Month: March 2010

The news is still sinking infor the winnersat Sundaynight’s Academy Awards.The night belonged to KathrynBigelow’s film “The Hurt Locker.”The motion picture won 6 Oscars including best picture and best director. In winning the best director award,Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to pull off the feat.News Channelspoke with a couple of local women film makers.They’re

INDIAN WELLS – Watching some of the world’s best tennis players up close is one reason the Grimes family keeps coming back to the BNP Paribas Open. It’s their second time. “At the bigger events, they’re so sealed off from the public, you rarely get autographs from bigger players,” says Allen Grimes, from Yuma, Arizona.

Monterrey llegó por primera vez a cinco victorias en torneos cortos, su marca de todos los tiempos es de ocho de la campaña 1963-64 Jaguares puso fin a su racha de 16 partidos seguidos sin ganar en casa, además no anotaba goles desde Octubre de 2008 Guadalajara sufrió su primera derrota del torneo, la marca

BEVERLY HILLS – Here is a list of nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards, which will be presented tonight at the Kodak Theatre. Best Picture (10 nominees) –“Avatar,” James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers –“The Blind Side,” nominees to be determined –“District 9,” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, producers –“An Education,” Finola Dwyer and Amanda

PALM DESERT/INDIO – Hundreds walk in two different locations to fight two different diseases, but their goal is the same. “We definitely want to find a cure,” says Susan Rudenick whose mother had Alzheimer’s. “My ultimate goal is to find a cure,” says Mirna Flores, Indio Relay For Life Team Development Chairperson. At the Memory

LOS ANGELES – “Alice in Wonderland” shattered records for the normally-sleepy midwinter box office, and is expected to open with $116.3 million in North American receipts, Hollywood.com estimated today. The Tim Burton-Johnny Depp collaboration is the sixth-largest opening film ever, and the first movie ever to top the $100 million domestic water mark in any

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Hundreds of sled dogs and thousands of fans have lined up along Anchorage’s Fourth Avenue for the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The 16-dog teams leap and bark when it’s their turn to leave the chute for an 11-mile run across Alaska’s largest city. The actual competition will

SEAL BEACH – The first commissioning of a warship in Orange County was held Saturdayat U.S. Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach. The U.S.S. Dewey features the most technologically advanced air defense systems and can carry two helicopters, station spokesman Gregg Smith said. The U.S.S. Dewey’s home port will be in San Diego. The Seal Beach

NEW YORK – Cablevision’s 3.1 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are enjoying the Academy Awards telecast Sunday night. The signal was restored after the cable operator reached a deal with ABC’s parent company in a dispute over fees. Cablevision Systems Corp. spokesman Charles Schueler says “It is a deal that is

CABAZON – Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies are looking for two suspects involved in a robbery at the outlet malls near Cabazon. It happened yesterday afternoon around 12:40 p.m.on the 48650 block of Seminole Drive. Deputies say a man walked up to two women asking for change. When one of the ladies was pulling out change,

SUN CITY PALM DESERT – Cal-Fire is working to contain a house fire inside Del Webb Sun City. The fire was reported at 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Crews reported seeing a home well-involved with flames when they arrived. A hazardous materials team was also called to the scene, but officials have not confirmed if any dangerous

INDIO – A storm that brought a quarter-inch of rain flooded roads Sunday in Indio. Showers started around 8 a.m. and will likely continue until this evening, said Stefanie Sullivan, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service. This latest storm brought the Coachella Valley’s rainfall to a total of 5.26 inches so far this calendar

ESCONDIDO – Skeletal remains found in Pala were those of missing Escondido teenager Amber Dubois, the Escondido Police Department announced Sunday. Amber was 14 when she went missing more than a year ago while walking to Escondido High School. Despite a months-long search by law enforcement, family and volunteers, her body was not found until

CONCEPCION, Chile – While a poll suggests most Chileans are not happy with their government’s response to last weekend’s devastating earthquake, aid experts say they’re impressed with the speed of the disaster response. The newspaper El Mercurio found 72 percent of Chileans polled believe the response was slow and inefficient. And 48 percent said they

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – U.S. troops are withdrawing from the earthquake-shattered capital of Haiti. Many Haitians are anxious that the most visible portion of international help is ending even as Port-au-Prince is still mired in misery and vulnerable to unrest. Haitians and some aid workers are wondering if U.N. peacekeepers and local police are up to

WASHINGTON – Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says health care reform would have been “dead on arrival” if the White House had sent a finished proposal to Congress last year. The secretary also blames delays in passing the measure on President Barack Obama’s having to spend “far too much time talking about what’s not in the

BEAUMONT – A fire in a Beaumont apartment sent two adults and an infant to a hospital Sunday, firefighters said. The blaze was reported at 8:14 a.m. in a six-unit building at 600 E. Fifth St. Eight people were evacuated and one family — two adults and an infant — were rushed to the San

OAKLAND – Oakland homicide detectives are looking for leads after a string of deadly shootings in just a 48-hour period. Police say the violence began Thursday night when 31-year-old Mohamed Diop was shot to death on an Oakland street near his home. Then around 2:35 p.m. Friday, police say 29-year-old Victor Johns and 56-year-old John

LOS ANGELES – Reports from Pakistan that an arrest was made of a Riverside County native — who became the international spokesman for Al Qaeda — proved to be the product of confusion in Karachi. Adam Gadahn, who grew up on an Inland Empire goat ranch, was reported to have been arrested by Pakistani intelligence

PALM SPRINGS – Cannahelp was expected to open Friday morning. Instead Southern California Edison shut down power to the entire building. Code enforcement halted progress Thursday over concerns of bad wiring and unsafe heat lamps used to grow the medical marijuana. The dispensary shares the building with Andy Brakebill’s printing business. The sudden decision is