Month: October 2010

The Riverside County Gang Task force was trying to serve a warrant at a home near Desert Hot Springs Friday afternoon when the man refused to come out, according to a sheriff’s spokesperson. The warrant was issued for Juan Carlos Perez Valenzuela, charged with attempted homicide in King City, near Monterey. Six other people came

KCET announced today it will sever ties with PBS and become an independent television station beginning Jan. 1. The station cited an inability to negotiate an agreement that would decrease the amount of dues paid to PBS and provide for a wider range of programming. Al Jerome, the station’s president and chief executive officer, said

For fifteen days, 5,000 Marines will spend their time in the high desert taking part in Steel Knight. KESQ TV’s crew was embedded with part of the 1st Marine Division. They will take part in different operations in the live-fire combat zone. The first training mission is 2 1/2 hours away from Wilson Base at

Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle has been released from the hospital after collapsing at practice. Team president Donnie Nelson said Carlisle was released from Baylor University Medical Center on Friday afternoon and “is doing good” after fainting on the practice court at the American Airlines Center. The 50-year-old coach was conscious and responding to questions

A single-engine plane that departed from Palm Springs International Airport crashed today as the pilot was making an emergency landing west of Las Vegas, an FAA spokesman said. The plane took off from Palm Springs at 10:18 a.m. Friday morning. The pilot of the Beechcraft Bonanza told air traffic controllers at 11:38 a.m. that the

California Attorney General Jerry Brown, the state’s Democratic candidate for governor, left a phone message in early September for a union official whose endorsement he was seeking, but apparently forgot to hang up — because a lively discussion between him and some staffers afterward is caught on tape. And either Brown or a staffer —

Ayer jueves se les present a los alumnos de 9no grado de Coachella Valley High School el programa ?Operation Graduation? en el que los estudiantes que tenga las 4 ?A?s ganarn un loptop. Las 4 ?A?s significan Attendance, Academic, Activities y Attitud.

Despus de ratificar un acuerdo entre el Desert Sands Unified School District y el Sindicato de Maestros, el ao escolar en dicho distrito podra reducirse cinco das, afectando a escuelas de Indio, La Quinta y Palm Desert. El objetivo es ahorrar $2.8 mdd y recortando cinco das de escuela el salario de los maestros se

El Desert Sands Unified School District pagar $7,700 dlares en multas a Cal-Osha como resultado de un accidente en el que en 2009 muri electrocutado un empleado del distrito mientras trabajaba en el sistema de irrigacin. Inicialmente las multas ascendan a $44 mil dlares y se redujeron despus de una apelacin.

Ayer jueves a las 12:20 p.m. se registr un choque entre dos carros en Miles Ave en La Quinta, debido a que uno de los automovilistas se pas el semforo en rojo, una de las conductoras qued atrapada y tuvo que ser extrada del vehculo utilizando las pinzas de la vida y ahora se recupera

Ayer jueves a las 7:30 p.m. se derrumbe la sombra de estacionamiento de un complejo de apartamentos ubicados sobre Deep Canyon Drive en Palm Desert. De inmediato llegaron los bomberos a brindar ayuda, pero por fortuna nadie result herido.

Ayer jueves a las 10:20 a.m. un troque que circulaba sobre la I-10 y a la altura del entronque con el Expressway 86 en Coachella se abri la puerta de la caja del trailer y se le tir toda la carga sobre la autopista. El chofer no se dio cuenta y sigui su camino, por

Palm Springs city officials will unveil a park today created by federal stimulus dollars. he 9 a.m. ceremony is set at a park on the corner of Gene Autry Trail and Vista Chino, which is also the entrance to Palm Springs, according to Amy Blaisdell, the city’s director of communications. About 20 jobs were created

The mid-term elections are heating up across the nation and right here at home. Republicans and Democrats say capturing the Latino vote will be the key. Both parties are reaching out to the Latino and Spanish speaking community through political ads and grassroots outreach. “We have people who speak Spanish and come from the same

Both lanes of eastbound Interstate 10 in Coachella were shut down Thursday morning after a vehicle spilled its load of concrete materials, according to the California Highway Patrol. The accident happened at 10:18 a.m. near the intersection of Interstate 10 and State Route 86. As many as two vehicles crashed in the area a few

Palm Springs officials opened a new park Thursday at the southwest corner of Vista Chino and Gene Autry Trail. But, Darren and Angela Bachtel crashed the party by holding a sign that read “$1.4 million?” at that same intersection. “We were looking for change we could believe in,” said Darren Bachtel, of Cathedral City. “They

USC has taken possession of what is billed as the world’s largest research collection related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, the school announced today. The ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives includes pioneering magazines, papers of activists and entertainers, and other materials, with a focus on Los Angeles. “The USC Libraries will make

The American Heart Association?s Coachella Valley Division is excited to announce Aliede Bennett as chair of the 2011 Go Red For Women Initiative and Luncheon. With a career focused in patient advocacy and volunteer organizations, most recently as Director of Volunteer Services at Eisenhower Medical Center, Mrs. Bennett has been supportive of the Go Red

Jeremy London is set to testify tomorrow in a hearing to determine whether a Palm Springs man will stand trial for allegedly kidnapping the actor and making him take drugs. Brandon Adams, 27, is charged with carjacking, kidnapping, robbery, taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent and receiving stolen property, along with a sentence-enhancing allegation

A Cathedral City gangster was convicted today of second- degree murder in the shooting death of his friend following a brawl at a gang party in Thousand Palms. Daniel Karlson, a 33-year-old member of Barrio Cathedral City, originally faced a first-degree murder charge in the July 14, 2008, death of 27- year-old Johnny Godinez, who