Month: August 2013

Just 100 yards from the Palm Springs aerial tramway, fire burned Tuesday afternoon. “At first it didn’t look like that much but when we boarded the tram to come back down there was a lot more to it than it seemed up there,” Scott Gire said. Understandably disappointed visitors from all over the world got

Police investigated a suspicious envelope sent to a TimeWarner Cable office in Indio today, sealing off the building and closing thenearest road. Police were sent to Time Warner at 81-557 Dr. Carreon Blvd. about 12:15p.m., Indio police spokesman Ben Guitron said. “When officers arrived at the business … they were told by TimeWarner employees an

A brush fire burning on the mountain side near the lower station of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway is now at 60 acres and 20% contained. It forced the valley and mountain stations to close as well as forcing evacuations at one of the valley’s favorite attractions. The U.S. Forest Service says the fire broke

The startling sound and buzz of an Amber Alert alerted California cell phone users to two missing children from San Diego Monday night. “A friend of mine got it on his cell phone, scared the hell out of him. I guess it made some really weird noise,” said Ron Denlinger, of Cathedral City. Sylvia Borrego

The investigation into allegations that Desert Hot Springs City Council members were bullying City Manager Rick Daniels has been completed. The investigation revealed that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that Daniels has been subject to a hostile work environment. The report which cost the city over 77-thousand dollars also revealed that even though there

A fire damaged a unit in a Desert Springsmobile home park, displacing a man today. No injuries were reported in the blaze at Wagner Trailer Park, 18801Roberts Road, that broke out shortly after 1 p.m., and Riverside County FireDepartment spokeswoman Melody Hendrickson said residents were putting water onthe fire when county crews arrived. The fire

The husband of a woman whose body was found in a burned house near the U.S.-Mexico border says he knows the man suspected of killing his wife and abducting one or both of their children. The disclosure came Tuesday as a manhunt for 40-year-old James Lee DiMaggio expanded. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department says

Los nueve mexicanos que se hicieron detener en la frontera como parte de una protesta contra las deportaciones de extranjeros sin papeles dispuestas por Estados Unidos ganaron su primer batalla el lunes cuando el gobierno estadounidense aprob tentativamente sus solicitudes de asilo. La aprobacin preliminar de todas las solicitudes por parte del Departamento de Seguridad

Provoc la evacuacin de varios comercios y el cierre de arterias, un sobre sospechoso que fue entregado dentro de las intalaciones Time Warner Cable en la ciudad de Indio. Segn las autoridades el paquete fue recibido por un empleado que not algo sospechoso dentro del sobre, de inmediato dio parte a las autoridades. El incidente

Tuesday in Indian Wells, hundreds of construction workers took a break from the project they’ve been working on since the end of this year’s BNP Paribas Open, receiving kudos for the progress they’ve made building Stadium 2. Construction workers and dignitaries signed the last structural beam, which was then placed atop the 8000 seat stadium,

Un incendio desatado esta tarde en las montaas de San Jacinto causo el cierre del telefrico, el boraz inicio alrededor de la 1:45 de este martes, hasta el momento se llevaba consumido cincuenta acres de maleza, alrededor de cien bomberos tratan de consumir las llamas que arden sin control, an no se sabe con certeza

The Los Angeles City Council wants new street barriers to block unwanted vehicles from getting onto the Venice Beach boardwalk. A council motion approved unanimously Tuesday asks police and city officials to immediately erect temporary barriers at the most dangerous intersections along the boardwalk. The council also asked for a two-week study that will assess

Two major California water organizations expressedsupport today for a pair of local agencies that have been sued for water rightsby a local Indian tribe. The Association of California Water Agencies and the Southern CaliforniaWater Committee are backing the Desert Water Agency and the Coachella ValleyWater District, who were sued in May by the Agua Caliente

Fire damaged a business in Palm Springs this morning after a power pole caught fire, causing high voltage lines and transformers to go down in the area, spreading flames to a nearby building. The fire started at around 12:30 a.m on the 600 block of Oleander inPalm Springs. When firefighters arrived they found a power

La Alerta Ambar est encendida y se realiza una bsqueda para localizar a un sujeto sospechoso de secuestrar a dos nios y de quemar una casa en Boulevard, California donde el cuerpo de la madre de los menores fue encontrado junto al cuerpo de otro nio que no ha sido identificado. Los menores son Hannah

Scientists say two small earthquakes have hit the Central Valley close to the San Andreas Fault. A magnitude-3.6 quake struck about 15 miles southwest of the farming city of Coalinga Tuesday morning. It was followed by a magnitude-3.3 less than a minute later. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quakes appeared to have occurred on

Augustine Casino announced Tuesday that Jef Bauer will become their new General Manager.Bauer is coming to the valley from Colorado, where he served as General Manager for the Reserve Casino Hotel in Central City. “This is a very exciting opportunity for me,” said Bauer, who started his position with Augustine Casino in early July. “The

A brush fire that has burned more than 1,500 acresin the Cleveland National Forest was 20 percent contained today. The so-called Falls Fire was reported around 10 a.m. Monday about fivemiles west of Lake Elsinore and just south of Ortega (74) Highway. The fire,which was 1,416 acres as of this morning, prompted a mandatory evacuation

Two people are recovering this morning after a driver slammed her car into a Bermuda Dunes restaurant. The accident happened Monday afternoon around 1 p.m. at Joe’s Sushi on the corner of Washington and Country Club. Two people suffered minor injuries. The California Highway Patrol says the driver accidentally hit the gas instead of the

A search was underway today for a man suspected of kidnapping at least one of two missing children, killing their mother and setting fire to a home in Boulevard, where the woman’s body was found, along with that of an unidentified child. Hannah Anderson, 16, and Ethan Anderson, 8, may have been taken by James