Tuesday through Thursday at lunchtime, KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:
- A research study has found that the number of alcohol-related deaths in Riverside County nearly doubled between 2010 and 2020.
- Public health advocates say California is losing nurses, epidemiologists, lab directors, and other frontline workers because of competition from the private sector and politicization of COVID-19.
- California lawmakers are vowing to fast-track a handful of new gun restrictions in the wake of the Texas school shooting.
- A Temecula dance instructor who sexually assaulted multiple boys is slated to be sentenced today under a plea agreement reached with prosecutors.