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At the end of December 2023, local media outlets aired a news story involving theft of gravestone flowers from a cemetery located in the 18100 block of Collier Avenue in Lake Elsinore.

School and districts across the Inland Empire have been honored for innovative programs that do everything from analyze test scores to help diabetics care for their feet.

If it seems like everyone you know is getting sick, it's because California is experiencing a full-fledged 'tridemic' with influenza, COVID-19 and RSV simultaneously circulating at high rates. California's flu season is in full swing, and the spread of respiratory illness in the state is listed as very high by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2021, four years after finishing her last jail term and living in transitional housing in Riverside County, Erica Smith was ready for a permanent home. She’d saved enough to cover a security deposit and the first and last month’s rent for an apartment for her and her daughter.

In 2000, Eddie Vedder, the Pearl Jam baritone and outspoken proponent of abortion rights, threatened to move to “a different country” if George W. Bush were elected president. “With three Supreme Court positions opening in the next administration, I’m frightened to think of a Republican in office,” he said.