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A California school superintendent has been fired just days after his district was ordered to pay $27 million to the family of a boy who was beaten to death by bullies. The Moreno Valley Unified School District Board of Education voted to fire Dr. Martinrex Kedziora after a three-hour meeting behind closed doors. Kedziora had served as the superintendent of the district since 2017 and was ousted on a vote of 3-2, just a week after the district paid out $27 million to the family of Diego Stolz. Stolz, 13, died in September 2019 days after being punched in the...

by Joshua Ford | 24News33-year-old suspect Joseph A. Ortega was shot around midnight by a 93-year-old southern California homeowner named Joe Teague.Teague fired his shotgun once, hitting one of the suspects. Ortega was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and later died.Teague is not facing any charges.Speaking to the local news outlet KNBC, Teague said a group of people consisting of “ladies and men” had “kicked the door open.”“The big guy, he came at me,” Teague explained, adding that the rest of the group “started throwing objects that [were] in the house at me.”“When they broke in, they...

A fighter jet has crashed into a warehouse at March Air Reserve Base in the Moreno Valley area, authorities said Thursday. Riverside County firefighters requested a full hazardous materials response because the aircraft was loaded with ordnance...

One of the nation's largest neo-Nazi groups appears to have an unlikely new leader: a black activist who has vowed to dismantle it. Court documents filed Thursday suggest James Hart Stern wants to use his new position as director and president of the National Socialist Movement to undermine the Detroit-based group's defense against a lawsuit. The NSM is one of several extremist groups sued over bloodshed at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Stern's filing asks a federal court in Virginia to issue a judgment against the group before one of the lawsuits goes to trial. Stern replaced...

Sabine Durden had almost lost hope. Her son Dominic, a dispatcher with the Moreno Valley Sheriff's Department, was killed by an illegal immigrant who was an unregistered driver with two previous DUIs. Yet, NOBODY in Washington would listen to her. "A week BEFORE (Donald Trump) announced his candidacy, I was so depressed," Durden told Breitbart. "No one cared about our stories, no one talked about my permanently separated family. I had no more family here, and I contemplated suicide. Donald Trump saved my life." That's why the mother went to last Wednesday's Trump rally in Anaheim, California, with a picture...

Jurors decided the fate of a 41-year-old man Friday who murdered and lit his former girlfriend on fire in front of her children. According to the Riverside County District Attorney's Office, jurors decided Tyrone Harts, of Riverside, will be sentenced to death early next year ... At the time of the murder, the children ranged in ages from six to 15-years-old. On Feb. 21, 2011, Harts shot his former girlfriend, Brandi Morales, inside of her Moreno Valley home she shared with her six children ...

MORENO VALLEY Three people, including two Mexican nationals, were arrested on drug charges after authorities said they seized 65 pounds of cocaine and 43 pounds of methamphetamine worth a combined $3.7 million. Ramon Medina, 36, Pedro Medina, 39, both of Mexico, and Sylvia Payan, 39, of Moreno Valley were arrested late Thursday when authorities raided a house in this Riverside County community, sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez said. Payan's four children, all under 10 years old, were home during the raid. They were taken into child protective custody, Gutierrez said. The three suspects were jailed on $1 million bail each for...