Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Today's highlighted story: A small group of men spent decades behind bars, but were also students at Cal State LA while in prison. Now they're working together to navigate life outside.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Today's highlighted story: Cal State LA is conducting an experiment with men serving a sentence of life without parole... and it's unexpectedly become a path to freedom.

Longtime Inland Empire journalist and KVCR contributor, Cassie MacDuff and KVCR's Benjamin Purper review some of the big Inland Empire news stories from the past week, including: The mayor's lawsuit against the city of Riverside will go to trial. An ICE agent's appearance in a Riverside courthouse has sparked concerns. UCR's Basketball coach resigns under duress. THIS SEGMENT IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP, PUBLISHER OF THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE , SAN BERNARDINO SUN , INLAND

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: Judgement on San Bernardino Brown Act violation voids Dawn Rowe’s appointment. A 167-acre brush fire in Riverside County is almost fully contained. CA Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill that will change the employment status for more than a million California workers. Twenty-five Southern CA doctors and others are accused of billing health plans for $150 million in

Dawn Rowe may be out as San Bernardino County Third District Supervisor after a superior court judge ruled that her appointment violated the Brown Act. A San Bernardino Superior Court judge ruled yesterday that the Board of Supervisors violated the Brown Act, which guarantees the public’s right to attend and participate in meetings of local legislative bodies, when they chose Rowe for the Third District seat. The judge’s ruling concludes that Rowe’s appointment is null and void and that a new

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: San Bernardino man survives disabling osteoarthritis and returns to work. California is improving its system for monitoring cannabis products.

A UC Riverside scientist has made a key discovery about evolution from an unlikely source: guppies. UCR professor of biology David Reznick used the small fish to study this question: do animals evolve in response to the risk of being eaten, or to the environment that they create in the absence of predators? According to Reznick’s research, it’s the latter. In the wild, guppies can migrate to places where predators can’t follow them. Once they arrive in these places free of predators, they start

James Wright from San Bernardino nearly lost everything when he was diagnosed with severe osteoarthritis. With help from Social Security’s Ticket to Work program and an employment network called Allsup, Wright got back on his feet and now works full-time. In 2013, James Wright’s osteoarthritis got so bad that he had his right knee replaced. Wright: “And then 2015 I had my left knee replaced, and then 2017 it was the hip, the hip went out on me and I was just to the point of hurting so bad and

Representative Paul Cook says he’s running for San Bernardino County supervisor. The Republican from Yucca Valley announced Tuesday that he would seek election to the 1 st District seat in 2020. This comes after current 1 st District Supervisor, Robert Lovingood, announced he would not be seeking re-election in August. Cook is a retired Marine Corps colonel and Vietnam combat veteran. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after representing the High Desert area in the state Assembly. The 1 st

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include: Rep. Pete Aguilar announces over $2.1 million in grant funding for Inland Empire physicians. Senior groups urge Governor to sign bill to lower drug costs. Gov. Gavin Newsom asked Trump Administration to help with state’s homelessness crisis.