Month: January 2014

The Desert Hot Springs Police Department is investigating after a 19-year-old man was shot and killed Monday night. KESQ & CBS Local 2 confirmed the victim’s identity on Tuesday afternoon after speaking with his mother Khalihia Ellis. She said her son Darnaiel Patterson was shot and killed in the 66-300 block of Desert Avenue. Police

El Departamento de Polica de Desert Hot Springs recibi una llamada ayer a las 10:20 p.m. que reportaba un tiroteo en la manzana 66-300 de Desert View Avenue, al llegar al lugar encontraron herido de bala a un hombre de 19 aos cuya identidad no ha sido revelada. De inmediato fue transportado al hospital donde

Deputies with the Cabazon Station are investigating after a woman’s body was found around 5:50 p.m. Monday. Authorities said the woman suffered traumatic injuries that caused her death. The victim was identified as 34-year-old Jennifer Horton of Cabazon, according to police. Horton’s body was found inside a home in the 14200 block of Broadway. Detectives

A Homeland Security Department drone has crashed off the coast of Southern California. Customs and Border Protection says the drone was being flown on a border security mission when a mechanical problem developed about 20 miles southwest of San Diego late Monday night. Spokesman Mike Friel says the crew operating the drone from Texas decided

Police say two Southern California girls who vanished during a weekend sleepover have been found near their hometown. Riverside police Sgt. David Amador says in a statement last night that 12-year-old Raylynn Bolt and 14-year-old Diana Tourdot were found by police in San Bernardino, about 15 miles away from Riverside. Police did not say anything

A San Francisco firefighter has filed a legal claim alleging fire officials falsely identified her to the media as the person responsible for killing a 16-year-old survivor of the Asiana Airlines crash. According to Elyse Duckett’s claim, fire officials wanted to protect the firefighter who first ran over Ye Meng Yuan and was responsible for

A Riverside middle school has scratched District Attorney Paul Zellerbach off its list of future speakers after a presentation to students by the county’s top prosecutor drew complaints over his use of profanity, which Zellerbach says he doesn’t remember using. “If it was felt by anyone that I said anything that was inappropriate or was

Police say two Southern California girls who vanished during a weekend sleepover have been found near their hometown. Riverside police Sgt. David Amador says in a statement last night that 12-year-old Raylynn Bolt and 14-year-old Diana Tourdot were found by police in San Bernardino, about 15 miles away from Riverside. Police did not say anything

Victor Eisenhut, the store manager at Pet Oasis in Rancho Mirage says the pet store has been kicked off line since Friday morning and it’s not the first time. Other businesses in the Monterey Marketplace were knocked off a couple weeks ago. “We can’t process anything electronically. I don’t care what it is, debit card,

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department released a photo of a bank robbery suspect late Monday. According to a news release, they say around 10:00 a.m Monday, a woman entered the U.S. Bank, located on the 57-000 Block of 29 Palms Highway. The unknown white female handed the teller a note, saying this is a

Thirty-three couples, some straight, some gay, all wedded in front of a world wide audience in the tens of millions on the Grammy’s. The message of acceptance and equality from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ hit song “Same Love” was brought to a powerful visual expression of it on music’s biggest night. “I’ve now watched it

A horas de que el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Barack Obama se dirija a la nacin durante el Estado de la Unin, el congresista demcrata Ral Ruiz representante del distrito 36 que incluye al valle de Coachella, dijo sentirse esperanzado y espera que el mantario aborde temas que afectan directamente a la comunidad hispana,

The owner of four dogs, all chihuahua mixes, is looking for answers after his pets were apparently killed by someone Sunday morning. According to John Welsh with Riverside Animal Control, the owner of the dogs called to report the case of animal cruelty after two of his dogs were stabbed to death at their home

Quentin Tarantino sued the gossip and media website Gawker Monday in Los Angeles over a link that led its readers to an allegedly leaked copy of the screenplay for his planned new film. The director said last week that he was so irate about the leak of the 146-page script that he postponed plans to

Five laws make it expensive and time-consuming to dismiss ineffective educators and should be found unconstitutional, an attorney said Monday as trial of a lawsuit that could drastically change tenure for public school teachers got under way in Los Angeles. “The effects can be catastrophic for students and children in California,” lawyer Theodore Boutrous said

A man recently extradited from Mexico to the Coachella Valley, where he is accused of killing his housemate a decade ago, was ordered Monday to be in court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing. Mexican national Walter Cuevas Gastelum, 29, is charged with murder and a sentence-enhancing gun-use allegation in the death of Manuel Ley, whose

The arts and crafts retailer, Michaels announced Saturday that it may have been hit by a security breach. Officials with Michaels said they recently learned of “possible fraudulent activity” on some of its customers’ payment cards. Michaels CEO Chuck Rubin says the breach has not been confirmed, but they want to alert customers to check

Sales of existing homes in the Coachella Valley closed out 2013 about the same as they did throughout the entire year, according to the California Desert Association of REALTORS. Median home prices continued to rise while sales and inventory dropped until November and December. For the second consecutive month, sales of condominiums were up slightly

Ayer a las 5:52 p.m. se registr un choque entre dos vehculos en el rea de Sea View Drive y Club View Drive en Mecca, un adolescente que viajaba en uno de los autos result lesionado y fue transportado al hospital. Al momento no han confirmado que caus le percance ni si alguien fue arrestado,

No DUI’s were issued after a checkpoint was set up in Indio over the weekend, but 19 drivers were cited for either driving without a license or with a suspended license, according to police. The checkpoint was set up on Saturday from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Fred Waring Drive and Madison Street. A