Yearly Archives: 2021

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department - Norco Station will hold a Driving Under the Influence (DUI) and Driver’s License Checkpoint on Friday, August 27, 2021 from 8:00 pm to 2:00 AM at an undisclosed location within the city limits.

San Jacinto’s City Council is as angry as a hornet over the conduct of one of their own. At the meeting Tuesday Night, the regular agenda played second fiddle to not one, but two arrests of Councilman Joel Lopez, charged several serious felonies and a couple of misdemeanors - all within the past month.

A new COVID-19 variant — named Lambda — has arrived in California. The emerging Lambda variant has been popping up in the news as it spreads rapidly throughout South America. In California, at least 152 cases have been reported, the first as early as September 2020, according to state public health officials.

The deadly infection is caused by a single-celled organism called Naegleria fowleri, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here are five key facts about these infections.

A young boy who contracted an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a Northern California lake has died. He was 7. Late last month, David Pruitt of Tehama County was brought to the emergency room and then transferred to UC Davis Medical Center, where he was put on life-support with severe brain swelling, according to a GoFundMe page set up in his honor.