An award-winning writer/editor and education advocate. Skilled in short and long-form journalism, copy editing, CMS, blogging, digital storytelling and social media. I'm always looking for the best ways to tell stories.
Kyle Lundberg
Phoenix, AZ
An award-winning writer/editor and education advocate. Skilled in short and long-form journalism, copy editing, CMS, blogging, digital storytelling and social media. I'm always looking for the best ways to tell stories.
Fishing has always been a passion for Mark Franco, but it wasnât always his profession. Most of his life had been spent doing odd jobs; construction, masonry or whatever he could get his hands on. It was steady, but he knew his interests lied in two major areas -- fishing and coaching. âI probably lost eight jobs due to fishing,â he said. âI was too busy fishing.â.
When Nancy McIntyre joined the Ramona Pageantâs chorus as a child, she was immediately hooked. âIt was really fun to dress up and sing,â she said. âBeing an 8-year-old girl, it was like a party.â. This year, McIntyre is entering her 50th year as a volunteer for the fabled outdoor drama, which opens its 91st anniversary season April 12.
Mary Davidson considers it âa miracle of Godâ that a Riverside police officer was driving by at the moment she was running out of her house with her choking 8-month-old daughter in her arms. âIf we had waited for the paramedics, (Kaycee) wouldnât have made it,â Davidson said Sunday, March 2, a day after Officer Janet Ramos dislodged a plastic water bottle cap from Kayceeâs throat as the baby was turning blue.
Salvation Army Maj. Marcelino “Butch” Soriano shattered both world and personal records as he topped the 100 hour mark for continuous bell ringing, reaching 105 hours before putting down his bell at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7. Soriano shares the new record with Capt. James Brickson of Albert Lea, Minn., and Andre Thompson from Tyler, Texas.
Sheriff’s deputies recovered a stolen trailer — and in the process found a treasure trove of stolen goods along with weapons and drugs at a Cabazon home Saturday morning, Jan. 25. Deputies visited the home in the 52000 block of Date Avenue after a woman told them she had found her stolen trailer advertised on Craigslist.
A former San Bernardino County inmate who died last month has been ruled the victim of a homicide, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported. Todd Bush, 33, died on March 6 while in custody at the North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre, Oklahoma. He was transported to the hospital after he was found unresponsive in his cell, a CDCR press release said.
Firefighters are battling four separate fires totaling five acres, which started in the Del Rosa foothills near San Bernardino on Saturday, May 3. The fires were 50 percent contained as of 9 p.m. The San Bernardino City Fire Department is coordinating with the U.S. Forest Service to snuff out the fires with aircraft carrying flame retardant and water, according to Vance Persing, dispatcher with the Forest Service.
A Wildomar man was arrested on suspicion of stealing $4000 worth of electronic equipment in Lake Elsinore. Police responded to the burglary at the Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park on Thursday morning, May 22, where several appliances, tools, helmets, electronic equipment and I-Pads totaling $4000 were stolen, according to a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department release.
After Irene Bidinger died Thursday, May 22, when she crashed into an overturned box truck on Interstate 15 in Murrieta, a group of her close friends decided something needed to be done to help her three children. Their goal is to reach $120,000. Evans, 22, said he met Bidinger when they both worked at the AMF bowling alley on Indiana Avenue in Riverside.
Riverside police are investigating a homicide in the 3600 block of Cranford Avenue Saturday evening, May 31. According to Lt. Julian Hutzler, a male victim was shot and killed, and police are looking for multiple male suspects. Police had Cranford closed off just past the Riverside City University Fire Station, across from John W.
Police are investigating what they are calling a suspicious death after finding a body in the hills of San Timoteo Canyon on Saturday, May 31. According to a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department release, police found the body of a male adult shortly after 3 p.m. The body was found 300 feet below a ridge line in the hills south of San Timoteo Canyon Road and west of Lake Shore Drive.
For many at PLNU, Homecoming Week is a time for celebration and relaxation, as students ponder their futures and alumni reminisce about their past. But, for President Bob Brower and his office, it’s the busiest week of the semester. Brower met with the Board of Trustees, the governing board of PLNU, during their annual Homecoming gathering.
Yes, Coco Jones knows how to handle a gun. No, she’s never had to shoot anyone. But there have been times when she thought she might have to. Take, for example, the time she was working as a law enforcement ranger for the National Parks Service in Boston. Her first week on the job, she pulled over a car after it ran a stop sign.
A group of hundreds of Catholics, Protestants and Mormons gathered downtown Friday to protest government-mandated contraception coverage. “Catholic, Protestant and Mormon—the president promised to bring us together, and it’s working,” said Roger Hedgecock, radio talk show host and former San Diego mayor, who moderated the rally.
In the wake of a rancorous political season that has seen issues of race and gender raised anew, an SDSU history professor has released a book examining perceptions about the race of Jesus throughout history. Edward J. Blum said one of the driving forces behind writing the book was his interest in the concept of image in American culture.
Well, it has officially happened. Straight Arrow has a record. That’s right; I got my first parking ticket, and with it comes the downward spiral of increasing crime and villainy that will constitute the rest of my life. In my defense, my brush with the law wasn’t really my fault. Let me explain.