Month: June 2013

Obesity is no longer just a major public health problem. The American Medical Association says it’s a disease. Some people call that classification unnecessary. “It’s self made. You make yourself obese. Every fat person knows how to get think they just can’t be bothered,” Anghel Angelo said. Others think society needs this wakeup call. “People

Immigrant advocates have filed a lawsuit alleging that immigration agents are filing paperwork to keep arrestees in custody longer without investigating whether they’re in the country illegally. The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and other advocates filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Los Angeles. The suit alleges that Immigration and Customs

A state legislative committee has approved a bill that would require California’s health insurance exchange to make more contract information publicly available. The Senate Health Committee voted 9-0 to pass the legislation by Republican Sen. Bill Emmerson and Democratic Sen. Mark DeSaulnier. They introduced the bill after a story by The Associated Press revealed the

Attorneys who represent California inmates are asking a federal judge to expand the court’s oversight of prison mental health care to include the Department of State Hospitals. The department is responsible for treatment at some of California’s 33 adult prisons, including one in Soledad that is at the center of the current legal tussle between

Up to 115,000 ravers are expected each night this weekend for a dusk-to-dawn sensory overload of electronic dance music, partying and mingling at a sprawling racing complex outside Las Vegas. Electric Daisy Carnival organizers said Wednesday that all 345,000 available tickets have been sold for the event being held Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the

“If I took a full tank of gas, right now, it’s right at 80 dollars,” Paul Burleson shares his pain at the pump outside ARCO in Thousand Palms. SunLine Transit Agency has a deal for Paul, and everyone else who thinks gas prices are just too high. “From Indio to Palm springs, it’s a buck.

The federal government is spending less and less on preventing wildfires even as the nation endures increasingly destructive blazes. The Obama administration is proposing a 31 percent cut to the main program that clears brush and overgrown trees to prevent forest fires. That program is already funded at lower levels than 11 years ago. Automatic

A 61-year-old Thermal contractor accused of repeatedlymolesting a young female relative was ordered today to stand trial on felonycharges. A judge ruled that enough evidence was presented at John Ruiz Ureste’spreliminary hearing to proceed to trial on seven counts of committing a lewdact with a child younger than 14. He is due back in court

Ayer a las 3:00 p.m. chocaron un BMW y un Ford Focus en el rea de Hwy 111 y Dune Views Road en Rancho Mirage, ambos conductores tuvieron que ser extrados de los autos y continan hospitalizados. La pasajera de uno de los coches Barbara Schmitz de 81 aos residente de Rancho Mirage fue transportada

Top amateur players in the Humana Challenge will beable to play in the golf tournament’s final round for the first time next year,it was announced today. Under the new format, three amateurs with the lowest net score and threeamateurs with the lowest gross score after the first three rounds willadvance to Sunday’s final round, where

Southern California authorities say it’s a dirty business and a bizarre trend – drug users trading Tide detergent for crack. The Riverside Press-Enterprise says it’s a nationwide problem – people are stealing the popular but expensive detergent and trading it for marijuana and crack cocaine. San Bernardino police Sgt. Travis Walker says detectives raiding dope

Former Palm Springs resident Walter Lee Williams was arrested in Mexico Wednesday, one day after being added to the FBI’s list of its Ten Most Wanted fugitives. Williams, 64, was charged in an indictment filed in Los Angeles federal court, alleging one count of producing child pornography, one count of traveling for the purpose of

One woman is dead and two others were hospitalized following a two-car crash in Rancho Mirage Tuesday afternoon, police say. The Riverside County Coroner says a passenger, 81-year-old Rancho Mirage resident Barbara Schmitz, died at Eisenhower Medical Center two hours later. Police say a BMW collided with a Ford Focus at Highway 111 and Dune

Riverside County supervisors have authorized spending an additional $105,000 to dispose the remaining trailers at the Duroville mobile home park in Thermal. The allocation will bring the total budget for the county’s cleanup at what is formally known as the Desert Mobile Home Park to $905,000. According to the county Housing Authority, more single-wide travel

One particular area of Desert Hot Springs has fallen victim to one particular crime. Police say a suspect has entered numerous homes in the north-eastern part of the city through unlocked windows and sliding doors. “I’m shocked. I live in this area where you guys are saying it’s happening,” Desert Hot Springs resident Veronica Rummel

The ban on illegal pot shops continues in Palm Springs. The city’s cracking down on medicinal marijuana dispensaries operating without a proper license. Organic Solutions of the Desert continues to welcome new business as one of the three licensed and legal medical marijuana dispensaries in Palm Springs. “We’re definitely seeing more and more patients looking

The slice of a ribbon, a sweet start to summer vacation for teens at the Boys and Girls Club of Cathedral City, as they celebrated their brand new Berger Foundation Tech Lab on Tuesday. Thanks to the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation, middle school and high school students have $34,000 in new hardware at