Month: May 2011

Mientras tanto, la mesa directiva aun no d una explicacin sobre la destitucin del superintendente Richard Medina y su asistente. Anoche padres de familia y maestros se manifestaron a las afueras del complejo, exigiendo respuestas pero por el momento, el Distrito Escolar Unificado del Valle de Coachella no est dando mas detalles sobre el despido

A man accused of leading Cathedral City police officer Jermaine Gibson on a deadly high speed chase entered a not guilty plea on Friday to charges of second-degree murder. Durjan Germaine Gray, 35, faces four felony charges, including murder, stemming from the March 19 chase that ended with both his car and the officer’s car

Las autoridades anuncian tres retenes de sobriedad para este fin de semana. El primero ser hoy viernes de 5:00 p.m. a 1:00 a.m. de maana sbado al este del Valle de Coachella en una de las zonas no incorporadas del Condado de Riverside como puede ser Mecca, Oasis, Thermal Vista Santa Rosa. Tambin hoy de

Oficiales del Departamento de Salubridad continan investigando en torno al incidente en el que 59 alumnos de la escuela Csar Chavez de Coachella mostraron sntomas de intoxicacin justo despus del almuerzo. Hasta el momento no han revelado si la comida estaba en malas condiciones. La cocina del plantel tambin fue inspeccionada.

El Departamento de Bomberos recibi una llamda que reportaba el incendio de una casa en Sun City Palm Desert, al llegar al lugar se encontraron la residencia envuelta en llamas. Los hechos ocurrieron ayer a las 8:25 a.m. y los daos se estiman en $600 mil dlares. Poco antes, a las 6:06 a.m. los apaga

Docenas de empleados y padres de familia de del CVUSD se manifestaron frente a las oficinas del distrito en contra del despido de personal administrativo, un total de 141 empleados recibieron notificacin de despido. Los manifestantes tambin exigen una explicacin acerca de la decisin de prescindir del Superintendente Ricardo Medina y su asistente Rick Alvarez,

After a decade and a half in Port Charles, Ingo Rademacher (Jax) is leaving General Hospital. “It is with mixed emotions and regret that I write this note to you, my fans and colleagues,” Rademacher says in a statement. “After 15 years on GH portraying Jax I must say goodbye. I’m fired. “Yes, I know

By the time the first firefighters arrived on scene Friday, a 1,200-square foot home was a total loss already. “I got woke up,” said neighbor Michael Walker. “Somebody was banging on my bedroom window telling me there’s a fire across the street.” But, other neighbors near the property on the 17500 block of Langley Rd.

Morale is down in the Coachella Valley Unified School District. This month, 141 teachers have received pink slips because of budget problems, and the Board of Education still hasn’t explained why the superintendent and assistant superintendent were placed on administrative leave. On Thursday, parents and teachers staged a rally in front of the district office

Desert Dunes Golf Club near Desert Hot Springs is making a comeback. The course wasn’t doing so well when Canadian Glen Brayshaw and his partners bought it in 2009 for a little more than $5 million. “This was the only place we found where you could start with a clear palette and design exactly what

Crews with Riverside County Fire Dept. and Cal Fire knocked down a house fire in the Sun City neighborhood of Palm Desert on Thursday morning. The two-alarm fire was reported around 8:30 a.m. at the intersection of Elenbrook Ct. and Moorbrook Rd. Crews arrived to find flames in the attic of the home, which spread

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A Cathedral City woman whose job with the Palm Springs Police Dept. put her working alongside children, must now wait to see what the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office decides to do with her case. Alanna Reichle, 33, was arrested on May 2 at her home on charges she had an on-going sexual relationship with

Pharmacists around the country, including in the Coachella Valley, are facing one of the worst drug shortages in years. Timothy Tyler is director of pharmacy at Desert Regional Medical Center’s Cancer Center. He’s unusually busy trying to keep life-saving medicine in stock. “I’m spending triple to quadruple the amount of time to source medications than

As cities across California pinch pennies to balance their budgets, the City of Indio finds itself with a much task of having to close a $6 million budget gap. City Manager Dan Martinez asked each department head to propose ways to cut 12 percent of their costs. Indio Police Chief Brad Ramos’ plan would eliminate

A man wanted for shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend’s dog on her kitchen floor surrendered to police at a motel in Rancho Mirage on Thursday morning. Police had been searching for Raymond Espinoza, 35, a parolee at large, since Monday when the shooting happened in a neighborhood just south of Dinah Shore near the Cathedral

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All 911 phone lines in the high desert area of San Bernardino County have been interrupted by some kind of incident, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. The areas affected include Victorville and surrounding areas, Hesperia, Apple Valley, Adelanto and possibly farther north. The exact location of incident has not been isolated,yet, and

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department inmate bus and three buses transporting military personnel were involved in a chain- reaction collision on the Golden State (5) Freeway today, injuring eight people and snarling traffic on the busy thoroughfare. The early afternoon crash near Washington Boulevard prompted a closure of all northbound lanes as rescue crews

Two firefighters were injured Thursday morning battling a house fire in the Sun City neighborhood of Palm Desert. One firefighter suffered a minor shoulder injury and the other injured a thumb, said Melody Hendrickson of Cal Fire. It took more than four dozen firefighters to fight back flames and high winds at the 78-200 block