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A California mayor is suing her own city for $7.5million – and is still running for re-election. Deborah Robertson, 73, has been mayor of Rialto, a city of a little over 100,000 people east of Los Angeles, since 2012. City documents show she filed three separate claims last year alleging age and racial discrimination, invasion of privacy and improper handling of her retirement fund, with a total liability she estimated at $7,482,000.

This occurred at a city council meeting recently in Rialto, California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCJ4AoJzu-I&app=desktop

A 22-year-old man was charged Wednesday with attempted murder and a hate crime after police say he beat a man in Rialto with a baseball bat out of a desire to hurt someone who is not African American. The attack was “unprovoked” and “anyone who was not black was a target,” Stella said. Barron remains hospitalized in grave condition, Stella said. The attack has left him paralyzed and comatose due to extensive brain injuries, according to the criminal complaint against Bell filed by the San Bernardino County district attorney’s office.

RIALTO: Holocaust assignment prompts Museum of Tolerance visits Eighth-graders in Rialto Unified School District, who were assigned in February to argue whether the Holocaust really happened, now will take a field trip to the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, the school board decided Wednesday evening, May 7. Board President Joanne T. Gilbert read a joint statement for the board announcing the field trip after a closed-door session. Earlier, eight speakers protested the assignment that asked eighth-graders to write an essay about whether the Holocaust occurred or if it was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and...

Rialto Unified School District called this “an exercise in critical thinking” for eighth-graders… This middle school tasked its eighth-graders to study whether the [Holocaust] worst genocide of the 20th century actually happened, or whether it was a myth designed for “political and monetary gain.” It also sent students to an Australian Holocaust-denier website for one of its principal sources. Anti-Defamation League considered whether Common Core standards are to blame… “ADL does not have any evidence that the assignment was given as part of a larger, insidious, agenda,” the blog post read. “Rather, the district seems to have given the assignment...

A former Rialto school district accountant who was allegedly captured on video stuffing lunch money into her bra has been charged with embezzling $1.8 million over the past eight years. San Bernardino County prosecutors on Tuesday filed 16 felony counts, including embezzlement and falsifying records, against 48-year-old Judith Oakes. She was arrested in August but later released on $50,000 bail. An arrest warrant has been issued for Oakes, who is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday. Oakes handled deposits of student lunch money into a district bank account. Her arrest followed an investigation into missing funds. A school district audit found...

A school district accountant has been arrested and accused of embezzling $1.8 million over an eight-year period by stuffing lunch money into her bra, it emerged today. Judith Oakes, 48, was charged with multiple felony counts in relation to the theft at Rialto Unified School District. An investigator said the total may be closer to $3 million. She was arrested in August after she was twice caught on camera stealing money and hiding it in her underwear, police said. She will be arraigned tomorrow. The mother-of-three - who was paid almost $80,000 a year as an accountant with the district’s...

RIALTO - Police have dismantled a major heroin ring they say distributed the drug across the Inland Empire and Los Angeles and Orange counties. Seven men and three women, all Mexican nationals, were behind bars Thursday on suspicion of running the drugs out of two homes, one in the 300 block of South Forest Avenue and the other in the 600 block of East Carter Street. Narcotics detectives served search warrants at the two residences and made the arrests Tuesday and Wednesday, seizing a half pound of the drug with an estimated street value of $10,000 in the process, said...

RIALTO - Like a Trojan horse rolling into an unsuspecting camp, an average U-Haul truck packed with heavily-armed SWAT officers led a multi-agency incursion into one of the city's most crime-laden neighborhoods. During "Operation Lucky Charms," a St. Patrick's Day sweep of East Jackson Street, police arrested 29 people and seized 13.5 pounds of marijuana, 2.5 ounces of crack cocaine and eight firearms, according to Lt. Tony Farrar. Led by Rialto police and SWAT officers, the six-agency collaborative included San Bernardino and Colton SMASH units and comprised a total force of about 75 officers. The 7 a.m. sweep Friday was...

Our undying devotion to simultaneous movie releases has earned us a small share of hate mail over the years, especially from folks in the movie theater business. Our complaining about the crowds, the inconvenience, and most importantly, the cost really gets on their nerves. They make all manner of excuses for what goes on in theaters. The high prices of concessions, we're told, stems from two factors. First, they say, movie theater employees earn more on average than your man at McDonald's, so you shouldn't expect the price to compare with Chez McDo. More importantly, they claim that the movie...