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Wells Fargo Bank Robbery On Monday, January 12, 2015, at about 11:12 am, Riverside Police Department officers responded to a bank robbery at the Wells Fargo located at 6189 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside. The suspect entered the bank posing as a customer. He handed the teller a note stating he had a gun and demanded all the money from the drawer. The teller then gave the suspect cash from the drawer and he walked away from the business towards Magnolia Avenue. No vehicle was seen. The suspected is described as a white male, 30’s, 504”, 135 lbs, and bald or short hair. He was last seen wearing a black and grey Dickies brand baseball hat, black hooded zip-up jacket, grey collared shirt, grey t-shirt underneath, blue jeans
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and white tennis shoes. The suspect has an unknown tattoo on the left side of his neck. Anyone with any information about the robbery is urged to contact Detective Greg Rowe at (951) 353-7136, or by email at growe@riversideca.
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gov. You may also submit tips to the RPD Investigations TipLine at (951) 353-7261 or email RPDTips@riversideca.gov, or to Wetip.com online or at 1-800-78-CRIME. You can remain anonymous by contacting any of these numbers or emails.
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erated at a loss almost yearly. It also led to more than 200,000 citations being issued to residents by officials. After the election in 2013, the new city council members voted to remove the cameras, said The Please see page 2
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tions that had cameras and across the city, the public scorn against the camera program continued. The paper said that, “Drivers complained about the high cost of tickets and the perceived unfairness of being cited for rolling right turns.” The camera program op-
U.S. Ended 2014 With Lowest Unemployment Rate Since 2008; Riverside follows trend The U.S. finished the year strong, with December bringing a six year low for unemployment of 5.6% according to statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. December was just the icing on the cake; this year being the best hiring year for the United States since 1999 Last month brought over 252,000 new jobs, making December the eleventh straight month of over 200,000 hires, the longest streak since 1994. October’s and November’s numbers were revised and higher than previously reported, up to +261,000 from +243,000 and up +353,000 plus +321,000 nonfarm jobs respectively, according to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 50,000 more workers were added to employers’ payrolls during October and November than economists originally calculated. December’s 5.6% unemployment rate was down from November’s 5.8%. The U.S. hasn’t seen unemployment rates that low since June 2008. White House Council of Economic Advisors chairman, Jason Furman noted that the 1.2% drop in unemployment from 2013 to 2014 was the largest de-
No More Traffic Cameras While the traffic camera program ended in September of 2014, the white boxes and attached poles are still where they were first installed. For the past eight years, cameras caught Riverside drivers taking red lights, but sometimes captured cars screeching to a stop once they saw the light flash. Since the program stopped, the cameras inside the white boxes have been removed. Public Works Director Tom Boyd told The PressEnterprise that the rest of the equipment will soon also be taken down. At the near end of 2006, the cameras were installed because they were thought to reduce the number of red-light running and accidents. While City of Riverside officials told the paper that accidents had actually decreased at intersec-
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