Month: August 2010

Firefighters are trying to figure out what started a one acre brush fire Tuesday night. The fire was off of Golf Center Parkway in Indio and broke out just after 10 pm. Six engines and two dozen firefighters knocked down the flames in about thirty minutes. No structures were threatened and no injuries were reported.

Towering thunderheads produced multiple lightning strikes and intense rain in southwest Riverside County, igniting spot fires from east of Temecula to south of Perris this afternoon, Riverside County fire officials said. “We’ve had multiple lightning strikes and we don’t even know how many fires we have,” Cheri Patterson of the Riverside County Fire Department said

A Flash Flood Warning expired for parts of San Bernardino County early Wednesday evening, but not before many cars were reportedly trapped in high water. It happened in the Hilton Road area of Yucca Valley along Highway 62, according to weather spotters with the National Weather Service. Click here to see News Channel 3 Live

A Palm Desert man suspected of assaulting a well-known date grower, who later died at a hospital, was free today on $100,000 bail. Michael Joseph Mrofchak, 39, was arrested around 8:40 p.m. Saturday in the 79300 block of Sierra Vista in La Quinta and booked on suspicion of manslaughter, said Ben Guitron of the Indio

KESQ and its parent company, News-Press Gazette, have agreed upon initial terms for a new contract, which will mean uninterrupted reception of KESQ, KDFX, KUNA and CW for the Coachella Valley, according to Executive Vice President and General Manager Bob Allen on Wednesday. All four stations could have been pulled from DirecTV’s lineup as of

Al Este de nuestra regin un robo a bordo de un autobs de transporte pblico, desat un tiroteo. El robo ocurri a las diez de la noche Sobre la Calle Segunda y Avenida Home en Mecca . Segn el Departamento del Alguacil, el chofer del autobs de la lnea Sunline llam al 9-1-1 en busca

A Bermuda Dunes man accused of shooting his wife of 38 years during an argument, then calling 911 to confess that he was the gunman, pleaded not guilty today to a first-degree murder charge. Garey Lee Smith, 55, faces 50 years in prison if convicted of killing his spouse, Sandra, just before midnight Sunday at

With less than a week until the beginning of the new school year, nearly 115 jobs in the Desert Sands Unified School District are safe after an employees? union voted to approve a deal to cut their own pay. The California School Employees Association vote was 230-to-152. The tentative agreement calls for gardeners, secretaries and

Cathedral City police used force to get inside a home and subdue a wanted parolee on Wednesday afternoon. The incident happened just west of Date Palm Drive near the city’s post office on Cedar Road. Angel Maldonado had reportedly barricaded himself inside a home there after they chased him in his car earlier, and he

Cal Fire and Riverside County firefighters responded to multiple reports of brush fires being ignited by lightning strikes near the area of Sage Road on Wednesday afternoon. Lightning strikes accompanied the precipitation. Fire crews responded to a location around Highway 79 and Crosley Truck Trail, and several other locations, including one in Sun City. Many

Ayer martes a las 5:30 a.m. se accident una camioneta que cargaba productos para la limpieza de albercas cuando circulaba sobre E. Palm Canyon Drive en Palm Springs. El percance provoc el derrame de qumicos por lo que el rea fue cerrada al trnsito mientras se limpiaba el lugar.

Ayer martes a la 1:40 p.m. ocurri un fatal accidente sobre la I-10 en Banning. Un conductor que circulaba en una camioneta que jalaba un remolque perdi el control al caer en una zanja. Los bomberos lo extrajeron del vehculo ya sin vida. Dos carriles fueron cerrados al trnsito mientras se realizaba una investigacin. No

En Mecca ayer martes a las 9:30 la polica recibi un llamado que reportaba la detonacin de al menos tres balazos frente a los apartamentos Thunderbird ubicados sobre la Ave 66. Los oficiales peinaron el rea en busca del sospechoso pero no lograron capturarlo.

Despus de dos semanas de andar tras su pista, las autoridades arrestaron a Martn Guerrero de 22 aos, residente de Desert Hot Springs quien junto a Jos Pardo protagonizaron una persecucin policaca. En ese entonces Pardo fue arrestado y Guerrero logr huir. Finalmente ya lo pusieron tras las rejas en una crcel del condado.

380 mi libras de carne contaminada estn siendo retiradas de las tiendas Wal-Mart. El producto roast beef y jamn est en sndwiches que al parecer ya fueron vendidos consumidos. Tome precauciones para evitar la contaminacin de la bacteria Listeria.

State health officials say more than 200 new cases of whooping cough have been tallied in the last week, bringing California’s total to about 3,300 confirmed and suspected cases this year. California Department of Public Health spokesman Ralph Montano says the highly contagious illness has caused the deaths of eight babies this year. All the

A Desert Hot Springs man was behind bars today, after police chased him down Tuesday afternoon, said Sgt Dan Bressler of the DHS Police Department. The chase happened late Tuesday afternoon as Martin Guerrero tried to hide near a residence on Sunset and 8th Street, he said. Guerrero was wanted in connection with another chase

Months of road construction in Beaumont that has caused freeway bottlenecks in Riverside County is expected to be completed by the end of this week. The newly built connector from the eastbound Moreno Valley (60) to eastbound Interstate 10 is expected to open by Friday, Barbara Miller of Caltrans District 8 said today. Because of

A Redondo Beach woman who became separated from her hiking companion was found by a sheriff’s deputy near the top of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, a sheriff’s sergeant said today. Janice Dannebaum, 52, was reported missing by her friend just before 7 p.m. Monday, a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy said. The two went hiking

Thousands are expected to participate in Wednesday’s National Facebook Fast, an event planned by Texas pastors Kerry and Chris Shook to encourage people to refocus on face-to-face relationships. “You can have 1,000 Facebook friends but not one close friend you can sit down with face-to-face and really share your heart,” said Kerry Shook, who with