Month: March 2011

The White House says President Barack Obama will address rising oil and gasoline prices at a news conference on Friday. Track the lowest gas prices in the Coachella Valley on KESQ.com’s Gas Tracker Fuel prices have been rising amid continued turmoil in Libya, an oil-producing country. News that police opened fire to break up a

A Palm Desert man was in custody today for allegedly attacking a resident during a robbery at a home in Desert Hot Springs. Quinton Gray, 51, was booked on suspicion of first-degree robbery, with bail set at $1 million, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. He is due in court Friday afternoon. Gray allegedly

Highway 74 above Palm Desert was reopened to traffic around noon on Thursday after a motorcycle and passenger car collided, making the roadway impassable, according to the California Highway Patrol. The accident happened shortly before 10 a.m. at mile marker 88, just north of Vista Point, according to the CHP. Edward Mang was riding his

Palm Springs police made an arrest in the case of a 13-year-old girl who was reportedly raped repeatedly over a period of time. On March 3, the victim told police she was sexually assaulted continuously by a man later identified as Samuel Espitia-Salazar, 32, of Palm Springs. One day later, Espitia-Salazar was taken into custody

A Perris man was charged today with sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl he may have used to make child pornography. William Riley Ward, 30, was expected to be arraigned this afternoon on one count each of forced oral copulation of a child 10 years or younger, lewd acts on a child under 14 and possession

La polica arrest a ngel Monroy de 35 aos y a un menor de 16 en posesin de armas de fuego y balas. Los agentes estaban en busca de sospechosos de protagonizar un tiroteo en Cathedral City relacionado con las pandillas.

An Emergency Missing Advisory was issued by the California Highway Patrol Wednesday because a Palm Springs mother may have fled the state with her children after an unsupervised visit with the kids in Cathedral City. Investigators are asking for the public’s help in locating the children. Authorities say her kids are under the custody of

Ayer a las 5:45 p.m. Menez Auto Sales ubicado en la esquina del Hwy 111 y Golf Center Parkway en Indio fue blanco de un tiroteo. Las balas rompieron las ventas del cuarto de exhibicin y daaron los cristales de varios vehculos. La polica investiga para dar con los responsables de la balacera en la

Despus de 2 semanas de estar hospitalizado y ser sometido a dos cirugas ya fue dado de alta el pequeo de cuatro aos que fue alcanzado por una bala en fuego cruzado en Indio. Hace unos das fue arrestado Javontae Garca quien admiti haber disparado dicho tiro. Por cierto el sujeto despus pag una fianza

Durante un desayuno, la Cmara de Comercio de Palm Desert, anunci noticias positivas en las ventas durante 2010. El Westfield Palm Desert Nall increment en 3.1%, The Gardens en El Paseo en 6.1% y el turismo regresa paulatinamente, sobre todo el canadiense.

Mathewson’s Department Store on Ramsey Street was a fixture in Banning for decades. But soon, it will only be a memory. Volunteers are now clearing the cluttered store — trying to sell or recycle what’s left. The beginning of the end came back in January. With the building literally falling to pieces, the city shut

La polica busca a una mujer de Palm Springs que se llev a sus tres hijos que estn en custodia del estado. Ayer a las 3:00 p.m. Elizabeth Rojo se encontr con la trabajadora social y los pequeos en McDonald?s de Cathedral City para su visita no supervisada de una hora, la trabajadora se fue

A wreckage of a civilian aircraft reported overdue at its destination was found in the Southern California desert near the town of Ludlow, north of the Twentynine Palms Marine Base, according to base officials. A base spokesman said they received a report of the plane crash late Tuesday night, and at first thought it happened

A museum volunteer has unearthed what the Smithsonian Institution believes to be the first – and perhaps only – color photographs of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire leveled much of the city. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the six images were snapped by color photography pioneer Frederick Eugene Ives several months

A Cathedral City woman was convicted of felon child cruelty for remaining silent about her husband burning and beating their 10- month old daughter, a prosecutor said today. Jurors deliberated about seven hours before convicting 21-year-old Robyn Davis of allowing her husband, 22-year-old Shaymon Davis, to hurt the girl. The father was convicted of three

A Cathedral City man and a 16-year old were arrested on Tuesday as part of a gang task force investigation into a recent shooting between rival gang members, police said. The arrests came as Coachella Valley Violent Crime Gang Task Force detectives investigated an unreported shooting that happened in the area of Avenida Juarez and

Los socorristas se trasladaron a la manzana mil 600 de Bubbling Wells Road hoy por la madrugada. El incendio comenz en una palmera pero rpidamente se esparcio a una casa mvil. Los vecinos manifestaron que escucharon lo que pareca ser una explosin. No se reportaron heridos. El residente qued sin techo.

Main draw women’s play begins today in the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, with American Melanie Oudin, a 2009 U.S. Open quarterfinalist, among the players set to play. The 19-year-old Oudin will face Russian Elena Vesnina. Oudin is 84th on the Women’s Tennis Association rankings, 26 spots behind Vesnina. The two

Palm Springs police took down the barricades, and re-opened the stretch of Indian Canyon between Tramway road and Interstate 10 on Wednesday afternoon. The roadway re-opened around 2:20 p.m. on Wednesday. Police shut down the roadway on Monday after winds kicked up enough dust and debris to create near-zero-visibility on the road which links Interstate