Month: April 2014

Authorities in Contra Costa County are searching for an armed but courteous robber who made sure his victims were comfortable after tying them up. The suspect repeatedly apologized after forcing himself into the Pleasant Hill home with a gun Sunday night. When the resident, a 52-year-old woman, and her 83-year-old mother began to panic the

State surveyors will travel up the High Sierra to take their monthly measurements of the snowpack, learning if recent storms brought any relief to California’s drought. The state’s Department of Water Resources says expectations are low for Tuesday’s figures, despite surveyors performing their work this week as storm clouds burst open. Rain fell in San

CHP said Palm Drive south of Desert Hot Springs will be closed intermittently again on Tuesday between Varner Road and 20th Avenue. Officer Mike Radford said utility crews are working in the area and pulling electrical cables across the roadway. Radford said drivers should take Mountain View Road and N. Indian Canyon as alternate routes.

“This has absolutely turned my life upside down,” said Melissa Labayog, who teaches at Horizon School in La Quinta. Once an English teacher at Summit High School, a continuation school that neighbors Horizon, Labayog now works out of a dim office. A blow to the head by a student nearly two years ago left her