Month: October 2010

A 17-year-old boy fatally shot near Indio High School was identified today. Jose Cardenas, 17, of Indio, was declared dead at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs at 7:38 p.m. Thursday, according to the Riverside County Coroner’s Office. Cardenas was shot about 2:10 p.m. Thursday on Clinton Street at Granada Street in Indio, said

A powerful stormed barreled through the Coachella Valley Tuesday causing traffic delays, accidents and damage to homes and businesses. The wash on Cathedral Canyon Road flooded at around 7:30 p.m., according to the Cathedral City Police Department. Public Works was called to the scene to setup warning signs. Authorities shut the area down at around

U.S. Border Patrol agents seized approximately 1,000 pounds of marijuana from a sport utility vehicle that was found abandoned on the U.S./Mexico border, this week. Agents said the vehicle was spotted 10 miles west of Calexico on Tuesday driving northbound away from the border. Agents approached it, and it quickly turned south and headed toward

A reportedly distraught driver went the wrong way on a freeway offramp in Pedley today, striking a school bus carrying seven children, in what may have been a failed suicide attempt, according to reports from the scene. Neither the bus driver or any of the youngsters were injured in the crash, which occurred about 10:45

El mal tiempo caus encharcamientos en calles y caminos, as como accidentes. Ayer al medio da el conductor de un vehculo que circulaba en Banning sobre la I-10 perdi el control al estancarse en un charco de agua, el hombre baj de su vehculo y al momento fue impactado por una camioneta, perdiendo la vida

Ayer por la maana un polica realizaba su patrullaje de rutina en el rea donde se ubica Stater Bros sobre Vista Chino en Palm Springs cuando escuch un fuerte ruido, de inmediato ubic una ventana rota en el Centro Mdico Kaiser y vio al sujeto intentando robar medicamento. El ladrn fue arrestado cuando intentaba huir.

More showers and thunderstorms are forecast in the Coachella Valley today. The slow-moving, cut-off low-pressure system, which produced widely varying rainfall totals Monday, should move out of the region overnight, according to the National Weather Service. The Palm Springs International Airport recorded 0.39 of an inch of rain Tuesday, surpassing the previous record of 0.11

The stretch of roadway that was shut down overnight because of a debris flow was re-opened around 11 a.m., according to the Cathedral City Public Works Department. Work crews spent the morning cleaning up the 20 mudslides on Varner Road that resulted from Tuesday’s downpours. Motorists are advised to use caution. Crews are still working

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Residentes de Palm Springs, Cathedral City y reas no incorporadas del Condado de Riverside que son clientes de la Agencia de Agua del Desierto notarn un incremento de $1.07 por cada 100 pies cbicos del vital lquido en su factura a partir de Noviembre prximo. Esta medida ayudar a reducir el dficit de $3.7 mdd

En su junta de ayer martes el Bur Escolar y maestros del Desert Sands Unified School District aprobaron disminuir cinco das el ao escolar 2010-11 con el fin de ahorrar un 2.7% en gastos. La decisin se discutir en los prximos 15 das con la Asociacin de Maestros del distrito ya que el Desert Sands

An off-duty sheriff’s deputy “lost control” when he threatened to kill a tow truck driver for blocking a lane of traffic on Interstate 10 as a big rig burned along the freeway in Eagle Mountain, a prosecutor told jurors today. But Richard Heverly’s attorney contended that his client — who faces charges of assault with

Ya estn en la crcel tres sujetos que ayer lunes realizaron una serie de tres robos. El primero a las 11:30 a.m. en la gasolinera Chevron de Beaumont, minutos ms tarde en una Circle K de Banning y el ltimo asalto en una tienda de auto servicio de Cabazon. Gracias a la informacin proporcionada por

Cathedral City police are investigating a car accident that happened on Wednesday morning, which resulted in a huge plume of water showering all over Perez Road. The crash happened around 10 a.m. near the intersection of Perez Road and Date Palm Drive. Police said a car hit a fire hydrant, sheering it off its connection

The National Transportation Safety Board released the first round of results as part of its investigation into a helicopter crash in Mecca last month. The crop dusting helicopter crashed in a field on Sept. 21 near Lincoln Street and 70th Avenue, leaving the pilot with minor injuries. The NTSB’s report indicates the helicopter flew too

A man is in custody after Palm Springs police said they caught him breaking into a pharmacy. It happened around 12:20 a.m. on Tuesday when an officer found a man burglarizing the Kaiser Foundation Health Center on the 1700 block of East Vista Chino. The suspect ran off, but officers caught up with him about

U.S. charities are feeling the effects of the recession. Four hundred of the country’s largest charities received 11-percent less in donations last year than the year before. That’s the biggest drop since the Chronicle of Philanthropy began keeping track of donations 20 years ago. Take the Salvation Army as an example. While it raised $1.7

The owners of a Thermal mobile home park are heading back to court this week. Several residents at the Hernandez Mobile Home Park filed a lawsuit and restraining order against them last month because the electricity had been shut off and not restored. That left more then 50 residents without air conditioning or the ability