Month: July 2013

Two Southern California ski resorts that draw visitors from around the world may get a new owner. The Riverside Press-Enterprise says the corporation that owns Snow Summit and Bear Mountain is up for sale – and there’s no minimum price. Snow Summit Ski Corp. has hired an international banking firm to sell its 60-year-old operations.

Investigators have determined that Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was traveling “significantly below” the target speed during its approach and that the crew tried to abort the landing just before it smashed onto the runway. What they don’t yet know is whether the pilot’s inexperience with the type of aircraft and at San Francisco’s airport played

For northern Michigan fruit grower Pat McGuire, the most potent symbol of the immigration debate isn’t grainy television footage showing people slipping furtively across the U.S.-Mexican border. Instead, it’s plump red cherries and crisp apples rotting on the ground because there aren’t enough workers to pick them – a scenario that could become reality over

Authorities have killed a motorist who allegedly hit the gas and drove toward a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy. It’s at least the seventh time that law enforcement officers have killed a suspect in the county since June 1. The Riverside Press-Enterprise says the 29-year-old Norco man was killed about 3:15 a.m. Sunday after a sheriff’s

A faulty cable sparked a power outage today in Cathedral City that initially affected 818 businesses and residents, a Southern California Edison spokeswoman said. The outage was reported at 9:53 a.m. when the equipment failure occurred near Bankside Drive and Commercial Road, SoCal Edison spokeswoman Caroline Aoyagi said. By 10:30 a.m. there were only three

A federal aviation official says an Asiana Airlines flight has crashed while landing at San Francisco airport. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries. FAA spokeswoman Lynn Lunsford says the Boeing 777 crashed at San Francisco Airport while landing on Saturday. A video clip posted to Youtube shows smoke coming from a

Christopher Douglas left behind a family, friends, and a reputation not soon forgotten. “He was just an amazing firefighter and paramedic. Very well respected. I hadn’t heard anyone say a bad thing. He had the biggest smile, biggest heart. A mentor to people coming up that were new. He was gentle and kind to the

More construction woes for Desert commuters. For the next month, Monterey will be down to one lane in each direction near the College of the Desert while crew work to widen the street. “It sucks,” said a local driver. “It’s pretty terrible.” Cars backed up in both directions on Fred Warning and Monterey Friday. The

Cello’s restaurant in Cathedral City is holdingits “Christmas in July” food drive this month to benefit senior citizens. Cello’s is accepting donations of canned food through July for theCathedral City Senior Center, which arranges the food like in a grocery storeat its Palm Canyon Drive location and at the Rancho Mirage Mobile Home Park. Canned

A federal appeals court has ruled that California lawmakers improperly stopped funding certain medical services that rural and other specialized health clinics provided to low-income residents under the state’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in an opinion issued Friday that federal law requires

Enraged Islamists pushed back against the toppling of President Mohammed Morsi, with tens of thousands of his supporters marching in Cairo on Friday to demand the reinstatement of Egypt’s first democratically elected leader. Soldiers fired on protesters, crowds of Islamists descended on Morsi opponents in stone-throwing and gun-firing clashes, and armored vehicles deployed on bridges

Gov. Jerry Brown is drawing praise for his political maneuvering in closing a $25 billion budget deficit and restoring some of California’s financial luster. The state’s credit rating is rebounding and schools are expecting an infusion of money this fall. Yet Brown’s legacy remains uncertain as he finishes his third term and prepares for a

Rebounding state revenue bolstered by temporary tax increases recently approved by voters are paying off for California’s largest public employees’ union. State lawmakers this week ratified a three-year agreement negotiated by Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration giving 4.5 percent pay raises to the 95,000 members of Service Employees International Union Local 1000 by July 1, 2015.

State workplace safety officials are investigating the deaths of a farm worker and construction worker as possibly heat-related. The state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health reported Friday that a 30-year-old farmworker who had been working at a watermelon field southwest of Fresno near Coalinga died on Tuesday. The 55-year-old construction worker died last Friday

One man has been taken to the hospital with major injuries after a tire blew out on his truck around 9:30 this morning. The truck was traveling down the eastbound side of Interstate 10 near the Washington St exit when the tire on his truck blew out. The blowout sent the truck into the center

More than two dozen people were injured when a wood platform holding live fireworks tipped over, sending the pyrotechnics into a crowd at a Fourth of July show northwest of Los Angeles. Between 8,000 and 10,000 revelers were settling into their seats for the fireworks extravaganza at a Simi Valley park Thursday night when the