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On Monday, November 13, 2023, at 9:10 p.m., an armed robbery occurred near the 43300 block of Highway 74 in East Hemet. Employees told deputies a Hispanic male adult, 5’ 08” in height, wearing a distinctive face covering, entered the store and brandished a black handgun.

The destruction in Gaza amid hostilities between Israel and Hamas shows how Palestinians are treated as "less than human" and the Jewish State engages in "unfathomable carelessness" to achieve its goals, two Inland Empire residents from Palestine said, while a Riverside rabbi equated condemnations of Israel with "antisemitism," and a member of a Corona synagogue viewed Hamas' actions as forcing Israel to react.

For six generations since emigrating from Mexico to America, Clarissa Renteria’s family never voted. If any campaign mailers arrived during election season, Renteria’s parents — who both worked as warehouse workers in Woodlake, an agricultural town of 7,600 in California’s citrus belt — would throw them away.

Riverside County homeowners were reminded that the first installment on their property tax bills will be due beginning Nov. 1, and no later than Dec. 11 to avoid penalties.

Americans were horrified at the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli villagers on October 7 this year. The brutality and futility of the attack rocked the imagination. Yet within days, we witnessed huge protest marches in U.S. and world capitals and universities in favor of Hamas.