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.
Coachella, Weekend 1 brought surprise guests, sights, sounds well worth it for the 100,000 fans per day who braved traffic and the elements.
One person was killed Sunday in a wrong-way crash on the Riverside (91) Freeway in Corona, authorities said.
Three people, all 19 years old, were inside a Toyota 4Runner when it crashed into a telephone pole early Sunday.
After blistering desert heat at Coachella and summer-like temperatures at the coast, a change is coming to Southern California.
The woman's vehicle was disabled at the time of the fatal crash, which occurred just after midnight, officials say.
The show, from April 12 - 13, will fill the skies with aerial feats, including the Thunderbirds, and more aircraft displays on the tarmac.
A Murrieta doctor has agreed to pay $85,000 to resolve allegations arising from a fraud scheme involving a neurostimulator implant.
One person died and another was seriously injured in the single-story house fire on Tamarisk Flower Drive, in Palm Desert.
A woman is in critical condition, and the person believed responsible was arrested Friday morning.
They threatened to have the Rancho Mirage man deported if he did not pay up $100,000, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said.
Head to the mall by Edwards Cinemas on April 19 to see Fitz Army and Metal Mulisha and more stunt teams perform.
Traffic on Interstate 10 is expected throughout the festival. Attendees began arriving on Thursday morning, many stuck in traffic for hours.
Leon Road and Domenigoni Parkway were temporarily shut down Thursday afternoon due to the fatal crash.
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Two seriously injured drivers were being airlifted from the crash scene between Aguanga and Anza, near Cahuilla, on SR-371, Thursday.
A 70-year-old Hemet man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after he collided with multiple vehicles, authorities say.
"We are more than an events center to San Diegans: We are San Diego County's iconic community gathering place," they say. How to weigh in.
Both Mary Johnson and Bella Clark's violent attackers became eligible for elderly parole at age 50, under a "loophole in the current law."
San Diego authorities rushed to the scene to find one man trapped 30 feet atop one of the two border fences between the U.S. and Mexico.
The body of the 27-year-old woman was found over the weekend in a Saginaw, Michigan home.
