Temecula Valley, winegrowing region or party destination?

Temecula guitarist murder suspects' sketches released

In fact Wilson Creek doesn't even make the wine; it's made in Lodi, 450 miles away. To most of the 500,000 or so annual winery visitors, none of this matters. Rather than a wine destination, the Temecula Attorney Valley has become something of a wine playground, where play wines upstage real wines, where "wine country" is a carefully cultivated affair that has less to do with what vineyards produce than with how they look all in the service of a tourist trade run slightly amok. On any given weekend, stretch limos and party vans stream down Rancho California Road filled with partygoers. Cruise ship patrons, on dry land for a few days in San Diego, are carted in by the busload. In winery tasting rooms, gewgaws outnumber corkscrews by impressive ratios.
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(KABC) -- Investigators in Riverside are hoping new suspect sketches will help track down whoever murdered a popular local musician. Authorities are searching for two men in the murder of 64-year-old Larry Robinson at http://ishoptemecula.com Pete's Music in the 28000 block of Old Town Front Street in Temecula in March. Robinson was alone in the store when robbers bound and gagged him . He was later discovered unconscious by a customer. He died the following morning. Related Content Story: Music store robbery victim dies; suspect sought One suspect is a thin white man with dark hair and possible tattoos on both arms.
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Temecula Attorney approves mosque after contentious 8-hour hearing

We are victims of terrorists we are victims of fear," Suhail Fares told the council. Early in the hearing, City Atty. Peter Thorson told council members that they could only consider land-use issues when reviewing the project and that to base any decision on religious, political or social factors would violate freedom of religion under the 1st Amendment. The mosque and center reflect a Mediterranean design seen in many Temecula Attorney neighborhoods, though the building will have traditional domes topped with crescent moons. The facility will be built in two stages, with the first limited to a 4,100-square-foot mosque to serve about 150 Muslim families living in Temecula, Murrieta and surrounding communities. The Islamic Center, which has existed for years in a warehouse in one of Temecula Attorneys industrial areas, bought the property for the proposed mosque 10 years ago and has been raising money to build the facility ever since. The Planning Commissions approval of the mosque was appealed to the City Council by Temecula resident George Rombach, president of a group called Concerned American Citizens. Rombach during the hearing accused city officials of giving the Islamic Center preferential treatment and said the proposed mosque violated restrictions on parking, environmental impacts and generating traffic.
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