Month: March 2010

INDIO –The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is taking a hard look at the circumstances surrounding the escape of a suspect Thursday. Deputies arrested Jose Angel Ramos and Juan Adrian Lopez for an armed home invasion robbery in Mecca early in the morning. They were taken to the sheriff’s Indio station for questioning, but Ramos got

MURIETTA – A teenager was charged with murder today in the death of a 17-year-old boy who was shot to death, dismembered and burned in a backyard bonfire in Hemet. He pleaded not guilty in court, this afternoon. Jose Manuel Campos, 18, who was 17 at the time of Adrian Rios’ Nov. 15 murder, will

PALM SPRINGS – A man was run over and fatally injured by a vehicle today as he was walking on a sidewalk in a Palm Springs neighborhood, according to authorities. The accident was reported at 9:54 a.m. on North Farrell Drive at Tachevah Drive, said Palm Springs Fire Department Battalion Chief Jon Merriam. The pedestrian

SANTA ANA -Orange County prosecutors are expected to file a lawsuit against Toyota on Friday because of continuing problems with their vehicles. District Attorney Tony Rackauckas says the company continues to endanger the public through sale of defective vehicles and deceptive business practices. Rackauckas is expected to announce the lawsuit at a press conference Friday

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Cathedral City – Cathedral City firefighters are hoping to question several transients living near a Cathedral City business. They say one of them may have started the fire at FlooringInnovations on Highway 111. The fire broke out just after 10p.m. in the back lot of the building. Wooden pallets and used carpeting were fully engulfed

LA QUINTA – A few schools in the Desert Sands Unified School District are wrestling for more money. The Empire Wrestling Federation is putting on a wrestling show fundraiser later this month at La Quinta High School. It’s not only the pros that are getting in on the action, the principal of Amelia Earhart Elementary

PALM SPRINGS- The Palm Springs Unified School District Board members Tuesday night voted in favor oflaying off62 teacher. Thereductionmeans larger classrooms and less one on one attention for students. The Board voted unanimously in an effort to close an $8 milliondeficit. Board member, Justin Blake, says “The fat is gone, we’re cutting bone and it

COACHELLA– Police saya woman got a knock at her Coachella home around 11:30am Tuesday morning. When she opened the door, 2 armed men forced their way inside. They locked the woman and her two children in a back room while they ransacked the home. They took some jewelry and cash and got away. “It’s kinda

PALM DESERT – Run-away acceleration continues to plague Toyota.The automaker and federal officials are investigating why a Prius ran out of control on a San Diego Freeway. Jim Sikes says he was driving his 2008 Prius on Interstate 8 on Monday when the car accelerated on its own. He called 9-1-1 and a C-H-P officer

The City of Los Angeles got the message;not in our backyard. A project to get electricity to LA-through power lines cutting through Desert Hot Springs, Pioneertown and Oak Glen is off the table.In Yucca Valley Wednesday,the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced it was scraping its plans on theGreen Path North Project.The idea

HEMET – Police in Hemet announced the arrest of a teenage fugitive suspected in the shooting death of a boy whose body was burned in a bonfire last November. Jose Manuel Campos and his girlfriend Felicia Sharp, who were both 17 at the time of the murder, were picked up in Mexico and were expected

We’re glad you asked. There are only two kinds of physicians qualified to be licensed for the unlimited practice of medicine in all 50 states: those holding the M.D. degree, and those who have earned the D.O. – Doctor of osteopathic medicine – degree. Osteopathic physicians perform surgery, deliver babies and prescribe medicine in hospitals

Dr. Bernard was born and raised in the Midwest, one of five children in an old time general physician’s family. He received his undergraduate degree with a teaching certificate from Michigan State University. After a short stint teaching, Dr. Bernard moved his own young family to Texas where he was involved with cancer research and

LA QUINTA – A busload of high school studentscheer and wave as drivers pass them at the intersection of Eisenhower Drive and Calle Sinaloa. They sound thrilled to be out of school, but the situation that left them strandedWednesday is a bit more serious. “Iwas sitting next to my friend Kyrie,” recalls tenth-grader Mysha Cunningham,

RANCHO MIRAGE- It took firefighters 3 1/2 hours to extinguish 15 palm trees on fire in a remote area of Magnesia springs inside the Mountain Park in Rancho Mirage Monday afternoon. The fire started just after 2:30p.m southwest of Bob Hope Drive and Highway 111. Firefighters had to hike several miles in from the trail

COACHELLA VALLEY – The wind may not move mountains, but it certainly moved everything else Tuesday. A chain link fence in Palm Desert toppled over like dominoes. The sand bags obviously were useless. In Indian Wells at the BNP Paribas Open, wind was a concern as the men’s qualifying rounds were set to begin at

KESQ is giving away tickets to the La Quinta Arts Festival! The La Quinta Arts Festival takes place March 11-14th, at La Quinta’s Civic Center Campus. La Quinta Arts Festival is nationally recognized by artists and art patrons alike as one of the renowned art festivals in the nation! This is a one-day contest, so

El Monterrey, actual campeón del fútbol mexicano, viajó a Colombia sin el volante Luis Ernesto Pérez y el delantero Aldo de Nigris, ambos lesionados, para enfrentar el miércoles próximo al Once Caldas colombiano dentro del marco de la Libertadores Andrés Farsi descarta cualquier posibilidad de cambio en la dirección técnica de los Tuzos El Vicepresidente

HOLLYWOOD – The Academy Awards went according to expectations, as the Iraq war drama “The Hurt Locker” was named best picture and Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock took home the top acting awards. “The Hurt Locker” won a total of six Oscars during the 82nd annual ceremony, out-dueling the 3-D fantasy “Avatar” to win the