Month: May 2013

The summer season is still more than a month away but motorists are already starting to feel the heat, especially during the last few days. Sergio Ceballos has been a mechanic for 15 years, so it doesn’t surprise him when people rush in with problems after the years first few heat waves. The big issues

ABC’s Tuesday line-up for fall will consist of an entirely new series. It’s an extension of “Once Upon a Time” based on “Alice in Wonderland” and one less hour of “Dancing with the Stars.” Series not returning include the drama, “Body of Proof” and comedy “Happy Endings,” which both ran for three seasons. Also dropped,

Reyna Madrid believes she should be allowed to stand in for her late son during next month’s graduation ceremony at Yucca Valley High School. Madrid’s 18-year-old son David Ericson graduated a semester early from the high school and then joined the U.S Marine Corps. He had planned to return to lead his senior class at

The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians filed suit Tuesday asking a federal court to declare the Tribe’s water rights to the local aquifer as the controlling rights in the Coachella Valley. In a press release, the Tribe claims the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) and the Desert Water Agency (DWA) have injured its members

Juan Gamez is graduating from high school at the end of the month, and already has a pretty impressive resume. “I got hired as a worker at the Hyatt,” says Gamez, “and I’ve had three jobs since then, part time of course, ’til I finish high school.” Gamez is in the Coachella Valley High School

A man and a 17-year-old boy suspected in the armed robberyof a medical clinic in Indio are in custody Tuesday, police said. The robbery at Indio Medical Clinic, 82-360 Highway 111 was reported at4:05 p.m. Tuesday, Indio police spokesman Ben Guitron said. The suspects — one armed with a handgun, the other with a knife

An Indio family’s demanding justice, three months after police shot and killed 23-year-old Alejandro Rendon. Family and friends held a rally at the Larson Justice Center in Indio to ask for answers for themselves and others like them. In that crowd, Rendon’s mother, Valentina, broke down in tears. The pain of her youngest son’s death

The tide is changing in the race for a cure when it comes to breast cancer. Women are no longer waiting for a diagnosis. 40 year old Veronica Lua of Indio has a history of cancer in her family. Her mother had eight sisters, five were diagnosed with cancer, including her mother who died of

Aunque los equipos de las Grandes Ligas mejoraron en diversidad racial para cubrir altos puestos gerenciales, la inclusin de mujeres se ha rezagado, de acuerdo con el reporte anual del Instituto Richard Lapchick para la Diversidad y la tica en el Deporte, de la Universidad Central de Florida. La diversidad racial entre altos gerentes de

Riverside County supervisors today signed off on asheriff’s department request to hike the rates charged to cities and othercontract entities for the use of patrol deputies and other personnel. In a 4-0 vote, with Supervisor Jeff Stone absent, the Board ofSupervisors approved the rate increases, retroactive to July 1, 2012, whichsheriff’s officials say are needed

A 19-year-old man who stole a big rig truck in Temeculaand crashed it into several cars during what he told authorities was anattempt to flee “zombies” will get up to five years in prison, a DistrictAttorney’s Office spokesman said today. Jeremiah Clyde Hartline pleaded guilty on Monday at the SouthwestJustice Center in Murrieta to a

The Board of Supervisors today authorized RiversideCounty fire Chief John Hawkins to close access to seven hiking and off-roadsites where fire danger is high in the summer months. In a 4-0 vote, with Supervisor Jeff Stone absent, the board withoutcomment gave its nod for Hawkins to continue a policy he began in 2007. Since that

A 40-year-old Riverside man crashed his car into a parked pickup truck in Riverside Tuesday and died, authorities said. Frank Juarez Jr. died in the wreck at Mitchell and Campbell avenuesshortly after it was reported at 12:10 a.m., Riverside police said. Juarez was driving a 1996 Honda Civic north on Mitchell “at a high rateof

Contina la bsqueda de un sujeto que ayer intent raptar a una estudiante de Indio High cuando se diriga al plantel escolar. El incidente fue reportado a las 9:45 a.m. La joven que caminaba sobre Aladdin Street en Indio se percat de que una Ford Explorer de modelo no muy reciente la segua, el conductor

Federal accident investigators recommended Tuesday that states cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half, matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries. The National Transportation Safety Board said states should shrink the standard from the current .08 blood alcohol content to .05 as part of a series of recommendations

A research firm says Southern California home prices neared a five-year high last month as sales picked up in more expensive markets. DataQuick said Tuesday that the median price for new and existing homes reached $357,000, rising more than $11,000 during the month of April alone and up 23 percent from the same period last

Police in Indio were on the lookout Tuesday for a man whotried to kidnap an Indio High School senior as she walked to school. The attempted kidnapping was reported about 9:45 a.m. Monday, around anhour after it happened. The girl, whose name was withheld, told police she was walking south on Aladdin Street from Shadow

Angelina Jolie says she’s had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that makes it extremely likely she’ll get breast cancer. Jolie authored an op-ed for Tuesday’s New York Times where she writes that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts. The 37-year-old Jolie says she

San Francisco-based hotel and restaurant companyKimpton will manage a four-star hotel to be built on North Palm Canyon Drive indowntown Palm Springs, a city spokeswoman said today. The hotel, which is expected to open in 2015, will have 190 rooms, arooftop bar and pool, restaurant and more than 24,000 square feet of event andmeeting space,