Month: March 2013

Thieves are targeting taxi cabs on the west side of the valley and now the cab company is taking expensive security measures. American Cab Company plans to install surveillance cameras in its vehicles after a recent rash of break-ins. The company reports nine of its vehicles have been broken into in the last month in

The fourth annual Art Bowman Memorial Golf Tournament will be held in Palm Desert today to benefit support and outreach programs for a local cancer center. The tournament, which starts at 7:30 a.m. at the Oasis Country Club,supports the Arnold Palmer Prostate Cancer Center at Eisenhower Lucy CurciCancer Center. Bowman was an original homeowner at

Palm Desert attorney Mary Lehman, a former professional boxer, was named today by Gov. Jerry Brown to the California State Athletic Commission, which oversees boxing and mixed martial arts. Lehman, 49, has been a civil appeals attorney at the Law Offices of Mary A. Lehman since 1995. The position requires Senate confirmation.

En medio de ms polemica se encuentra nuevamente el Distrito Escolar Unificado del valle de Coachella (CVUSD por sus siglas en ingls) luego de que uno de sus miembros del comite escolar fuera arrestada por malversacin de fondos, pero no del distrito. La detencin se di en medio de la controversia que atravieza dicha entidad,

A La Quinta artist was killed by “greedy men,” one ofwhom shot him in the back “like a coward,” a prosecutor told jurors today. The prosecutors comments came in closing arguments in the retrial of twomen accused in the Oct. 25, 1997, murder-for-hire of Bernardo Gouthier. JesseDean Nava and Jerry Eugene Reynolds are both representing

A Coachella Valley Unified School District board memberwho worked for Farmers Insurance pleaded not guilty today to charges she keptmore than $12,000 in cash that should have gone to her employer. Juanita Delara Duarte, 61, who is charged with one felony count of grandtheft, was ordered to return to court April 9 for a felony

Local anchors Brooke Beare and Karen Devine were among 45 women honored today in Cathedral City by Assemblyman Brian Nestande at the”Women of Distinction” luncheon in honor of Woman’s History month. Remarkable women whose contributions have improved lives in their communities were celebrated – this is a tradition that began in the State Capitol in

Seasonal allergies are on the rise. That’s just one thing local doctors are talking about when looking at “What’s Going Around” the area where you live. The citrus blossoms have kicked off a good start to allergy season in Palm Springs. Dr. Michael Jardula is treating a lot of people for sneezing, coughing, watery nose

Californians who buy individual health plans will see their premiums rise an average of 14 percent next year under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new report released Thursday by California’s health care exchange. The report commissioned by Covered California found the increase is largely due to an influx of people who previously could

Juanita Delara Duarte de 61 aos quin es miembro del Coachella Valley Unified School District fue arrestada en su casa de Coachella ayer mircoles y es acusada de enriquecimiento ilcito, aunque no se ha especificado en agravio de quin. El superintendente del distrito Dr. Darryl Adamas coment que se sorprendi al enterarse de la noticia

White Party, the annual gay dance and musicfestival, will start in Palm Springs tomorrow. Carly Rae Jepsen, Carmen Electra, Alexis Jordan and Ana Matronic of theScissor Sisters will headline events during White Party weekend, which runsthrough Sunday. The weekend starts with a pool party at noon Friday at theRenaissance hotel. Electra and Jepsen — whose

Stanley McChrystal, the former U.S. Commander in Afghanistan, and six other retired generals will speak in Indian Wells tonight. The generals will discuss leadership with students from 15 local schools before McChrystal’s 6 p.m. keynote speech at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa. McChrystal’s speech will close out the 2013 Desert Town Hall speaker series.

Some of your friends did it. They changed their profile pictures to a red box with a pink “equals” sign. The logo is spreading like wildfire across social media. Originally blue and gold, the now red logo symbolizes love and support for marriage equality and it’s getting millions of shares. The viral movement, kicked off

At 4 a.m. Thursday morning, seven Mexican nationals were arrestedin a chilling attempt to pass through the Salton City checkpoint in the back of an almost freezing semi-tractor trailer. A canine team at the checkpoint alerted agents to search the trailor. Upon inspection, agents discovered one female and six males between the ages of 20

Baseball legend and Palm Desert resident Steve Garvey wants others to learn from his example. The highly decorated first baseman for the Dodgers and Padres began a fight against prostate cancer last September. “We realized that God threw us a curve and fortunately we hit it out of the ballpark, cautiously and optimistically,” said Garvey.

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regulargasoline in the Inland Empire fell today for the 11th consecutive day afterrising 30 times in 31 days, dropping three-tenths of a cent to $4.215. The average price is 5.5 cents less than one week ago and 15.8 centsless less than one year ago, but 8.4 cents

Despite 25-mile-per-hour winds, crews todayexpanded their containment lines around a brush fire that started on the JurupaValley side of the Santa Ana River bottom, scorching 311 acres and damaging twostructures. The non-injury fire, which broke out about 4:45 p.m. Thursday at RioRoad and Calle Hermosa, on the edge of Rancho Jurupa Park, was 40 percentcontained