The Sun (San Bernardino, CA)

A recent grant from the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program has allowed the Native American Land Conservancy to fine-tune its ongoing effort to safeguard sites in California’s ancestral territories. Inland Empire Community Foundation distributed the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program grant, which T. Robert Przeklasa, Native American Land Conservancy ’s executive director, said greatly “helped us in getting boots on the ground on some of our preserves.

If you live in the Inland Empire, then you’ve likely seen an ancient mammoth looking down over the 60 Freeway. Have you ever wanted to check in for a closer look? Now, it’s possible with the Eddy live cam. “Eddy is an iconic landmark and a symbol because he represents home,” Miguel De Avila Diaz, the public outreach specialist for Jurupa Area Recreation and Park District, said on Wednesday, Oct. 21.

This baseball star doesn’t swing a bat or flash the leather. Instead, he wields a rake and sprays a hose. Still, Sean Cheng is a winner on the diamond. He’s been named the 2026 Head Groundskeeper of the Year for the California League of Minor League Baseball. The honor was based on surveys of league managers, players and executives. Cheng is head groundskeeper for ONT Field, the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ single-A affiliate, the Ontario Tower Buzzers.

Police recovered $54,000 worth of Hot Wheels merchandise, some of it in the back of a suspect’s pickup truck, early Thursday, Oct. 22 after a reported cargo theft of railroad containers. Authorities got the call about a possible theft of BNSF freight containers around 3 a.m. Colton police then observed people loading merchandise into a pickup truck near West Maple Street and South La Cadena Drive, police Sgt. Mike Sandoval said.

Rafael Arreola, a Mexican immigrant who went on to become a longtime San Diego judge and co-founded the San Diego and California La Raza Lawyers Associations and the California Latino Judges Association, died on Sept. 16 at his home in Riverside. He was 85. Arreola served as a Municipal Court judge in San Diego County from 1981 to 1998, then as a Superior Court judge until his retirement in 2007.

CHICAGO (AP) — Medical laboratory operator Quest Diagnostics said it learned of a cyber breach of one of its systems this week, likely compromising some records for patients. In a Thursday regulatory filing, Quest Diagnostics reported “unauthorized access” to its Quanum Lab Services Manager, a platform where certain clients can place test orders and receive or look up their results. The company said it discovered the hack on Wednesday and notified federal law enforcement.

California’s economy, fueled by multibillion-dollar investments in artificial intelligence and defense spending, is outpacing the nation’s even as the state feels the sting from significant weakness in hiring and sliding consumer optimism, Cal State Fullerton economists said Thursday.

Donald Trump and World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency venture he co-founded with his sons, were sued by a shareholder in a rival crypto firm over claims the president illegally profited from his office in violation of the U.S. Constitution. Benjamin Greenberg, a shareholder in Circle Internet Group Inc., claims illegal competition from World Liberty has harmed him and other Circle investors financially.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for New Hampshire to fully ban the use of student IDs for voting during the midterm elections. The justices granted a Republican-backed emergency appeal and blocked the use of student IDs as a backup method of identification. The Supreme Court cited a longstanding legal principle that judges shouldn’t change voting rules too close to Election Day. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only justice to publicly dissent.

Over the nearly eight years of his term, Gov. Gavin Newsom has been too busy to engage with us on the fraud, abuse and death rife in California’s private-pay addiction treatment industry. He could have transformed it with a wave of his leadership wand — but, alas, he did not. I longed to troll Newsom over these last days of his term from event to event to press him on why, oh why, oh why?! — but my editors were wiser.