Ashley Ludwig has been a columnist and online news editor since 2007. She is a resident of Riverside County and covers the Patch sites and stories across southern California.
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Before joining Patch, Ashley Ludwig worked as a staff writer for the Valley News Newspaper in Southwest Riverside, covering both print and online editions. She co-founded the Southern California online magazine DailySoCal.com. She served as a freelance journalist for various publications, including the North County Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, and Southwest Riverside News Network (SWRNN.com), as well as articles and book reviews for the former Pages Magazine.
She owns the local Southern California Wine Country blog: Temecula Grapevine.com. Wife and mother of two daughters, she has written multiple romantic suspense novels, and chick-lit romances. Find them on Kindle and in print on Amazon.com.
A content creator and information architect since the late 1990s, Ludwig also project-managed multiple ad campaigns with Adwire for the entertainment industry, as well as worked with Books in Print, Bowker with the New York Times Bestseller Lists. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences.
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The Riverside County Sheriff's Department Coroner's Bureau positively identified the victim after notification of his next of kin.
An increased police presence would be in place following the threats, still many parents kept their children home Friday.
The Riverside Fire Department halted the spread of the Yellowstone Drive house fire before the home was destroyed.
One person suffered major injuries in a big rig crash on the narrow state route 74z
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A brush fire ignited in the De Luz hills above Old Town on Wednesday.
The Tornado fire erupted on Wednesday afternoon. Evacuations were briefly ordered, evacuation warnings remain in place for Old Town Temecula
Animal Friends of the Valleys has posted a video of a dog theft that occurred on August 13 at their Wildomar facility.
The City of Palm Springs lost nearly $70,000 from its universal basic income pilot program due to "inadequate oversight," documents show.
A Vista man is accused of killing another over the weekend near Pechanga Resort Casino.
This year, Sept. 11 will be remembered in an evening ceremony at the Temecula Duck Pond, the city says.
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The brush fire, which ignited Friday afternoon, burned over 550 acres in Jurupa Valley and prompted evacuations before it was contained.
The crash occurred on the I-10, North Indian Canyon off-ramp, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department's coroner's bureau.
