The director and producer behind the television classics “I Love Lucy” and “Bewitched” has died in Palm Desert. Bill Asher was 90. His wife, Meredith, confirmed he died early Monday morning at a facility in Palm Desert from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Asher began his Hollywood career directing 100 of the 181 episodes of “I
Continue ReadingPolice say they seized nearly $12 million in heroin and crystal methamphetamine intended for distribution in the Philadelphia area during a weekend traffic stop. Bensalem police say suspicious activity at a truck stop prompted an officer to pull over a tractor trailer registered in California on Sunday evening. A K-9 search led to the discovery
Continue ReadingPolice say they seized nearly $12 million in heroin and crystal methamphetamine intended for distribution in the Philadelphia area during a weekend traffic stop. Bensalem police say suspicious activity at a truck stop prompted an officer to pull over a tractor trailer registered in California on Sunday evening. A K-9 search led to the discovery
Continue ReadingPolice say they seized nearly $12 million in heroin and crystal methamphetamine intended for distribution in the Philadelphia area during a weekend traffic stop. Bensalem police say suspicious activity at a truck stop prompted an officer to pull over a tractor trailer registered in California on Sunday evening. A K-9 search led to the discovery
Continue ReadingPolice say they seized nearly $12 million in heroin and crystal methamphetamine intended for distribution in the Philadelphia area during a weekend traffic stop. Bensalem police say suspicious activity at a truck stop prompted an officer to pull over a tractor trailer registered in California on Sunday evening. A K-9 search led to the discovery
Continue ReadingPolice say they seized nearly $12 million in heroin and crystal methamphetamine intended for distribution in the Philadelphia area during a weekend traffic stop. Bensalem police say suspicious activity at a truck stop prompted an officer to pull over a tractor trailer registered in California on Sunday evening. A K-9 search led to the discovery
Continue ReadingPolice say they seized nearly $12 million in heroin and crystal methamphetamine intended for distribution in the Philadelphia area during a weekend traffic stop. Bensalem police say suspicious activity at a truck stop prompted an officer to pull over a tractor trailer registered in California on Sunday evening. A K-9 search led to the discovery
Continue ReadingPolice say they seized nearly $12 million in heroin and crystal methamphetamine intended for distribution in the Philadelphia area during a weekend traffic stop. Bensalem police say suspicious activity at a truck stop prompted an officer to pull over a tractor trailer registered in California on Sunday evening. A K-9 search led to the discovery
Continue ReadingThe trustees of California State University approved 10 and 9 percent salary increases Tuesday for three new campus presidents. The board’s action marked the first under its controversial executive compensation policy adopted in May after a firestorm of criticism over presidential pay during a period of drastic belt-tightening caused by state funding cuts. The board
Continue ReadingCathedral City saw an outburst of crime over the weekend. Officers responded to two separate shootings and an armed robbery on Saturday. They were also called to another robbery and beating early Monday morning. The recent spike in violence has some pointing fingers at the budget passed by the city council which calls for staff
Continue ReadingThis weekend’s burglary at the Gucci store in Palm Desert is the latest in what seems to be a recent rashof thefts along El Paseo.Last month, Louis Vuitton and the Lucky Brand store were robbed within a week of each other. “It’s a little disturbing, (we’ll) definitely make sure we’re a little more safe,” said
Continue ReadingA plan by Riverside County to move migrant farm workers out of a substandard trailer park in Thermal is on hold. Late last week, people living in the Duroville Parklearned they might not be moving to the new Mountain View Estates Park in Oasis afterall. The state of Californiarejected the county’s appeal for $12 millionin
Continue ReadingThe Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection, a milestone in the 30-year battle against the virus that causes AIDS. The agency approved Gilead Sciences’ pill Truvada as a preventive measure for people who are at high risk of acquiring HIV, such as those who
Continue ReadingGulf California Broadcast Company in Palm Springs, California, is currently seeking an outgoing, career minded individual who would like to control their income and career selling the two most powerful advertising mediums ever created: television and the internet. We have an immediate opening for the right person to step up and into an exciting and
Continue ReadingKESQ/ABC KDFX/FOX & KCWQ/CW KESQ.COM/ serving the Palm Springs, California DMA is currently seeking an outgoing, career minded individual who would like to control their income and career selling the two most powerful advertising mediums ever created; Television and the Internet. We have an immediate opening for the right person to step up and into
Continue ReadingThe Palm Springs Public Works Department will begin the city’s annual Street Overlay Program Monday. The program provides an asphalt overlay on city streets every eight to 10 years. Cross streets at major roads will be closed, or partially closed, so crews can install new concrete gutters before asphalt is laid on the major road,
Continue ReadingCathedral City police searched today for whoever kicked a man in the head while robbing him of his wallet, authorities said. The man staggered into his home in the 32000 block of Canyon Vista Road just before 2 this morning with his head and face covered with blood, said Cathedral City police Sgt. Corwin de
Continue ReadingRiverside County sheriff’s deputies are looking for someone who stole merchandise from the Gucci store in Palm Desert, a sheriff’s department spokesman said. The suspect entered a rear door of the store, which is on the 73-000 block of El Paseo, just before 9:30 a.m. Saturday just before the store was opened. He then made
Continue ReadingCalling the desert a “mini Hollywood” is now truer than ever. Famed director Steven Soderbergh’s up-coming HBOmovie about Liberace, ‘Behind the Candelabra’, will be produced by valley resident and powerhouse producer Jerry Weintraub. The lights, cameras, and action is all taking place in Palm Springs. Hundreds of valley residents lined up at an open casting
Continue ReadingA road project at a busy intersection in Palm Desert will slow traffic Monday and Tuesday, officials warn. City crews will be working those two days at Highway 111 and Plaza Way, near the Westfield Palm Desert shopping mall, on the final scheduled part of the project, according to city spokesman David Hermann. On Monday,
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