Month: September 2010

The Annenberg Foundation’s private Rancho Mirage estate will be turned into a public venue for meetings of government officials and other leaders, the foundation announced today. USC dean Geoffrey Cowan, 68, was named the first president of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, the home of the late Walter and Leonore Annenberg, according to foundation

A government study found one in five sexually active urban gay and bisexual men is infected with HIV, and nearly half of those infected don’t know they have the disease. Click here to see a copy of the study The study is considered the largest to look at urban gay and bisexual men at high

A fire driven by dry brush burned about 40 acres today in the Cleveland National Forest just west of the Riverside County line, threatening some remote campground structures. The fire broke out around noon in the Long Canyon area of the national forest, west of the Ortega (74) Highway and near the Orange-Riverside county line,

A unique program in the Coachella Valley helps connect local Marines with their community. It’s a website called hirepatriots.com, and it’s aimed at helping military men and women, veterans and their families. The program was started by Southern California residents Mark and Tori Baird. It’s a free job posting site, where employers can hire people

Facebook is down, at least for now. The social network which boasts 550 million users around the world said it is “currently experiencing some site issues causing Facebook to be slow or unavailable for some users.” “We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible,” a spokesperson told the L.A. Times. Facebook has

Desert Hot Springs? city manager is on medical leave after announcing he is entering a rehab facility to deal with alcoholism Assistant City Manager Jason Simpson confirmed that Rick Daniels told the city council on Tuesday that he is voluntarily entering a alcohol treatment program to deal with what he called his alcohol abuse. Daniels

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Fans of American Idol will get the chance to meet the new panel of judges for Season 10 of the popular Fox show Wednesday morning, according to Fox media officials. Ryan Seacrest, host of the show, will announce the new team at 10 a.m. PDT, and will be streamed live right here on KESQ.com. Judges

Palm Springs council members are expected to discuss tonight alternatives to the $50 million renovation of the Desert Fashion Plaza, which has been vacant for several years. “The council’s goal remains the redevelopment of the fashion plaza mall,” said City Manager David Ready, who is expected to provide a report to the council at tonight’s

A crop dusting helicopter in Mecca struck a power pole Tuesday then barreled into the ground sending the 62-year-old pilot to the hospital. But authorities said he will survive. The Riverside County Sheriff and Fire Department’s responded to the crash at 70th Avenue and Lincoln Street just before 3 p.m. “(The pilot) was all bleeding

An accident at 7:40 pm shut down all lanes Eastbound on the I-10 in Banning. Traffic was slow in the area for several hours, according to the California Highway Patrol. A vehicle broke down on the side of the road, and may have been the cause of a chain reaction accident. Four or five vehicles

News Channel 3 learned new information surrounding a game played by some La Quinta High School students last year that had racial undertones. On Tuesday the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department confirmed they arrested 18 year old Andrue Purdy of Indio for making internet threats against a female La Quinta High School student. According to the

Keith Ashmore is having the rides of his life with a bike that suits him. “My red bike just got too small,” said the six-year-old. But, Keith also has cerebral palsy. He walks with leg braces and cannot ride normal bikes. “The bar on a boy’s bike is too high,” explained his mother, Anastasia Fishleigh.

The sheriff’s department, which is trying to identify a human skill found earlier this year near Idyllwild, today released a sketch of what the man may have looked like. The skull was found May 18 about two miles east of Lake Fulmer, according to sheriff’s Sgt. Herman Lopez of the Central Homicide Unit. A forensic

Nearly half of roadways in the area between Indio and Palm Springs are in poor condition, according to data released today by a national transportation research group. Coachella Valley roads were ranked the ninth worst among the nation’s regions with populations greater than 500,000, according to a report by TRIP, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group

The execution of a man who brutally raped then murdered a 15-year-old Riverside girl in 1980 is expected to move forward after the state appeals court on Monday overturned an injunction preventing executions by lethal injection in California, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. Convicted killer Albert Greenwood Brown is set to die

Nearly 1,100 Southern California Edison customers lost power this afternoon in Palm Desert. The outage was reported at 1:41 p.m. in an area bordered by Palm Desert Drive to the north, Grapevine Street to the south and Toro Peak Road to the east, according to Edison spokeswoman Vanessa McGrady. The cause of the outage was

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This morning’s 3.5 magnitude earthquake that reportedly struck the area near Borrego Springs was actually misdirected by Cal Tech Seismologists. The quake that struck at 12:18 this morning was actually a 4.7 quake in Baja California. According to Cal Tech the initial reading came in from the Borrego Springs area, but after further mapping realized

Two people are in custody, accused in the deadly shooting of an Indio man. Twenty-nine-year old David Isaac Lopez and 27-year-old Amber Elizabeth Radar both surrendered to authorities Monday evening. An attorney arranged their arrests, and the two were taken into custody without incident. Police believe Lopez shot Matthew “Deuce” Roberts two-weeks ago in the