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  • Freeze warning will remain in effect

    Updated Jan 12, 2013

    RIVERSIDE - A freeze warning will remain in effect overnight for Riverside County valleys, the National Weather Service announced. The warning will continue until 8 a.m. Sunday Temperatures will be below freezing overnight in many areas, with lows from 22 to 28 degrees in the coldest valleys, according to the National Weather Service. It will be even colder tomorrow night, with a hard freeze likely, with lows from 20 to 26 in the4 coldest valleys. Elevated terrain and mountain passes may be several degrees warmer. Sensitive...

  • Second bald eagle count of the winter doesn't disappoint volunteers, biologists

    Updated Jan 12, 2013

    LAKE HEMET - Frosty weather did nothing to deter a pair of adult bald eagles from adding to their nest today in Lake Hemet or being seen at Lake Perris, according to local federal and state biologists and volunteers. Twelve of the bald eagles, nine adult and three juvenile, were observed Saturday during the hour-long second bald eagle count of the winter. At Lake Perris, one adult and one juvenile bald eagle, were seen. Juvenile bald eagles have a brown head and tail while the adult bald eagle is distinguished by a famous...

  • Safety tips to reduce risk of carbon monoxide poisoning

    Updated Jan 12, 2013

    SAN DIEGO - As the temperatures drop, San Diego Gas & Electric is reminding customers about important safety tips to reduce the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. Symptoms of CO poisoning can include nausea, headaches, paralysis and even death. SDG&E wants its customers to remember the following tips to help prevent CO poisoning: -- Never use a gas oven, portable barbeque or range for space heating. -- Carbon monoxide poisoning can occur as a result of a poorly ventilated heater or a CO leak from another source. Have natural...

  • Retired police officer from Winchester convicted of killing 20-year-old to be sentenced

    Updated Jan 12, 2013

    VISTA - A retired police drunken driving investigator from Winchester, who drove drunk and killed a 20-year-old Perris man on Interstate 15 near Rainbow, faces up to nine years in state prison today. Katherine Ann Heinzel, 51, was convicted last year of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the Nov. 19, 2011, collision that killed Davieonne Dwayne Kelly. She was sentenced Friday in Vista. The defendant is a retired Newport Beach police officer who lives in Winchester, in Riverside County. In her career, she worked...

  • Authorities say no criminal charges will be filed against owner of dogs involved in Fallbrook woman's death

    Updated Jan 12, 2013

    Law enforcement authorities said yesterday (Friday, January 11) that no criminal charges will be filed against the owner of dogs that were involved in the death of a Fallbrook woman on November 11, 2012, however, five of the eight dogs at the scene of the death have been euthanized. "As a result of the investigation it appears that this was a very tragic accident and as such no criminal charges are being filed by the department," said Lt. Harold Holmes of the Dept. of Animal Services, San Diego County. Killed in the incident...

  • Temps expected to fall below freezing again tonight

    Updated Jan 12, 2013

    SAN DIEGO - Temperatures that could fall below freezing, and plant- damaging frost were expected again tonight in parts of San Diego County, forecasters said. Freeze warnings were in effect for the valleys and deserts and a frost advisory was in effect in coastal areas that were scheduled to extend until 8 a.m. Sunday, the National Weather Service reported. ''Many areas will experience frost and freezing temperatures again tonight. Sensitive plants may be damaged or killed,'' according to the NWS. ''Downtown San Diego and...

  • Sheriff's investigators seek public's help locating suspects in commercial burglaries in Idyllwild and Garner Valley

    Updated Jan 12, 2013

    IDYLLWILD - Riverside sheriff's investigators were seeking the public's help today in locating suspects involved in a series of commercial burglaries in the communities of Idyllwild and Garner Valley. The robberies began in late October and have continued through Friday, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. The suspects, striking in the early morning hours, have targeted businesses in downtown Idyllwild and a market in Garner Valley, according to the sheriff's department. Unspecified details of the crimes... Full story