Month: November 2013

California’s health insurance exchange is set to provide the first detailed information about the roughly 60,000 people who have signed up for coverage since open enrollment under the federal health care reforms began Oct. 1. The figures are to be released during the Covered California board meeting Thursday. They will test some of the agency’s

Authorities say they have arrested two men suspected of smuggling $1.5 million in heroin and marijuana during stops at two locations along the U.S.-Mexico border. U-T San Diego reports a 46-year-old man was arrested after Customs and Border Protection officers found 24 packages of heroin found in a hidden compartment inside a pickup truck at

Authorities say a California high school teacher has been stabbed by a student at the school that led to an hour long lock down. Police say the 16-year-old boy approached the teacher toward the end of the lunch break at alternative Midrose High School in Santa Rosa on Wednesday. The teen allegedly attacked the teacher

A New Jersey energy company required by an unusual legal settlement to build an extensive network of electric car chargers throughout California has delivered just 10 percent of what it promised in the first year. The settlement between NRG Energy Inc. and the state energy regulators was sold as key to jump starting enthusiasm for

Prosecutors announced today they will seek the death penalty for a Coachella man accused of gunning down three people, including a 16-year-old boy. Angel Anthony Esparza, 27, is charged in the deaths of 16-year-old Angel Luna in Coachella on Dec. 3, 2009, and of Gregorio Juarez and Pedro Garcia in Mecca on Dec. 19, 2009.

I’ve always felt strong, but unless you know what to do during an attack, it means nothing. Mika Moulton created Christopher’S Clubhouse after her ten-year-old son got kidnapped and murdered. She teaches self defense not just to children but women, too. She taught my girlfriends and I – women equally confident except when it came

It could be some time until a resolution or any changes or made to the Coachella Valley high school mascot, the Arabs. A member of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee paid a visit to Southern California from the group’s headquarters in Washington D.C. The ADC and Coachella Valley Unified School District agreed to the process of

A pedestrian was killed Wednesday morning after he was hit by a motorist in a pick-up truck. It happened just before 6 a.m. on Monroe Street, south of Doctor Carreon Boulevard. The man whose name hasn’t been released, died at the scene. Police say he was in the middle of the street when he was

Taking the bus is an affordable way for Kenda DeCastro to get to school, but she says taking five hours out of her day going to and from school just doesn’t work. “Honest to God if I could, I would have walked to school,” DeCastro said. “But there’s just no way you can walk across

You see it all the time. Police say distracted drivers using their cell phone, and not paying attention, have shown themselves to be great danger. Those eyes, buried in their mobile device, are not looking at the road. Michael Bacchus of Alberta said, “You go, ‘that person isn’t really paying attention and anything can happen.’”

Hoy a las 5:50 a.m. un hombre que cruzaba Monroe Street por la zona no peatonal muy cerca de Dr. Carreon Blvd frente al hospital JFK de Indio fue atropellado. El conductor de la camioneta Chevrolet Silverado involucrada en todo momento ha cooperado con las autoridades. El hombre muri en la escena y permaneci por

Palm Springs was among 25 cities nationwide that earned a perfect score in the Human Rights Campaign’s 2013 Municipal Equality Index. Two other Coachella Valley cities also got high scores, 92 for Cathedral City and 90 for Rancho Mirage. No other Coachella Valley cities were listed in the index, which rates 291 municipalities in all

More than 500 custodians, cooks, landscapers and other unionized employees from UC Riverside will be on the picket lines today, joining around 20,000 fellow union members throughout the state to protest alleged “intimidation tactics” by UC officials during contract negotiations. “This is an unfair labor practice strike,” according to Liz Ortega of the American Federation

One person has died after being struck by a truck in Indio. Firefighters responded to the scene at Monroe Streeet and Carreon Boulevard. at 5:52 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities said a Hispanic man was in the middle of the road when he was struck by a motorist driving a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. The pedestrian was

Desert Hot Springs City Council declares fiscal emergency after city staff presents a bleak financial report which could see the city running out of money in March of next year. Last Tuesday, more than 150 Desert Hot Springs residents attended a special meeting of the city council to discuss possible solutions for the current budget

Desert Hot Springs City Council declared a fiscal emergency for the city Tuesday night. The vote was unanimous, 5-0. The city’s financial director says 25 percent of the budget needs to be cut before the end of June. That’s $4.8 million dollars in cuts. Declaring a fiscal emergency allows the city to open up its

A bicyclist is dead after being hit by a car in Coachella shortly after 5:00 p.m. Tuesday evening at Van Buren Boulevard and Avenue 48. The man died at the scene. He’s described as being around 50-years old and was wearing dark clothing. Authorities say a family was in the car that hit him. They

The controversy over the Coachella Valley high school mascot, the Arabs, is now big enough to draw a visit from the group who first took offense.l A representative from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) came to Southern California for one reason. “To ensure that we’re on the same page and agreeing to how we move

Jean Soich sees no downside to her life. She’s 87 years old, gets meals on wheels every day – and thinks she has it made. “They even bring a little extra sometimes and it’s wonderful. You seem to know the person and you know there is someone coming to visit you for a few minutes.

The University of California Riverside showed off its new College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology, better know as “CE-CERT.” It’s the only one of its kind in the state because it has the only pressurized and continuously operating gasifier. The device is called the Steam Hydrogasification Reaction Process Demonstration Unit. It turns