Month: February 2010

PALM SPRINGS -A 12.2 percent drop in violent crimes in Palm Springs last year is due to hard work and new crime-fighting tools, the city’s police chief said today. “The dramatic decrease in crime is a direct result of the extremely hard work of all the men and women, sworn and civilian, along with your

WASHINGTON -Automotive analysts are divided over the effects of another possible Toyota recall. Toyota is considering a recall of its Corolla subcompact after complaints about power steering problems. The managing director at Advanced Research Japan says another recall would deal a major blow to the world’s largest automaker. He called it “another big, big negative.”

NEAR DESERT HOT SPRINGS -A mobile home caught fire this afternoon in a trailer park near Desert Hot Springs, but there were no injuries. Firefighters were sent around 4:30 p.m. to the Palm Drive Trailer Park at 14881 Palm Drive near 15th Avenue and quickly put out the blaze, according to broadcast reports. The American

PALM SPRINGS -An alleged child predator who used MySpace to meet girls will stand trial. Tuesday,a judge ordered 32 year old Joshua Threlkeld to stand trial on 135 counts. He’ll be in court on March 24. We first told you about Threlkeld in Octoberwhen he was first charged with kidnapping to commit rape, aggravated assault,

PALM DESERT -The Palm Springs City Council will consider tonight whether to approve a proposed restructuring of the city’s Business Improvement District. Council members will consider whether to change the way the city collects the assessment fees that fund the district, which includes uptown and downtown businesses. Under the restructuring, businesses would be charged based

YUCAIPA – A coalition of law enforcement personnel served a search warrant on the 10000 block of Sprig Avenue, and found all the makings of a cock-fighting ring. Authorities say their investigation started three months before serving the warrant after getting information from the Humane Society of the United States. They claimed the people living

COACHELLA – The Coachella Valley Water District is looking into supplying water to thousands of people living in rural parts of the east valley where unsafe drinking water is a big problem. Most of the people affected live in mobile home parks like Saint Anthony’s in Mecca. The problem,the ground water that’s drawn from private

WASHINGTON -The U.S. will open an investigation Thursday to probe possible steering issues on about 500,000 Toyota Corollas. According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration official about 363,000 Corollas from model year 2009 and 136,000 from 2010 could be affected. The NHTSA will formally announce the probe Thursday, the official said. Calls to Toyota

PALM DESERT – Three teenagers, ranging in age from 14 to 17, were arrested Wednesday morning – hours after they allegedly tried to break into a Palm Desert home while the resident was still there. It happened at 9:30 Tuesday night, according to police. Four people, armed with firearms,tried to get into the residence on

DESERT HOT SPRINGS – A police officer with a keen eye netted two men in jail and a stack of stolen property on Tuesday. Desert Hot Springs Police Officer Paul Tapia was on routine patrol when he came across what he thought were two suspicious people getting into a dark gray Ford Focus. He thought

LA QUINTA – He is known as Pastor Jesse. But, this clean-cut, sharp-dressed man once was a notorious gang member known as “Zombie.” In fact, he helped create one of the oldest gangs in Desert Hot Springs that is still active today. “I have a lot of regrets,” he says. “I wishI never did it.

REDLANDS – The U.S. Geological Survey says a 3.4 magnitude earthquake rocked the Redlands and Moreno Valley area, this afternoon. The quake hit at 1:35pm on Wednesday, and was measured 3 miles, south-southwest of Redlands. There are no reports of damage or injuries, but today’s quake follows a series of temblors to hit the same

VALLEJO -Vallejo police are still searching for a 12-year-old girl who was allegedly snatched by her biological mother Wednesday morning. Christy Adoshjuaniq had been walking home from school at about 10 a.m. on Whitney Street when she was picked up by her mother, police said. Christy called her aunt, who she was staying with while

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EAST PALO ALTO -A small plane that went down in a Northern California neighborhood, killing all three aboard, is owned by an employee of Tesla Motors Inc. The twin-engine Cessna 310 crashed in a residential area of East Palo Alto on Wednesday morning after hitting some power lines. It had just taken off from Palo

FT. LAUDERDALE -Tiger Woods will end nearly three months of silence Friday when he speaks publicly for the first time since his middle-of-the-night car accident sparked stunning revelations of infidelity. However, his agent said Woods will not take any questions from a small group of media. “This is not a press conference,” Mark Steinberg said

By News Channel 3newsline3@kesq.com PALM DESERT -We have a quick note about some possible traffic delays. In Rancho Mirage, Monterey will be down to one lane in each direction between Gerald Ford and Frank Sinatra. Crews are re-paving the roadway there. And we may be enjoying great weather right now, but the storms from a

PALM SPRINGS – Three-dimensional movies like ‘Avatar’ wowed us with it’s magical display of images. “I think the technology is here to stay,” says professor Martin Banks. Hesays if it’s done incorrectly,3D movies or 3DTV can cause eye strain and headaches for some viewers, particularly younger one. “So when you hit your 50’s and 60’s

WASHINGTON -President Barack Obama says his team has done “an outstanding job” in staving off another Great Depression. Marking the one year anniversary of the economic stimulus law, Obama praised the $787 billion recovery act. In his words, “There has never been a program of this scale, moved at this speed, that has been enacted

INDIO -Police are looking for a suspect who stabbed a homeless man at an Indio market, Tuesday night. It happened around 4:45pm at the Baja Meat Market on Van Buren, just behind the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission. Police say the victim is a 46-year old man, who does go to the rescue mission. Sheriff’s deputies