Month: March 2011

Esta madrugada a la 2:30 se registr una accidente sobre la I-10 cerca de Ciriaco Summit ubicado entre Indio y Blythe. En le percance se involucraron tres semais y un carro. Los carriles con rumbo al oeste estuvieron cerrados varias horas. Se reportaron ms de cinco millas de autos circulando lentamente sobre la ruta 177

Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies were investigating an overnight burglary at the 1st Bank branch in Thousand Palms on Tuesday morning. The burlgary at the branch near Washington and Initerstate 10 was reported by a worker at 8:30 a.m. after he walked in to find the business had been broken into, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Herlinda Valenzuela.

Riverside civic leaders will meet today to discuss sending aid to earthquake-ravaged northern Japan. Sendai, hard hit by a tsunami in the wake of the great earthquake that struck just east of the island nation at 9:46 p.m. Thursday Pacific Time., is a sister city to Riverside, and Mayor Ron Loveridge set a 3 p.m.

Many people have an emergency kit. You should include two weeks worth of food, water and other emergency supplies in an earthquake kit. But Kathleen Anamosa, with the American Red Cross, says there are other items people often forget. Starting with important paperwork, like a copies of passports and birth certificates. “Have copies of all

Community groups in Riverside today pledged their support in the form of cash, fuel and other commodities to help with rescue and recovery efforts in Japan’s earthquake-devastated northern tier. “This is an incredible tragedy, one of the worst in the history of the world,” said Jim Erickson, director of the La Sierra University Center for

From the get-go, Google, Twitter and other companies jumped in to help however they could after last week’s earthquake in Japan. As we first showed you on Friday, Google launched its online “Person Finder” for people seeking information about a missing person. Microsoft is offering free technical support and temporary software licenses to companies affected

Se declararon culpable por perturbar el orden pblico o por conducta lasciva. Ambos cargos son considerados como delitos menores que requiere que los implicados estn bajo probatoria por tres aos. Ademas, tendrn que pagar una multa de mas de $1,000.

La polica investiga varios robos ocurridos durante el fin de semana en el Valle Coachella. El sbado a las 9:30 p.m. un hombre armando con una navaja le exigi dinero a uno de los cajeros de Walgreen?s ubicada sobre la Ave 48 en Indio, pero no logr su objetivo ya que se asust y huy.

En el hospital se recuperan dos hombres que ayer a las 3:00 a.m. sufrieron un accidente cuando circulaban en su auto sobre East Palm Canyon Drive en Cathedral City, ambos quedaron atrapados en el vehculo. Las autoridades creen que el alcohol y el exceso de velocidad fueron factor en este percance.

El pasado sbado a la 1:00 p.m. los bomberos sofocaron el incendio de una casa ubicada sobre la Calle 16 en Desert Hot Springs. Por fortuna ninguno de las seis habitantes de la viviendo resultaron heridos pero se quedaron sin casa y son ayudados por la Cruz Roja Americana.

Ya est en la crcel y sin derecho a fianza un hombre que abus sexualmente de una jovencita de 13 aos. Despus de recibir la denuncia y conducir una investigacin la polica logr el arresto de Samuel Espitia Salazar de 32 aos. Este sujeto abus de la nia en repetidas ocasiones.

La polica est tras la pista de carios sujetos que el pasado sbado a las 9:30 p.m. tirotearon a tres jvenes cuando viajaban en un vehculo en el estacionamie nto de casas mviles ?Santiago? ubicado en East San Rafael en Palm Springs. Por fortuna se cubrieron a tiempo y no fueron alcanzados por ninguna de

The family of a motorcyclist seriously injured in a multiple-vehicle collision March 10 in Palm Desert has requested that blood donations be made in his honor to LifeStream. Ed Mang is in the intensive care unit at Desert Regional Medical Center, Palm Springs, and his treatment has required a significant amount of transfused blood. Members

La polica arrest a una mujer ebria que el pasado sbado a las 3:44 p.m. manejaba su auto sobre Vista Chino en Palm Springs, a la altura de la Avenida Roberto Miguel perdi el control y se impact con otro vehculo. Cinco personas resultaron heridas incluyendo dos nios que viajaban con la irresponsable conductora que

Police say alcohol may have been involved in an early morning rollover crash that injured two people in Cathedral City. It happened just after 3 a.m. Sunday morning, on the 67-700 block of East Palm Canyon. Police arrived and found two males trapped inside the vehicle. They say one was unresponsive – the other, barely

Two suspects in a possibly gang-related, drive-by shooting in which three people escaped injury at a mobile home park in Palm Springs were at large Sunday, police said. The shooting was reported at 9:25 p.m. Saturday at the Santiago Mobile Home Park at 1500 E. San Rafael Drive, said Palm Springs police Sgt. Troy Castillo.

Five people were injured today, including two children, in a crash involving a possible drunken driver. The crash occurred just before 4 p.m. on Vista Chino near Avenida Roberto Miguel, said Sgt. Marc Melanson with the Palm Springs Police Department. One vehicle, driven by Edgar Thiemes of Germany, was going west on Vista Chino and

American Red Cross is on standby to help with relief efforts after Friday’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and officials are reminding everyone that “the big one” can hit California at any time. The disaster in Japan was top of mind for instructors at CERT training in Palm Springs. The Community Emergency Response Team training

Police arrested three of the four boys caught burglarizing a middle school, and know who the fourth boy is, they said today. Police received a call at 11:24 p.m. Friday of a burglary taking place at Nellie N. Coffman Middle School, 34603 Plumely Rd. Officers found that a Palm Springs Unified School District security guard