SAN BERNADINO COUNTY, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California jury has awarded more $113 million to a 10-year-old boy and his mother in a lawsuit alleging a social worker ignored abuse that left the child severely brain damaged. The San Bernardino Sun reports that jurors last week found San Bernardino County's child welfare agency mainly liable for the harm to Noah Reed. Noah lived with his father and his father's girlfriend in Yucca Valley. He was hospitalized with severe head injuries in 2014. He

California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered the firing of an agency chief after discovering a large increase in new fracking permits. Capital Public Radio’s Ezra David Romero has more. The decision to fire Ken Harris came Thursday, hours after new data revealed permits for hydraulic fracturing were issued at twice last year's rate. Harris lead the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources. The report also found eight state oil and gas regulators have hundreds of thousands of dollars

Longtime Inland Empire journalist and KVCR contributor Cassie MacDuff and KVCR's Ken Vincent review some of the Inland Empire's top news stories this week, including: The Yucaipa-Calimesa school district has been hit with a sixth bullying lawsuit. More toll lanes are likely coming to the Inland Empire. A former Beaumont councilman is in trouble with the law again Former Redlands councilwoman Barbara Wormser has died. THIS SEGMENT IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP, PUBLISHER

The city of San Bernardino is looking for developers to redevelop the Carousel Mall, one of the most important pieces of property in the city. KVCR's Benjamin Purper has more.

Join us for a show about human emotion. JP tells a true childhood tale about an exhausting bike ride, Steven Benaquist does a baseball announcer who shares too much information, and Inland Empire singer Josh Cuadra performs his quirky pop tunes.

This week on Lifestyles, Lillian continues her segment on “Jobs You Don’t Always Think About” in a conversation with Psychic Medium Darlene Trujillo Elliot. She talks about how she first discovered her ability, how it works for her, and shares some of the experiences she’s had throughout her career. To learn more about Darlene Trujillo Elliot, you can visit http://darlenetelliot.com/

California is not on track to reach its goal of five-million zero-emission vehicles by 2030. So, as Capital Public Radio's Randol White explains, lawmakers are considering a financial incentive to motivate would-be car buyers. San Francisco Assemblyman Phil Ting wants to use a tax-credit model that worked for rooftop solar ... but shift it to the auto industry to sell more clean cars. He says 80 percent of California's transportation emissions come from passenger vehicles, so it's time to jump

Medicaid provides health care to low-income people, and California is now set to become the first state to offer it to undocumented immigrants up to age twenty-six. It’s part of a bigger plan to eventually make sure everyone in the state has coverage. California is making the move at a time when the Trump administration and some other states are trying to restrict who gets government health benefits. Capital Public Radio's Sammy Caiola has the story. For most of Beatriz Basurto’s life, the

Next year, people buying insurance through California's health insurance marketplace could see a smaller price increase than they're used to. Covered California officials announced Tuesday that premiums are expected to rise just zero-point-eight percent on average in 2020. CapRadio’s health care reporter Sammy Caiola explains what this means for consumers . Premiums have risen every year … sometimes by a lot. In 2017 they spiked 13 percent on average. The price jumps, and a Trump administration

UC Riverside scientists have decoded the genome of black-eyed peas, which could have implications for how humanity deals with climate change. KVCR's Benjamin Purper has more. Black-eyed peas are notoriously tough beans which are resistant to drought and heat and have high nutritional content. That makes them important sources of food as the planet becomes hotter and drier. The UCR researchers’ work in sequencing the black-eyed pea genome places the bean in the company of only a handful of other