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For the first time since 2006, poverty in the United States has dropped. The country’s poverty rate last year was 14.5 percent, down from 15 percent in 2012, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual report on poverty, which was released Tuesday. Roughly 45.3 million people in the United States …

After a two-year hiatus, the Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival is back for its 18th year. Some less-than-stellar fundraising and a lack of financial assistance from the state caused the festival to be put on hold after 2011, but the event has been reorganized and is scheduled to …

U.S. retailers have posted another solid week, aided in part by the end of back-to-school season. Sales were up three percent for the week that ended Saturday compared with the same week in 2013, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Stores Sales Index, …

Single-family home sales dropped in California during August, in part because of rising prices. Sales of single-family detached homes totaled 394,280 units in August, the second-highest sales month so far this year, according to a report released today by the California Association of Realtors in Los Angeles. However, that marked …

I was pretty disappointed with the lackluster commemoration around the nation on the 13th anniversary of 9/11. Because there was very little fanfare, I don’t think people are paying attention – or, maybe they just don’t remember the outrage, sorrow and hurt that struck our nation that fateful day. We …

The document that transferred control of Ontario International Airport away from Ontario and into the hands of the city of Los Angeles nearly 50 years ago will be subject to review by a judge. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Gloria Connor Trask ruled today that she will hear a motion …