Riverside County

A longtime retired truck driver, Douglas Thomas, was charged with the 1993 murder of Sherri Herrera by the Riverside County District Attorney’s office. He was currently in custody in Texas awaiting prosecution in another woman’s 1992 slaying.

A Perris foster care couple and their adult daughter accused of abusing two girls rescued from a home they say their parents had turned into a prison for them and their siblings pleaded not guilty Friday to felony charges.

A Southern California woman killed in 1977 has been identified by a cold case team, after skeletal remains found in 1986 were identified this week as those of a missing Riverside woman.

Surveillance video in an Inland Empire salon captured an unusual sight: a burglar slithering around on his belly through the entire business in order to pocket thousands in cash.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Grant Nikoui, one of two Riverside County servicemen killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan, was honored at a funeral attended by thousands of people in Riverside Saturday.

An 18-year-old woman was killed and a 19-year-old man was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries in a shooting late Monday at a movie theater in a shopping and entertainment complex in Corona.

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

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.

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…

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.

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.