Month: February 2013

A suspicious device found near the 300 block of East Arenas Road was determined to be a false alarm Sunday. Police were first alerted about the device at 10:30 a.m. by a Hotel Zoso worker. Officers found the device behind a business complex. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hazardous Device Team was called in and

More than half of Americans are celebrating the all American game of football this Sunday night.We found neighbors in Cathedral City with jerseys on and drinks in hand to kick off their day, placing bets on who will win the big game. “49ers all the way!” said Veronica Rogers, of Palm Springs. Rene Martinez, of

Closing arguments are scheduled today for one of two men accused in a crime spree that ended with the fatal shooting of an Indio man. Carlos Contreras, 34, and Daniel Cervantes, 35, face murder and other charges stemming from the May 7, 2008, shooting death of 55-year-old Daniel Kuzawa, along with special circumstance allegations of

Eunice Gentry says she’s lucky to be alive. Three years ago, doctors discovered Gentry had clots in her heart and lungs. Since then, she’s worked with doctors at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage to change her eating habits and add medication to her treatment. Eunice isn’t alone. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jan Diago checks his Facebook often, a clean fun way to keep up with his friends. “It’s a good way to look at it and see how they’re doing,” Diago said. More than just friends check his page, though, curious if they’ll find dirt. “If I’m considering somebodyto be a part of my company culture,

It seems the robbery at the Citi Bank in Palm Springs on Thursday was just the beginning. Shortly after 4:20 pm on Friday the Bank of Southern California in Palm Springs was also robbed. Now police believe the same man may have pulled off both robberies. The string has some shop owners in the area

Another bank is robbed in the Coachella Valley, this time Rancho Mirage is the target late Friday evening. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department the robber entered the Chase Bank at Bob Hope Drive and Gerald Ford Drive in Rancho Mirage around 5:45 p.m. and demanded cash. No word if this robbery is connected

Palm Springs Police are looking for a bank robber that may be responsible for robbing two banks in the city the past two days. According to Palm Springs Police, around 4:24 p.m. the robber went into the Bank of Southern California on North Palm Canyon Drive and demanded money. The suspect is described as a

Allegations of fraud and money mismanagement have surfaced in the city of Beaumont. A local business owner says a private audit found misuse of taxpayer dollars. But the city says these allegations are completely false. Judy Bingham asks, “What are they hiding?” In 2005, she started looking into the city’s finances. “There are lots of

Thieves used a car to help them snag some purses from the Louis Vuitton on El Paseo in Palm Desert early Friday morning. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, just after 12:40 a.m. on Friday, the burglars backed their car into the building, crashing through the glass doors. They thieves made away with several

Con motivo de la celebracin del sper tazn autoridades reforzaran vigilancia para asegurarse que los residentes del valle de Coachella lleguen a su destino salvos y sano. A partir de esta noche diversas agencias policiacas estarn instalando retenes de sobriedad a lo largo del valle de Coachella con el objetivo de remover de las carreteras

Momentos tensos se vivieron durante un operativo policial que se registro en una vivienda de Desert Hot Springs.El equipo de tcticas especiales del sheriff y otras agencias antinarcticos condujeron una orden judicial sobre una vivienda ubicada sobre la calle Cuando de mencionada ciudad. Los hechos se registraron al rededor de las 4 de la tarde

Middle school students at Sacred Heart School in Palm Desert packed food to be given to starving children here in the Coachella Valley, and across the world, Friday. Nearly 200 students packed enough meals for 20,000 children, half of which will be given to children living in Mecca and Duroville. The other meals will be

The California Highway Patrol and Palm Desert Police Department will run extra DUI patrols on Super Bowl weekend, the agencies announced today. Palm Desert police will conduct DUI saturation patrols from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. today and Saturday in areas with high frequencies of DUI collisions and/or arrests. The Indio Area CHP, which covers

Ayer a las 8:21 p.m. una mujer que conduca su auto con rumbo al norte de Portola Ave en Palm Desert perdi el control a la altura del Hwy 111 cuando peg con una curva provocando que tronara una de las llantas. Abel Cuellarleon de 36 aos fue arrestada en la escena por manejar en

A new national Amber Alert system officially rolled out earlier this month to millions of cellphones, and because the alerts are automatically active on most newer phones, the messages have already taken tens of thousands of people by surprise. While no Amber Alert has been issued in California under the new system, authorities say it’s

As the economy continues to improve, twenty-somethings continue to struggle to find work. The current national unemployment rate for people in their 20s remains in the double-digits and in California, the current unemployment rate for 20-to 24 year-olds is 17 percent. “It used to be when you were a twenty-something there were lots of entry-level

The director of Mexico’s state-owned oil company says that the death toll in an explosion at its headquarters has risen to 32 people. Emilio Lozoya says 121 people were treated for injuries in Thursday’s blast Thursday in an auxiliary building at the headquarters of Petroleos Mexicanos. The damaged building is beside the iconic 51-story Pemex

A 36 year-old Palm Desert woman is facing DUI charges today after police responded to a single vehicle collision at Portola Avenue and Highway 111 at 8:21 p.m Thursday. Officers from the Palm Desert Police Department say the driver of a white 2001 Ford Taurus was traveling northbound on Portola Avenue at Highway 111, when

An Indio man accused in a shooting that allegedly targeted three law enforcement officers in Indio was ordered Thursday to stand trial. David Anthony Hurtado Jr., 35, was arrested last Nov. 28 on suspicion of involvement in the Nov. 25 shooting, in which bullets were fired at two California Highway Patrol officers conducting a traffic