Month: August 2010

A man suspected of using a stolen key to enter a Desert Hot Springs home to steal jewelry and a laptop was behind bars today. Cristian Alberto Reynaga, 22, of Desert Hot Springs, was arrested about 6 p.m. Wednesday at his home at 62843 Kitetail Drive, said Sgt. Daniel Bressler of the Desert Hot Springs

Two earthquakes shook an area south of the Salton Sea this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The first one measured 3.7 in magnitude and hit at 7:34 a.m. about 30 miles west of El Centro and 35 miles south south-east of Borrego Springs. No one was injured. The second measured 3.4 in magnitude

Residents in the La Quinta Cove believe someone has intentionally set a string of fires in their neighborhood. Fire officials are investigating ten fires in just the last three weeks that have mostly involved garbage cans and vegetation. On August 4th, residents say someone set four fires involving trash bins and trees in front of

Firefighters put out a fire that burned a home in Indio late Wednesday night. They arrived at the home on the 8300 block of Mesquite around 11:30 p.m. They say flames shot through the roof and got up 20 to 30 feet high. About two dozen firefighters knocked out the blaze in about a half

It was another hot and dry day in the desert Wednesday. But it could have been a lot worse. Storm systems from San Diego to the high desert left several roads in Yucca Valley flooded. Thunder and lightning also lit up various pockets of the Southland. The desert heat sent many out of the valley

Fifty of the Coachella Valley’s top young readers will be honored today for their participation in a Boys and Girls Club reading program. The Boys and Girls Club of the Coachella Valley will recognize the youths who participated in its Top 50 Readers program at an 11:30 a.m. luncheon at the La Quinta Senior Center.

Fire crews were battling wildfires in Cabazon, Joshua Tree, Big Bear and several other areas on Thursday afternoon after lightning-fueled storms sparked fires in dry brush, according to Cal Fire. An air attack was launched around on a fire that broke out on the Morongo Indian Reservation north of Banning. Click here to submit your

More thunderstorms struck today over western Riverside County and the San Jacinto Mountains, dropping hail, downing utility lines, flooding valley roads and raising concerns about lightning-sparked wildfires. A late-afternoon storm system moving about 5 mph southwest from Hemet over Homeland, Winchester, Menifee and Lake Elsinore was “capable of producing golf ball size hail” and “winds

JetBlue says a plane that blew its tires Thursday while landing in Sacramento may have had brake problems. The hard landing caused minor injuries to 15 passengers and sent dozens of others down emergency slides to evacuate the aircraft. A person waiting inside the terminal says an announcement on an intercom said the wheels had

A Flash Flood Warning has been issued for parts of San Bernardino County until 4:15 p.m. and for Riverside County until 5:00 p.m. and a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Riverside County until 4:15 p.m. At 3:40 p.m., a storm system moving 5 miles per hour southwest over Homeland toward Winchester, Menifee and Lake Elsinore was

Indio police and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department were searching for two men wanted for breaking into cars and stealing some of the contents inside. The thefts reportedly happened in Palm Desert on Thursday morning. Around 9:30 a.m., Indio police and Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies said they possibly spotted the suspects in the area of

A fire today at a condominium in Palm Springs caused $50,000 damage, a fire official said. The blaze was reported at 6:08 a.m. at 5781 Los Coyotes Drive, said Palm Springs Fire Battalion Chief Sang Pao Wang. The fire began fire near an air conditioner and spread into the crawl space of the roof, Wang

Indio police captured a man they said may be responsible for an attempted murder in the city last weekend. Around 11:25 a.m. police cornered Anthony Gonzalez, 24, in a residential area on the 81600 block of Drawbridge Avenue near the intersection of Miles Avenue and Clinton in Indio. Investigators said he shot a guest at

Residentes de La Quinta Cove estn en alerta despus de 10 incendios provocados intencionalmente. Un video muestra a un joven incendiando un bote de basura en la Avenida Carranza, despus el sospechoso incendi una palmera en la misma rea. En los siguientes das quemaron rboles y cajas de cableado entre otros. Con las imgenes se

La polica de Coachella anunci dos retenes de sobriedad para viernes y sbado de 7:00 a.m. a 2:00 p.m., en ambos casos de 7:00 p.m. a 2:00 a.m. en ambos casos, con el fin de mantener fuera de las calles a conductores ebrios y que manejen sin licencia con licencia suspendida. Como es costumbre no

Autoridades Escolares y del Departamento Estatal de Salud les recuerdan a los padres de familia de la importancia de vacunar a sus hijos antes del regreso a clases con el fin de evitar propagacin de tos ferina. La semana pasada se confirmaron 200 casos ms que se suman a los 3300 ya existentes en California.

Las inclemencias del clima causan percances en nuestra regin, en Lake Elsinore fuertes vientos derivados de una tormenta provocaron que un cable de la luz cayera sobre un autobs con ms de 10 personas a bordo que tuvieron que esperar hasta que cuadrillas de la compaa de luz desactivaran los cables. En las montaas de

A pickup truck driver died Tuesday when he veered off westbound Interstate 10 and crashed into a ditch, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash just west of Sunset Avenue was reported at 1:40 p.m., the CHP reported. The pickup, which had a trailer attached, went off the freeway for unknown reasons and came

Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies are searching for suspects after a tense late evening call that brought Deputies racing to the small town of Mecca. Deputies were originally called to the scene to respond to a call of a group of Hispanic men shooting at each other, and a reported robbery at gunpoint on a Sun

Palm Springs topped out at 116 degrees Tuesday, but that wasn’t hot enough to set a record in the famously hot desert town, where it was 122 degrees on that date in 1985. Thermal tied Palm Springs at 116 degrees, and Indio was even hotter at 118, but no Coachella Valley records fell Tuesday, National