Month: December 2011

Thousands of people honored the matriarch of the Christian faith — The Virgin of Guadalupe — on Monday, walking the streets to show their faith and appreciation. According to the Catholic faith, Juan Diego, a recently converted Aztec peasant, had a vision of a young woman who asked him to build a church exactly on

MICHELLE WILLIAMS receives the Desert Palm Achievement Actress Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala. She was born September 9, 1980, in Kalispell, Montana. Her career began with various TV appearances, until getting her first big screen role in the adventure film “Lassie” (1994). At age 15, much to her parents’ dismay,

Barry Manilow has been shaking his hips on stage for decades, and now he has to have those muscles repaired. A spokeswoman for Manilow, 68, of Palm Springs, said the entertainer was hospitalized Monday for surgery to remove fluid and repair torn muscles in his hips. Manilow waited until he performed his 1,000th Las Vegas

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Southern California announced on Monday they seized more than 158 tons of illegal drugs and stopped more than 100,000 attempts to enter the country illegally during 2011. The drugs — marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine — were confiscated at the ports of entry in Mexicali and San Diego

Chain control began on State Route 2 in the Wrightwood area on Monday and on State Route 243 in Idyllwild as a storm system moved into Southern California. The California Department of Transportation added Mountain Center to the list of areas where chains or snow tires are now required. The route on State Route 74

(CNS) – The man who marched down Sunset Boulevard, shooting at more than a dozen people and urging police to “Kill me … I’m gonna die!” was identified Saturday by the coroner’s office as a 26-year-old man who had recently moved here from Carlisle, Pa. Tyler Brehm died on the pavement Friday, moments after two

Renewable energy and electric cars drove some folks to the theater Saturday. People gathered at Camelot Theaters in Palm Springs for a screening of “Revenge of the Electric Car.” An electric car showcase kicked off the event, giving people a chance to see a variety of e-cars. The film gave viewers a look at the

A gang expert testified today in the trial of an alleged Coachella gang member accused of involvement in a shooting that killed a 19- year-old woman that gang members often are motivated by pride. “Everything they do is generated in the need to gain respect … and they achieve that respect through the use of

Nine men were behind bars on Friday facing a list of charges stemming from their alleged involvement in trading child pornography online, according to federal court documents. A spokesman representing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security departments confirm agents made eight of the arrests Friday morning, which included two in the Coachella

A Palm Springs woman, who police said tried to cut off her husband’s penis with a pair of heavy-duty scissors this weekend, was free on bail Monday morning. The alleged attack happened at the couple’s home on the 1700 block of Rochelle Road. Virginia Valdez, 69, was jailed by police Saturday evening after her husband

Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach will ask the Board of Supervisors tomorrow to earmark $968,000 to cover D.A. office expenses incurred from “realignment,” which shifted responsibility for a number of criminal justice activities from the state to counties. The allotment would come from roughly $24 million in state funding to Riverside County agencies and

President Obama wants one million electric vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015. Automakers are pushing more electric models like the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf. The Toyota Prius has been wildly popular and now a new “plug-in” hybrid will come out next spring. A couple of demos were on display in the Coachella Valley Friday.

(CNS) – Eighteen planets — each the size of Jupiter — have been uncovered in distant solar systems, according to Caltech scientists writing in a scientific journal today. Using the twin telescopes at the Keck Observatory on the Big Island of Hawaii, scientists said they have discovered planets in a step they called significant because

Nine men were behind bars on Friday facing a list of charges stemming from their alleged involvement in trading child pornography online, according to federal court documents. A spokesman representing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security departments confirm agents made eight of the arrests Friday morning, which included two near Palm Springs.

More than 340,000 customers were without electricity in the Southland today as offshore winds gusting as high as near 100 miles per hour overnight knocked down trees, utility poles and power lines and raised fears of wildfire. The City of Pasadena provided a measure of how disruptive the winds turned out to be by declaring

A homeowner held a burglar at gunpoint early today until police arrived and arrested him, a sergeant with the Cathedral City Police Department said. Anthony Cullen, 40, of Cathedral City, was arrested shortly after midnight when officers found the homeowner walking the suspect out the front door of the residence at gunpoint, said Sgt. Andrew

The California Highway Patrol and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection confirm one death after an accident involving two vehicles on the westbound side of Interstate 10 Thursday morning. The accident happened around 10:20 a.m. just east of the Whitewater Road exit . When Cal Fire personnel arrived, they said they found a