Month: May 2014

News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2 spoke to the brother of a missing Cathedral City woman on Wednesday afternoon. He said his sister wasn’t herself for the last month. The Cathedral City Police Department has been asking for the public’s assistance in locating Dulce Aguero, 29, and her two children, 7-year-old Alondra Aguero and

The San Diego Police Department was seeking an audit to determine what happened to $1 million seized from drug runners and other criminals. The audit request comes after local media noted that police submitted a report to the federal government in 2010 that showed a closing balance of $1,153,426 in seized assets and a closing

A pre-Memorial Day ceremony will be held today at Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert campus. The event will include the presentation of colors by the Desert Hot Springs High School Junior ROTC, a reflection by Navy chaplain Lt. Paul Armstrong, a 21-gun salute and “Taps” played by members of American Legion Post 519 in

A senior assisted-living complex for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people will open in Palm Springs this summer. Billed as the first of its kind in Palm Springs, Stonewall Gardens will have 24 units, according to its operator, Northstar Senior Living. The development at 2150 N. Palm Canyon Drive was built in the 1950s a

“Everything that I had was in that house,” said Rick Sena, whose mobile home in North Shore burned to the ground last week. Sena lost all his family’s belongings in the fire. “All my memories, all my mom’s stuff, all my dad’s stuff because my parents were deceased, everything’s gone,” Sena said. The biggest loss:

This memorial day weekend could get started with a grand fireworks display put on by mother nature. There is potential for a brand new meteor shower to grace our skies on Friday and if experts are correct, it could rival some of the best showers of the year. So, how rare is a new meteor

CBS Local 2 Anchor Kris Long interviews candidate for Riverside County Sheriff, Lt. Chad Bianco, running against incumbent Sheriff Stan Sniff.

Several parents and two teenagers are in trouble with the law after a truancy sweep in the east valley. Police and probation officers conducted Wednesday’s operation in Thermal, Mecca and Coachella. Four parents and two juveniles were cited for curfew violations. Six other teenagers were also taken back to school. Those cited for violations can

Many fire and police departments around the southland are getting prepared for what they expect will be a busy fire season. They hit the mountain communities of Pine Cove and Idyllwild to tackle the ficticious Wood and Robin fires for a Wildland Urban Interface Fire Preparedness Training Thursday. “We’re working with Riverside Sheriff’s, the CHP,

ste es un ao poltico con las elecciones de medio trmino en el otoo y el tema de la inmigracion ser uno de los ms significantes. En 2011 el gobierno estim que habra once y medio millones de personas en este pas, ilegalmente, 1/4 de ellos aqu en California y eso significa miles de personas

Three Florida children are back home recovering after a horrifying event while swimming in a community pool. The pool was full of children last month when it suddenly became electrically charged, trapping them underwater. Even though it didn’t happen here in the desert, the risk is higher than you might think. Now we are seeing

Las autoridades llevaron a cabo un operativo tipo redada ayer mircoles en nueve comunidades del Valle de Caochella. El objetivo era revisar a 39 ofensores sexuales registrados y asegurarse que cumplen con el compromiso que tienen con la ley. Los agentes encontraron que siete de ellos violaban las condiciones de su libertad y ahora enfrentan

The owner of two dogs left inside a hot car on Monday afternoon in Indio relinquished the dogs to Riverside County Animal Services. According to spokesman John Welsh, the two terriers are now immediately available for adoption. The female with the white fluffy coat is named Simba, and the male, with shorter, curly black fur,

Six sex offenders were found in violation of their registration requirements during a compliance sweep in the Coachella Valley Wednesday. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Palm Desert station said it operated the sweep from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, Thousand Palms, Sky Valley, Painted Hills and South Desert Hot Springs. Charges

A San Francisco Bay Area tree trimmer is facing federal criminal charges for injuring five baby birds while he was trimming trees. Jill Birchell, a special agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said Wednesday that her agency had completed its investigation and would recommend to the United States attorney’s office that Ernesto Pulido

A sex offender law enforcement sweep found two people unregistered and another out of compliance who will now face criminal charges. The Riverside County Sheriffs Department conducted Wednesday’s operation throughout the Coachella Valley primarily hoping to verify address information provided by registrants themselves and make sure sex offenders were in full compliance of the law.

More than 2.6 million Southern Californians will travel at least 50 miles from home this Memorial Day weekend, nearly 2 percent more than last year and the largest number since an all-time record of 3.2 million was set in 2005, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California. Of the expected 2.66 million Southern California

Four people were taken into custody early Thursday morning following an overnight police pursuit through the Coachella Valley. Some of the chase was caught on video as a driver eluded police by refusing to stop in Palm Springs near El Cielo and Ramon Road. The pursuit started shortly after 1 a.m. when officers tried to

The driver of a big rig that set off a chain reaction of accidents, including a fatal bus rollover near Blythe, had convictions and citations for failing to keep a current log book and failing to get timely vehicle inspections, it was reported today. The registration of the big rig owned by Victor Esteban Galvan

Two men remained in critical condition Wednesday night at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, following a house fire in Coachella. The fire erupted at a home on the 1300 Block of 5th Street in Coachella just after 6:00 p.m. The fire was contained at approximately 6:25 p.m. The Riverside County Special Investigation Bureau