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Over the past decade we have seen huge advancements in technology that have changed the way we live our lives. Whether it’s a TV or a mobile phone, every aspect of technology has advanced at a tremendous rate. One of the most focused and driven areas in technological innovation though has been mobile phones. With [...]

Having attempted to live life a day at a time for the last 19 years, Lawrence also take dogs one at a time. Other folks seem to like a pack of them about, but there are rewards for having one dog to receive all the pet affection and attention.Already lonesome for a pooch only two [...]

Cancer has taken Junior T. Dog (the T. stood for “The”) of Banning, CA.Junior was a muse, watchdog, jogger, hiker, chaser of cats, mellow dude and extraordinary companion. One of his many nicknames was “The Buddhist Police Dog,” given because he was such an amiable character for a Doberman-German Shepherd mix. Everything you needed to [...]

Bobby Salgado, 68, was chairman of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians on and off for more than 30 years, until resigning this year. He lived like a big city political boss, and he’s going down like one.According to the Riverside Press-Enterprise, Salgado will plead guilty to federal charges of accepting bribes and filing false [...]

Smack dab (you should pardon the drug reference) in the middle of a city council election, Calimesa’s moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries is expiring.The moratorium issue was scheduled for a recent council meeting, but somebody forgot to put the ad in the paper letting everybody know, which is the law (maybe they were too stoned [...]

Banning’s Redevelopment Agency has made the Los Angeles Times, and it ain’t pretty.Following up the fiscal fiasco in Bell, two Times reporters looked at the peccadilloes of city redevelopment agencies throughout California. Banning’s, which had been investigated by a county grand jury, came under Times scrutiny for the purchase of the old All Star Dodge [...]