Month: February 2010

By News Channel 3newsline3@kesq.com PALM DESERT -A local dance instructor is out of jail after posting bail,facing several child sex charges. Police say Karl Green had sex with a child, and may have triedmore times with under-age girls while working at several dance studios around the Coachella Valley. Police arrested Green at his La Quinta

LOS ANGELES -City and airport officials broke ground today on the expansion of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX — one of the largest public works projects in the history of Los Angeles. Dubbed the Bradley West Project, the effort is expected to cost $1.5 billion and create 4,000 construction-related jobs. The project will

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. -Twinkie cheese dogs could part of the seventh-inning stretch at a Michigan minor league ball park. Officials of the West Michigan Whitecaps are asking fans to vote on new concession-stand offerings. One possibility is the Twinkie cheese dog. It’s a hot dog stuck in a Twinkie and covered with cheese. Last year’s

NEW YORK -Terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazihas pleaded guilty in New York City to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. The 25-year-old former Denver airport shuttle driver also pleaded guilty Monday to counts of conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support for a terrorist organization. He faces a life prison

SACRAMENTO -California’s insurance regulator says his office has found more than 700 violations by Anthem Blue Cross, the state’s largest for-profit health provider. Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner says the violations include late payment of claims, giving misleading information to consumers and failing to cooperate with regulators. The Thousand Oaks-based company faces a maximum $10,000 penalty

By News Channel 3newsline3@kesq.com PALM DESERT -Due to weather conditions, paving and striping improvements on Monterey Avenue at the intersections with Frank Sinatra and Gerald Ford Drives has been delayed one day. Therefore, construction of intersection paving will occur on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 thru Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Revised Intersection Paving Dates: Tuesday, February

INDIO -A woman faces charges after allegedly breaking into a pawn shop early Saturday morning. Just before 3:00a.m.,an officer spotted a hole in the side of at Rocky’s Pawn Shop, near the cornerof Fargo St. and Bliss Ave., according to Ben Guitron of the Indio Police Department. A canine unit reported to the scene, searched

WASHINGTON – Rep. Ron Paul won the most support for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination in an unofficial straw poll of conservative activists attending an annual conference. A libertarian from Texas who has railed against spending and the Federal Reserve, Paul won the Saturday contest at the Conservative Political Action Conference with 31 percent backing.

WASHINGTON – The nation’s governors are on the recession’s front lines and they’re struggling to chart the road ahead. Their states are staggering from unrelenting joblessness and cut-to-the-bone budgets even as Washington reports signs of economic growth. Republican Jim Douglas of Vermont, chairman of the National Governors Association, says “the worst probably is yet to

INDIO – A demolition derby driver is recovering after being rushed to the hospital following a frightening crash. The crash happened at 3:25 p.m. Sunday afternoon. According to witnesses, the driver attempted to hit another car during an exhibition at the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival. Instead, his car launched over the other

NEAR DESERT HOT SPRINGS – The California Highway Patrol is investigating a deadly crash that happenedSaturday nightnear Desert Hot Springs. It happenedjust before 11:30 p.m.on Dillon and Langlois Road. That’s where officers say a pickup truck heading eastbound,wastraveling at a high rate of speed, when it swerved across the westbound lanes, flipping and hitting a

WASHINGTON – The director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has died after suffering chest pains while skiing in Colorado. Sam Hamilton was 54. The 30-year veteran of the agency, who assumed its top post in September, died Saturday afternoon after being transported off the Keystone Ski Area. Joanne Richardson, Summit County coroner, says

CENTURY CITY- “The Hurt Locker” writer Mark Boal tonight won the Writers Guild Award for best original screenplay, while “Up in the Air” writers Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner won for best adapted screenplay, based on the novel by Walter Kim. The other nominees for best original screenplay were James Cameron for “Avatar,” Joel and

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts have gotten permission to land back in Florida. Mission Control informed commander George Zamka on Sunday night that the weather has improved at Kennedy Space Center and will be acceptable for a landing. Endeavour is scheduled to touch down at 7:20 p.m. PST. At

TYLER, Texas – Federal authorities say two men have been charged with setting an east Texas church on fire and are suspected in a string of similar blazes this year. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesman Tom Crowley says 19-year-old Jason Robert Bourque and 21-year-old Daniel George McAllister were charged Sunday with felony

MARJAH, Afghanistan – A NATO official in Afghanistan says coalition forces could have swept through a Taliban-dominated town “in a couple days,” but at the cost of many more lives. As it is, U.S. and Afghan troops are in their second week of fighting against an entrenched enemy in Marjah. Taliban fighters have been seen

WASHINGTON – Some Toyota dealers are rattled by the company’s recall problems. Some dealerships nearly hired the crisis public relations firm that represented socialite Paris Hilton, singer Chris Brown – and a company that California has called the state’s worst inland polluter. Toyota is running a lobbying and advertising battle to protect its name. Meanwhile,

WASHINGTON – New documents shared with congressional investigators show that Toyota officials boasted saving $100 million by successfully negotiating with the government on a limited recall over complaints of sudden acceleration. The documents were turned over to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and were obtained by The Associated Press on Sunday. In an

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is set to release a new version of a health care overhaul bill as soon as Monday. The White House is expected to post the proposed bill on its Web site, ahead of President Barack Obama’s televised health care summit later this week. The plan will likely require most Americans

WASHINGTON – California’s Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is hitting back at members of his party for attacking President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan. Schwarzenegger says last year’s $862 billion stimulus plan is “terrific” and has created 150,000 jobs in his state and says that Republicans who criticize the recovery measure while seeking stimulus dollars for