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As thousands of people rush to flee Afghanistan , California Governor Gavin Newsom says they are welcome here. The governor addressed the situation Monday at a "Vote No" on the recall rally in Northern California.

Long Beach’s California Heights neighborhood, the city’s largest historical district, was baptized in oil. The area just north of Signal Hill was once grazing land for Jotham Bixby’s livestock on his family’s Bixby Ranch, later named Rancho Los Cerritos. When oil was discovered on Signal Hill in 1921, Jotham Bixby’s Land Company subdivided the tract and offered individual sites for sale, strongly suggesting that you’d become a wealthy landowner once oil was struck in the lowlands, mere blocks away from the oil-rich hill.

The Historic Hemet Theatre has announced a special encore performance of the nation’s #1 tribute to Freddie Mercury and Queen – to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Hemet’s vintage movie house.

Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) kicked off its Fall 2021 semester on Monday, welcoming more students back to its campuses for in-person classes and services, including at its new Temecula Valley Campus.

A barren wife in a polygamous marriage; a prostitute who became an ancestress to kings; a young girl taken captive and entrusted with saving the life of her captor’s king — these and other historical female symbols of strength and faith will be the topic of discussion during the Sunday morning session of this year’s annual convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses, themed “Powerful by Faith!”