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Verizon sells internet trailblazers Yahoo and AOL for $5B

AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm. Wireless company Verizon will sell Verizon Media, which consists of the once-pioneering tech platforms, to Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion deal.

San Diego boat wreck kills 3, shows risks of ocean smuggling

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A tractor-trailer slams into an SUV at an intersection on a remote California desert highway, killing 13 of 25 people crammed inside the late model Ford Expedition.

Child rapist gets life for 1980s murder of 2 California boys

A convicted child rapist who killed two 6-year-old boys in Southern California in the 1980s was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Biden signs $15 minimum wage for federal contract workers

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors, providing a pay bump to hundreds of thousands of workers.

CDC says many Americans can now go outside without a mask

NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines Tuesday on the wearing of masks outdoors, saying fully vaccinated Americans don't need to cover their faces anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers.

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Hemet Education Foundation Awards $26,000 in Scholarships

The Hemet Education Foundation (HEF) has been investing in...

Hearings this week: Hemet warehouse rules, Unocal 76 liquor permit, county bonds for Hemet clinic

Hemet Planning Commission hears a logistics zoning rewrite and a Unocal 76 liquor permit Oct. 6; San Jacinto council and county supervisors also meet. Times, places and posted items for Oct. 5-11.

California’s energy policy failed: vote out the machine that priced the kilowatt

A summer electric bill in California is not a...

FBI puts 2025 murder rate at 4.1, tying 1955 and 1956

FBI, CBP, Census, Federal Reserve and CDC figures for 2025 show lower murder and violent crime rates, fewer Southwest border apprehensions, lower official poverty and record median household income.
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