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Man accused of killing Riverside boy in head-on crash pleads not guilty
Newsom announces plan to stop 'Big Oil profit spikes’
By City News Service
joet@beaconmedianews.com
By Joe Taglieri
The Carbajal siblings were in this vehicle that was hit head-on
The driver now of this 2020 Honda Civic is now facing second-
in a crash that killed their 8-year-old brother Obed. | Photo
degree murder charges. | Photo courtesy of the Riverside Police
courtesy of the Riverside Police Department/Facebook
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man accused of causing a head-on collision that killed a boy and seriously injured his three siblings in Riverside while traveling over 100 mph and under the influence of marijuana pleaded not guilty Monday to second-degree murder and other charges. Andres Laris, 23, of Riverside, was arrested Thursday
following a roughly yearlong Riverside Police Department investigation. Along with murder, Laris is charged with three counts of roadway violations resulting in great bodily injury. He was arraigned before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Walter Kubelun, who scheduled a felony settlement conference for Aug. 28 at the Riverside Hall
of Justice. Laris' attorney has additionally submitted a motion for bail reduction, and that hearing will take place on the same date. The defendant is being held on $1 million bail at the Robert Presley Jail. Riverside police spokesman Officer Ryan Railsback
said Friday that traffic detectives earlier this month concluded an investigation into the collision that killed 8-year-old Obed Liam Barbosa Carbajal of Riverside. Their findings resulted in sufficient grounds to seek criminal charges, and an arrest warrant was obtained
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'Clerical error' disqualifies candidates in San Bernardino County By Joe Taglieri joet@beaconmedianews.com
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everal prospective candidates in the November election were erroneously told they qualified for the ballot, San Bernardino County officials announced last week. Eight office seekers were affected by the mistake, according to a county state-
ment. "The Registrar of Voters (ROV) is working closely with several city and town clerks to explain to local candidates an error that led five office-seekers to believe they had qualified for the Nov. 5 ballot when they had not," according to the
county. After the candidate filing period ended Aug. 9, "the ROV discovered a clerical error that affected the evaluation of nomination petition signatures," officials said. "To ensure each See Clerical error Page 17
candidate met their nomination petition requirement, ROV staff reevaluated all petitions for the city candidates. As a result of this reevaluation, eight candidates were determined to be impacted."
The Chevron oil refinery in El Segundo. | Photo courtesy of Pedro Szekely/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0)
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ov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced a plan that would require oil refiners to maintain minimum supply inventories to prevent price spikes that annually cost Californians hundreds of millions of dollars. The governor's proposal — the first of its kind in the U.S. — would authorize the California Energy Commission, or CEC, to require that oil refineries maintain a minimum fuel reserve to safeguard against supply shortages that inflate pump prices. “Price spikes at the pump are profit spikes for Big Oil," Newsom said in a statement. "Refiners should be required to plan ahead and backfill supplies to keep prices stable, instead of playing games to earn even more profits. By making refiners act responsibly and maintain a gas reserve, Californians would save money See Oil spikes Page 35
at the pump every year.” According to Newsom's office, the proposed mandate would: "Obligate California’s petroleum refiners to demonstrate resupply plans and arrangements to the CEC that are adequate to address the loss in production from refinery maintenance. "Authorize the CEC to require petroleum refiners to maintain enough fuel inventory to stabilize fuel supply. "Impose penalties on refiners who fail to follow these requirements." State residents and visitors would have saved upwards of $650 million in gasoline costs that resulted from refiners’ price spikes if the fuel-reserve mandate had been in effect last year, Newsom's office reported. Catherine Reheis-Boyd, pesident and CEO of the Western States Petroleum