By RICHARD BROOKS, The Press-Enterprise

A would-be robber -- wearing clown makeup and carrying a purse -- tried to hold up a Riverside credit union this week but left empty handed.

"I guess they didn't take the clown seriously," said police Sgt. Skip Showalter.

The brief one-man circus performed at 5:11 p.m. Wednesday at Altura Credit Union along the 3400 block of Fourteenth Street.

LOMA LINDA, Calif. -- When a little boy and his dad died in a car wreck 20 years ago, the child's heart was transplanted into a sickly youngster who had been slowly dying of congestive heart failure.Now it's time to return the favor.

CHINO HILLS, Calif. -- Two coyotes are dead and officers are hunting others after closing a Chino Hills, Calif. park where children have been bitten or threatened on at least seven occasions since last July.