Riverside County

Powerful winds have pushed flames through Southern California canyons as an out-of-control wildfire burns near homes, forcing residents to flee

DNA evidence helped authorities identify and arrest an Eastvale man suspected of raping a young woman more than two decades ago, police announced Friday.

“These two seizures are more than enough to provide a dose of meth for every man, women and child in the United States and Mexico,” said DEA Acting Administrator Timothy Shea.

The family of a 13-year-old says he complained to an administrator that he was being bullied at his Southern California middle school days before the assault that was caught on cellphone video that killed him.

Firefighters were beginning to make progress against the 15,000-acre Apple Fire today, achieving 12% containment in Cherry Valley, where the blaze charred at least one home and was threatening dozens more.

The Apple Fire continued to grow on Monday morning with officials confirming over 26,000 acres have been burned in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf was arrested Friday afternoon in Palm Desert, California, for suspicion of misdemeanor domestic battery. Leaf, 44, was arrested about 2 p.m. on Grapevine Street in Palm Desert, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The exact location was not released. Leaf was booked for domestic battery and held at the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility…

A father who allegedly tossed his 1-year-old daughter to her death from a cliff after stabbing a passerby attempting to rescue her from a car crash on Highway 74 was behind bars Friday on suspicion of murder. Adam Slater, 49, of Palm Desert was arrested Thursday night following a short stay at a local hospital where he was treated for…

A Cal Fire airplane dropped fire retardant on a fire that has burned 2,000 acres and caught an NBC 7 reporter by surprise while he was reporting on live television.

Body camera footage released Tuesday shows the tense moments a Utah state trooper spotted a kidnapping suspect’s van on Interstate 15 in Cedar City, where the lawman conducted a traffic stop and encountered the suspect, two other adults, and the victims.

A utility worker was killed and 15 other people were injured Monday in a natural gas line explosion and fire that reduced a Murrieta home to charred rubble.

An F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday into a warehouse just outside March Air Reserve Base in California, sending a dozen people to hospitals for evaluation after they were exposed to debris, authorities said.

Thirty-eight dogs were confiscated Monday evening from a suspected puppy dumper’s home in Riverside County, animal services said.

A Southern California home where authorities say a couple tortured most of their 13 children has been sold in an online auction.

A 69-year-old man was arrested in Thermal for possessing hundreds of pounds of lemons allegedly stolen from a nearby farm, a sheriff’s sergeant said Saturday.

A 22,158-acre wildfire allegedly set by an arsonist has forced the evacuation of more than 7,400 homes and destroyed about a dozen buildings as it rampaged through dry brush and into a Riverside County neighborhood.

Prosecutors are expected to make their case Wednesday against a Southern California couple accused of starving and shackling some of their 13 children.

A black-and-white photo displayed on a courtroom wall Monday provided a stark reminder of how much had changed in Robert Durst’s life over nearly four decades.

A California judge who sentenced two men to life in prison for murder was secretly recorded during the trial calling them “a——s” and “clowns” and saying that he planned to make a ruling that would help the prosecution, a newspaper reported.

A California couple charged with torturing their children by starving, beating and shackling them is now facing additional charges in connection with the case.