Month: July 2013

In the wake of the the Mountain Fire, an Idyllwild resident is spearheading a drive to improve conditions for firefighters working out of the mountain town’s only fire house. Sheila Zacker worked as a volunteer dispatcher for the fire department during the Mountain Fire and says she couldn’t help but notice how the fire station

Un inspector de sanidad de alimentos dijo el mircoles que casi toda, si no toda, la ensalada preenvasada que provoc ciclosporosis en centenares de personas en Iowa y Nebraska no fue cultivada en esos estados. El jefe de la Oficina de Seguridad Alimentaria y del Consumidor de Iowa, Steve Mandernach, dijo que al menos el

Local officials celebrated the start of construction Wednesday, of county public safety projects in Indio, with a groundbreaking ceremony of the new Eastern Riverside County Emergency Operations Center at 82695 Dr. Carreon Blvd. Work on the center started July 7 and should be finished in February, according to Supervisor John Benoit’s office. The Emergency Operations

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has released the name, of the second suspect, accused of causing the death of a Rancho Mirage woman and injuring her husband in what police are calling a case of street racing gone bad. The accident happened on June 18th on Highway 111 and Dunes View Road in Rancho Mirage.

Twenty two year desert resident and eight year Elvis Presley estate owner Reno Fontana continues to fight for the property he loves. “Who would ever imagine that a legitimate lender would evict and foreclose on someone and then say I’m going to keep the home and open the business myself? What legitimate lender would ever

Desert Hot Springs City Manager Rick Daniels, in a letter to Mayor Yvonne Parks, states he will be leaving his post at the city in early September. The letter that KESQ obtained was dated July 24th. In the letter, Daniels states that he will pursue other opportunities in either the private or public sector. According

A judge has approved settlement of a lawsuit that blocked a $247 million commuter rail project in Southern California. The Riverside Press-Enterprise says the judge signed off last week on a $3 million deal that will permit construction of a Riverside-to-Perris extension of the Metrolink regional train system. Authorities hope to begin the work in

An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday on the body of a woman found dead at the scene of a fire at an abandoned Desert Hot Springs residence, authorities said. The blaze was reported about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at a boarded-up, 800-square-foot home, said Mark Annas of the Riverside County Fire Department. The fire was contained

Fire officials fully contained the 27,531-acre Mountain Fire Tuesday, more than two weeks after it was sparked by electrical equipment failure on private property northeast of Idyllwild. The blaze, which broke out July 15, has destroyed 23 structures, including seven residences, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Fighting the blaze, which continues to smolder in

A civil rights organization representing the Sikh religious community is urging local and federal law enforcement agencies this morning to launch hate crime investigations into an incident of vandalism in Riverside. The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund says it happened late Monday night or early Tuesday morning at the Sikh temple at 7940

A community blood drive will be held in Coachella Wednesday as part of the Coachella Valley Blood Drive Challenge, in which residents of the valley’s nine cities compete to donate the most blood at a single event. The drive will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Coachella Senior Center, 1540 Seventh

A local CHP officer who shot and killed a man on Interstate 10 last year will not face criminal charges. 32-year old Robert Shirar was shot seven times on May 21, 2012 shortly after crashing his truck on the I-10 in Indio. According to the Riverside County District Attorney’s office spokesperson, “It was determined that

The Board of Supervisors Tuesday tentatively approved an ordinance that would allow qualifying homeowners to transfer their property tax assessment from a home in one county to a home in Riverside County to attract new residents with money to spend. Under the ordinance, Riverside County would adopt provisions laid out in Proposition 90, approved by

The City Council today voted unanimously to authorize a cross-complaint against Bob Filner to protect municipal coffers against a sexual harassment lawsuit and also to deny public funding for the San Diego mayor’s defense. The decisions involve the case of former mayoral Communications Director Irene McCormack Jackson, who hired high-profile Los Angeles lawyer Gloria Allred

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted today to move ahead with plans to tighten regulations on where waste recycling plants can operate and what they can process. On the recommendation of Chairman John Benoit, the board signed off on a strategy to strengthen zoning requirements and general guidelines related to large-scale composting. The effort

A 46-year-old hockey mom was sentenced today to 16 months in prison, most of the time she has already served behind bars, for sexually assaulting two teenage boys in her Laguna Niguel home. Kathia Maria Davis pleaded guilty last month to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old friend of her son before she was about to go

They look like legos, and they kind of are. “They stack up like legos. We put rebar between them in the holes then stack them up and pour concrete in between and in the end the styrofoam stays in place,” Kenny Dickerson of Eco Masterbuilders said. The foam blocks form the walls of Safehouse of

Se realizara una autopsia de ley al cuerpo de una mujer el cual fue encontrado dentro de una vivienda abandonada, el inmueble se prendi en llamas la maana del martes en Desert Hot Springs, as lo dieron a conocer las autoridades. La identidad de la hoy occisa no fue revelada hasta que se de a

Riverside County supervisors today approved a $400,000loan to the cash-strapped Idyllwild Fire Protection District to coverpersonnel and other expenses that cannot be deferred until the statedistributes the district’s share of property tax revenue. Without comment, the board voted 5-0 to allocate the funding, as it hasdone at the district’s request since 2011. “This is something

Hundreds of leading business groups and GOP donors called for action on immigration legislation Tuesday, seeking to increase pressure on the House GOP as lawmakers prepare to leave Washington for a five-week summer recess. Two letters were released separately, one signed by more than 400 leading businesses, chambers of commerce and others, and the second