Tonight, July 31, Southern California’s premier tribute to Scandinavian pop sensations ABBA will return to the Butterfield Amphitheater. ABBA LA was the one new addition to the Summer Concert Series during last year’s 25th Anniversary season, and fit well with the Series mission reach all ages and tastes. Singer Laura Bradley told the Town Crier…

By U.S. Forest ServiceContributed A team of scientists from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S. Forest Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced a group of 253 endangered Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs to a remote site on the San Bernardino National Forest…

Stephen Patrick Medlock, 53, a reported transient, charged with arson for igniting the 2013 Silver Fire, had his Sept. 10 felony settlement conference moved to Oct. 18. Since his March 21 preliminary hearing, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office has amended the original formal complaint which was for two felony charges, one for arson of…