Month: July 2010

Uri Libertad watched a video tribute Thursday she plans to play during her daughter’s funeral. Jennifer Hawkins, 27, was a working mother and student without medical insurance who was taken off life-support at Loma Linda Medical Center earlier this month. “They basically told us they weren’t going to do anything else for her,” Libertad said.

Alrededor de unos 160 estudiantes de High School que no completaron sus crditos para graduarse cuando finaliz el ao escolar en Junio tuvieron la oportunidad de obtener los crditos y ayer jueves se graduaron en La Quinta High School en una ceremonia muy emotiva y que les da la oportunidad de continuar sus estudios.

La polica est tras la pista de dos sujetos enmascarados y armados que ayer jueves a las 4:20 a.m. entraron a robar a una casa ubicada sobre Austin Drive cerca de la Ave 48 en Indio. En la vivienda haba cuatro hombres, dos mujeres y cuatro nios. A los varones los amarraron y luego exigieron

La polica trabaja arduamente para atrapar al asesino de Norma Lpez de 17 aos de Moreno Valley quien el jueves 15 de Julio desapareci despus de salir de sus clases de verano cuando iba a casa de una amiga. Su cadver fue encontrado el martes pasado y la autopsia de rigor confirmo su identidad.

A Mexican law enforcement official has been charged in San Diego with using his position to help drug traffickers. Jesus Quinones, a liaison to US authorities with the Baja California attorney general’s office, was among 43 defendants named in a federal indictment unsealed Friday. The U.S. attorney’s office says Quinones arranged for rivals of the

Everett Thompson of Indio is a licensed general engineering contractor who these days doesn’t know which way to turn. Specializing in underground utility projects, he went into business in 2004 and by 2006 his company was grossing nearly 2 million dollars. But since then due to the construction crisis his company has been in a

A 17-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of starting a vegetation fire in Palm Springs, police said today. The blaze was reported at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday at Ramon and Crossley roads, said Sgt. Melissa Desmarais of the Palm Springs Police Department. The flames blackened a 10-foot by 30-foot area before firefighters put it out. No

Sheriff’s deputies were searching today for whoever has been dumping dead animals in trash bags on roadways near Temecula. Nearly 30 trash bags with animal carcasses and parts have been found over the past week in the area near state Route 79 and Anza Road, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department reported. The animals were identified

FUNERAL DONATIONS FOR JENNIFER HAWKINS CAN BE MADE TO: Rose Mortuary (For Jennifer Hawkins) 66424 Pierson Blvd Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240 or call 760-835-4145

Palm Springs police asked for donations today to save the department’s police horse program. The Mounted Enforcement Unit costs about $14,000 annually to operate, and the price to replace a horse is between $4,000 to $6,000, said Sgt. Marc Melanson of the Palm Springs Police Department. The department cut funding for the program a few

A $35,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case. If you’d like to contribute to the reward fund, you can request to donate to the fund at Wells Fargo banks. Anyone with information related to the case is urged to call the Moreno Valley Police Department hotline

The family of 17-year-old Norma Lopez used a news conference in Moreno Valley Thursday to eulogize Norma in hopes that attention could turn to finding the person who killed her. Lopez, who would have been a senior in high school, disappeared July 15 while walking home from a summer school class. Her severely decomposed body

Nearly 50 counts of forcible rape were dismissed today against a former Riverside County probation officer accused of sexually assaulting an underage relative in the 1990s. But Donald Monplaisir, 54, still faces a dozen counts of lewd acts with a child under 16, with trial set for next month. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Dale

A Los Angeles man accused of leading deputies on a chase that began in Cabazon and ended in San Bernardino County when he crashed a stolen car into a power pole was behind bars today. Alan Ho, 26, was arrested just before midnight Wednesday near Yucaipa Boulevard in Yucaipa, said Sgt. Ken Reichle of the

Two men kicked in the front door of an Indio home, tied up four people and stole a pickup truck today, but no one was hurt, police said. The home invasion robbery was reported at 4:21 a.m. in the 47900 block of Austin Drive, near Avenue 48, said Ben Guitron of the Indio Police Department.

House Republican leaders have launched a targeted fundraising appeal on behalf of two California representatives facing tough re-elections. The National Republican Congressional Committee on Thursday kicked off several days of phone calls to donors to drum up support for nine vulnerable incumbents across the country. The list includes California Reps. Dan Lungren of Sacramento and

Ayer mircoles se celebr la junta del concilio de Indio en la cual jurament el nuevo Administrador de la Ciudad, quien inicia hoy jueves sus labores como tal. Dan Martnez creci en Indio y trabaj como Director del Departamento de Desarrollo Econmico del Condado de Riverside durante 24 aos. En su junta de ayer mircoles

En su junta de ayer mircoles el concilio de Palm Springs vot unnimemente a favor de comprar un predio de 119 acres con el fin de construir un campus del College of the Desert en el rea del Tramview Road e Indian Canyon Drive. Se espera que las instalaciones estn listas en 2012.

Investigadores del Departamento de Bomberos revelaron la causa que origin el incendio que acab totalmente con una casa y destruy otra en un 80%, ambas ubicadas sobre El Dobe Road al norte de Ramon Road en Cathedral City. Un corto circuito en una extensin en el patio trasero inici las llamas que se extendieron rpidamente

Un selecto grupo de 100 alumnos del Desert Sands Unified School District y 39 del Palm Desert Unified School District estn tomando sus clases de verano por Internet bajo el programa acreditado ?Apex Learning?. El objetivo, adems de que los alumnos puedan lograr sus crditos es ahorrar dinero en un presupuesto en nmeros rojos y