Month: January 2010

LOS ANGELES -A memorial service is being planned for James Mitchell, a stage and film actor and dancer who became a soap opera staple in his role as Palmer Cortlandt on the long-running ABC show “All My Children.” Mitchell, who was 89, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease complicated by

SACRAMENTO -California’s unemployment rate remains unchanged at 12.4 percent in December compared to the previous month. Last month, the state reported the November unemployment rate at 12.3 percent, but the state Department of Economic Development revised that figure to 12.4 percent on Friday. For the month, California employers shed 38,800 jobs. December caps off a

LOS ANGELES – Here is the complete list of winners of the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which were presented Sunday at the Shrine Auditorium: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role — Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role — Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”

PALM SPRINGS – This week’s stormy weather drenched the valley and washed away some people’s plans. “It’s been bad,” says Scott Love, visitor from Canada. Love came to the valley to play and watch golf, but instead he got rain. To stay dry, he hit the shops. “We did a lot of shopping and spent

MARINA DEL REY – A 16-year-old has set out to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone. Abby Sunderland of Thousand Oaks sailed into the sunny Pacific Ocean on Saturday after being delayed a few days by a series of violent storms in California. Her boat-builder father, Laurence, along with other family

SAN JACINTO – Two people are dead, another in critical condition after a crash onState Route79. It happenedSaturday night just before 11 north of Gilman Springs Road. Officers say two vehicles collided when one of them was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes. Officers shut down southbound lanes on Highway 79 at California around midnight.

PALM SPRINGS -One man is dead after a collision involving a pedestrian and a truck. The police say it happened just after 8:00 p.m.Saturday. They say a man was crossing the road on Racquet Club, west of Cerritos Road, when he was hit by a pickup truck. The man was taken to Desert Regional Medical

SACRAMENTO – A new Field Poll suggests a bleak view of California politicians. The poll, released Sunday, finds that 59 percent of California voters believe when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves office, the state will be in worse shape than when he was elected in 2003. Only 7 percent of registered voters think he will leave

PALM SPRINGS – Earl Wild, a world-renowned classical pianist and leader of the Romantic revival, died at his home in Palm Springs at age 94. He died Saturday of heart failure, his long-time partner, Michael Rolland Davis, said. There will be no funeral, Davis said. “He said have a party, that’s all I want,” Davis

COACHELLA – Police in Coachella are looking for a man accused of holding up an employee at ajewelry store. It happenedFriday night at eight on the 49700 block of Harrison Street in the Coachella Ranch Market. Police saytheman seen in this sketchwas trying on jewelry at “Leon’s de Oro and Loan,” when he pulled out

Near Desert Hot Springs – Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies are on the lookout for two suspects accused of holding up several people near Desert Hot Springs. Deputies say it happened Friday night at eight on the 15500 block of Avenida Manzana. That’s where two men robbed several people at gunpoint. No one was hurt. The

PALM SPRINGS – The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, which temporarily stranded 89 people amid a snowstorm Friday, resumed normal operations Saturday. A News Channel 3 photojournalist was on board the last car up before tram officials decided to halt service while the situation was remedied. He says the car stopped several times on his way

BY: Elyse Miller News Channel 3 Reporteremiller@kesq.com SALTON CITY – “I was in shock to see what’s happening there,” says Lydia Enriquez, student at West Shores High School. “I almost broke down in tears.” Drama students at West Shores High School want to reach out to those hit by the horror in Haiti. ” I’m

TWENTYNINE PALMS – It’s a snow day in the high desert and parts of the Inland Empire as snow falls. The Morongo Unified School District says all schools are closed Friday, January 22nd, because of the weather. The Beaumont school district says the same. Snow was falling there this morning, and district officials didn’t want

PALM SPRINGS -One woman is dead after an overnight fire in Palm Springs. Her mobile home caught on fire around1am this morning with her trapped inside. It happened at the Safari Mobile Home Park off of East Palm Canyon, west of Gene Autry Trail. Power at the mobile park had been out for over 24

PALM SPRINGS – Two cars are now stuck in a wash in Palm Springs. Palm Springs Police tell News Channel 3 a cargot stuck in the wash at the intersection of Golf Club Drive and Bolero in Palm Springs. That is about a block south of Dinah Shore, and just north of Highway 111 in

COACHELLA – A man armed with a knife held up a convenience store in Coachella, this afternoon. The store clerk tells police it happened around 12:30pm at the Super Rancho Market at 6th Street and Vine in Coachella. The man left the store heading north, and was spotted by neighbors who called authorities. He was

By News Channel 3newsline3@kesq.com PALM SPRINGS -Warner Engdahl, a founding member of the organization that is now known as Desert AIDS Project, passed away yesterday. “Warner helped to found the Community Counseling and Consultation Center, back in 1984 when the word ‘AIDS’ was rarely spoken above a whisper, much the way cancer had been regarded

KESQ.com News Services PALM SPRINGS -A temporary Palm Springs courthouse set up to handle a backlog of civil cases is being closed because of cost concerns and because the backlog has been reduced, Riverside County’s chief judge announced today. The Autry Court, set up in September 2008 in the Gene Autry Trail Business Park at

PALM DESERT – It’s times like these when social media takes a new meaning. Over the last week, the Coachella Valley has been inundated by torrential rains on the valley floor, flooding near the Salton Sea, and snow in the high desert. In each instance, people grabbed their cameras, cell phones, and camcorders, and sent