Month: January 2013

Riverside County supervisors Tuesday approved a $130,000 allocation for environmental safety testing of structures at a desert mobile home park condemned by the federal government. Without comment, the Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to earmark funds requested by the Economic Development Agency to pay for asbestos and lead-based paint inspections on 140 travel coaches at

With the High Desert being hit with sub-freezing temperatures, Steve Gilson, a plumber based in Yucca Valley, has his hands full repairing frozen water pipes. He has been trying to squeeze in as many calls as he can. “Yesterday I did thirteen. I am just running as fast as I can go, and getting people

After 10 years in the Coachella Valley, Latino Books Y Mas is closing it’s doors, in downtown Palm Springs. Their battle with Wessman Development ended Monday, after a judge’s decision monday, to evict what many people call the last independent bookstore in the desert. Ramirez has 20 days to liquidate his 20,000 item inventory and

Viewer sent us this video when he woke up and noticed his pool was frozen over while brushing his teeth. Courtesy Brian Loux

La polica investiga un accidente en el que dos personas resultaron heridas despus de que la SUV en la se transportaban se impactara con la pared de una casa ubicada en la cuadra 79500 de Carmel Valley Avenue, inform la vocera del Departamento de Bomberos del Condado de Riverside, Jody Hagemann. Las dos personas fueron

San Francisco lawmakers are considering whether to ask voters to rename the city’s airport after one of their own: slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk. Supervisor David Campos plans to introduce a charter amendment on Tuesday that would put the question of creating Harvey Milk International Airport on the city’s November ballot. Milk’s nephew, Stuart

California Gov. Jerry Brown is set to speak at a San Jose State University event where campus officials plan to announce an online education initiative. Brown is scheduled to appear at Tuesday’s news conference about San Jose State’s partnership with a Silicon Valley company that specializes in so-called massive open online courses, also known as

Police today investigated a crash that slightly injured two people who were trapped in a sport utility vehicle that slammed into the garage of a house in Indio. The crash was reported just before 7 p.m. Monday in the 79500 block of Carmel Valley Avenue, said Jody Hagemann of the Riverside County Fire Department. Two

Riverside County supervisors are expected today to approve $130,000 to fund environmental safety testing of structures at a desert mobile home park condemned by the federal government. The Economic Development Agency is seeking the money to pay for asbestos and lead-based paint inspections on 140 travel coaches at the Desert Mobile Home Park — better

Police say a homeless man was in custody Monday accused of breaking into a Palm Desert business through its roof. Riverside County Sheriffs deputies arrested Tyler Darrah, 23, after he allegedly dropped into a shop on the 72600 block of El Paseo through its roof early Sunday morning. He reportedly triggered an alarm inside the

A man who robbed a Dollar General store in San Jacinto was at large today. The robber entered the store in the 700 block of North San Jacinto Avenue around 8:20 p.m. Monday and took money from the cash register, said Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Rose McKinney. “The suspect fought with the clerk, then fled

The out-of-town Humana Challenge golfers will soon get shocked with the cold, but locals are already feeling it. As frost warnings spread, the green is feeling it too. PGA West executive director Jerry Eye said the worst thing frost can do is delay tee time. “As long as there is no one walking on the

Sinking a billiards shot on a brand new pool table isn’t something these kids from Desert Hot Springs take for granted. “A weight room, a pool, a gym and friends,” are just the tip of the iceberg of what the massive 32,200 square-foot Community Health and Wellness Center in Desert Hot Springs brings to the

The Palm Springs International Film Festival ends Monday, and already it’s one for the record books. Organizer says more people attended this year than ever before. Giovanni Scaveo, of Cathedral City, described the festival as, “Phenomenal, phenomenal!” Linda Emerson, of Palm Springs, says, “I think I saw 35 movies this time.” “So far I have

Raul Ruiz was officially sworn into the 113th Congress earlier this month. We were the only local station in Washington D.C as it happened. In his first sit down interview as a Congressman, Ruiz laid out the issues he wants to tackle during his freshman term. “I am very confident that we will be working

An abused Riverside boy who fatally shot his neo-Nazi father while the man was sleeping was convicted today of second-degree murder. Joseph Hall, 12, put a bullet through the head of 32-year-old JeffRussell Hall in the predawn hours of May 1, 2011, in what Riverside CountySuperior Court Judge Jean Leonard said was a planned attack

A 16-year-old boy accused of shooting a classmate at a California high school has been charged as an adult. The Kern County district attorney’s office announced on Monday that Bryan Oliver has been charged with attempted murder and other counts in the shooting on Thursday at Taft Union High School. A 16-year-old boy was wounded

Authorities today held three suspects on suspicion of carrying out a violent armed robbery last week at a Nordstrom Rack store in Westchester, where 14 employees were held hostage and two allegedly were assaulted, one of them sexually. The robbery was reported just after 10 p.m. Thursday by a spouse of an employee at the

Police were investigating two deadly collisions involving pedestrians Sunday. One killed an elderly woman in Desert Hot Springs, another died earlier in Cathedral City. The Riverside County Coroners Office says Van Zitek, 72, of Palm Springs was struck by a motorist in Cathedral City along the 67400 block of East Palm Canyon Drive just south