Month: October 2010

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., cast her ballot today for the Nov. 2 general election, joining hundreds of Riverside County residents who are getting their votes in early. Boxer, a resident of Rancho Mirage, showed up to cast her ballot at 10 a.m. at the Riverside County Registrar of Voters office on Gateway Drive in Riverside.

Palm Springs parents and teens took a pledge recently to limit or altogether eliminate distractions from their cars at Allstate Insurance Company’s Family Driving Challenge. The event held at the Palm Springs Air Museum, is a hands-on experience where parents and teens learn what distractions can do to a driver behind the wheel. Professional driving

A 53-year-old man who died in a rollover crash in Desert Hot Springs was identified today as an Indio resident. Guadalupe Rubio was pronounced dead at 4:20 p.m. at a local hospital, according to the Riverside County Coroner’s Office. Rubio was the solo occupant of a service truck that rolled over on Mountain View Road

The 45th Congressional District race appeared on the national radar as one to watch. CNN has been weighing in on the race between Republican incumbent Mary Bono Mack and her Democratic opponent Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet. In the cable network’s list of the Top 100 most vulnerable races, where there could be a party

On Friday, Riverside County sheriff’s deputies searched a home near Desert Hot Springs looking for Juan Carlos Perez Valenzuela. After a 10 hour standoff, the SWAT team went in but Valenzuela was gone. Then on Sunday, a tip led Palm Springs police to a condo where suspected robber, Mger Balabekyan, 25, was holed up with

A standoff with Palm Springs police ended peacefully Sunday afternoon several hours after a man refused to surrender authorities. Mger Balabekyan, 25, of Glendale, was wanted on a felony warrant in Los Angeles County for strong arm robbery, said Officer Rhonda Long of the Palm Springs Police Department. The situation came to and end around

Thirty-four year-old Guillermo Ramirez was in custody on Sunday, after being accused of stabbing another man during a fight. It happened Sunday afternoon around 2:30 p.m. on the 33800 block of Avenida El Pueblo in Cathedral City. Police said during the fight, the victim pulled out a BB gun and pointed it at Ramirez. Ramirez

A big rig caught fire Sunday afternoon, drawing the attention of many people driving by. It happened just off of Interstate 10 on the Indian Canyon off-ramp. When fire crews arrived, the big rig was fully engulfed in flames. The trucks cab was completely burned. No injuries were reported. No word on what caused the

An early morning house fire consumed a home in the high desert Monday. The fire broke out at 5:15 a.m. near the intersection of Breeze Way and W. Desert Willow Trail in Morongo Valley. Fire crews said the 1,000 square foot home was vacant when the fire erupted. The intense fire burned the home so

Three of the four high-visibility California candidates in the Nov. 2 election campaigned in the Southland over the weekend. Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina was at 30 Years After’s second Civic Action Conference at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Century City. The event aims to promote civic participation among the Iranian-American Jewish community. Her

The date 10/10/10 happens only once in a millenium, and being born at 10:10 a.m. on 10/10/10 is even more rare, but that’s what happened today at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills. Luke William Canfield was delivered naturally at that moment by Amanda Canfield, who told KCAL9 Luke is her “ miracle

According to a new California state law, students from the 7th to 12th grade will be required to receive a pertussis, or whooping cough, booster shot before entering school starting next fall. Last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 354, making California one of the 39 states that require students to be fully inoculated,

California’s September receipts came in $1.1 billion, or 15.3%, ahead of estimates made in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s May budget revision, State Controller John Chiang reported Monday. The controller didn’t see much reason for joy in the numbers, however, pointing out that the Golden State’s 100-day record delay in arriving at a budget left it owing

Concerns over firefighting costs slowed the U.S. Forest Service’s initial response to last year’s deadly 250-square-mile Southern California wildfire that killed two firefighters and destroyed 89 homes, federal investigators said in a report. A review by the Agriculture Department, which runs the Forest Service, cites a letter before the Station Fire instructing managers to hold

Construction crews will begin converting a former Coca-Cola bottling plant into a regulation-sized hockey rink in Cathedral City next week. The Desert Ice Castle at 68600 Perez Road was initially expected to open this month, but some changes were made to the plans, according to property owner Anthony Liu, who also owns the Ice Castle

A brawl at a Riverside County prison involving about a dozen inmates sent four men to the hospital with stab wounds. Guards put the California Rehabilitation Center on lockdown after a fight broke out on Sunday, involving 10 to 15 inmates, in a prison dorm. The four injured men are in serious condition but are

Residents can cheer for the Palm Springs High School Indians at the city’s annual homecoming parade this week. The parade, which is set to begin at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, will be on Palm Canyon Drive, between Baristo and Alejo roads, said Amy Blaisdell, the city’s director of communications. The football team, the 2009-CIF champions, will

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani campaigned on behalf of Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina and congressional candidate Van Tran today in the Little Saigon portion of Westminster. “Carly Fiorina is a proven leader who shares my commitment to keeping our fellow Americans safe, restoring accountability to Washington and getting our economy back on

Jeremy London is set to testify tomorrow at a hearing that the actor hopes will prove his claims that he was kidnapped and forced to take drugs in Palm Springs. Brandon Adams, 27, faces charges of carjacking, kidnapping, robbery, taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent and receiving stolen property, along with a sentence-enhancing allegation

El pasado viernes a las 11:30 a.m. el piloto de una avioneta que haba despegado del Aeropuerto Internacional de Palm Springs report que la aeronave haba perdido fuerza cerca de Las Vegas. El hombre aterriz de emergencia en el Desierto. Los dos ocupantes de la aeronave resultaron seriamente heridos.