In Riverside, the deadline for filing to run for city council in the even numbered wards has passed and the candidates for better or worse have been listed. Which means the city's now past the "put up or shut up" phase of Election 2009 and is heading on down the campaign trail. Here is a breakdown o...

I don't know, I'm making this up as I go. ---Raiders of the Lost Ark but in Riverside, this statement might have an entirely different meaning. The Riverside Police Department hosted its Community/Police Summit for the Neighborhood Policing Center eastern area at the expansive Orange Terrace Center ...

"I used to think I was a good person." ---Former Atlanta Police Department Officer Gregg Junnier at his sentencing hearing for convictions stemming from his actions in the shooting death of Kathryn Johnston, 92. He was sentenced to six years in federal prison. "If you've done that before that might ...

Riverside's Community Police Review Commission has finally brought its long-missing annual report back from the dusty storage bin into its orbit by placing an item on the agenda for its meeting on Feb. 25 that discusses its upcoming report. It's been ages since the release of a public report and the...

But February made me shiver With every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep; I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried When I read about his widowed bride, But something touched me deep inside The day the music died. ---Don McLean, "America Pie" The day the music died... (Feb...

The Riverside City Council held its weekly meeting and voted to freeze its salaries, keep Greyhound downtown until June 30 and to enforce zone changes in one city neighborhood upsetting property owners there. The budget picture in the city of Riverside has looked pretty bleak during the past several...

***UPDATE*** Former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle has been arrested by police in connection with the fatal onduty shooting of Oscar Grant. In the past few months, I have begun the task of checking the city's police facilities, community centers and libraries for the availability of complaint forms ...

Over 150 people appeared at the Kansas Avenue Seventh Day Adventist Church to memorialize the 10th anniversary of the officer-involved shooting death of Tyisha Miller. About a dozen speakers from different parts of one of Riverside's most significant chapters spoke on where Riverside was 10 years ag...

“The interview of Officer Goodrich was so replete with leading questions and ‘questions’ which misstated prior testimony of Officer Goodrich that it raised questions in the minds of the panel members as to what was actually the subject officer’s version of the occurrence (as opposed to the i...

Over 30 people attended a candlelight vigil at the Riverside Police Department's Orange Street Station in response to recent shooting incidents in the Eastside neighborhood including one on Dec. 14 which claimed the lives of Salvador Gilbert Soliz, 18 and Ramiro Sanchez, 16 at a party on Enterprise ...