Month: August 2013

Mount San Jacinto State Park is due to reopen Friday after a closure caused by the now-contained Mountain Fire, which broke out July 15th near Idyllwild. National Forest areas closed by the fire were reopened on Thursday, officials said. The Mountain Fire, which was sparked by an electrical malfunction on private property northeast of Idyllwild

Blogger Joe Jervis will serve as national grand marshal for the 27th. annual Greater Palm Springs Pride Parade later this year. Jervis will join community grand marshals Melanie Jones, Ellen Zimmerman, Mark Jones and Brian Vatcher, and other to-be-announced marshals for the Nov. 3 parade in downtown Palm Springs. The parade is part of the

As bars around the world, including in West Hollywood, emptied bottles of vodka down gutters today in protest of a series of anti-gay laws enacted across Russia, calls were also renewed for the city of Los Angeles to sever its sister-city relationship with St. Petersburg. The California-based Courage Campaign and Los Angeles area gay advocates

Just four weeks away from the start of the high school football season, the Desert Hot Springs should be focused on practice. Instead, they are working with police to figure out who stole nearly $4,000 in equipment from them. “It’s just frustrating, because our guys are always working hard,” said Steven Steed, the senior quarterback

Prepackaged salads could be hazardous to your health. Authorities have revealed some salad mixes could be responsible for making at least 21 people so sick they had to be hospitalized. While no cases have shown up in California yet, the Centers for Disease Control and the FDA are looking into a link between bagged salad

Some major changes on Highway 62, aimed at saving lives. Caltrans has installed a temporary median that prevents cars from crossing the centerline from Morongo Valley to Yucca Valley. But, residents say it’s forcing them to make dangerous u-turns to get to their homes. “Everybody is just so upset about it because they can’t get

El mdico forence dio a conocer la identidad de la mujer que pereci dentro de una vivienda envuelta en llamas, en la ciudad de Desert Hot Springs. Autoridades dijeron que la hoy occisa llevava por nombre Veronica Reyes de 28 aos. Todo indica que ella se encontraba dentro de la unidad abandonada, la cual fue

Los perros habian sido hasta ahora solo fieles compaeros de quienes trabajan en las fronteras, pero varias denuncias los han colocado ltimamente como un peligroso enemigo de quienes intentan llegar a Estados Unidos. Diversas organizaciones de defensa a los migrantes dicen que este tipo de agresiones en contra de quienes solo van en busca de

Federal officials say they are shutting down a California group of debt collectors for alleged extortion, humiliating debtors by calling their friends, employers and families, and making false threats of lawsuits. The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it’s using a temporary restraining order to halt four people accused of operating an elaborate debt collection

Police arrested a man in Palm Springs Tuesday after they found him inpossessionof a stolen car and other stolen property, according to a press release from the Palm Springs Police Department. At around 5:55 a.m., PSPD officers noticed an unoccupied car parked at a hotel on the 1600 block of South Palm Canyon Dr that

An Indio man was arrested on DUI charges early Thursday morning after crashing his car into a pole in Palm Desert County Club and attempting to flee the scene on foot. At around 6 a.m., 20-year-old Darrell McClendon Jr crashed a tan Toyota Corolla into a power pole as he attempted, and failed, to make

At the request of Supervisors Jeff Stone and John J. Benoit, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors formally declared two local emergencies for the Mountain Fire and added recent and future potential flood damages to the county’s request for recovery funds. The county is seeking assistance to recoup the costs for suppressing the now fully

A judge today kept bail at $50,000 for a 64-year-old SkyValley woman charged with animal cruelty for allegedly neglecting dogs on herproperty. Mary Bernadette Schwenn was arrested at the Indio branch of theRiverside County Law Library on July 25 on 30 animal cruelty-related countsfiled by the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. She pleaded notguilty Monday.

California high-speed rail officials are seeking to reassure the public about the rail project’s safety in the wake of deadly European train crashes this summer. Members of the board overseeing the project said at their meeting Thursday that a train that crashed in Spain last week, killing 79 people, was not operating on a system

A partir de hoy regresan a clases los alumnos de ocho planteles escolares de educacin primaria del Distrito Escolar Unificado de Palm Springs. Se tata de: Cahuilla y cielo Vista de Palm Springs Agua Caliente, Cathedral City Elementary, Landau y Sunny Sands de Cathedral City Cabot Yerxa y Julius Corsini de Desert Hot Springs El

Blogger Joe Jervis will serve as national grandmarshal for the 27th annual Greater Palm Springs Pride Parade later this year. Jervis will join community grand marshals Melanie Jones, EllenZimmerman, Mark Jones and Brian Vatcher, and other to-be-announced marshals forthe Nov. 3 parade in downtown Palm Springs. The parade is part of the PalmSprings Pride Celebration

The Riverside County Coroner’s Office today officiallyidentified the remains of an 11-year-old Menifee boy discovered in the backyardof his mother’s house, where his older half-brother allegedly buried him afterkilling him. Sheriff’s Sgt. Lisa McConnell said the cause of Terry Smith Jr.’s deathwas pending — coroner’s officials only said he was the victim of a homicide.

Forty-one pro-immigrant activists were arrested outside the Capitol Thursday after blocking traffic while pushing for passage of comprehensive immigration legislation. Among the activists were leaders from a range of immigration groups and unions including the United Farm Workers and AFL-CIO. After marching by the Capitol, the activists joined hands and sat down on Independence Avenue,

A $60 million research ship funded by a Google executive is setting sail from San Francisco to study a so-called “dead zone” in the Pacific Ocean and other mysteries of the sea. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the 272-foot vessel called Falkor was scheduled to leave port Thursday. The ship carries an unmanned submarine