Month: July 2011

A wanted parolee from Indio remains on the run, after leading police on a chase in the East Valley Saturday night. It began around 7:30 p.m. when police began following a driver along Harrison Street in Thermal, eventually taking officers into Coachella. Police had tracked down 34 year-old Jose Tinoco, a suspect in a case

A thunderstorm fueled by monsoonal moisture was violent enough to wake up some Palms Springs residents about 4 a.m. today. The brief rainstorm came on the heels of widespread thunderstorms, including some flooding, over the mountains and inland areas on Saturday afternoon. The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway was operating normally at about 11:30 a.m. today

Three local students in an international study program recently returned from China, where they got an up-close look at the country’s burgeoning economy and compared notes with their Chinese counterparts. Mauricio Rios Rodriquez, James Ramsey and Jose Romero — all of whom received a masters in accounting from Cal State San Bernardino in Palm Desert

Two women were shot in the early morning hours Saturday. Officers responded to calls around 3:20 A.M. at an apartment complex on the 59500 block of Rebecca Way in Rancho Mirage. When police arrived on the scene, they discovered two women had been shot. One is a juvenile and the second victim is 20 years

A crash in Indio sent two people to the hospital Saturday afternoon. It happened around 4:10 p.m., at the intersection of Fred Waring and Hoover. Ben Guitron, of the Indio Police Deptartment, said a white Chevy pickup truck broad-sided a silver Nissan Sentra. Both people in the Nissan went to the hospital, the passenger is

Two people died in a fiery crash up in Twentynine Palms early Saturday morning. It happened just after 1:30 a.m., at Luckie Park along Utah Trail. San Bernardino Sheriff’s Deputies say the driver of a Nissan 350Z was speeding down the road, when he lost control and crashed through a chain-link fence surrounding the park.

A judge’s ruling today clears the way for an inspection of a Coachella olive farm that’s the focal point of a property rights lawsuit pitting JCM Farming Inc. against a group of Coachella Valley balloonists. The lawsuit is aimed at preventing hot-air balloon companies from flying over the olive farm. JCM Farming sued 15 Coachella

Project Manager Mark Patton, of Western Environmental, Inc., is ready to get back to work. His company shut down nearly three months ago and temporarily laid off more than two dozen workers in order to solve its stinky situation. He said it was an uncomfortable dilemma. “You’re concerned that you have potential of impacting your

Ayer se llev a cabo la ceremonia del primer palazo de tierra en Desert Hot Springs donde construirn una planta de gas natural y energa renovable. El proyecto de $900 mdd se ubica en el rea donde entroncan la I-10 y el Hwy 62. 300 personas trabajaran en el proyecto ?CPV Sentenial? que generar un

Pam Veith’s vocational classroom on Wednesday was full. More than two dozen students were learning about careers in the healthcare field. It was their third day of class, but they’ll be earning a salary within a year. “I just wanted to get over [the program],” said Diana Aldana, who said she wanted to be a

The citizens commission established by voters to create an independent process for drawing California’s legislative and congressional districts has delivered on its first set of maps, voting to adopt new boundaries that appear to increase the reach of majority Democrats. See an interactive map of the new districts throughout California and how they will change

A brand new natural gas-fired power plant is going up near Desert Hot Springs. A groundbreaking ceremony Thursday marked the official start of construction for the CPV Sentinel Energy Project. The $900 million initiative is being built on 37 acres of unincorporated Riverside County land off Dillon Road, northeast of the interchange between Interstate 10

A 19-year-old man suspected of stealing flat-screen television sets from seven unoccupied units at a Palm Desert condominium complex is expected in court today. The residential burglaries at the Shadow Mountain Resort in the 45700 block of San Luis Rey Avenue were reported on July 22, sheriff’s Sgt. Andrew Nielsen said. The investigation into the

After decades in downtown Indio — the old Greyhound Bus Station is being demolished. For Richard Friestad, an Indio resident since 1947, it was an event he had to be a part of. “This is history. I remember when it was built. To tear it down after all this time, it’s sad. But when I

Riverside County in the state of California is the ground zero of foreclosures. Every one in 30 homes is in some phase of foreclosure, according to the Irvine-based real estate tracking firm RealityTrac. That is creating a rental boom, real estate experts said. Countywide, from January to June, nearly 25,901 bank repossessions, mortgage defaults and

Dog owners in Indio are in the doghouse. According to the rule for residents of Association #9 inside the Indian Palms Country Club, dogs are not allowed on the grass. “My white dog jumped on the grass, and [a man] told me, ‘Your dog is not allowed on the grass,’” said Raymond Valencia, who has

Two semi trucks crashed on Interstate 10 on Friday afternoon, igniting in flames. The accident happened on the westbound side of the freeway, just before 2 p.m., near Red Cloud Mine Road and Eagle Mountain Road in Desert Center, according to the California Highway Patrol. That’s about 50 miles east of Indio. As a result,

Management would not confirm or deny rumors that the 28-year-old Westfield Shoppingtown was on the market to be sold on Friday. Speculation first surfaced after a Wall Street Journal report in June that detailed Westfield’s plans to sell 17 of its properties. One of them was in Sacramento, where Westfield wanted to shift their attention

Han pasado casi tres meses desde que la compaa de reciclaje “Western Environmental” en Mecca fuera clausurada parcialmente por los supuestos olores txicos que emanban de dicho lugar y que supuestamente enfermaron a decenas de residentes despus de que diversas agencias gubernamentales y ambientalistas tomaran cartas en el asunto, finalmente sta compaa podr reanudar sus

Adolescente de Coachella es acusado de robarse ms de media docena de televisiones de pantalla plana. Omar Snchez vila de 19 aos fue arrestado el mircoles como sospechoso de los robos ocurridos hace una semana dentro de un complejo de apartamentos localizado en la cuadra 45 mil de la calle San Lus rey en Palm