Month: May 2014

A San Diego man got separated from a friend during a hike near the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, sprained his ankle and was later rescued by two helicopters, a sergeant said. Sheriff’s deputies received a call at 12:40 p.m. Saturday about the hiker who also bumped his head when he stumbled along the Skyline Trail.

Closures will begin today along a stretch of Interstate 10 near Coachella to allow for slab replacement work. Eastbound and westbound lane closures are planned from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. through May 23, from south of the State Route 86 junction to just east of the Coachella Canal Bridge, Caltrans’ Michelle Profant said. More

Students at a Northern California law school are working to right an ancient wrong. They hope to persuade the California Supreme Court to reverse a 124-year-old decision denying Hong Yeng Chang’s application to practice law solely because he was Chinese. Students at the University of California, Davis, School of Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Students

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Office is investigating the death of a University of California, Santa Barbara student whose body was found on the beach in Isla Vista. The sheriff’s office says the body of 20-year-old Sierra Markee-Winkler of Eureka, California was found at about 7 a.m. Sunday by a bicyclist who called police.

Absentee ballots for the June 3 primary election will be mailed to voters throughout Riverside County beginning today. According to the Office of the Registrar of Voters, 489,000 mail-in ballots will be arriving in post boxes by the end of the week. Voters have until May 27 to apply for a mail-in ballot, which must

Firefighting is a very special set of skills which, like anything else, require practice. “We have to be ready and on our toes and we have to be well-trained,” said Lt. Frank Nguyen of Cal Fire’s Station 86 in Indio. The building isn’t someone’s real home, but there’s nothing fake about the exercises performed here.

Find your passion: My mother introduced me to dance at the age of 2. I was pigeon-toed and the doctor prescribed dance classes along with corrective shoes. I discovered very early that dance was my passion and would become my life’s work. My mother recognized my talent and devoted herself to nurturing it. She took

Cal Fire reports one person killed and a second hurt in Saturday night crash on Highway 243. The accident happened Saturday at 8:44 p.m.on Highway 243 about a half of a mile north of Highway 74. CAL FIRE reports apassenger vehicle and a SUV where involved. One person died at the scene, while a second

California State Parks rescue team was called three separate times Saturday to pull people off aMt. San Jacintotrail. It all started about 10:00 a.m., crews were called to the skyline route for several hikers struggling. The strenuous hike starts on the valley floor in Palm Springs, then ends in Mt. San JacintoState Park. One of

(AP) – With California in a drought, the coastal city of Santa Barbara is thinking about firing up a desalination plant that has been in storage for more than two decades. The city built the plant in the 1990s during the last drought but turned it on for only three months after heavy rains eliminated

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the Inland Empire dropped a half-cent today to $4.274, decreasing for the third consecutive day. The average price in Riverside and San Bernardino counties is 1.2 cents less than a week ago, but 24.2 cents more than one month ago and 40 cents higher

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is hiring. It held an open house Saturday to demonstrate what joining its team is all about. “We’re offering people the opportunity to see what dispatchers do and to let them know what other positions we have in the desert,” said Cheryl Evans, a captain with RSD. The line of

News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2 obtained the grand jury transcripts that led to the arrest of Cristin Smith and Robert Pape. They’re accused in the murders of Vicki Friedli, her boyfriend Jon Hayward, and Vicki’s 18-year-old daughter Becky. There is about 500 pages of testimony to go through, we have only gone through

(AP) – President Barack Obama is traveling to California next week to raise money for the Democratic Party and receive a humanities award from film director Steven Spielberg. Obama will raise money for the Democratic National Committee and the House and Senate arms of the party. His fundraising hosts include Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn,

The “first ladies of disco” will take the stage in Palm Springs today (Saturday) to benefit the AIDS Assistance Program. The 21st annual “Evening Under the Stars,” to be held at the O’Donnell Golf Club, will raise money for the organization’s food voucher program. Previous galas have raised more than half of the program’s annual

Residents of Club at Shenandoah Springs Village in Thousand Palms need help digging out from the never ending mounds of sand in their homes, garages and yards. “Sometimes I feel like a prisoner in my own home,” said Jeanne Krause, of Thousand Palms. “We just hauled off 40 gallons of sand from my car port

Tensions continue to rise in the race for Riverside county district attorney. Two days after Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach withdrew from a scheduled debate with his opponent Mike Hestrin, Zellerbach decided to participate Friday morning. According to the D.A.’s staff, Zellerbach submitted a letter to the Riverside County Bar Association explaining his decision

Ten-year-old Adrian Grajeda takes another step on his journey to recovery. Make that a few, very fast steps. “This is pretty much going to change his world right now,” said Brandy Grajeda, his mother. Fitted with his first running leg, he was all smiles and a little out of breath. His goal after the accident

As the temperatures begin to rise, the conditions in the desert can become extreme, especially for farm workers in the East valley. Valentin Martinez spends hours in the sun everyday working in the farm fields of the East valley. He says he’s pretty used to it, but according to the Centers of Disease Control and

Six men have been arrested and 267 lbs. of pot has been seized in the mountains near In-Ko-Pah County Park after Border Patrol agents discovered foot prints leading to several large bundles of marijuana. Agents from the El Centro station said the incident happened around 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The six men were found about 300