Month: January 2012

Unionized nurses and other health care workers with Kaiser Permanente will conduct a 24-hour strike in California on Tuesday. Workers are planning to walk off the job at 160 Kaiser Permanente Facilities statewide. Eighty of those locations are in Southern California. There was a similar strike back in September. The walkouts are in response to

The following is a statement issued of Kaiser Permanente’s website on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. Our facilities in Southern California are open The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), which represents approximately 2,500 of 55,000 employees working at Kaiser Permanente facilities in Southern California, informed us it will conduct a limited, 1-day work stoppage and

Miembros de la Unin Internacional de Empleados de Servicios (SEIU, por sus siglas en ingls)se dieron cita esta maana de martes en el Centro Administrativo del Condado de Riverside y tomaron las calles en protesta por la imposicin de un contrato que les requiere desembolsar ms dinero para sus pensiones. Los manifestantes eran una mezcla

A 69-year-old Palm Springs woman accused of trying to cut off her husband’s penis with heavy-duty scissors pleaded not guilty today to felony charges. Virginia Valdez is charged with inflicting corporal injury on a spouse and assault with a deadly weapon. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Thomas N. Douglass also issued a protective order barring

Members of Riverside County’s second-largest public sector union converged on the County Administrative Center, then took to the streets of Riverside, in a one-day strike today to protest the county’s imposition of a contract requiring them to pay more into their pensions, which workers say they can’t afford. “It makes it difficult. I’m having to

Sr. James Houston anunci hoy la fusin de CBS Canal 2 Noticias con Gulf California Broadcasting KESQ-TV, canal 3, y KUNA-TV, canal 15, de efecto inmediato. La fusin incluye los estudios de televisin que se ubican en 31276 Camino Dunham en Thousand Palms, as como la transferencia de la afiliacin CBS para el Valle de

Debido a la explosin en un transformador ms de 7200 casas y negocios se quedaron sin luz por espacio de una hora. El desperfecto fue reportado a Southern California Edison a las 6:40 p.m. de ayer lunes. Las comunidades afectadas fueron Desert Hot Springs, Joshua Tree, Landers, Morongo Valley, Twentynine Palms y Yucca Valley. Dos

Tras las rejas de encuentra un sujeto que ayer en compaa de otros dos se transportaban en un carro robado. En el rea de Baron Road y Morongo Road en Palm Springs la polica les orden detenerse por una violacin de trnsito pero el chofer aceler e intent huir en una corta persecucin policaca. Jacob

Despus de cinco meses de trabajos de construccin esta semana terminarn el proyecto en la interseccin de Cook Street y Hovley Lane en Palm Desert. Mircoles y jueves instalarn semforos lo que significa el ltimo dolor de cabeza para los conductores que no opten por rutas alternas. La prxima semana los trabajos sern en las

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Opening statements are expected today in a civil trial pitting a Palm Springs city maintenance supervisor and his family against Desert Hot Springs police and the city. Edward Moore, downtown maintenance supervisor for the Palm Springs Department of Parks and Recreation, and his family allege they were brutalized by officers who responded to a hit-and-run

Two new solar projects in Palm Desert are showcasing the Coachella Valley’s potential as a generator of clean renewable energy. The city is hosting a dedication ceremony Monday at the Parkview Complex along Fred Waring Drive at Civic Center Park to celebrate the project’s completion. The two solar projects are expected to last 25 years

Five days after 2-year-old Elijah Banuelos was shot and killed in a drive-by in Coachella. his father is speaking out. The father shared his favorite memory of his young son. “Just when he used to call my name, he used to call me Papi,” said the father, who did not want to be identified. The

A Riverside County Superior Court judge today barred 250 registered nurses, laboratory scientists and other health-care professionals from taking part in a one-day strike by the county’s second- largest public sector union. The nearly 6,000-strong Service Employees International Union Local 721 is planning a countywide work stoppage from 7 a.m. Tuesday to 7 a.m. Wednesday,

If you would like to donate funds to help pay for the funeral services of Elijah Banuelos, go to any Wells Fargo bank with this information: ACCOUNT NUMBER: 7065194651 ACCOUNT NAME: Elijah Banuelos

A Palm Springs city employee was pepper-sprayed and roughed up by Desert Hot Springs police when they went to his house to investigate a hit-and-run collision, an attorney for the man said today. In his opening statement in trial of Edward Moore’s lawsuit against the city of Desert Hot Springs and five of its police

A woman accused of shooting a man during a squabble in a Rancho Mirage apartment, while her two young children were present, pleaded guilty to a felony firearm charge today and was immediately sentenced to probation and time in the sheriff’s labor program. Andrea Marie Auclair, 28, pleaded guilty to discharging a firearm before Riverside

Con el clima mas clido, se teme que el virus del oeste del nilo podra cobrar fuerza en nuestra regin poniendo en peligro la salud de miles de personas. Y es que agencias de control de vectores tendrn que seguir nuevas y estrictas normas antes de rociar cualquier lugar contra los mosquitos, posibles portadores del