Month: June 2010

A memorial will be held in Los Angeles for a California Highway Patrol officer who was struck and killed on a freeway shoulder. The public service for motorcycle Officer Phillip Ortiz is being held Monday morning at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown. Ortiz, a 28-year veteran, was issuing a ticket

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department says they’re part of the search for a 65-year-old hiker, missing for 5 days in Joshua Tree National Park. Sheriff spokesperson Herlinda Valenzuela says William Ewasko was reported missing by family members on Friday after he went for a hike the day before, and didn’t come back or call as

A 9-hour standoff is over, and a parolee is in custody,according to Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies. This brings an end to a day where 20 homes were evacuated, as a precaution. Deputies responded at 10am to a call reporting a man had barricaded himself inside a home on Sundown Lane in Coachella, today, with someone

Rachel Begley, the daugher of one of the Octopus Murder victims says Deputy Attorney General Mike Murphy told her the charges against James “Jimmy” Hughes would be dropped Thursday morning because of lack of evidence and due process. According to Begley Murphy said, ‘Well we’re just gonna go ahead and drop the charges and Jimmy

The California Highway Patrol says drivers are still holding on to their phones. It’s no surprise to Rosie Bricker. She sees it happening all the time. “Sometimes I want to say ‘HANG UP’ but sometimes they get upset or you don’t know what to expect.” And, Rosie isn’t alone. “I saw somebody the other day,

Riverside County Democratic Party filed a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging the June 8 election results, according to County Supervisor John Benoit. Read: Democratic Party Lawsuit Challenging June 8 Election He says their lawsuit centers around the 12,500 ballots from Moreno Valley that were mailed in, and not picked up from the post office by the

Desert Hot Springs police confirm they were searching for a person of interest in connection with the stabbing death of Jose Villalobos. On Wednesday, they searched the area of Palm and Pierson, and have shut down some roadways between 2nd street and Cahuilla on Palm Drive, wrapping up their search shortly before 5pm. The deadly

Surveillance footage showing two men in a white van stealing a trailer was released today by Palm Springs police. The trailer was taken around 4 p.m. June 18 from the rear of D.I. Electric at 705 Eugene Road, said Sgt. Mitch Spike of the Palm Springs Police Department. Detectives hope someone will recognize the white

The Morongo Band of Mission Indians today will celebrate the opening of its first grade school, which tribal officials say will prepare students for admittance to the country’s “top” universities. Morongo Elementary School will serve tribal children in kindergarten through sixth grade, with plans to expand the learning center to include a junior high and

A Lowe’s home improvement store was evacuated today after an employee reported finding a suspicious-looking metal box inside the business, a sheriff’s deputy said. Deputies and a hazardous device team were dispatched about 9:30 a.m. to the Lowe’s at 30472 Haun Road, said Sgt. Doug Payne of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. An employee found

Debido a trabajos de ampliacin y construccin del puente hoy mircoles de 9:00 p.m. a 5:00 a.m. de maana jueves todos los carriles con rumbo al oeste de la I-10 estarn cerrados al trnsito a la altura de la rampa de la calle Palm Drive y Gene Autrey Trail. Maana jueves de 8:00 p.m. a

Un popular actor y cantante surcoreano se suicid el mircoles afligido por presiones profesionales mientras cuidaba de su padre desahuciado, dijo la polica. Se cree que Park Yong-ha, de 33 aos, se ahorc “impulsivamente” con el cable de su videocmara en su casa de Sel horas despus de llegar intoxicado, dijeron las autoridades en un

Una historia inspirada en el trgico final del boxeador argentino Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena llega a la gran pantalla en una pelcula de Hollywood protagonizada por Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci y el actor espaol Sergio Peris-Mencheta, quien entra por la puerta grande a la Meca del cine en el papel del pgil cado en desgracia. “Pues

Una nueva vacuna contra la meningitis ayudar a prevenir las epidemias en Africa por primera vez, revolucionando la forma en la que los mdicos luchan contra los brotes de la enfermedad mortal, dijeron autoridades de salud. La meningitis, una infeccin potencialmente mortal de las membranas que rodean el cerebro y la mdula espinal, afecta a

La ms grande organizacin de defensa de derechos civiles de Estados Unidos est informando a los viajeros sobre sus derechos constitucionales en caso de que vayan a Arizona este fin de semana largo y sean cuestionados por las autoridades por parecer indocumentados. “Es indispensable que las personas tengan claro sus derechos antes de viajar a

Palm Springs police hope surveillance photos will help them capture a man wanted for taking off in someone else’s car at a Palm Springs gas station. Witnesses tell police it happened at 7pm on Sunday night. They say the suspect was seen talking to a man who was driving a 1965 Chevrolet Corvair at the

Palm Springs Police have a woman in custody after she took officers on a high-speed chase early Wednesday morning through downtown Palm Springs. The chase started at 1:13am at Denny’s on North Palm Canyon, when a Palm Springs police officer using an automatic license plate reader was alerted to a stolen car in the parking

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California issued a travel advisory today for people planning to visit Arizona, claiming the state’s law cracking down on illegal immigration could lead to problems for some tourists. ACLU officials said that while the Arizona immigration law has not yet taken effect, they are concerned some law enforcement

Hundreds of law enforcement officers joined with family and friends in downtown Los Angeles today to say a final goodbye to California Highway Patrol Officer Philip Ortiz, who died 13 days after being struck during a traffic stop on the San Diego (405) Freeway. Ortiz, 48, died at 5:50 p.m. June 22 at Ronald Reagan