Month: March 2011

Lindsay Lohan will not face charges stemming from a December altercation with a worker at the Betty Ford Center, a spokesman with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said today. The District Attorney’s Office completed its investigation and determined there was insufficient evidence to file battery charges against the actress, spokesman John Hall said. Lohan’s

A crash involving three big rigs on Interstate 10, just west of Date Palm Drive, left traffic creeping by on Tuesday, according to Cathedral City police and the California Highway Patrol Two trucks collided and rear-ended another truck carrying loads of hay bales just before 1 a.m. on Tuesday, which littered the freeway. The bales,

A woman was thrown from a vehicle that came to rest on its roof on Interstate 10 near Chiriaco Summit today, and another passenger was temporarily trapped in the wreckage, authorities said. The vehicle overturned about 15 miles east of Indio and 3 miles east of the Cactus City rest stop about 11:30 a.m., California

Concert-goers attending the 2011 Coachella Music and Arts Festival will have to pass new hurdles when it comes to security when the event opens April 15. Those who purchased their tickets online began receiving their new electronic wristbands in the mail, this week. The wristbands contain a number of advanced state of the art security

Crews with the City of Palm Springs re-opened a stretch of Indian Canyon Drive on Tuesday afternoon after high winds shut down the roadway on Saturday. Police had set up barricades at the intersection of San Rafael and Indian Canyon and the intersection of Interstate 10 and Indian Canyon to block drivers from the roadway.

A standoff between a wanted parolee and Indio police ended Tuesday afternoon with the parolee in custody. The standoff forced Eisenhower Elemenary School into lockdown for about 90 minutes, according to Indio police. Officers were trying to serve an arrest warrant for the man near the intersection of Jackson Street and Sonora Drive in Indio

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was taken back to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center today when her husband found her having difficulty breathing and spitting up blood. Gabor, 94, has been in and out of the hospital over the past year. She was hospitalized briefly last week due to elevated blood pressure after she learned of

Drivers in the valley continue to deal with longer commutes due to road closures and delays due to construction. Another series of closures is scheduled for Interstate 10 at the Palm Drive / Gene Autry Trail intersection to allow workers to demolish the old overpass. Traffic will be diverted onto the eastbound on- and off-ramps

Organizers of the Kraft Nabisco Championship aren’t holding back this year at Mission Hills Country Club. It’s the tournament’s 40th anniversary. “It’s the largest tenured event at the same location in the LPGA tour,” said Director Gabe Codding. First-time visitor Shernay Thornton was proud to be part of this momentous year. “40 is monumental in

Jurors today began deliberating the fate of a felon who allegedly shot two brothers in Coachella, killing one of them. Leonard Ysiano, 38, is charged with murder, attempted murder and being a felon in possession of a gun in the March 28, 2007, shooting near Genoa Street and Hill Drive in Coachella that killed Francisco

On election night, Cathedral City suffered one of it’s worst shootings ever. Five people were shot in the Dream Homes area, and two of them were killed. Yanize Mora was carrying her 2-month-old baby boy at the time and Monday would have been her 17th birthday. Mora’s family gathered at her grave at Forest Lawn,

Hundreds of people came out on Sunday to help the family of a mother killed in a car crash in Indio earlier this month. Support for 34-year-old Linda Franco’s family kept rolling in. She died on Saint Patrick’s Day after crashing into a traffic light. The family doesn’t have enough money to bury her yet,

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the Inland Empire reached the $4 mark for the first time since Aug. 18, 2008 today, increasing four-tenths of a cent to $4. Click here for a list of the ten least-expensive places for gas in the Coachella Valley The fifth consecutive daily increase

A Cathedral City Denny’s restaurant will hold a fundraiser today to support the family of Cathedral City police Officer Jermaine Gibson, who was killed in a crash during a high-speed pursuit. Gibson, a 28-year-old former Marine, died early March 19 when his patrol car slammed into a palm tree while he was chasing a stolen

Cathedral City police today publicly thanked those who joined the department in honoring Officer Jermaine Gibson, whose funeral was on Friday. Gibson, a 28-year-old former U.S. Marine, died early March 19 when his patrol car crashed as he pursued two suspects. The officer was married and the father of a 4-week-old boy. Hundreds of people

Este orden de acciones occurio un poco antes de las 10:30pm sobre la calle Clinton y la Avenida 46. Fue donde dos automovilistas cruzaron su camino. Por lo menos una persona fue rescatada via helicptero y llevada al Centro Medico de Loma Linda. Tres personas ms fueron trasladadas al Hospital Regional del Desierto en Palm

Residents of Indio have the opportunity to win free tickets to the annual Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals, a city spokesman announced today. Registration began today for a raffle that will award 10 tickets to both the Coachella Music Festival and the Stagecoach Country Festival, said Jim Curtis of the city of Indio. Residents can

After serving 18 years on the board of directors for the Desert AIDS Project, Fr. Andrew Green will be leaving his position. ?Although change is the nature of volunteer boards, this is a departure that we all feel deeply,? said David Brinkman, CEO of Desert AIDS Project. ?During his long tenure with us, Andrew has

Palm Springs police arrested a Desert Hot Springs man on charges he broke into a hotel and stole several items. The burglary happened on March 17 at around 6 p.m. at the Hilton Hotel on the 400 block of Tahquitz Canyon. Police were called after a guest discovered a laptop computer and iPad were stolen

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