Month: May 2014

A house fire in Palm Springs was under control Thursday morning with some help from a quick-to-respond neighbor, according to a viewer who called News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2. The fire ignited around 10:30 a.m. at 1173 Via Escuela. The man who lived by the house tried to contain the fire himself from

We have new information on the confusion over a missing letter “S” on a Palm Springs sign. Turns out, the final “S” of that sign at Gene Autry Trail and Vista Chino was vandalized on March 18th. The city noticed it, took the letter down, and ordered a new one. Wednesday, someone noticed it was

A new report issued by the President’s Cancer Panel recommends eating produce without pesticides to reduce your risk of getting cancer and other diseases. And according to the Environmental Working Group (an organization of scientists, researchers and policymakers), certain types of organic produce can reduce the amount of toxins you consume on a daily basis

Police in the San Francisco Bay Area say a woman escaped from her kidnapper by crashing her vehicle into another vehicle on a freeway. Mountain View police have arrested 23-year-old Kenneth Middlebrook in connection with the woman’s kidnapping and another kidnapping. Police say Middlebrook approached the woman in the driveway of her San Jose home

The state’s prisoner realignment plan, stealing of campaign signs, murder rates in Riverside County, and paying off the county, were all topics on the table during an extended live interview Wednesday evening with District Attorney candidate Mike Hestrin on CBS Local 2. The Senior Deputy District Attorney from Riverside County is challenging incumbent Paul Zellerbach

Transportation and poverty will be among the topics when about 400 government leaders, consultants and others gather for the Southern California Association of Governments’ regional conference in Indian Wells Thursday and Friday. SCAG’s Regional Conference & General Assembly at the Renaissance Esmeralda hotel will examine “how rapidly emerging technologies may revolutionize the way we presently

Coachella Valley and high desert phones should be ringing again Thursday after an outage that cut landline and cellphone service to customers from Twentynine Palms to Palm Desert. Wednesday’s outage began shortly before noon leaving many AT&T and Verizon customers without the ability to receive or place phone calls. The outage also cut data service

Strong Santa Ana winds will be continue through the early afternoon Thursday before weakening considerably in the evening. Gusts could still top 70 mph in the wind prone areas. High wildfire danger remains through this evening. A High Wind Warning is in effect until 5 pm Thursday for areas just west of the Coachella Valley

Cal Fire has contained a brush fire in Thermal tonight. The blaze broke out just after 5:30 pm at Avenue 70 and Fillmore in Thermal. The first arriving engine company reported a wind driven fire with approximately 40-50 acres involved and burning at a moderate rate. Cal Fire says the winds are about 10-15 mph

Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach is under the microscope after video uncovered last week appeared to show him tampering with his opponent’s campaign signs in Indio. Now there are questions surrounding some of the district attorney’s law enforcement endorsements. Since several police associations want Zellerbach to resign and end his re-election campaign – we