy and safe while on the job," the groups wrote in a letter to Trump. "If we lose emergency personnel to the disease, we cannot transport people to hospitals and protect our citizens," they said. But Trump has resisted calls to use that act to compel companies to produce and ship critically needed items amid the coronavirus outbreak, including PPEs, or personal protective equipment. "We're getting what we need without putting the heavy hand of government down," said White House trade advisor Peter Navarro at a briefing Sunday.
cnbc.comNASA's Mars 2020 rover arrives at Florida launch site for July liftoff
The shipping container carrying NASA's Mars 2020 rover is readied for loading aboard an Air Force C-17 transport plane at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California, on Feb. 11, 2020. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)NASA's newest Mars rover has just left the nest. "Our rover has left the only home it has ever known," John McNamee, NASA's Mars 2020 project manager, said in a statement. Related: How NASA's Mars 2020 rover will work (infographic)Two U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster cargo planes delivered the rover to Kennedy Space Center, along with the spacecraft's cruise stage, descent stage and Mars Helicopter, a drone that will hitch a ride to the Red Planet on the Mars 2020 rover. Mars 2020 Assembly, Test and Launch Operations Manager David Gruel watches as members of his team loaded NASA's next Mars rover onto an Air Force C-17 at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California, on Feb. 11, 2020.
space.comCDC officials confirm 7th US case of coronavirus, in California man who traveled to China
U.S. and California health officials confirmed the seventh U.S. case of the coronavirus that has sickened about 10,000 people across the globe and killed at least 213. The Santa Clara Public Health Department said Friday that a man who lives outside San Francisco tested positive for the coronavirus. The patient contracted the virus in Wuhan, China, and has been isolated at home since, county officials said at a press conference. "We've been preparing for this possibility for weeks," Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody said. "Although we do understand this confirmed case may raise concerns, this one case in fact does not change the risk to the general public."
cnbc.comPentagon will provide support for US citizens and diplomats evacuated from Wuhan
Follow CNBC's live blog for coronavirus updatesWASHINGTON The Pentagon said Wednesday that it will provide housing and support for the nearly 200 U.S. citizens and diplomats evacuated from Wuhan, China the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus to the United States. The flight from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport to Ontario, California, will stop first in Anchorage, Alaska, for refueling and medical screenings. The government-chartered flight landed at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California on Wednesday. Shortly after the plane landed personnel in biological hazard suits helped passengers load into buses and emergency vehicles on the tarmac. The Department's primary responsibility at this time is the safety of our force, our families, and our base communities," she added.
cnbc.comFlight carrying US citizens from Wuhan arrives in California, CDC says
U.S. agencies said Wednesday that the flight carrying U.S. citizens evacuated from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, safely arrived in California. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday the flight landed at the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California. The government-chartered flight departed from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport and touched down in Anchorage, Alaska, to refuel before continuing on to California. The CDC said all passengers have been asked to remain at the March Air Reserve Base for further CDC screening and testing. The coronavirus outbreak has now killed 133 people in China and infected more than 6,150 people around the world.
cnbc.comStarbucks apologizes to deputies who weren't served at store
"There is simply no excuse for how two Riverside deputies were ignored for nearly 5 minutes at our store on Thursday evening," a Starbucks spokesman said in a statement. "We take full responsibility for any intentional or unintentional disrespect shown to law enforcement on whom we depend every day to keep our stores and communities safe."
chicagotribune.comCalifornia Highway Patrol officer, suspect killed in shootout
(Reuters) - A California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer was killed along with the suspected gunman during a shootout in southern California on Monday, police said. The motorcycle patrol officer had stopped a white GMC pickup truck, determined that the truck was to be impounded and called for a tow truck, Parker said. Dozens of rounds were fired, local media said, and motorists stopped in traffic fled their vehicles and ran for cover, media reports said. The slain officer, Moye, graduated from a police academy in 2017 and had been a CHP officer for almost three years, a release from the governors office said. Riverside Police officer Ryan Railsback told local media that the motive behind the shooting was not yet known.
feeds.reuters.comCalifornia officer likely unaware of killer's criminal past
Public records showing a person's criminal history aren't typically something an officer has access to during a traffic stop. John Aresta, police chief in Malverne, New York, and a past president of the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police, said an officer would have almost no way of knowing a driver's criminal history during a traffic stop. "It's not going to come up with a criminal history and it's not going to come with an asterisk saying 'bad guy,'" Aresta said. Moye had been with the CHP for about three years and was a motorcycle officer for roughly a year. "I'm so sorry for the officer," Luther's wife, McKenzie Luther, told the Southern California News Group.
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