Month: September 2010

Actress Lindsay Lohan is reportedly undergoing treatment at Rancho Mirage’s Betty Ford Clinic on the campus of Eisenhower Medical Center. TMZ.com reports Lohan checked in on Monday and will stay there until her probation violation hearing, which is scheduled for next month. This is Lohan’s fifth time in rehabilitation treatment.. She admitted she failed a

A series of earthquakes shook the Death Valley area starting early Thursday morning. The first measured 4.3 in magnitude along the California/Nevada border at 1:37a.m. There were 5 more quakes that followed measuring more than 3.0 in strength, the second largest being a 3.8 at 3:17am. There were no reports of damage or injuries.

Meg Whitman faces a political firestorm today resulting from the allegations made by her former housekeeper that the Republican gubernatorial candidate knew her work status was illegal when she worked for her during her nine years of employment. Whitman has scheduled a 10:30 a.m. news conference to discuss the issues. Nicky Diaz Santillan, Whitman’s former

Searchers reported they have found Edward Rosenthal, a hiker who had been missing since last Friday, alive in Joshua Tree National Park. The Los Angeles real estate broker went on a hike last week and didn’t come back. At least 40 people searched Wednesday for the 64-year-old Rosenthal, an experienced hiker who failed to return

Stater Bros.’ pharmacies will offer the breast cancer medication Tamoxifen for free in October to those with prescriptions as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. “At some point in their lives, almost everyone has been affected by cancer,” said Stater Bros. Chairman and CEO Jack Brown. “Stater Bros. Supermarkets believes in doing the right

A burglary suspect was taken into custody today after a resident returned to a Palm Springs home and found the intruder inside, police reported. The burglary was reported at 1:13 p.m. in the 3900 block of Calle De Carlos, said Officer Rhonda Long of the Palm Springs Police Department. The suspect fled when the resident

A Cathedral City police officer is under investigation by the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office for misconduct after a resident filed a complaint early Wednesday. The alleged incident involves the officer and three women in a Cathedral City back yard pool on the 35000 block of Maria Road. According to three women, the officer arrived

A former worker with the Riverside County Department of Child Protective Services pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges that he raped a teenage boy he was supervising. Sean Lamont Birdsong, 38, of Riverside was charged with false imprisonment, sexual assault with the intent to commit rape or sodomy, lewd acts with a child, and felony

Chris Young and four relievers combined on a four-hitter, and the San Diego Padres showed some life in the waning days of the playoff race, beating the Chicago Cubs 3-0 on Wednesday night. San Diego remains 2 games behind San Francisco in the N.L. West and 1.5 games behind Atlanta in the NL wild-card race.

Residents in the Coachella Valley woke up Thursday morning to lightning, while some woke up with no power. Southern California Edison reported two outages: Palm Springs and Palm Desert. The Palm Springs blackout happened around 5:20 a.m. and affected 1,500 customers. As of 2:00 p.m., the power had been restored except to approximately 21 customers.

A Cathedral City man staged a suicide by cop scenario on Monday night by pointing a fake gun at officers and forcing one to shoot the man, according to police. Authorities have released the original 911 call that started it all, and investigators said the caller was the same person officers gunned down. Christopher Mendoza,

A Red Flag Warning has been issued for the Coachella Valley and surrounding areas until 11 p.m. as clouds embedded with lightning roll through the area. Light rain has been reported in most of the desert cities, but no considerable accumulation has been reported. Click here for live First Alert Weather Radar The National Weather

Government lawyers have asked a federal appeals court to let California carry out its first execution in nearly five years. Lawyers with the attorney general’s office want the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a Tuesday ruling by a federal judge to block the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown. The convicted killer had

Something unfortunate happened at Coachella Valley High School over the weekend. “We walk in,” said Mariana Rios, vice president of the Associated Student Body, “and we realize we were broken into. That’s when we ran.” The ASB’s heavy-duty safe was gone. The club’s leaders believe the break-in happened sometime between 11:00 p.m. Friday and 7:00

Since she was hired 3 months ago, Annie Frisoli, the Coordinator of College of the Desert’s new International Internship Program has been recruiting valley organizations and businesses to participate in the program that will launch in January. So far Frisoli has had 30 partners sign on. “The purpose of the program is to bring international

A former housekeeper for Meg Whitman was “emotionally and financially abused” during her nine years of employment, an attorney alleged today, adding that the Republican gubernatorial candidate knew the woman was an illegal immigrant. Whitman strongly denied the allegations, calling them politically motivated. Attorney Gloria Allred said Nicky Diaz Santillan worked as a housekeeper for

This year the Coachella Valley Volunteers In Medicine is partnering with the Riverside County Health Department in providing free influenza vaccines to the desert’s medically indigent elderly population living in the East Valley and Desert Hot Springs. The goal is to help mitigate the severity and spread of disease throughout the Coachella Valley. The medically

Searchers will fan out again through Joshua Tree National Park, looking for a prominent Los Angeles real estate broker who went on a hike and didn’t come back. The search will continue Wednesday for 64-year-old Edward Rosenthal, an experienced hiker who failed to return as planned on Friday. Park spokesman Joe Zarki says 50 searchers

In 1982, Albert Greenwood Brown, 56, was convicted of the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Riverside girl. Her name was Susan Louise Jordan. The execution of Brown has been delayed, but if it does happen, the execution would be California’s first in five years, and Jordan’s family says it couldn’t happen soon enough. Letters