Month: June 2013

Social media erupted Wednesday following the court’s decisions to strike down Prop 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. Tweets with #DOMA, #prop8, and #loveislove were all trending in the Twittersphere after #SCOTUS handed two monumental victories to same-sex marriage couples and supporters.Many locals, celebs and leaders including president Barack Obama tweeted, “Today’s

Dr. Russell Grant said the high heat forecast for this weekend is a serious danger. “Every year in this country people die from heat related injuries, and they are all virtually preventable,” Dr. Russell Grant from Eisenhower Urgent Care said. Dr. Grant said not to underestimate the triple digit temperatures, as much as 20 degrees

With the Supreme Court clearing the way for same sex marriages to resume in California, gay weddings figure to soon be big business in the Palm Springs area. The amount of churches that make it their business to marry same sex couples remains to be seen. At least one large church in Palm Desert is

Police in Cathedral City are searching for a man they believe assaulted his brother-in-law with a hammer Tuesday evening. Just before 6 p.m. Tuesday, police responded to 911 calls from Lagos Court inside Desert Princess Country Club. When they arrived, a man was found with serious head injuries as a result of an assault. Apparently,

Within hours of the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulingtoday that cleared the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California, thePalm Springs Bureau of Tourism unveiled a website touting the area as a weddingdestination. The website, www.weddingsinpalmsprings.com, includes information abouthotels and inns, vacation home rentals, lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgenderresorts and wedding locations, according to tourism bureau spokeswoman HillaryAngel. Some

In a historic day for gay rights, the Supreme Court gave the nation’s legally married gay couples equal federal footing with all other married Americans on Wednesday and also cleared the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California. In deciding its first cases on the issue, the high court did not issue the sweeping

An Upland attorney surrendered this morning after being charged with stealing approximately $129,795 in social security benefits. Audrey Owens, 60, a deputy public defender for Riverside County, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court on June 10 with theft of government property in a scheme that spanned 12 years. Owens is charged

A federal appeals court says it will wait at least 25 days before allowing gay marriages to resume in California. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday that it will take at least that long for the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to become official. The San Francisco-based court said it may continue to

Police are looking for a man today suspected of burglarizing a Desert Hot Springs home. On Monday evening, police responded to a report of a burglary at a DHS home on the 10700 block of Pomelo Drive. When officers arrived, they “quickly developed a person of interest, Dylan Bloor, and located him several block away,”

Police have charged Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez with murder and weapons counts in connection with the slaying of a semi-pro football player whose body was found in an industrial park about a mile from Hernandez’s home. The charge was revealed Wednesday in Attleboro District Court after Hernandez was arrested at his sprawling North Attleborough

Supporters of same-sex marriage say they are pushing for gay couples in California to be able to obtain marriage licenses within a matter of days, not weeks. Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin said Wednesday that the only thing standing between gay Californians and marriage is an order from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of

Students from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, are among 14 teams of undergraduates from around the U.S. that have been selected by NASA to participate in research flights that simulate weightlessness. A NASA statement Wednesday says the teams will build experiments at their campuses and then bring them to Johnson Space Center in Houston in

Riverside County sheriff’s deputies have shot and killed a man they say tried to run them over. The Riverside Press-Enterprise says no deputies were hurt in Tuesday’s confrontation. Sgt. Lisa McConnell says a report of a man shooting at a home sent deputies to the Glen Avon area of Jurupa Valley at around 3:15 p.m.

The news that the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for same-sex marriages in California is drawing a subdued reaction from a crowd gathered at San Francisco City Hall. The high court let stand a trial court ruling that overturned the state’s voter-approved gay marriage ban. But lawyers for the ban’s sponsors plan to

An excessive heat watch will be in effect for the Coachella Valley and Riverside County mountains Friday morning through Sunday evening, as temperatures soar well into the triple-digits, meteorologists said. Starting Friday, weekend highs in the Coachella Valley will be 115 to 120 degrees and 100 to 105 degrees in mountain areas near 3,000 feet,

In a major victory for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California. The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped

The Supreme Court is meeting to deliver opinions in two cases that could dramatically alter the rights of gay people across the United States. The justices are expected to decide their first-ever cases about gay marriage Wednesday in their last session before the court’s summer break. Hours before the court was to issue its rulings,

The Board of Supervisors today approved a contract with Banning to pay the city $450,000 a year to offset the expansion of a Riverside County jail there. The contract would not become operative until the board formally approves a project to enlarge the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility by 400-1,600 inmate beds. A memorandum of