Pups learn snake safety
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Photo by Steven King
Vista Grande Hotshot Brent Witham, who was killed Aug. 2, while working on the Lolo Peak Fire in Montana, is coming home Monday, Aug. 7. Witham will be escorted home from Montana to his family, arriving at the San Bernardino air tanker base about 3:00 p.m. He will be escorted the entire way by Forest…
At approximately 10:15 a.m. on Friday, April 27 Sheriff’s Department Hemet deputies arrested suspect Ron Kimmerle on suspicion of felony burglary.Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station deputies conducted a warrant search of several cabins in the 25000 block of Laurel Drive in Pine Cove. A team of deputies in two marked and two unmarked cars…
Another Riverside County Grand Jury investigation of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District was reported in the Jan. 2 issue of the Town Crier. The IFPD commission on Tuesday, Jan. 28, discussed its concerns with the report’s preparation without addressing its own recommendations. This is the fourth Grand Jury report involving IFPD since 2008. Commissioners Rhonda…
Around 8:40 am. on Saturday, Dec. 29 a Riverside County Sheriff’s community service officer stopped to give assistance to an injured man on Highway 74, east of Strawberry Creek, between Mountain Center and East Hemet. The man reported he had been fueling his car at a station on Chicago and Florida around 5:30 a.m. when…
Two collisions occurred on Highway 243 over the last two weeks both including left-hand turns, according to California Highway Patrol (CHP) Public Information Officer Matt Napier. On July 15 at 5:02 p.m., Fay Lynn Rosinsniffen, 64 of Idyllwild, was stopped in her white 1995 Ford Explorer on the shoulder of Highway 243 north of Saunders…
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck the Hill just before 10 a.m. Monday, March 11. Initially reported as a 5.2 quake by the United States Geological Survey, the temblor was preceded by 6 foreshocks, the largest of which was a 2.7 magnitude at 10:36 a.m. The quake was centered 12.4 miles east southeast of Anza, at…