Month: March 2013

A 20-year-old UCLA student arrested on suspicion of choking a woman at a Theta Chi fraternity party will face charges of assault, intent to commit rape and false imprisonment, campus police said. Paul Meyer, a fraternity member, was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail after his arrest Friday, authorities said. Police responded around 2:30

The bleachers surrounding the pool at Palm Desert High School were filled with students and supporters who came out to remember. And, even though it may have been a bit chilly, the cool air didn’t stop anyone from jumping in the pool to support a cause that was very much in the spirit of Christian

Indio city officials and developers broke ground today on a Holiday Inn, the city’s first hotel in more than 25 years. The groundbreaking is set for 11 a.m. at 84-096 Indio Springs Drive. Developer Howard Parks anticipates the planned 89-room hotel being operational in about nine months, city spokesman Chris Escobedo said. “The development of

En exclusiva Telemundo 15 entrevist en espaol a Jeb Bush ex-gobernador de la Florida e hijo del entonces presidente George Bush y de su hermano George W. Bush. El ex-mandatario visit el valle de Coachella para participar como orador principal en una reunin de jvenes lderes. l hablo de distintos temas entre ellos el de

A Palm Springs doctor accused of sexual batteryagainst an 18-year-old female volunteer at the clinic where he worked wasreleased on bail today. Daniel Glywn Walters, 66, was arrested about noon Thursday at his placeof employment, SleepWise Sleep and Behavioral Medicine Center at 1801 E.Tahquitz Canyon Way, according to the Palm Springs Police Department. He posted

Desert Hot Springs Police is asking for help in locating a missing 16 year old boy. Police say that Rudy Freeman Sanchez ran away from his Desert Hot Springs home on February 21st and has not been seen since. Detectives have exhausted their search of all known places that the boy may have fled too.

A March 15 preliminary hearing date was set today for thealleged “snowboarder bandit,” who is suspected in three Coachella Valley bankrobberies. Michael Brandon Franks, a 30-year-old Riverside resident, is chargedwith three counts each of robbery and burglary and one count of attemptedrobbery. Franks, who was on the FBI’s most wanted list in Southern California,has also

El abogado del estudiante de La Quinta High School quien supuestamente conduca ebrio el vehculo en el que viajaba su amigo Vctor Regalado Jr de 18 aos y que perdi la vida despus de impactarse con un rbol dice que su cliente est devastado y listo para enfrentar las consecuencias legales de la muerte de

Moreno Valley police arrested an 18-year-old woman yesterday after an undercover operation connected her to the prostituting of a 14-year-old girl. On March 7th, police were investigating information theyreceivedthat a 14-year-old runaway girl was acting as a prostitute.Apparently, the girl was being advertised in postings on a popular social networking site. The postings offered sexual

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regulargasoline in the Inland Empire declined today for the eighth consecutive day,dropping six-tenths of a cent to $4.243. The average price in Riverside and San Bernardino counties is 4.3 centsless than one week ago and 11.5 cents less than one year ago, but 15.7 centsmore than one

Undefeated junior middleweight Hugo Centeno Jr. will fightKeAndrae Leatherwood in the scheduled 10-round main event tonight of a seven-bout card at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino. The 22-year-old Centeno, an Oxnard resident, is 17-0 with nine knockoutsin a professional career that began in March 2009. Leatherwood, a 24-year-oldfrom Tuscaloosa, Ala., is 12-1-1 with eight knockouts.

The seeded women’s singles players will make their debuts in the 2013 BNP Paribas Open today, while the men will complete their first round of main draw singles play at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. All 32 seeded players in the 96-player women’s singles draw received first-round byes. Russian Maria Sharapova, who is seeded second,

Sentencing is scheduled Friday for Moreno Valley school board member Mike Rios, who was convicted of nearly two-dozen felony charges connected with a sex-for-money operation that he ran out of his home. An eight-man, four-woman jury in Riverside found Rios guilty on Feb. 8 of a dozen counts of pimping, five counts of pandering and

The internet makes it easy to find out if there could be sex offenders living in your neighborhood with websites like familywatchdog.com and www.meganslaw.ca.gov. Unless of course they are not registered or tracked. Ever since Governor Jerry Brown’s realignment law took effect 17 months ago, more offenders are cutting their GPS linked ankle bracelets and

The attorney for an 18-year-old La Quinta High Schoolstudent who was allegedly driving drunk in a crash that killed his friend inIndio said today that the young man is prepared to face legal consequences andis “broken up” about his friend’s death. Eighteen-year-old Victor Regalado Jr. of Indio was killed when he wasthrown from a Jeep

Palm Springs will celebrate its 75th anniversarynext month with a free party and fireworks show, a city official said today. The event, “Thanks for the Memories! Palm Springs through the Decades”is scheduled for April 20 at the O’Donnell Golf Club and will feature anexhibit of the city’s history and culture from 1938 to the present.

Rafael Nadal is not sure how his injured left knee will respond to his first hardcourt match of the year at the BNP Paribas Open. Nadal is a two-time champion and three-time finalist at this event. He has not played a match on a hard court in almost a year and is only a month

Residentes de California que sean de bajos recurso son elegibles para recibir servicio de telfono celular completamente gratis. Y sin importar su estatus migratorio. El programa se denomina “Assurance Wireless” un programa federal de “lifeline assitance”, auspiciado por la compaa Virgin mobile.Al rededor de 5 millones de californianos de bajos recursos se vern beneficiados de

Border Patrol agents arrested a 53-year-old man at 3:30 this morning after finding nearly 40 pounds of cocaine hidden inside the gas tank of his truck. The agents searched the truck after a canine unit at the Highway 86 checkpoint alert them that the vehicle was possibly smugglingillegaldrugs. The agents moved the vehicle to a