Month: May 2013

President Obama will meet with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of Chinanext month at the Rancho Mirage estate Sunnylands, WhiteHouse officials said today. The two presidents will meet June 7-8 for “in-depth discussions on awide range of bilateral, regional and global issues,” according to the WhiteHouse. The world leaders “will review progress and

A heavily traveled stretch of Ramon Road between Date Palm Drive and Landau Boulevard will receive a major overhaul this summer. Work begins this week on widening the road to three lanes in each direction with new pavement, and sidewalk and drainage improvements. Cathedral City officials met with business owners along Ramon Road Monday handing

A community is mourning the death of a loved one, while police search for a suspect. Eric Strzelczyk died early Sunday morning after his motorcycle collided with a white pick up truck in Palm Springs. The driver of the truck ran away from the scene. The crash happened around 4:30 AM on Sunday morning at

Linda Ha wants to be a news reporter, and she knew Women Leaders Forum’s ‘Young Women Ambassadors’ program would put her on the right track. “I knew I had to sign up right away. It involved women empowering other women, increases leadership skills, and stuff you don’t get to learn at school,” Linda Ha, a

We all know when you are out in the sun you should wear sunscreen, but what you may not know, is most of us are using it wrong. Dermatologists say most people don’t use a enough sunscreen. One in five of us will develop skin cancer in our lifetimes, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.

El presidente estadounidense, Barack Obama, y su homlogo chino, Xi Jinping, visitarn el valle de Coachella en plan de trabajo el prximo 7 y 8 de junio, los mandatarios se reunirn en la finca Sunnylands en Rancho Mirage. As lo informaron oficiales de la Casa Blanca. Los madatarios abordaran temas de asuntos bilaterales, regionales y

Ironing out Riverside County’s fiscal priorities for2013-14 is among the leading items on the Board of Supervisors’ agendatomorrow, when Supervisor John Tavaglione is slated to lead a discussion aboutresolving the county hospital’s shortfall and assessing the value of mergingagencies. Tavaglione last week introduced a three-page memorandum listing a numberof issues that he says had not

California would take steps to regulate the sale of medical marijuana under a bill approved by the state Senate. The measure is intended to restrict dispensaries that federal prosecutors say had grown out of control in California, where voters first supported legalizing cannabis to treat illness in 1996. Federal prosecutors recently cracked down. They said

Two lawmakers are seeking to strip broad secrecy provisions from the California agency overseeing implementation of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms. Monday’s announcement comes less than two weeks after The Associated Press reported that the degree of privacy granted the state’s health benefits exchange could shield the public from seeing how hundreds of millions

Local law enforcement agencies are participating in anational seatbelt enforcement program starting today. “Click It or Ticket,” which runs through June 2, targets people who donot wear seatbelts or use them incorrectly. Local agencies participating inthe effort include the Indio office of the California Highway Patrol and the LaQuinta Police Department. “As we kick off

A San Jacinto woman was arrested Saturday night after allegedly making “terrorist threats” aimed at a roommate and her family members. She also punched a cop in the head and tried to steal his TASER, according to authorities. Late Saturday night, police were called to a home on the100 block of North Alessandro Ave in

Authorities say a Temecula man who apparently shot and killed his wife and then turned the gun on himself has died. Riverside County sheriff’s officials say 65-year-old John Leonard Houston died during the weekend from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities say Temecula police officers responding to reports of gunfire found Houston severely wounded inside his

Una residente de Palm Desert enfrenta cargos por manejar ebria y provocar un choque ayer domingo a las 10:42 p.m. en la manzana 100 de Courtside Drived en Palm Desert. La polica inform que la mujer iba con rumbo al este a bordo de un Gran Am, cuando fall dar vuelta en una curva y

Goldenvoice announced this morning the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be held April 11-13th and 18-20th. Advance sale tickets will begin this Friday at 10 a.m. Payment plans are available, and for a $349 GA Pass they will look something like this: -20% Down Payment in May 2013 = $69.80-First Week of July

A Riverside County nurse caught trying to send child pornography to a girl via the internet was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison. David Christopher Jelaca, 38, of La Quinta pleaded guilty in march to attempted distribution of child pornography to a minor. U.S. district Judge Virginia Phillips imposed the sentence called for

Two suspects arrested for breaking into a car in Central California accidentally called 911 on a cellphone, which led police to them. KXTV in Sacramento reports a dispatcher was able to hear a rambling 35-minute conversation between the men as they discussed buying drugs and what implements to use to break into vehicles in Fresno.

A new report shows more poor people have moved to the nation’s suburbs, outnumbering those in urban areas. The Brookings Institution study released Monday says those in poverty living in suburbs jumped 67 percent between 2000 and 2011. But suburbs still have a smaller percentage of their population living in poverty than cities do. Researchers

A proposed state ballot measure in California would require doctors to be randomly subjected to drug and alcohol testing. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the “Pee in the Cup” initiative is being pushed by Bob Pack, a technology mogul and former executive at AOL Inc. and NetZero Inc. His young son and daughter were killed

Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times. The deal announced Monday represents Mayer’s boldest move yet since she left Google 10 months ago to lead Yahoo’s latest comeback attempt. It marks Yahoo’s most expensive acquisition since

A Palm Desert woman is facing DUI charges this morning after a crash Sunday night. The wreck happened at 10:42 p.m. on the 100 block of Courtside Drive in Palm Desert. Police say the driver of a Pontiac Grand Am was traveling west on Courtside Drive and failed to turn as Courtside Drive continued, hitting