Month: August 2013

El sbadopoco antes delas 9:00 a.m. el conductor de un Sebring Chrysler 2000 que circulaba sobre los carriles con rumbo al norte de Indian Canyon Drive cerca de Pierson Blvd en Desert Hot Springs perdi el control e invadi los carriles contrarios impactndose de frente con una camioneta Toyota. Joshua Kelly de 23 aos residente

The California Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that school employees can administer insulin shots to diabetic students if a nurse is not available. The ruling – released on Monday – reverses a lower court decision that said state law allows only licensed professionals to administer the shots. The Supreme Court decision supports a 2007 agreement

The operator of the San Onofre nuclear power plant is defending its closure to customers who may wind up paying hundreds of millions of dollars in shutdown costs. A full-page ad in Monday’s Los Angeles Times argues that closure is in the customers’ best interests. Southern California Edison says it’s trying to recover costs from

A man died Saturday morning after losing control of his car and smashing into another vehicle while driving in Desert Hot Springs, according to police. Just before 9 a.m., 23-year-old Joshua Kelly of Desert Hot Springs was driving a 2000 Chrysler Sebring northbound on Indian Canyon Dr near Pierson Blvd when, for reasons still unknown,

A bobcat was released back into the wild Sunday after being hit by a car and treated by Riverside County Animal Services, according to authorities. Just after midnight Sunday, officers responded to a report from a man saying he hit a “tiger” with his car. Officers arrived at La Sierra Avenue in Riversideto find a

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is promising to reveal design plans Monday for a transportation system that’s twice as fast as an airplane, cheaper than a bullet train and completely self-powered. Musk has been dropping hints about his “Hyperloop” system for more than a year and says it would move people from Los Angeles to San

Immigration advocates are swarming the country this month, trying to persuade House Republicans to pass a comprehensive overhaul. It was hard to tell at the town-hall meeting that second-term Republican Rep. Andy Harris held recently in this town northeast of Baltimore. The overflow crowd in the board of commissioners meeting room was overwhelmingly white and

Crews focused on hot spots as the Silver Fire nearedfull containment today, having charred 20,292 acres, destroyed 26 homes andinjured a dozen people since breaking out south of Banning on Wednesday. The fire was 95 percent contained Monday morning, with full containment expectedlater today or Tuesday, fire officials said. Earlier, 100 percent containmenthad been expected

Opponents of Mayor Bob Filner are scheduled to hold a “Not Welcome Back” rally at the Civic Center Plaza in downtown San Diego today, following his completion of a stint in a behavioral therapy program. Filner’s lawyer, Irvine-based James Payne, said his client finished theprogram on Saturday, although he would not return to work this

A missing 82-year-old woman has been located, Palm Springs police said Monday morning. The woman, referred to only as Maria, was walking on Avenida Ortega in Cathedral City around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, headed toward a bus stop, where she planned to board a bus to Palm Springs, a police statement said. She never reached Palm

What if there was a study dedicated to unearthing the secrets to a happy and purposeful life? It would have to be conducted over the course of many decades, following the lives of real people from childhood until old age, in order to see how they changed and what they learned. And it would probably

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has lifted the Evacuation Order for the community of Twin Pines as of 9:00 pm Saturday. Only local residents in these affected areas will be allowed to repopulate with an access pass until further notice. Residents must receive an access pass from The Riverside Sheriff’s Department check point at Highway

The four-day-old Silver Fire, which has destroyed 26homes, injured 10 people and forced hundreds from their residences, grew to19,000 acres on Saturday morning, but fire crews were able to make good progress containingthe blaze while some residents were allowed back into their neighborhoods. The blaze, which broke out for unknown reasons on Poppet Flats Roadsouth

Lisa Redwine eagerly moves back into her home in Poppet Flats. “It’s been crazy. We’ve been waiting at the bottom of the hill a lot hoping to come up. Haven’t been able to come up,” Redwine said. She worked until midnight the day evacuation orders were lifted, so this was her first chance to come

“Splash house” is adding a little more heat to summer in Palm Springs! The two day music festival kicked off Saturday afternoon at three different Palm Springs hotels: The Saguaro, Caliente Tropics, and The Curve. Guests can enjoy 30 DJs from all around the world. “It’s kind of like a progressive pool party. You can

At least four small earthquakes in eastern San Diego County were felt as far away as Hemet today. Automated seismographs measured a magnitude 3.9 quake at 7:09 a.m., and a magnitude 3.8 just 51 seconds later. Both had epicenters in the seismically- active valley at the eastern base of the Laguna Mountains, about 55 miles

Kathy Dexter and her husband Daniel filled their Poppet Flats home with 13 years of love and memories. “The flames were coming over the hill so fast. We had a feeling there was a chance we wouldn’t have a home when we came back,” said Dexter. As firefighters make headway on the Silver Fire, the

A Xavier Prep alumni was among four former Vanderbilt football players indicted on five counts of aggravated rape each of an unconscious 21-year-old student at a campus dormitory in June. Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson credited Friday’s indictment to the painstaking work of detectives from the sex crimes unit and an electronics expert from the

Aumenta a 17 mil 500 los acres calcinados por el incendio “Silver Fire”. Su contencin se mantiene en un 25%. Ms de 1,500 bomberos comabaten el infernal. Ha destruido 26 viviendas y provocado la evacuacin de centenares de residentes. As lo reportaron las autoridades el viernes a las 4PM. NOTA PREVIA: Deja hasta el momento

Riverside County Supervisors Marion Ashley and Jeff Stone said Friday that they will seek county financial relief for Silver Fire property owners who want to rebuild in the aftermath of the wind-driven inferno. Ashley and Stone said they will likely introduce a proposal at the Aug. 20 board meeting to waive development fees for the