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A Riverside County inmate sentenced to death was allegedly murdered in a state prison by another inmate, which led to a large mob attack on Friday morning, officials say.

Grammy-nominated musician and former OneRepublic bassist Tim Myers is making the leap from the stage to the political arena with a high-profile challenge to long-serving Republican Rep. Ken Calvert in California’s 41st Congressional District. Myers, a Corona native turned music industry entrepreneur, announced his candidacy Thursday in a video posted on Instagram, setting the stage for one of the most closely watched House races in the 2026 election cycle. “Ken Calvert has been in Washington for 30 years, and all he’s done is make himself millions,” Myers says in the campaign video, filmed in a recording studio. “The status quo...

COACHELLA, Calif. (KABC) -- The Las Vegas man who was arrested with weapons outside a Trump rally in Southern California is suing for alleged defamation following claims from the local sheriff that his deputies thwarted a third assassination attempt against the former president. After the arrest, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said in a press conference and media interviews that deputies who prevented Vem Miller from entering the event in Coachella over the weekend "probably" stopped a "third assassination attempt." Miller denies those claims. The 49-year-old, who is believed to be associated with a "Sovereign Citizens" group, has since been...

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is scheduled to hold a press conference at 3 p.m....6 p.m. EST, regarding the arrest at the Trump rally Saturday night. The press conference will be live-streamed on YouTube, Facebook, and Riverside County Sheriff's website according to the department. It comes after a Las Vegas man was arrested Saturday near the site of former President Donald Trump’s rally in the Coachella Valley, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. A shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine were seized from the vehicle. Officers took the driver into custody without incident and he was booked...

Donald Trump seems to have faced yet another threat to his life when a man presenting fake VIP credentials was taken into custody after a shotgun, high capacity magazine and loaded handgun was found in his vehicle at a rally over the weekend. Local law enforcement claims the incident is 'probably' a third assassination attempt. But a source close to the Trump campaign says the Riverside County Sheriff is mistaken. 'There was no assassination attempt in CA yesterday,' the source told DailyMail.com. 'A man at a perimeter checkpoint had a gun but there was no incident.' Vem Miller, 49, was...

A third assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump was thwarted at the last minute Saturday when local cops stopped a man armed with guns and fake passes outside his rally at Coachella Valley, the local sheriff said. The suspect was caught about a mile from the rally venue with a phony-entry pass, according to police. He was also carrying a loaded shotgun, handgun and high capacity magazine. “We probably stopped another assassination attempt,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said. The suspect, identified as Vem Miller, was intercepted by police at a checkpoint about a half-mile from the rally entrance....

BREAKING: Man arrested near Trump's California rally was armed and tried to use fake VIP pass to enter venue, sheriff says

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department arrested an armed man who allegedly said he wanted to “kill the president” outside the perimeter of a Trump rally on Oct. 12, Sheriff Chad Bianco told The Epoch Times in a text message on Sunday. The rally was held in the city of Coachella in Southern California, 130 miles east of Los Angeles. “We arrested a man trying to get in the perimeter with two firearms who ended up saying he was going to kill the president,” Bianco said in the text. The arrest occurred in the wake of two previous alleged assassination attempts...

Sheriff Chad Bianco has spent a lifetime working in law enforcement — and likely never expected that he’d be rallying behind a felon in a presidential election. During a 30-year career with the sheriff’s office of Riverside County, California — elected to the top spot in 2018 — Bianco has had many different encounters with criminals — and built a national reputation as a law-and-order conservative. However, the felon that Bianco intends to support isn’t the kind of common criminal selling drugs or committing violent offenses that Bianco sees so often in the crime-loving state of California. The convict who...

Wow. University of California Riverside’s “Pretendian Professor” Andrea Smith gets a whole year to resign after getting exposed in another typical ivory tower academia, fake diversity fraud scandal. She also keeps her retirement and the honorary title of emeritus too. What a sweet liars’ deal. No wonder college tuition continues to soar, even at rates higher than inflation. Not to worry … this bad penny will surely turn up again. Perhaps “Professor” Smith ought to toss in her hat for the California U.S. Senate race. As California seems lost in a left-wing progressive doom loop race to the bottom with...

A Temecula mother has complained that her 15-year-old daughter was made to read a sexually explicit play in drama class and is calling for a policy to prevent such instances in the future. Tracy Nolasco said her daughter, a Temecula Valley High School sophomore, had to read “Angels in America,” a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tony Kushner. The play, set in New York City in 1985, explores the AIDS epidemic as well as religion, race, politics, and homosexuality. Nolasco on Tuesday night, May 16, told the Temecula Valley school board that the drama describes sexual activity, sexual...

A California man was recently found guilty of killing three teenage boys who played ding-dong ditch at his house in 2020. Riverside County resident Anurag Chandra was found guilty of three counts of attempted murder and three counts of first-degree murder on Friday. The charges stemmed from a January 19, 2020 incident where a group of teenage boys rang Chandra’s bell on a dare. Chandra said that one of the teens flashed his buttocks before running away.

Inflation is impacting the entire United States population as prices continue to be a burden for families, but certain California cities are feeling the impact more than others. In a new study from WalletHub, cities were ranked on how much inflation is rising. The study pointed to the year-over-year inflation rate of 8.2% last month, but noted that some cities are feeling costs increase more than others. In the report, 23 Metropolitan Statistical Areas were examined. The site looked at the Consumer Price Index information available for the most recent month and compared it to two months ago and one...

Fortunately, no one was hurt. The crash-landing happened at 12:31 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of the freeway near Lincoln Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol. Dramatic video obtained by KTLA shows the single-engine Piper Cherokee dropping from the sky, hitting the freeway, and then leaving a trail of burning fuel as it slides toward the sound barrier. The plane also hit a truck carrying three people. Incredibly, both the pilot and passenger on the plane and all three occupants in the truck escaped unharmed.

A California judge on Thursday denied an appeal for qualified immunity from a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department sergeant who is accused of shooting and killing a man with excessive force. Nearly every key detail of the years-long case against the sergeant and the county is disputed, including whether the man was retreating from the property at the time of the shooting; whether he was holding a baseball bat in an upright position or with its tip pointed down; and whether he posed a threat to bystanders. Sgt. Dan Ponder contends that the man, Clemente Najera-Aguirre, stood facing him as he...

...Just days after 13 American flags were vandalized in Riverside County, more than two dozen more have now gone missing....The community is now fighting back by buying more flags. ... a local resident had hung 13 American flags honoring the sacrifice of the 13 US service members who were killed last month during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. There was also a US Marine Corps flag, but all of them were vandalized over Labor Day weekend. In response, another family replaced the 13 American flags, which inspired others to place 13 more flags on the fence across Ivy Street. But just...

A California physician delivered a passionate speech condemning the coronavirus lockdowns imposed across America, calling them 'tyrannical.'Dr. Jeffrey Barke, who cited the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, received praised after he spoke during a protest rally in Riverside County.Barke addressed the crowd protesting against the shutdowns in his community and across the US.

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 on Friday to rescind and amend a series of local public health orders stricter than California's statewide pandemic mandates. The unanimous decision moves the county a step closer to reopening. It rescinds Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser's orders that limited vacation rentals and golf and mandated face-coverings in public throughout the county. The motion ultimately voted on amends Kaiser's school closure order, mandating most schools throughout the county remain closed until mid-June, but exempting vocational and higher education institutions. . . .

Riverside County, Calif. Sheriff Chad Bianco said Friday that he refuses to make criminals out of law-abiding business owners exercising their constitutional rights and providing for their families. A video of Bianco pleading his case before his county's Board of Supervisors, stating he would not enforce local coronavirus lockdown protocol, went viral on Tuesday. Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with host Steve Doocy, Bianco explained that the "situation" in Riverside County under state orders is "nothing like they told us it was going to be in the beginning."

Over the past three weeks, more than 1,000 small earthquakes have hit Southern California — mostly in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Some are calling the region’s increased seismic activity “swarmageddon,” but seismologist Lucy Jones told the Los Angeles Times that the small quakes don’t mean the big one is more or less likely. According to Jones, there’s only a 5% chance that any single quake will be followed by a larger one.