Month: January 2014

The Palm Springs International Film Festival will offer a free outdoor screening at Forever Marilyn Park on Saturday night in Downtown Palm Springs. ‘Cinema Paradiso’, the festival’s first Audience Award winner, received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It will start at 5:30 p.m. on January, 11, at 101 N. Palm Canyon Dr.

A 19-year-old Indio man facing vehicular manslaughter and DUI charges in a crash that killed a friend refused to allow two other friends concerned about his driving ability that night to get behind the wheel of his Jeep, according to court documents obtained Wednesday. Derren Gary Teran was charged Dec. 23 with one count of

The Rancho Mirage Public Library will be closed part of next week for the inaugural Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, headlined by bestselling novelist Jackie Collins. The festival is Jan. 15-18 at the library and Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower Medical Center. The library will be closed Jan. 16-18. The festival’s mission is to

Un hombre de 30 aos del Valle de Coachella murio por influenza H1N1, Gripe Porcina. Unos anlisis mdicos dieron positivo con la influenza H1-N1. El Departamento de Salubridad informo que es la primer muerte en la temporada de la influenza en el Condado de Riverside. El hombre murio la semana pasada despus de ser hospitalizado

A man was killed after a shooting at the Mountain View Garden Apartments in Indio Thursday night. Police are still looking for four suspects wanted in connection to the man’s death. According to the Riverside County Coroner’s Office, the victim was 20-year-old Adrian Ramirez. The shooting occurred just before 8:30 a.m. when a group of

Un hombre de 19 aos recibi cargos por manejar ebrio de manera intencional el pasado 3 de Marzo cuando perdi la vida uno de sus pasajeros. Un grupo de amigos se reuni en una tienda de auto servicio en Indio y algunos de sus amigos le ofrecieron a Derren Gary Teran conducir su Jeep porque

An underground tobacco economy is costing the state and local governments much-needed tax revenue. Wednesday, at the Badlands Landfill in Moreno Valley, more than $600,000 in tobacco contraband was unloaded from trucks, to be turned into mulch. It’s the product of 143 seizures made throughout Southern California by the state Board of Equalization and various

OutKast, Muse and Arcade Fire will headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, organizers announced Wednesday night. Other scheduled performers include Queens of the Stone Age, the Knife, Beck, Lorde, Foster the People, Lana Del Rey, Pharrell Williams, Skrillex, Motorhead and Ellie Goulding. Tickets will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Advance registration

Work at a California chicken plant has been halted after federal inspectors found cockroaches. The Modesto Bee reports the Foster Farms facility in Livingston carried out “enhanced sanitizing” Wednesday after receiving a letter from the Food Safety and Inspection Service detailing the cockroach problem. The inspectors said they found roaches five times in several parts

The Orange County Coroner’s Office is investigating the death of a college athlete who just last month helped the University of Southern California water polo team win a national championship. Nineteen-year-old Jon Walters, a freshman at USC, died of a heart attack at a hospital Wednesday, his father, Bill, tells the Orange County Register. Bill

Mayor Pat Morris of San Bernardino and three other California mayors have been cleared to start gathering signatures to get their proposed statewide pension reform initiative on voter ballots in November. The San Jose Mercury News says Tuesday’s move comes a day after Attorney General Kamala Harris issued a summary for the initiative, which would

California election officials say a spot check has prompted further review of signatures for a proposed ballot referendum aimed at repealing the state’s new transgender student law. The Secretary of State’s Office said Wednesday that projections based on random sampling show the law’s opponents obtained 95.6 percent of the valid signatures they need to qualify

California’s corrections secretary says the state will have no choice but to move about 4,000 inmates to private prisons in other states if federal judges refuse to postpone a court-ordered population cap. The state faces an April 18 deadline to reduce crowding in its 33 adult prisons to improve the care of sick and mentally

A Cabazon man who beat a woman into a coma during an attempted sexual assault and left her hog-tied for several days, causing her death, is slated to be sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Joseph Jimmy Blancarte, 50, was convicted in November of first-degree murder, torture and a special

A 13-year-old California girl who was declared brain dead after suffering complications from sleep apnea surgery has been given the feeding and breathing tubes that her family had been trying to obtain for weeks. The attorney of the girl’s family, Christopher Dolan, said doctors had inserted both the gastric tube and tracheostomy tube some time

A deadly crash happened on eastbound I-10 on January, 2, in Palm Desert. A week following the accident, the coroner released the identity of the 24-year-old man who was killed. Dustin Narz of Indian Wells died after the truck he was driving hit a structure column under the Cook Street overpass around 11:30 a.m. The

Junior golfers will once again have an opportunity to receive top-notch golf instructions at the PowerBilt Junior Golf Clinic, in partnership with The First Tee of the Coachella Valley, on Sunday, Jan. 19 at the PGA WEST driving range. The free junior clinic takes place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will give junior

More than 1,200 motorhomes rolled into the Riverside County fairgrounds in Indio for the 26th annual Western Motor Home Association rally. “This is our social activity,” said Robert “Rick” Ricordati, the national vice president of the western area family motor coach association. “Everywhere we go, these are all our friends.” The motorhome exhibition, which takes

The city of Desert Hot Springs is making strides to climb out of its multimillion dollar budget hole. We first told you about the city’s financial emergency in November. Mayor Pro Tem Russell Betts said Wednesday that newly projected numbers show the city will likely avoid bankruptcy. “We’re on target to get to make it

Brynn Campbell and Ayden Blamires, classmates at Sacred Heart Pre-School, received a free hearing screening Wednesday. “I heard sounds,” said Cambell. “It was so easy I could hardly do it,” Blamires said. Carolyn Dolan helps train new audiometrists to join the Desert Friends of John Tracy Clinic and conduct these screenings. The John Tracy Clinic