Month: May 2014

The Westfield shopping center along Highway 111 in Palm Desert is expanding. The clothing store H&M opened its doors to customers for the first time Thursday afternoon to hundreds of shoppers who waited in line for hours. “This is the best thing that’s ever happened this store,” said shopper Lorna Adama of Palm Desert “Yeah,

A majestic destination up on a mountain, the only 5-star hotel in the valley, or more simply put – the Ritz-Carlton Rancho Mirage. “We’ve hired 300 ladies and gentleman. We are in the midst of training them, people in from around the world helping so the energy — when you open a hotel there is

The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office has decided to file charges against the man who crashed at a Palm Desert elementary school, injuring a student last October. Malcolm Patterson, 83, seriously injured 10-year-old Adrian Grajeda in the crash at Lincoln Elementary School. Adrian was playing on a soccer field when Patterson’s car crashed through the

El gobierno federal sigue recibiendo denuncias “preocupantes” de que Distritos Escolares estn poniendo obstculos a la inscripcin de nios que estn sin permiso en Estados Unidos, asi lo dio a conocer hoy jueves el secretario de justicia Eric Holder. El Departamento de Justicia y el de educacin emitieron nuevas normas recordando a las escuelas y

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has a new nose to help point them in the right direction and sniff out the bad guys. The department introduced an 11-week-old Bloodhound named ‘Windy’ as the newest member of a well-established canine team. Officials said the canine team has helped locate and identify hundreds of people throughout Riverside

Border Patrol agents took a 33 year old gang member into custody after he attempted to enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico. According to the release, Napier Valdez-Brito was arrested about 22 miles west of downtown Calexico. He was taken to the El Centro Border Patrol Station where he admitted to being an active member

Residents of Hemet are being warned not to give tap water to infants or pregnant women because of high nitrate levels found in city wells. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports the city temporarily shut down two of its six water wells on Wednesday after tests showed nitrate levels of 47 milligrams per liter. That’s slightly above

The Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians will honor police and firefighters today. The annual Palm Springs Police and Fire Appreciation Luncheon will be held at 11:30 a.m. at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with CBS Local 2’s Patrick Evans serving as host. The achievements of the Palm

The school board of a Southern California district where students were told to write an essay on whether they believe the Holocaust really happened has called the assignment “horribly inappropriate.” The San Bernardino Sun says Rialto Unified School Board president Joanne Gilbert read the remarks in a statement at a packed public meeting Wednesday night,

Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus will host its annual Environmental and Sustainability Expo for local students starting today. The fifth annual event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at the Indian Wells Theater. Pamela Clute, who lectures on education and mathematics at UC Riverside, will speak at 5:30

Electric car maker Tesla Motors says California is back in the running for a massive battery plant it plans to start building this year. But Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the state is in the “improbable” category for the $5 billion lithium-ion battery factory. That’s not because of economic incentives in California but because of

An Alameda County Superior Court judge has ruled that Secretary of State Debra Bowen erred by deciding that tens of thousands of criminals who are serving their sentences under community supervision are ineligible to vote. The ruling Wednesday stems from California’s three-year-old criminal justice realignment law, which is reducing overcrowding in state prisons by sentencing

The debate over public art in Palm Springs is finally over. The city council voted 3-1 to allow murals within city limits. The council approved an ordinance with some strict requirements for murals. The decision comes after months of controversy and discussion. The new ordinance spells out what a mural is and the steps to

I moved to the Desert in January of 2013 and one of the first things that stood out was the number of beautiful golf courses. Everywhere I turned there was a course, one problem, I’ve never played a round of golf in my life. Something need to change, growing up playing basketball and baseball I’m

Riverside County’s former District Attorney says recent campaign activities by current District Attorney Paul Zellerbach have “raised important ethical issues warranting serious consideration for voters and for me, the former Riverside County six term DA.” Grover Trask released a statement, and spoke with CBS Local 2’s Brooke Beare about the contentious campaign for the county’s

If you’re one of the more than 170,000 registered voters in the Coachella Valley — your mailbox has no doubt been full of campaign flyers. It’s just the first wave with the various campaigns wanting to get their respective messages to voters leading up to the June 3 statewide primary election. “A lot of them

Escena homeowner Chris Parman says he wakes up to a blaring sound every morning. “Our alarm clock at Escena is the lawn mowers,” he said. They mow outside his bedroom window at a noise level Parman feels is unbearable. “An airplane is a little over 120 decibels, but we have 95 decibels about 50 feet

Jacqueline Tyler, 42, of Rancho Cugamonga, said she was only 13 when a missionary at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Palm Desert repeatedly sexually abused her from July to November of 1985. She gave birth to a son on June 30, 1986. “He tried to convince me to get an abortion,”

Local students will ride to school Wednesday as part of national Bike to School Day and Bike Month in Palm Springs. Cielo Vista Elementary School students met at Demuth Park to pedal to school. Palm Springs Cyclery conducted bike safety checks and do adjustments. The Palm Springs Sustainability Commission was on hand to help with