Month: December 2010

Palm Springs International Airport will receive its first body scanning security devices starting next week, according to the Transportation Security Administration. The devices reveal passengers’ bodies to security staff. Those who decline face personal touch pat-downs by TSA employees. Body scanners are now in operation at Ontario International Airport. Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nico Melendez

Fourteen Palm Springs police officers, including Chief David Dominguez have been served with subpoenas, surrounding the Warm Sands Sex Sting conducted in the summer of 2009, according to Roger Tansey, a deputy public defender for Riverside County, representing six of the 19 men arrested in the case. Palm Springs City Manager David Ready and Council

An accident near the corner of Jefferson and Avenue 54 killed a bicyclist, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The accident was reported around 3:00 p.m. and forced deputies to shut down several roads in the area to look for the driver who had sped off after the accident. She was found a short

Already in 3.2 million homes and businesses around the country, Wednesday Verizon will begin offering its FiOS TV service to 55,000 homes and businesses in La Quinta, Indio, Palm Desert, Bermuda Dunes, Coachella and Indian Wells. As you might expect Verizon is touting FiOS which is delivered over its fiber-optic network as a step up

Water department crews today repaired a broken main in Cathedral City. The break occurred at Da Vall Drive, between Gerald Ford Drive and Sunny Lane, Deputy City Clerk Lynn T. Mallotto said. Northbound lanes were detoured to the southbound side of the street, leaving a single lane in each direction, for a time. Crews from

The Palm Springs Police Department needs the public’s help finding a missing parolee who cut off his GPS tracking device. Police have been actively looking for Raymond Ramos, 25, since October, but he has eluded them. Ramos is described as a Hispanic male adult, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 180 pounds, short dark hair. Ramos

Indio police gave the all-clear around 3:45 p.m. after they swept Roosevelt Elementary School on Wednesday afternoon after a man reported seeing another man with a gun walking onto the campus with a gun. The situation was first reported at 2 p.m. when the man walked into the Indio Police Department to report what he

A man who allegedly stabbed another man at a Hemet trailer park today was fatally shot during a confrontation with police officers. The shooting occurred just before 11 a.m. at the Desert Palms Mobile Home Park at 1097 N. State St., according to Hemet police Lt. Duane Wisehart. “It started out as a disturbance call,”

Cal Tech seismologists call the number of earthquakes that hit south of the Salton Sea on Wednesday a “swarm.” A 4.4 magnitude earthquake and several others shook the area on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The 4.4 earthquake hit at 11:16 a.m. and was centered 4 miles north of Brawley. A series

Jim Johnson is the 2010 Bob Hope Classic Volunteer of the Year, but he’d never tell you that. The 20-year veteran deflects all attention onto other around him. With a staff of over 70 people, he credits all of them for his award, “I credit them entirely with my winning it,” said Johnson. “And, my

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Interstate 8 checkpoint east of Calexico seized methamphetamine and cocaine on Monday valued at over $1 million. They said a truck entered their first inspection point at 9:45 a.m. It by a 21 year-old male United States Citizen. During a preliminary search, a Border Patrol canine team alerted

Police in Coachella have some persistent witnesses to thank for helping track down a pair of suspected burglars in Coachella on Monday. The witnesses called in the burglary happening on the 48000 block of Agua Caliente at around 1:20 p.m. They old dispatchers they saw two men removing appliances from a home loading them into

A collision between a school bus and a truck resulted in no injuries on Tuesday morning in Indio, according to police. The accident happened at the intersection of Jefferson and Indio Blvd at around 8:30 a.m. Ambulances were dispatched as a precaution, according to police on the scene. News Channel 3 crews described the accident

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a hit-and-run motorist in Palm Springs and police were looking for the driver and the vehicle today, authorities said. The fatal hit-and-run collision was reported at 8:01 p.m. Monday on Ramon Road west of Sunrise Way, Palm Springs police Sgt. Paul Abshire said. Police found a man in

Traditionally the Monday before Christmas is the busiest day of the year for the United States Postal Service. The steady line at the Northside Station Post Office on Hovley Lane in Palm Desert tells the story. This wholel building is counting down to December 20 when postal officials figure 800 million letters, cards and packages

Crime is down in Desert Hot Springs, and now the city council is looking at ways to boost the economy, city officials said. The city hired a consultant to draft an economic development strategy to bring new business to town and put people work. “The city needed to clean itself up first,” said Scott Matas,

Tuesday afternoon, a Riverside County judge denied Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco an immediate order request to hire 10 new deputy district attorneys and permission to demote two others in order to save their jobs once the new district attorney takes office. On Friday, District Attorney Rod Pacheco filed suit against the Board of

Time Warner Cable officials announced yet another outage in the Coachella Valley area on Tuesday. Spokesperson Kim Jacobs said internet and phone service was interrupted between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. in the desert and San Diego areas. She wasn’t certain of what the problem was, but said it was a connectivity issue. This follows

City council members in Rancho Mirage decided Tuesday to extend the existing moratorium on selling medicinal marijuana in the city limits. This extension carries more weight than previous decisions as the extension lasts for one year, ending December 15th, 2011. The vote was 4-0-1. Councilman Scott Hines abstained from voting, with no reason given according