Month: November 2013

Local business leaders will join Suzanne Somers and ‘Guardian Angel’ Patty Delgado Service as they march in the 22nd annual Palm Springs Festival of Lights Parade on December, 7. Barbara and Jerry Keller, owners of the LULU California Bistro in downtown Palm Springs, were named community grand marshals for the signature holiday event by Mayor

Palm Springs International Airport will offer extra parking and terminal shuttle service starting today to help handle the Thanksgiving travel rush. The airport’s Economy Lot on Kirk Douglas Way will open at 4:30 a.m., and parking is $10 a day for overnight travelers, city spokeswoman Amy Blaisdell said. Free shuttle transportation will also be available

A Calexico resident was in serious condition after a Cathedral City shooting late Monday night. Police officers were clearing a call at the Cathedral Canyon 7-11 store on the 88500 block of Dinah Shore when officers say a motorist pulled into the parking lot with a man who’d been shot inside a green Toyota 4Runner.

A second person has died from injuries sustained at a crash on Dillon Road. The age and sex of the second fatality is unknown at this time, but the California Highway Patrol says all five passengers in the vehicle were juveniles. UPDATE: The Riverside County Coroner’s office said Wednesday, Andres Romo, 18, of La Quinta

It’s the American dream to own a home. To hear the tax collector say you no longer own it is a nightmare. “Well I was kind of angry. Pretty angry, you know,” Geoff Gerster said. “I couldn’t believe it.” The reason Gerster could not believe it is because he paid cash for his home in

More than 300 families depend on the Galilee Center in Mecca for food and clothes each week. And, the holidays bring in many more.The center plans to provide 600 food baskets, including a turkey, starting at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. To help provide enough meals, Augustine Casino in Coachella filled the Center’s truck with canned

Sandy Rudolph lives within walking distance of the Gardens on El Paseo. “Everything is very convenient and I like a lot of the shops and this seems to have really opened it up a lot,” Rudolph said. She’s talking about the finished product – a new bridge connecting both sides of the shopping center. “The

El presidente Barack Obama apel el lunes al espritu del Da de Accin de Gracias en su bsqueda de un acuerdo con el Congreso para aprobar una reforma migratoria. El presidente dijo que est dispuesto a aceptar la propuesta de los republicanos de la Cmara de Representantes que quieren abordar una eventual reforma de manera

Los residentes legales de California pueden ser elegibles para comprar cobertura de salud por medio de Covered California pero que suceder con las personas indocumentadas en este pas y los residentes que no puedan costear el plan de salud del Presidente Obama? Hoy en un reportaje especial denominado “El camino de atencin mdica, Obamacare asequible

Thanksgiving travel season is upon us and the California Highway Patrol is reminding motorists to buckle up. Distance doesn’t matter, whether traveling across the country or just across town, buckling up is one way to help secure a safe arrival to your destination. “Thanksgiving weekend is one of the busiest travel times of the year,”

Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, will announce in Palm Springs Monday new legislation designed to protect people from healthcare fraud. Ruiz will make the announcement at Mizell Senior Center in Palm Springs. Indio Police Chief Richard Twiss and representatives from the AARP and California Alliance for Retired Americans are expected to attend. According to the

More than 200 animals found loving homes this weekend at the Loving all Animals pet adoption event in Rancho Mirage. Riverside County was just one of almost three dozen shelter and rescue group organizations transporting animals to the event. This year’s theme, “There’s No Place Like a Home,” played off the “Wizard of Oz” magic

Police say a weekend car wreck killed a Cathedral City man after he lost control of the vehicle he was driving. The car crash happened in Desert Hot Springs on Saturday at 10:13 p.m. Authorities say 28-year old Donald Britton III was driving on Little Morongo Road near Pierson Boulevard when he lost control of

An innovative training program that prepares prison inmates for jobs in the tech sector has expanded. The rigorous, six-month course was launched at San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco by a pair of successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. The program is “bootstrapping,” as its organizers say, with just 12 graduates in its first two

For 66 years, young women from the Coachella Valley have been competing for the title of Queen Scheherazade, a nod to the Persian fairytale One Thousand and One Nights. “It goes along with the theme our fairgrounds hold, as you know the valley is rich in Middle Eastern culture,” said Veronica Casper, Assistant Fair Manager

The 10-year old boy who lost part of his leg because of a crash at Lincoln Elementary school is now out of the hospital. Adrian Grajeda was playing at recess last month when a car crashed through a fence on the playground. Police say the driver, 83-year- old Malcolm Patterson, hit his accelerator instead of

On Nov. 22nd, 1963, Hugh Aynesworth was a reporter for the Dallas Morning News. On that fateful day in Dallas he was in three locations significant to the historic day. He was in Dealey Plaza when President John F. Kennedy was shot. He was in the suburb of Oak Cliff when suspect Lee Harvey Oswald

An 8-minute mash-up of Billy Joel songs earned the Desert Hot Springs Marching Band a standing ovation and a state championship. The “Mighty 39 Golden Eagle Regiment” took on 70 Division 1 bands at West Valley High School in Hemet last weekend. Out of eight finalists, the group brought home the award-winning performance to entertain

It was “The View” West Coast style all week as Barbara Walters, Whoopie Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy talked the talk at Disneyland in Anaheim this week with special guest host Demi Lovato. The ladies of The View enjoyed Disneyland and all it had to offer, even celebrating Mickey Mouse’s 85th birthday. KESQ News

John Hugh never wanted to go to medical school. In fact, he hated the sight blood. “Oh yeah, but how do you do that? I didn’t know how to do that. I thought, ‘Gosh, I can’t tell my folks,’” Hugh said. Fifty years ago, he was a first year medical student in Dallas. “We got