Month: May 2010

More than a dozen Palm Springs city workers have received pink slips, including workers from the City Clerk’s office, Building Planning, Street Maintenance and Public Works. Meanwhile, budget cuts are also hitting the city’s fire department. City leaders are trying to cut more than $7 million dollars from the budget. That’s why fire station number

The newest version of the Cabazon Elementary School mascot will be dedicated Friday morning. It was back in January when vandals broke into the school causing thousands of dollars of damage. Perhaps the most emotional loss was the school’s dinosaur mascot. The community raised nearly $4,000 to rebuild it. A new dinosaur was delivered to

A juvenile inmate tried to escape by jumping out of a moving van on Interstate 10 near Palm Springs today but was quickly taken back into custody, authorities said. The 17-year-old boy picked a door lock around 1 p.m. as the van was westbound on I-10 at Indian Canyon Drive, said Alan Crogan, chief probation

A couple from Bermuda Dunes are the proud parents of four babies. Scott and Cari Young gave birth to a set of quadruplets on Wednesday. The one girl and three boys are healthy, stable, and remain under care at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs. The names have

A former Banning police officer, his father and two friends are facing insurance fraud charges for filing claims on a pickup truck that was reported stolen, but which allegedly was actually hidden by the defendants. Travis Earl Jones, 24, Jeffrey Earl Jones, 52, Ernest Leite, 44, and Steven Kyle Mestas, 31, were arrested April 30

The Riverside County Sheriff’s office confirms Kennedy’s Market, owned by Coachella City Councilman Gilbert Ramirez, was broken into Thursday morning, A worker says thousands of dollars in cash and items in the market were stolen in the theft, which happened early in the morning before the store opened. The market is located at Monroe street

The turbulence continued in the stock market Friday, a day after some of the most volatile trading in history. Traders looked past a surprisingly strong report on the U.S. jobs market and focused instead on Europe’s spreading debt crisis and Thursday’s plunge, which gave the Dow its largest-ever drop. The Dow fell almost 1,000 points

El Departamento del Sheriff ya revel los nombres de tres criminales que encabezan la lista de lo ms buscados del Valle de Coachella. Se trata de Jorge Aguilar de 69 aos quien de 1996 a 1997 forz a una nia de 8 aos a tocar sus genitales, Aguilar admiti los hechos t se dio a

La Comisin de Valores de Estados Unidos (SEC por su sigla en ingls) abri una investigacin por el repentino derrumbe de los mercados accionarios el jueves, dijo el viernes una fuente con conocimiento del tema. El jueves, la SEC y la Comisin de Negociacin de Futuros de Materias Primas dijeron que estaban trabajando junto a

San Bernardino County firefighters responded to a house fire call, Thursday, to find the home fully engulfed in flames and a 17-year-old suffering burns. The fire broke out around 7:10pm Thursday night, and was reported by a pastor that lives nearby and saw the smoke and flames. The fire department tells News Channel 3 the

Windows shot out at a sheriff’s substation in Mecca did not appear to be connected to recent, unsolved attacks on Hemet law enforcement, a sheriff’s deputy said today. A deputy discovered the windows had been shot out around 7:30 a.m. at the unoccupied substation at 91260 Avenue 66, said Deputy Herlinda Valenzuela of the Riverside

With the judge unavailable, sentencing was postponed today for a Cabazon couple who let their diabetic teenage daughter’s condition deteriorate until she slipped into a coma and died. On March 24, a Riverside jury found Gregory Lee Latham, 63, and Yvonne Dee Latham, 53, guilty of second-degree murder, child endangerment and a sentence-enhancing allegation of

El cineasta Robert Rodrguez dej claro su rechazo a la nueva y controversial ley de inmigracin de Arizona al difundir un avance especial de su nueva pelcula de accin. Fox no estrenar “Machete” sino hasta septiembre, pero Rodrguez colg el mircoles en internet un avance presentado por el protagonista Danny Trejo, quien dice que el

(Por CNN En Espanol) El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos extendi este jueves la alerta de viajes hacia Mxico debido a los altos niveles de violencia producto del narcotrfico. La dependencia estadounidense agreg que contina en vigor la salida autorizada de dependientes de funcionarios estadounidenses en los consulados fronterizos de Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Jurez,

Asaltan el negocio y casa de Gilbert Ramrez Jr., los rateros se llevaron ms de $100 mil dlares en efectivo, joyera y pagars, adems de $20 mil dlares en mercanca, segn el reporte de la polica. El atraco sucede dos meses despus del incidente en el que Ramrez deton su pistola a un sujeto que

El Departamento de Polica de Rancho Mirage anunci que hoy viernes a partir de las 7:00 p.m. y hasta las 3:00 a.m. de maana sbado se estar llevando a cabo un retn de sobriedad en un punto de la ciudad no revelado. Todo es con el fin de mantener fuera de las calles a conductores

? El guardameta colombiano Miguel Calero, presenta una infeccin en el hmero del brazo izquierdo, por lo que queda fuera de la Liguilla ? Ya estn listos los rbitros para los juegos de vuelta de los cuartos de final ? Con el objetivo de concentrarse a fondo para el duelo frente al Toluca, el equipo

An overnight fire on Calle Marcus in Palm Springs was put out quickly by Palm Springs Fire crews. Three unts responded to 1440 Calle Marcus at 2:50am, where they found smoke pouring from the attic area of the home. Fire crews say the fire was extinguished by crews working from the interior of the structure

It’s seven in the morning and, like many people, Federico Santos starts his day by preparing breakfast for his family. The eggs are cooked sunny side up and the tortillas are being heated on the pan. His family gathers around a small table and enjoy the first meal of the day. The reality is, it

The Desert Sands Unified School District has less money to teach your children – money is tight and teachers’ jobs are on the line. The Desert Sands Teachers’ Association is pointing the finger of blame at the district. In a letter, the DSTA calls the DSUSD board “corrupt” and “incompetent.” “I felt a deliberate attempt