The Inland Empire Brewer’s Guild is hosting its Craft Beer Fest from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 15. This year’s event is at The Barn at Ingalls Event Center, 96 Sixth St., Norco. The theme is: Party like the Greeks. Togas are recommended. The event will showcase a number of Inland Empire breweries, including All Points Brewing Co., Big Bear Lake Brewing Company, Carbon Nation Brewing, Route 30 Brewing Company, GreyWolf Brewing Co., Euryale Brewing Company, Escape Craft Brewery, Coachella Valley Brewing Co., Evans Brewing Co., Hangar 24 Craft Brewing, Hamilton Family Brewery, Main Street ..read more

Work is wrapping up on the $38 million STEM building at Mt. San Jacinto Community College’s Menifee campus. Constructed by C.W. Driver Cos., the 57,400-square-foot facility at 28237 La Piedra Road is a centralized hub where students and faculty will collaborate, experiment and learn science and technology fields. The company says general contractor Balfour Beatty is working to finish the building this month. Furniture will be moved soon, and students will begin using the facility this fall. The building also provides a permanent home for the college’s math department. With big windows and a ge ..read more

Adalia Magdaleno, 1, and her mother Briza Martinez cool down at Cucamonga-Guasti Regional Park’s slash pad in Ontario on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG) Fer Almazan, 5, runs though the slash pad area at Cucamonga-Guasti Regional Park in Ontario on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG) Kids enjoy the slash pad area at Cucamonga-Guasti Regional Park on a hot day in Ontario on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG) Fer Almazan, 5, cools down in the slash pad area at Cucamonga-Guasti R ..read more

Jack in the Box has launched a new value menu. The Jack’s Munchies Under $4 menu features about two dozen food items and drinks that, well, cost less than $4. That’s somewhat of a misnomer, since all of the items actually cost less than $3. Items range from two tacos for 99 cents to a Jr. Jumbo Jack for $2.99. The chain has also launched Cube’s Munchie Meal, ostensibly created with Ice Cube, which also signals the return of the Chick-N-Tater Melt sandwich. The meal includes the Chick-N-Tater Melt, plus medium curly fries, a taco, mini churros and a small drink. Cost is $13. Pride beer returns ..read more

With a nod towards classic comfort dishes, Hawthorne-based restaurant chain Eureka! has just launched new menu items and drinks at all its locations. “This new menu rollout is us going back to our ethos as a restaurant group of focusing on classic comforting foods with a modern twist,” said Alexia Peters, a spokesperson for the chain, which has locations in places like Woodland Hills, Cerritos, Claremont, Aliso Viejo, Hawthorne, Irvine, Ontario and Redlands. The new items made their debut on May 23 and include starters like the Dorito-Crusted Shishito Peppers. They’re topped with tajin, Parmes ..read more

Bob Kelley, the former publisher of Irvine-based Kelley Blue Book who came from a family with deep roots in Southern California’s car culture, died May 28 at his home in Indian Wells. He was 96. Born in Los Angeles in 1927, Kelley joined his family’s dealership, Kelley Kar Company and Kelley Blue Book, after serving in World War II. The family business got its start in 1918 when Kelley’s uncle, Les Kelley, launched the Los Angeles car dealership with just three Model T Fords. The eponymous car appraisal business debuted in 1926 and would become the essential guide for used cars across the Unit ..read more

I solicited your comments for a 50th anniversary retrospective on the April 6, 1974, California Jam rock festival, which drew 200,000 people to the Ontario Motor Speedway. Reminiscences came in right up until deadline, then beyond deadline, and then in the days after publication. Hey, man. Nobody at a rock festival is on a strict schedule. It’s uncool. Well, we’ll get to your comments. They’re pretty good. First, though, let’s deal with one Cal Jam curiosity: the tossing of empty water jugs. As a reader in Eastvale, Kent (Bayless) Romero, described it, he first thought he was gazing at bouncin ..read more

Two suspects were arrested on Saturday, June 1, after a shooting in Chino resulted in the death of a Perris man, the Chino Police Department said. On Saturday, at around 1:15 a.m., officers responded to the 12300 block of Lorraine Avenue in Chino after a report of a man who was shot. Christopher Delucio, 41, of Perris, was taken to a hospital, where he died, a Chino Police news release said. Detectives investigated and learned the shooting took place in the 4300 block of Corporate Center Avenue in Chino. The suspects were identified by investigators as Richard Dellorfano, 47, of Ontario, and C ..read more

San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson said he believes that his office could have proven the five counts of attempted murder filed against suspected Ontario Christian High shooting plotter Sebastian Bailey Villaseñor, but two Southern California law professors described the charges as “a stretched legal theory” considering not a single shot was fired nor was a firearm ever pointed at anyone. The charges, which could have carried a 75-year sentence, were dropped Thursday, May 30, when Villaseñor, 18, pleaded guilty to one count of witness intimidation. As part of the plea agree ..read more

By David Koenig | The Associated Press Boeing told federal regulators Thursday how it plans to fix the safety and quality problems that have plagued its aircraft-manufacturing work in recent years. The Federal Aviation Administration required the company to produce a turnaround plan after one of its jetliners suffered a blowout of a fuselage panel during an Alaska Airlines flight en route to Ontario in January. In late February, FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker gave Boeing 90 days to come up with a plan to improve quality and ease the agency’s safety concerns. “This is a guide for a new way for ..read more