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Sen. Richard D. Roth, D-Riverside, announced Tuesday that the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California will receive $500,000 in the 2023-24 state budget.

The money is intended to fund an electronic archive system, which will document the oral histories of California residents who made significant impacts on the advancement of civil rights in the region, and to support an enhancement of the Marin Luther King Jr. Memorial in downtown Riverside planned by the Riverside African American Historical Society.

By MONSERRAT SOLIS 

Perris will receive $10 million to connect the Perris-Downtown Metrolink to the Southern California Railway Museum in town and to expand its senior center.

The money comes from the 2023-24 state budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed last month. The spending plan allocates $8 million to connect the Perris Metrolink station to the museum, which displays historical locomotives, railcars, trolleys and model trains. It has $2 million to expand the Perris Senior Center.

A chronic lack of judges and the dismissal of more than 1,300 criminal cases in recent months has become a crisis for Riverside County, two supervisors said.

The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday, Jan. 24, to endorse a bill from state Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, to add judges and to ask the executive office, which oversees county government’s day-to-day affairs, to study the county’s criminal justice challenges and offer solutions.

By Madison Aument, KVCR -- Sonia Otte is the founding program director for Cal State San Bernardino’s new Master of Science Physician Assistant program. Cal State’s program will join the only two other public Physician Assistant programs in California.

“Having our students more closely mirror the communities that we'll be serving is hugely important,” said Otte.

California State Senator Richard Roth has secured more than $11 million in funding for the program since 2021. The program also received $2 million in federal funding earlier this month.