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Palm Springs has paid $5.9 million to survivors and descendants of Section 14, a one-square-mile parcel from which African American and Latino resident were unfairly evicted during the 1950s and 1960s. The settlement fulfills the agreement approved by the city council in November, and resolves a decades-long dispute regarding the city’s …

Raisa Alvarado, an assistant professor of communications and media at Cal State San Bernardino, has received two awards from the National Communication Association. Alvarado has won the Pedagogy Award from the association’s activism and social justice division, and the Scholar Activist Award from its feminist and gender studies division, according …

Yolanda Baber has joined the Ontario office of Petteway Management Group as a senior business development manager. During her years in consulting, Baber has helped develop client growth, strategic partnerships, and revenue enhancement for architecture, engineering, and construction clients, according to a company statement. “I am excited and honored that …

The finalists for this year’s Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards have been announced. Thirty two entrepreneurs haven been selected from a pool of more than 300 nominees, 125 applications and 53 semifinalists, according to a statement. Judges met with each of the 53 semifinalist Oct. 3, then met privately and …

California’s economy is slowing down. Unemployment is rising, growth has cooled, housing is still too expensive and difficult to build, and energy prices are higher than in most parts of the country, according to Beacon Economics in Los Angeles. To be sure, California is not relinquishing its status as a …

CVB Financial Corp. has been named one the largest U.S. banks based on deposit franchise. The Ontario-based financial institution ranked second out of 149 banks and thrifts with total assets of more than $10 billion, according to a statement on CVB Financials’ website. Deposit franchise measures a bank’s ability to …