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INDIO - A 47-year-old man who may be the ''Desperate Bandit,'' blamed for nine bank robberies in Riverside, Orange and San Bernardino counties, was behind bars today. Michael Patrick Downing of Chino Hills was stopped on westbound Interstate 10 between Washington and Cook streets in a white Toyota Corolla used in a robbery of a 1st Bank branch in Indio, Ben Guitron of the Indio Police Department said. Downing is suspected of robbing the 1st Bank branch in the 82-900 block of Avenue 42. The robbery was reported about 11:35... Full story
WOODCREST - A Riverside man was killed in predawn rollover crash in Woodcrest today. The motorist was identified as Jason Chamberlin, 41. Reports from the Riverside County fire department and the coroner said his pickup truck hit a stop sign and rolled at the intersection of Van Buren Boulevard and Whispering Spur Street. No estimate of the pickup truck's speed was given. Chamberlin was apparently not wearing seat belts but was not ejected from the vehicle, the coroner's office reported. Chamberlin died at the wreck less...
RIVERSIDE - UC Riverside officials have fired back at an internet magazine that posted an article claiming that the UCR campus is one of ''The 25 Most-Dangerous Colleges In America.'' UC Riverside, which was ranked number 24, joined sister school UCLA in filing objections to the article in ''Business Insider,'' a web site that will now appear on internet searches all over the world. ''An intentionally-inflammatory headline is now being widely- disseminated,'' UCR spokeswoman Kris Lovekin complained in a statement. The...