Month: August 2010

A parolee was arrested today on suspicion of possessing a stolen car in Cathedral City. David Olivera, 29, of Cathedral City, was arrested around 8:45 a.m. in the 68600 block of D Street, said Sgt. Dave Hatfield of the Cathedral City Police Department. An officer tried to pull over a black Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck

Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a home near Desert Hot Springs Tuesday afternoon after a man was found at the bottom of a swimming pool. It happened at 2:26 p.m.on the 17000 block of Mountain View in Desert Hot Springs. Deputies said a 57-year-old man was swimming with friends, and the friends went inside

A psychologist determined that a Cathedral City man accused in the ambush shooting death of a drug dealer in Desert Hot Springs is not mentally fit to stand trial, prompting a prosecutor today to ask for a second doctor’s opinion. Curtis Lee Drake, 20, faces charges of first-degree murder, burglary and attempted robbery in the

California GOP Senate challenger Carly Fiorina says the group planning to build an Islamic center near ground zero in New York should move it to another location. She told reporters on Tuesday in Sacramento that the issue was not about religious freedom. Rather, she says it is about being sensitive to those who suffered in

A major off-road race across federal wilderness in Nevada will go forward even as critics charge that last weekend’s racing tragedy on Bureau of Land Management territory in California shows the agency is unable to ensure safety. The TSCO Vegas to Reno race will be run on Friday, a week after eight spectators were killed

Despus de una excelente investigacin, ayer lunes a las 6:00 a.m. inici un operativo en el que se localizaron dos plantos de marihuana. En el primero, en la falda de las montaas San Jacinto se decomisaron 5 mil plantas de seis pies de alto, a cuatro millas de distancia se encontr el segundo sembrado con

A federal judge has pinned the financial collapse of the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club on its founder, former Rancho Mirage resident Tim Blixseth, but says he doesn’t have to repay all its debts. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Ralph Kirscher says in a 135-page ruling issued Thursday that Blixseth siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from the private

Ayer lunes a las 5:09 p.m. los bomberos sofocaron un incendio en un edificio abandonado ubicado sobre Ramon Road en Palm Springs. Por fortuna no se reportaron vctima. El origen del siniestro es investigado.

A retired Palm Springs police officer drew a gun a parolee who was arrested today on suspicion of trying to burglarize two homes in Cathedral City. Steven Turgeon, 42, of Yucca Valley, was taken into custody about 10:30 a.m. at a home in the 28000 block of Avenida Primavera, Cathedral City police Sgt. Dave Hatfield

Ayer lunes alrededor de las 3:30 p.m. un hombre que estaba asustando pjaros con una escopeta, resbal y accidentalmente se dispar en el estmago. De inmediato fue transportado al hospital va helicptero. El incidente ocurri en un rancho ubicado sobre Polk Street en Thermal.

Ayer lunes a las 9:15 p.m. se report un tiroteo en un complejo de apartamentos en Mecca. Cuando un oficial del sheriff lleg al lugar, le dispararon a la patrulla, la bala atraves la ventana de la unidad y por suerte no hiri al polica que de inmediato fue apoyado por ms oficiales. Seis sujetos

La compaa Americanos USA, subsidiario de Grey Hound confirm que no tiene planes de mudarse a nuevas instalaciones en Palm Springs, actualmente Greyhound tiene un contrato con la ciudad por $1300 dlares mensuales de realizar su parada en la estacin del tren que tambin es utilizado por Amtrak. El contrato se vence en 2011 y

A tracking firm says home sales in Southern California plummeted more than 21 percent last month from July 2009, their biggest drop in more than two years. San Diego-based MDA DataQuick said Tuesday that the drop from about 24,100 homes in July 2009 to around 19,000 homes last month came as federal tax credits that

Television stations KESQ, KDFX, and KUNA are negotiating a new satellite carriage agreement with the DIRECTV satellite service. Unfortunately, the negotiations are currently at an impasse and our contract expires at 12:00 Noon next Monday August 23, 2010. If you are a DIRECTV subscriber and a new agreement is not reached, you will not be

A man was fatally shot in the head in Indio today, police said. The shooting on Vargas Road, south of Gemini Street and Date Avenue, was reported at 12:18 a.m. Indio police spokesman Ben Guitron said. Officers found a man who appeared to be in his 20s or 30s with a gunshot wound to the

A man suspected in a vehicle pursuit in Desert Hot Springs was behind bars today, while a parolee who also was in the car remained at-large, police reported. The chase began about 7:54 p.m. Saturday in the area of Hacienda Avenue and Calle Las Tiendas when an officer tried to pull over a vehicle with

A Riverside man pushed two children out of the way of a careening truck, but was among the seven people killed at an off-road vehicle race at a desert dry lake in San Bernardino County, his friend said today. Andrew Therrin, 22, was pronounced dead at the scene, the San Bernardino County coroner said at

Fire crews from Palm Springs, Cal Fire, Riverside County and the U.S. Forest Service are at the base of Mt. San Jacinto battling a brush fire that broke out Sunday morning. It burned 30 acres, according to fire officials. News Channel 3’s crew on the scene reported the fire had spread half way up the

Same-sex couples in the Coachella Valley and across California will have to wait until at least December before they can get married, a federal appeals court panel ruled today. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals announced that it would hold a hearing in early December on whether it would even

A man accidentally shot himself in the stomach today while shooting at birds on a ranch north of Oasis, but he was expected to survive, a sheriff’s deputy said. The man managed to get to a ranch house at 68255 Polk St. to seek help around 3:15 p.m., said Deputy Melissa Nieburger of the Riverside