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A Mexican citizen was turned over the sheriff’s deputies in Riverside after more than half a million dollars worth of narcotics was discovered, authorities said Thursday. San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents discovered the drugs in a 2012 Ford Focus during a vehicle stop near the Temecula Border Patrol checkpoint around 7 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the agency. The…

It’s rattlesnake season. Here’s what you need to know to keep safe. Tony Shin reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.

After “The Princess Bride” star Cary Elwes was hospitalized after being bitten by a rattlesnake in LA, it started a conversation around what Southern Californians should do to keep safe in “rattlesnake weather.”

When gas prices began to soar last month, the nation also saw an increase in theft related to fuel; from catalytic converter thefts to siphoning to drilling holes into gas tanks. While LA County has began to see drops in these prices, the theft continues all across Southern California and particularly in the Inland Empire.

As gas theft continues throughout SoCal — hitting the Inland Empire especially hard — victims of this crime like Fran Gillette warn everyone to be on the lookout. Tony Shin reports April 8, 2022.

Three armed individuals who allegedly robbed a convenience store in San Diego County and shot a sheriff’s K-9 were apprehended in Riverside County, a San Diego County Sheriff’s Department spokesman said Monday.

A Southern California woman who ran a now-shuttered foster home for severely disabled children has been charged with murder and other felonies while her husband faces charges including lewd conduct and willful harm to a child, prosecutors said.

He’s an Olympic sprinter but Michael Norman hasn’t forgotten where he came from. In fact, Norman went back to Murrieta to give shoes to his youth track team, a moment they will never forget. Fred Roggin shares the story.

The college student opened the store while home due to the pandemic. Tony Shin reported on NBC4 News on Monday, April 19, 2021.

More immigrant asylum seekers continue to arrive in Riverside County, which is why county authorities are now calling for the federal government to intervene.

Real estate prices are skyrocketing in the Inland Empire and experts say the demand is so high, buyers are getting into bidding wars, but how could this be happening during a pandemic with so many people struggling financially. Tony Shin reports for NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on March 26, 2021. 

A murder charge was filed Wednesday against a man accused of killing a 30-year-old Murrieta woman found in a vehicle abandoned at the bottom of a hill in Temecula.

A Riverside County mother is warning others after her 8-year-old son was severely sickened by COVID-19 and had to be hospitalized for nearly a week. “It has the strangest effects on any age, at any time,” said Teresa Carriera, who got COVID-19–along with her husband Javier in mid-February. In addition to Teresa and Javier, the couple’s 8-year-old son Christian...

Most children don’t have severe reactions to COVID-19, but there are exceptions. Tony Shin reported on NBC4 News on Monday, March 1, 2021.

There will be safety changes inside classrooms and to schedules. Tony Shin reported on NBC4 News on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021.

A driver believed to have been street racing was killed when his vehicle went off the 215 Freeway in Murrieta and caught fire, authorities said Friday.

Small businesses are closing and the ones that are still open are fighting to stay open. Tony Shin reported on NBC4 News on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020.

An 88-year-old woman was killed Saturday while standing outside a vehicle that was rear-ended on an Interstate 15 on-ramp in Murrieta.

A roadside stand in Murrieta where customers can shop for Black Lives Matter merchandise has become a target of vandalism, and the owners says of hate as well. “I’ve been this color all my life so abuse has been from a baby to now,” Esther Grant said. Grant says she opened the stand back in June hoping to promote...

A two-strike felon accused of shooting a man in the head over a missing cellphone in Indio must stand trial on an attempted murder charge, a judge ruled Tuesday. John Kevin Medina, 39, of Indio was arrested three days after the March 14 shooting in the 44700 block of King Street and remains in custody at the Southwest Detention Center…