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Articles from the November 4, 2012 edition


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  • Dozens of trucks, 60 workers fly to New York to assist with Hurricane damage

    Updated Nov 4, 2012

    PERRIS - Three dozen trucks and 60 workers from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power were being loaded into gigantic military aircraft today, to fly to New York to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The crews will assist the Long Island Power Authority with power restoration in the suburbs east of New York City. More than 400,000 Long Island customers remained without power as of Saturday night, the DWP said in a statement. At midmorning, the trucks were at March Air Reserve Base near Moreno Valley, and...

  • Bystander, off-duty sheriff's deputies pull man from fiery I-15 crash

    Updated Nov 4, 2012

    ESCONDIDO - Bystanders and off-duty sheriff's deputies were credited with saving a trapped man from being burned inside a sedan hit in a fiery chain reaction crash on Interstate 15 in Escondido, fire and California Highway Patrol officials said today. The fire may have been caused when a truck hit a stopped sedan, authorities said. CHP reports said a 47-year-old Escondido man was driving a 2008 Freightliner flatbed truck at between 45 and 55 miles per hour headed south in the... Full story

  • Supervisors Oppose Proposition Mandating 'Genetically Engineered' Food Labels

    Updated Nov 4, 2012

    RIVERSIDE - A majority of Riverside County supervisors will be rooting Tuesday for the defeat of Proposition 37, which one supervisor described as a ''job killer'' measure and threat to local farming operations. In a 4-0 vote -- with Supervisor Bob Buster abstaining -- the Board of Supervisors voiced opposition last month to the ''Genetically-Engineered Foods Labeling Initiative.'' ''My farming interests in the Coachella Valley, a multibillion-dollar industry, are not pleased and are scared to death of this initiative,''...

  • Majority of supervisors working to defeat Prop 30

    Updated Nov 4, 2012

    RIVERSIDE - A majority of Riverside County supervisors will be pulling Tuesday for the defeat of Proposition 30, an initiative introduced by Gov. Jerry Brown to hike sales and income taxes to support deficit reduction and state programs. Last month, Supervisor Jeff Stone asked for the Board of Supervisors to take a position on the matter, resulting in he and Supervisors Marion Ashley and John Tavaglione voting to oppose the proposition, while Supervisors Bob Buster and John Benoit declined to take a positions publicly.... Full story

  • Riverside robbers use flowers, balloons to steal $1.5 million in jewelry

    Updated Nov 4, 2012

    RIVERSIDE - Riverside police were reviewing surveillance video today in the hope of identifying two robbers who came into a jewelry store carrying flowers and balloons and left with most of the inventory, which was valued at $1.5 million. The owner of Wholesale Jewelry Exchange was left tied up in his shop at 570 E. La Cadena Drive for nearly three hours after Saturday's roughly 4 p.m. takeover robbery, according to broadcast reports from the scene. His car and cellular telephone, which the robbers took, were found about a... Full story