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Scammers pretend to be the FTC

Scammers pretend to be the FTC

ByIdyllwild Town Crier

By Monica Vaca FTC associate director, Consumer Response and Operations Did you recently get an official FTC letter from “me?” That’s in quotes because it wasn’t actually from me, and the letter wasn’t official, or even from the FTC. In fact, scammers have been faking official-looking letterhead to write scary messages to people, threatening them….

Referendum approved to confirm or repeal cash bail system

ByJP Crumrine

In August 2018, former Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 10, which would have eliminated California’s cash bail system and replaced it with a pre-trial assessment program. It effectively eliminated the use of cash to secure release from jail prior to trial. Less than five months later, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, California Secretary of State…

Expect La Niña to return

ByJP Crumrine

Below normal rainfall? To be sure, Halloween is next week and Thanksgiving is coming quickly. But the National Weather Service’s winter 2017-18 forecast is not supposed to be an “April Fool’s Joke.” According to the NWS, “La Niña potentially emerging for the second year in a row as the biggest wildcard in how this year’s…

Redistricting leaning to move mountain into District 4

Redistricting leaning to move mountain into District 4

ByJP Crumrine

With the recently released U.S. Census data for 2020, the Riverside County Executive Office Technical Redistricting Committee has released four maps of possible revised supervisorial boundaries. In all four maps, Idyllwild and its neighboring Hill communities will be shifted to District 4, which is essentially the desert cities — Palm Desert and Palm Springs east…

Judge Strunsky wants to move from bench to prosecution again

Judge Strunsky wants to move from bench to prosecution again

ByJP Crumrine

A sitting judge, Burke Strunsky, is one of two challengers to the third term for incumbent Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin. (Strunsky has taken a leave of absence while campaigning.)The 49-year-old jurist has sat on the Riverside County Superior Court since 2017. But most of his professional career has been at the prosecutor’s table…

RUHS Medical Center verified as the only Level-1 Trauma Center in Riverside County

RUHS Medical Center verified as the only Level-1 Trauma Center in Riverside County

ByIdyllwild Town Crier

By Riverside CountyContributed The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT) awarded Riverside University Health System Medical Center (RUHS-MC) Level-1 Trauma Center verification, constituting RUHS-MC as the only trauma center in Riverside County with this verification from the ACS-COT.This recognition certifies that the medical center provides the highest quality of trauma care from initial…