5 Most Dangerous Drunk Driving States

While the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) latest report shows that overall drunk driving fatalities were down from 2013 to 2014, alcohol-impaired-driving crashes still claimed almost 10,000 lives that year. And while drunk driving is a nation-wide problem, some states have it worse than others. A deeper dive into......

Top 3 Legal Questions for Handling a Traffic Stop

Traffic stops are quite common and every driver needs to know how to handle them well. Even if you did not do anything wrong, you can end up with a criminal charge if your encounter with police goes awry. And your encounter will go awry if you give police......

VOLLEYBALL: CBU's men's conference cut in half

The Big West is adding men's volleyball as its 18th official sport beginning with the 2018 season. What that means for Cal Baptist's men's program -- and the conference in which it currently resides, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation -- remains...

ALEXANDER: Vista Murrieta's Michael Norman is in demand

Vista Murrieta's boys 4x400 relay team had just finished winning the final event at Friday night's CIF Masters meet in Norwalk, and Parris Samaniego, Cole Dubots, Ricky Adams and Michael Norman were walking the field to cool down.Then a pair of...

ALEXANDER: Michael Norman is in demand

Vista Murrieta's boys 4x400 relay team had just finished winning the final event at Friday night's CIF Masters meet in Norwalk, and Parris Samaniego, Cole Dubots, Ricky Adams and Michael Norman were walking the field to cool down.
Then a pair of...

RACING: Rookie Alexander Rossi wins 100th running of Indy 500

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An American took the Andretti family to victory lane in the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500.
It just wasn't the driver anyone expected.
Alexander Rossi was the surprising winner of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing”...

DODGERS: Urias reportedly headed back to AAA

Well, that was quick.
Julio Urias, the Dodgers' 19-year-old wunderkind who was roughed up in his major league debut against the Mets Friday night in New York, has been sent back down to Class AAA Oklahoma City according to reports.
Fanatics Network...

Controversial Louisiana Law Makes Targeting Police a Hate Crime

A new law in Louisiana makes it a hate crime to target law enforcement and emergency personnel. The bill making these professions a protected class -- dubbed Blue Lives Matter -- was reportedly proposed in response to the Black Lives Matter movement criticizing police brutality in the black community. It is the......

MEN'S GOLF: UCR's Lutz shoots 77 in 1st round of NCAAs

UC Riverside golfer Matt Lutz had a rough back-9 in Friday's opening round of the NCAA Division I golf championships, finishing with a 7-over 77 at the Eugene Country Club in Eugene, Ore.
Lutz was 1-over after a birdie on the par-4 ninth hole, but...

Are Cell Phones Likely to Ignite at Gas Pumps?

The Federal Communications Commission has issued a warning to cell phone users ... but it's based on rumors. The agency said that it has received alerts and heard accounts circulating of cell phone batteries sparking and starting fires at gas stations. There are no confirmed reports, and the agency......

MORENO VALLEY: City council may do financial audit

Moreno Valley city officials may audit their financial practices following a councilman's call for a review and the discovery that an error led to council members being overpaid health benefits for almost a decade.
The City Council unanimously...

Top 5 Reckless Driving Issues

The dangers of driving are many and you must pay close attention when you're on the road. Not only do you risk serious injury or even death when you're distracted, but there is also the possibility of being stopped by the cops and being charged with a traffic infraction......

JIM'S MINUTE: Padres' anthem flub could've been easily avoided

Now that the Padres' controversy over an unfortunate National Anthem snafu with the San Diego Gay Men's Chorus seems to have died down, there's still one nagging unanswered question ...
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ALEXANDER: An unexpected hero knocks out Cal Baptist

RIVERSIDE-It is, under normal circumstances, one of the most clichéd questions that can be asked of an athlete: “How did it feel?”Yet we had to ask Monday afternoon. When you're a sophomore who normally doesn't hit home runs, and you've...

Arresting Officer in Freddie Gray Case Found Not Guilty

Baltimore policeman Edward Nero, implicated in the death of Freddie Gray last year, was found not guilty of all criminal charges. Nero was tried before a judge and is the second officer of six charged to stand trial for Gray's death. But Nero is the first to resolve his......

BONSIGNORE: A look back at some Super Sundays in L.A.

CHARLOTTE - The National Football League is expected to award Los Angeles hosting duties for either Super Bowl LIV (2020) or LV (2021) this week in Charlotte, and for the younger generation of Los Angeles football fans that means a chance to finally...

HOCKEY: Lake Erie 3, Ontario 0 after two

ONTARIO -- The Lake Erie Monsters have a 3-0 lead over the Ontario Reign after two periods of Game 2 of the AHL Western Conference finals tonight at Citizens Business Bank Arena.
Goals by Markus Hannikainen and Lukas Sedlak just 12 seconds apart...

WILDOMAR: Retail center targeted for Clinton Keith

More commercial development would pop up on Wildomar's Clinton Keith Road corridor if a plan facing the Planning Commission on Wednesday attains approval. The commissioners are scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, at City Hall, 23873...

HOCKEY: Live tweeting Game 1, Reign-Lake Erie

ONTARIO -- Game 1 of the AHL Western Conference Finals, between the Ontario Reign and the Lake Erie Monsters -- the Cleveland-based farm club of the Columbus Blue Jackets -- begins at 8 p.m., thanks to a pair of graduation ceremonies during the day...

HILLARY CLINTON: UCR 'very excited' about candidate's visit Tuesday (UPDATE 2)

UPDATE 2: 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 21
Updates comments from UC Riverside spokesman James Grant
The Inland Empire is getting its first visit from a 2016 presidential candidate and members of the public will have a chance to attend.
Hillary Clinton...

BASEBALL: No nerves or jitters; just a playoff win for Murrieta Mesa

MURRIETA --- For most of Friday afternoon, Murrieta Mesa's baseball team played it cool. There wasn't the wide-eyed anxiety one might expect from a team in the postseason for the very first time.
Then perhaps the coolest of customers for the...

Repo Gone Wrong Ends in Manslaughter Charges

Would you die to save your car from a repo agent? That is what happened this week when a woman in Pleasant Grove, Utah crashed her vehicle during a high speed chase - she was trying to get away from a man who came to her door to repossess the......

CORONA: Stickers to speed 911 responses

Every year, Corona firefighters arrive at emergencies that are complicated by a lack of information.
Firefighter Jamie Pirritano offered the example of a child hit by a car while biking home from school. First responders often don't know the...

TRACK & FIELD: Michael Teran gets career back on track at SBVC

SAN BERNARDINO – Every outstanding distance runner has those key moments that define a career.
Winning that first race. Finishing strong when you're dead tired. Beating top competitors when no one thought you could.
Michael Teran has done it all....

New Overtime Pay Regulations and Your Business

The Labor Department this week announced the expansion of overtime pay for salaried workers. This is expected to affect millions in the middle class. The Obama Administration hopes the measure will improve pay for people working over 40 hours a week on salaries of up to $47,000. "The middle......

Your Significant Privacy Interest in Your Phone Doesn't End at Border

Your phone now contains more information than ever before, more even than your home, and the courts recognize this. You do have a significant privacy interest in your phone and you can challenge a search of your tech just as you would a search of your car. Two years......

BASKETBALL: Lakers are No. 2 in NBA lottery

NEW YORK – After suffering countless losses that accounted for their worst season in franchise history, the Lakers still have managed to experience good fortune elsewhere.
The Lakers ended with the No. 2 pick Tuesday in the NBA draft lottery, a...

Top 9 Search and Seizure Questions

Now that the FBI has been caught bugging two California courthouses, many people are wondering about the limits of police surveillance. Recording conversations falls under the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures." So what's considered unreasonable? It's been a long time since the Constitution was written, and society......

RIVERSIDE: Poly's Nava aims to speak to peers about life choices

Honored Monday night by the Riverside Sport Hall of Fame for his inspirational story of recovery, Riverside Poly's Josh Nava said the takeaways from the various acceptence speeches sparked his desire to pay it forward.
"I was there with all these...

MUSIC: Grammy-winning Tejano star Emilio Navaira dies in Texas

Grammy-winning Tejano star Emilio Navaira has died in South Texas. He was 53.
Police in New Braunfels said in a statement Tuesday that preliminary results indicate the entertainer died of natural causes.
Officers were dispatched to a home in the city...

Why Did the FBI Bug an Oakland Courthouse?

Last week, the East Bay Express broke news that federal agents placed an array of audio and video surveillances devices in and around the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Alameda County, California. The extent of the surveillance was only revealed after evidence gleaned from recordings was used against a criminal......

MEN'S GOLF: UCR's Lutz leads NCAA regional after first round

UC Riverside sophomore Matt Lutz shot a 6-under 66 on Monday to take the lead after the first round of the NCAA Arizona men's golf regional. Lutz leads Stanford's Franklin Huang and Wake Forest's Paul McBride by one stroke at The Gallery at...

MEN'S GOLF: UCR headed to NCAA regionals with nothing to lose

Rick Todd took his University of Texas El Paso men's golf team to the NCAA regionals three times during his 11 years as coach of the Miners.
Now in his first season as coach at UC Riverside, Todd is again headed to the NCAA regionals but he admits...

RIVERSIDE: Poly football player Josh Nava is a miracle man

There's no doubt that Josh Nava plays for life's miracle team. In fact, he must be a starter.When Josh, 18, suffered a serious head injury during a Riverside Poly High School football game in October, his chances for recovery were uncertain at...

MMA: Awad, Karakhanyan have each other's back in fight game

Although both men were already knee deep in mixed-martial arts careers, it was a mutual acquaintance unrelated to work that brought Georgi Karakhanyan and Saad Awad together in 2008.
The origins of the meeting may be hazy, but the resulting...

Suing for Elderly Slip and Falls

Slip and fall injuries are much more dangerous for the elderly than anyone else and they are, unfortunately, relatively common. The problem is that when an older person falls and breaks a bone, healing occurs more slowly or not at all. A minor fall can mean a major life change......

Is It Illegal to Track People With an App?

Every move you make and every picture you take is posted online, so do you mind if people are tracking you? There are more than a dozen smartphone applications on the market that allow people to spy on you surreptitiously and many more with various tracking abilities requiring your consent.......

TRACK & FIELD: UCR's Tice shows her character during a trying season

RIVERSIDE – The UC Riverside women's track and field team has a strong contingent of throwers. Breana Jemison has the top mark in the shot put heading into this weekend's Big West championships and Vesta Bell, coming off an NCAA Indoor national...

Cedar City Homes

Rich and Gin Bontadelli comprise the Bontadelli ERA Real Estate Team. We can assist with any real estate transaction in Cedar City and surrounding areas. From the first time buyer to the retiree. New construction, existing home purchases, short sale purchases and foreclosures to commercial real estate, we can help with it all.

ALEXANDER: Riverside Sport Hall of Fame gets its mojo back

RIVERSIDE - It is not an easy sell, trying to convince people to support an event that has lain dormant for three years.So in rebooting the Riverside Sport Hall of Fame, which Monday night will welcome its first class of inductees since 2013, Hall...

ENVIRONMENT: Court upholds large desert-to-cities water transfer

Cadiz Inc. won a decisive courtroom victory Tuesday for its plans to transfer ancient groundwater in a remote part of San Bernardino County's Mojave Desert to parts of Orange County and other locations.
California's Fourth Appellate District in...

Miami Police Major's Son Arrested for Suspected Drug Dealing

Dealing drugs is a dangerous business and you can't count on not getting caught. Not even if you are the son of a Miami-Dade Police Department major and have other relatives on the force, and especially not if you leave evidence of your business lying around the house. Last......

ALEXANDER: A successful weekend for Andriese, Wright

The world according to Jim:-- Scripts don't get much better than this. In fact, most screenplays of this nature get sent back to the writer with a “Thanks, but no thanks” note.But it figured, didn't it? Matt Andriese, called up for a Sunday...

KENTUCKY DERBY: Nyquist holds off Exaggerator down stretch to win 142nd Derby

LOUISVILLE, Ky. --- The racing world wondered if there was a worthy successor to last year's Triple Crown champion American Pharoah.
Enter Nyquist.
The bay colt who lacks any distinctive markings won the Kentucky Derby by 1 1/4  lengths on...

Maryland Shootings Suspect in Custody; Is a Federal Agent

Eulalio Tordil, a law enforcement officer with the Federal Protective Service, is in custody following three deadly shootings in Maryland over the last two days. Tordil allegedly shot and killed his wife Thursday evening, then killed two more at two separate mall shootings that also left two injured. The Prince......

MORENO VALLEY: Students get taste of the medical field

oreno Valley high school students interested in a career in the medical field got a taste of the profession as part of the Health Care Job Participation Day at Riverside University Health System in Moreno Valley.
During the event, held April 27 and...

INTERNET: Problems with Frontier hit customers' wallets

It started when Mari Smith couldn't turn on the alarm to her home security system from her phone.
The Lake Elsinore resident, who works in the finance department for a food distributor, has struggled to meet deadlines because of poor Internet...

Corporation Basics: Piercing the Veil and Personal Responsibility

You did your research before going into business, so you know that incorporation protects your personal assets if your business is sued. A corporate officer is not personally liable for the actions of the business, and that is one major reason to incorporate. This protection is called the corporate......

Are You Liable for an Elderly Parent's Car Accident?

You should always respect your elders. But you might also want to fear them on the highway. While our elderly relatives may have a wealth of knowledge and compassion, they don't always make the quickest or best decisions behind the wheel. And as Salon points out, getting older drivers to......

GOLF: UCR holds off Cal Poly for men's Big West title

It had been 11 years since UC Riverside won a Big West men's golf title, but when Brandon Tsujimoto somehow rolled in a 70-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole on Wednesday, coach Rick Todd knew the drought was over.
“You could stand there with 100...

No Editorial Oversight or Staff Means No Liability for Online Publisher

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled late last month that a media company was not responsible for the copyright infringing posts of its freelance writers. If you are running an online business of any kind, creating content, or working with contractors and freelancers, you will find this case......

Misdemeanors Are an Obstacle to Employment in Many States

A misdemeanor on your criminal record is not a bar to most types of employment, or it should not be, and many states have laws that govern how or if employers can consider these. Despite that, a new study reveals that in many states across the country a minor offense......

ALEXANDER: Clearing through post-draft blarney

The world according to Jim:-- News flash: The Chargers are absolutely thrilled about everyone they drafted last weekend. They got all the guys they wanted, and it couldn't worked out any better.Uh, multiply that by 32.Every NFL team gushes about...