Riverside

A man sought in the killings of three people found in a burning Riverside home and killed in a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies in the Mojave Desert town of Needles was identified as a Virginian lawman, authorities said Sunday.

Today comes the first day of the MBTA’s shut down of the Green Line’s D Branch, pausing subway access from Riverside station to Kenmore station until next Sunday. Citing the need for “infrastructure improvements”, MBTA officials plan to shut the branch down three separate times through the end of October, all separate closures lasting for nine days. Today’s closure...

The family of an 8-year-old girl from Riverside said she was seriously injured after a cellphone flew into her face on a roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain on Saturday.

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in downtown Riverside officially opens to the public Saturday.

A longtime retired truck driver, Douglas Thomas, was charged with the 1993 murder of Sherri Herrera by the Riverside County District Attorney’s office. He was currently in custody in Texas awaiting prosecution in another woman’s 1992 slaying.