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Study suggests steps a planet must go through for complex animal life to arise. Clay made animal life possible on Earth, a UC Riverside-led study finds. A sudden increase in oxygen in the Earth’s recent geological history, widely considered necessary for the expansion of animal life, occurred just as the rate of clay formation on the Earth’s surface also increased, the researchers report. “Our study shows for the first time that the initial soils covering the terrestrial surface of Earth increased the production of clay minerals and provided the critical geochemical processes necessary to oxygenate the atmosphere and support multicellular...

AP) INDIO Authorities seized 31 pounds of black-tar heroin in a bust that one official said was so big it looked like something out of a movie. "In 34 years, I've never seen this large of a heroin seizure," Riverside County Assistant Sheriff John Boyd said after a news conference Thursday. The seizure on Tuesday followed a seven-month operation in the Coachella Valley involving the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Palm Springs and Indio police departments. Agents estimated the heroin's street value at $1.3 million. It was enough for 140,000 to 280,000 doses, said Stephen...

Riverside -- Two 16-year-old girls who were expelled from a private Lutheran high school because they were suspected of being lesbians have sued the school for invasion of privacy and discrimination. The lawsuit, filed last week in Riverside County Superior Court, seeks the girls' re-enrollment at the tiny California Lutheran High School, unspecified damages and an injunction barring the school from excluding gays and lesbians. The suit could be a test case in the state on whether religious schools can deny enrollment to gays and lesbians, said Richard Ackerman, a lawyer who is president of Temecula's Pro-Family Center, which focuses...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - A local school board will ask a newly elected member to resign because he is a convicted felon and is in prison. The board of the Romoland School District voted Tuesday to take steps to ensure that Randy L. Hale doesn't take the seat he won last month while serving time for violating parole. He has convictions for robbery, burglary, domestic abuse and drug possession that date to the mid-1980s. If Hale refuses to resign, the district could contest the election and file a lawsuit asking a court to decide Hale's election status. Hale did not...

A PROTEST WARRIOR EVENT: OPERATION RIVERSIDE RED SMASHER DATE: 12/10/2005 SUBMITTED BY: DogByte6RER CHAPTER: Inland Empire, California STATUS: In Progress DESCRIPTION: Operation Riverside Red Smasher Date - Saturday, December 10, 2005 Time - 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm Location - 3535 Tyler Street, Riverside, California 92503 The Marxist moonbats at the Riverside Area Peace Justice Action (RAPJA) nutgroup are at it again. On Saturday, Dec. 10, RAPJA will be holding an "anti-war" protest near the Galleria, on Tyler street in Riverside. According to their website (www.rapja.org): "We will assemble at the corner of Tyler and the entrance to the 'Galleria',...

Merck announced Tuesday it will sell its plant in Riverside as part of a world-wide restructuring plan. Workers at the plant were told of the plan Tuesday morning. Company officials said Merck hopes to pull out of the Riverside plant, also known as the Cherokee plant, and sell the facility by 2008. The announcement comes one day after the company said it will close five of its 31 plants and cut 7,000 jobs system wide. "I understand the impact this announcement will have on your and your community and I can assure you that we are committed to doing everything...

A Riverside man has been incurring the ire of businesses he has named on a Web site that purports to out alleged employers of undocumented workers. Jason Mrochek, a 30-year-old software developer, said he hasn't been sued over his Web site, www.WeHireAliens.com The site lists 200-plus companies, some of which are in San Diego County. On the site, he invites people from around the country to post complaints about specific companies, from large corporations to mom-and-pop businesses. Also posted are addresses, phone numbers, corporate logos and even photographs in some cases. "We have been dealing with people calling up and...

This is an update for today's scheduled counter-protest of the Riverside Area Peace Justice Action (RAPJA) group. For more info about RAPJA go to: http://www.rapja.org The counter-rally is ON and we will be meeting at Iowa and University in Riverside at 5:30 pm. Area College Republicans and GOP clubs will be on-site as well as ProtestWarrior.com members. In addition, I will be crashing another peacenik rally in nearby Hemet this afternoon from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. This gathering is put on by the Hemet Neighbors for Peace. Link to their site at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HemetPeace/ The following is a forwarded e-mail...

Reprinted from EMS news EMS Command -- Hilton New Orleans Riverside By John R. Brophy, EMT On the morning before Katrina hit New Orleans I had made contact with Hilton Security Captain Lucien Fortone to offer my assistance as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), little did I know that a few days later I would have been part of a team of guests and staff that would come together like a family and do so much for so many. As others came forward to help, we organized into a cohesive unit, developed a plan, and established our own Incident...

Operation Riverside Vanguard Description: The barking moonbats of the Riverisde Area Peace Justice Action (RAPJA) organization are scheduling an early bird protest on Friday, 09/23/05 to lead up to the National Moonbat Protest Day on September 24. RAPJA is scheduling this protest to kick-off their trip to Los Angeles the following day. As patriots, conservatives, Freepers and Protest Warriors, we should be there to give the RAPJA nutjobs a proper send off. This RAPJA protest has been endorsed by fellow Marxists and useful idiots in ANSWER LA and UCR (U.C. Riverside) Resistance. For more info about RAPJA, go to their...

War protester sets flag on fire MURRIETA: Lee Henry Vollick, 19, is attacked by concertgoers, then arrested, his mother says. By SARAH BURGE / The Press-Enterprise MURRIETA - After a 19-year-old war protester set fire to an American flag at the Murrieta city birthday bash Saturday evening, angry bystanders attacked him before he could say a word, his mother said Sunday. Police said Lee Henry Vollick, of Murrieta, set an American flag ablaze around 7:55 p.m. in the middle of a crowded concert at the California Oaks Sports Park. The protester's mother, Barbara Vollick, said her son was trying to...

Riverside County sheriff's officials are investigating why deputies failed to find the body of a UC Irvine student near the spot where his car crashed into a ditch outside Norco on Sunday morning. His parents found the body, more than 10 hours after deputies left the scene. "The sheriff is going to conduct a comprehensive review of the entire incident to look at all the actions that were taken," said sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Earl Quinata. "We are dealing with the loss of a loved one here, and we want to make sure we do everything to correct for any future...

A longtime elementary-school band teacher's arrest on sexual abuse charges--and conflicting accounts from police and school officials about who might have known what and when--has left many in working-class Berwyn wondering what the story really is. As Robert Sperlik Jr., 45, remains held without bail in Cook County Jail, many residents are expressing support for him and questioning the charges, which some believe have been exaggerated. "I am skeptical of this," said Michelle Nafziger, 41, who attended Morton West High School in the late 1970s, when Sperlik was a drummer in the school band. "He's being made out to be...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Seepage through a dam had stopped Saturday but most residents of Corona remained out of their homes in a voluntary, precautionary evacuation. Although a mandatory evacuation was canceled, people were being urged to stay away from homes and a mobile home park until Monday afternoon while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released millions of gallons of water --- snip

Friday, October 1, 2004 LAW OF THE LANDRoosevelt 'Christian' quote raises ireADL seeks removal of Teddy's words from courthouse Posted: October 1, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A public-interest law firm is trying to prevent a courthouse from removing a religious quote by President Theodore Roosevelt by warding off a threatened lawsuit with legal action of its own. The Pro-Family Law Center is suing the operators of the Riverside County Historic Courthouse in California and the Anti-Defamation League, which vowed to sue earlier this week if the quote is not removed. Roosevelt's statement, "The true Christian is the true citizen," is...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - A Theodore Roosevelt quote displayed on the wall of a courthouse will be covered up after critics complained the comment about Christianity violated the separation of church and state. Roosevelt's remark that "the true Christian is the true citizen" was part of a longer address the president gave at a YMCA convention more than a century ago. The words are engraved in gold letters on a mahogany wall in a Riverside County courtroom. The quote is one of several by Roosevelt that have graced the courthouse for 70 years. The Anti-Defamation League sent a letter to...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney met both support and opposition during a California trip aimed at rallying for Republican congressional candidates. At a Riverside hotel Tuesday, Cheney cheered on U.S. Senate candidate Bill Jones, who is challenging Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer. He said Jones was in lockstep with President Bush on issues of national security, the economy and tax reform, and portrayed Boxer as being out of touch with Californians. Outside the $1,000 per plate dinner that attracted about 200 people to the Mission Inn, several hundred protesters and Bush supporters faced off on opposite street corners....

<p>WELCOME DICK CHENEY to Ontario Airport, Ontario, Cal., TOMORROW (Tuesday) at 2:45 p.m. Bring signs with large lettering! To attend the rally, please arrive no later than 2:15, due to security checks.</p> <p>The Vice President will later attend a fundraiser in Riverside for Senate candidate Bill Jones. A rally to welcome Cheney to Riverside will be held at the Mission Inn, downtown, at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.</p>

Please JOIN US for a:"Support Our Troops" rallyto welcome Vice PresidentDICK CHENEYoutside a fundraiser forBILL JONES(to replace Barbara BOXER in the U.S. Senate)at the Mission Inn in RiversideonTUESDAY, July 27from5 pm to 7 pm

After President Bush took the stage during an October fundraiser in Riverside, the crowd cheered his announcement that the former citrus town had raised more than $1 million to keep him in the White House. After all, that was on par with the money Bush collected at a fundraiser in affluent Orange County two months earlier. Orange County still reigns as Southern California's Republican stronghold when it comes to generating votes and campaign money for GOP candidates. But the Inland Empire, with its unbridled growth in population and registered voters, is gaining on its westward neighbor and could take over...