Month: May 2010

Indian Wells is where one of many local ceremonies will be held on this Memorial Day. The Eisenhower Walk often includes a tour by the veterans memorial that lists the more than 650 Indian Wells residents who served in the armed forces. Among the other Memorial Day ceremonies scheduled: Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City

There was some shaking overnight, maybe you felt it. News Channel 3 got several calls into our newsroom after a 2.8 magnitude earthquake hit the area at 12:30am. The epicenter was located 6 miles northeast of Thousand Palms, and just east of Desert Hot Springs near Sky Valley. There are no reports of damage of

On its third flyby the 1944 Mitchell B-25 bomber dropped 3,000 carnations above the Palm Springs Air Museum. In World War II the vintage warbird was used for dropping bombs, but on this Memorial Day its dropping flowers. The two-thousand white ones are in honor of those killed in WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam. The

An arrest warrant has been issued for a former reality TV show producer whose wife was murdered in Mexico. According to the attorney general in Mexico, murder charges were filed against Bruce Beresford-Redman on Monday. Monica Beresford-Redman was found beaten and strangled on April 8 near a Cancun resort where she and her husband were

It was just a few weeks ago, and people were irate over Facebook privacy policy. So much so that a movement was spawned – urging people to get rid of their Facebook accounts altogether. But “Quit Facebook Day” may come and go without many people noticiing. One reason for this, says Time Magazine, is the

Two teens were behind bars today in connection with a gang-related shooting at a home in Palm Desert, a sheriff’s sergeant said. The 16- and 17-year-olds were arrested Thursday and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and negligent discharge of a firearm, said Sgt. Adam Elders of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

A motorist was injured today in a head-on crash in Mecca that blocked traffic for over an hour, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash was reported at 7:42 a.m. at Grapefruit Boulevard at state Route 195. Passing motorists told the CHP that a sedan and an SUV crashed head-on and the SUV overturned.

After 43 years at KABC-TV, veteran Inland Empire reporter Bob Banfield is retiring at age 79. The station paid tribute to Banfield Thursday with photos and clips from his many years on the air. Banfield got his start in broadcasting at age 18 at a tiny radio station in his hometown of East Liverpool, Ohio.

City officials said tattoo shops inspired an ordinance under consideration by the City Council. It would stop any new tattoo businesses from opening along Highway 111 and El Paseo Rd. There are 5 of those businesses – all within a mile or two along Highway 111. Ron Sharp, owner of 111 Tattoo, said feels the

After our reports with the employee of the Sea Mountain Inn confirming the business provided a playroom for people to have sex in surfaced, many said a new spa in the City modeled itself after Sea Mountain Spa. The owner of Areolas Tantric Spa and Resort, Jim Bendis insists it is not. On Thursday night

A security guard-turned-preacher accused in a 1981 triple homicide in Rancho Mirage is due in court for a felony settlement conference today. James “Jimmy” Hughes faces charges of conspiracy and murder in the deaths of Ralph Arthur Boger, 42, Patricia Roberta Castro, 44, and Alfred Alvarez, 32, who was vice chairman of the Cabazon Band

Firefighters made quick work, putting out a fire at the intersection of Belardo and Ramon Road in Palm Springs on Friday afternoon. The call came in at 3:29pm, and crews had to evacuate hikers from the Taqhuitz Canyon area to get them to safety. If you have pictures of the fire, click here to send

The roads were flooded with drivers headed out of the valley for Memorial Day weekend Friday, and the California Highway Patrol beefed up patrols to enforce its ‘2010 Click it or Ticket Campaign.’ CHP will also assist other agencies that are holding DUI checkpoints. DUI deaths have dropped more than 20 percent since 2005, but,

Attorneys on both sides said today they needed more time to prepare for a preliminary hearing for the onetime head of security for the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, who allegedly killed a tribal leader and two other people in 1981. James “Jimmy” Hughes faces murder and conspiracy charges in the deaths of Ralph Arthur

A tanker truck that overturned and exploded today on the eastbound Riverside (91) Freeway near the Corona (71) Expressway was involved in a chain-reaction crash that resulted in no serious injuries, authorities said. The crash involving the gas truck, another big rig and four compact vehicles occurred around 10:30 a.m., according to the California Highway

The daughter of a terminally ill Joshua Tree man will get married this afternoon in the chapel of a Palm Springs hospital so that the stage four cancer patient can witness the ceremony, a spokesman said. Terry Lukens, 66, is being treated for an inoperable brain tumor at Desert Regional Medical Center, where the 5

One person was shot, and two others wounded in a drive-by shooting that that sent a car swerving into a telephone poll, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The car hit the pole at West 7th Street and South Lion Avenue in San Jacinto at 10:31am, Friday. Authorities responded to what they thought was

Ayer jueves a las 6:28 a.m. el Departamento de Bomberos recibi una llamada que reportaba el incendio de una traila tipo vivienda ubicada en el Tri-Palm Estates de Thousand Palms. Una mujer fue transportada al hospital con quemaduras y lastimada de una rodilla en su intento por salir de la vivienda.

Hoy viernes a las 7:30 p.m. iniciar la ceremonia de graduacin de ms de 500 alumnos de College of the Desert que despus de aos entre los libros, exmenes y clases llegan a tan esperado da de graduacin. Despus se realizar una recepcin en el gimnasio del College of the Desert.

La polica arrest a un sujeto que en Mayo 17 pasado entr a una casa ubicada sobre Desert View Ave en Desert Hot Springs y se rob nueve guitarras con valor de miles de dlares. Un testigo vio el carro del malandrn y lo report a los investigadores que finalmente lo atraparon. Se trata de