Month: June 2014

Two severely dehydrated hikers suffering from heat exhaustion were rescued Saturday while hiking onMt. San Jacinto. California State parks was notified of a male and female hiker struggling on the Skyline Rout and out of water around 2:50 p.m. Saturday, A California State Parks rescue team was quickly assembled consisting of two State Park Rangers,

Excitement began building years ago. “The project is approximately 50 miles long,” said Tom Kirk, Executive Director for the Coachella Valley Association of Governments in December 2013. “It runs from Palm springs to Coachella, it’s really the biggest project of its kind in the nation.” We’re less than a year away now from a master

A small brush fire in Coachella kept fire crews busy Sunday. The fire charred more than 3 acres of brush before it was extinguished. Firefighters received a call at 11:46 a.m. and were sent to the 55200 block of Jackson Street. The blaze was near trees and a scattering of houses, southwest of Coachella. It

A dog belonging to a California firefighter who disappeared during a backpacking trip has been rescued after nine days in the wilderness, but his owner remains missing. Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said Sunday that a rescue effort for Mike Herdman will be scaled back after days of searching the Los Padres National Forest. The

A vehicle tumbled 100 feet down from Highway 243 above Banning, backing up uphill traffic towards Idyllwild and leaving a woman with major injuries. Firefighters were dispatched at 11:18 a.m. to the road, about two miles south of San Gorgonio Avenue in San Gorgonio Pass, and found the mangled vehicle off the steep roadside. A

The Border Patrol will fly nearly 300 Central American migrants from south Texas to California for processing, an official said Saturday, as the government seeks to ease the workload on agents at the nation’s busiest corridor for illegal crossings. There will be two flights Monday with 140 passengers each – one bound for San Diego

(AP) – San Diego police say a man has been arrested in the holiday-season killings of two brothers and a woman one of them was engaged to marry. Police Lt. Mike Hastings says 29-year-old Carlo Gallopa Mercado was arrested late Friday and booked Saturday on suspicion of three counts of murder. He’s scheduled for arraignment

(AP) – Lawyers have been given the green light to scan the social media sites of jurors. The American Bar Association says it’s ethical for lawyers to scour online for publicly available musings of citizens called for jury service – and even jurors in deliberations. But the ABA does warn lawyers against actively “following” or

The Border Patrol on Sunday canceled flights scheduled to bring nearly 300 Central American migrants from south Texas to California for processing, but the plans could be reinstated, an official said. It was unclear why Monday’s flights for San Diego and El Centro, about 100 miles east of San Diego, were shelved, said Ralph DeSio,

Police say a man who molested a 5-year-old girl in San Bernardino kept videos of the act on his cellphone. San Bernardino County prosecutors Joaquin Gomez pleaded guilty this week to five counts of forcefully committing lewd acts on a child. 53-year-old Gomez was the boyfriend of the little girl’s aunt. Police say the the

Humans aren’t the only ones who get nervous to fly. “Some of them are going on the stairs on their own, others have to be nudged into the stairs,” said Yahuda Netanel, founder of nonprofit Wings of Rescue. But these pups aren’t going on vacation, they’re bound for a new life.Their final destination: no-kill shelters

The community donated nearly 200 books Saturday for Valley kids. The United Way hosted a community day of action all across the country Saturday. In the Valley, the action is all about reading. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday people were encouraged to donate books at the Palm Desert Barnes and Noble. Over 60

So many people are crossing the U.S. border illegally in Texas that the Border Patrol wants to move some to California. San Diego sector chief Paul Beeson says the agency is considering flying 140 immigrants to his area as early as Tuesday. They’ll be turned over to immigration officials, who’ll decide if they should be

Students at the University of South Florida will be soaring to new academic heights, with drones. College students will be getting their hands on more than just books at the USF come the fall semester. The Tampa campus plans to offer remote-controlled drones for students to check out for school-related projects. It’s a bold move

Investigators say they believe speeding was a factor in a deadly crash early Saturday morning on the 60 freeway in Beaumont. California Highway Patrol tell us a 22-year-old man was driving a 2014 Honda accord around 90 miles an hour just before 4:30 Saturday morning on the 60 just west of Jack Rabbit Trail. Officers

More than 200 family members and friends gathered Saturday at SDSU for a private memorial service for San Diego Padre Hall of Famer and SDSU baseball coach Tony Gwynn, who died Monday. The Gwynn family was joined by former Padre teammates, players coached by Gwynn at SDSU, and friends and representatives from SDSU, Major League

The United Way is hosting a community day of action all across the country today. In the Valley, the action is all about reading. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday people are encouraged to donated books at the Palm Desert Barnes and Noble. Over 60 percent of low income families in the Desert have

Some birth defects in newborns could one day be a thing of the past due to new robotics technologies being developed to perform surgery on babies in the womb. Spina bifida is one such disease, affecting approximately 1 in 2,500 newborns worldwide, where a lesion on the back leaves the spinal cord exposed in the

A San Francisco lawmaker is proposing legislation that would regulate electronic cigarettes in the same way that tobacco products are currently regulated. Rep. Jackie Speier announced the proposed law – called the Stop Selling and Marketing to Our Kids E-Cigarettes Act, or SMOKE – on Friday morning in front of the San Francisco General Hospital

A citizens’ commission has approved 2 percent cost-of-living salary increases for lawmakers and statewide officials, including the governor and attorney general. The increase approved Friday is the second consecutive annual pay raise. A year ago, the California Citizens Compensation Commission voted to give raises of about 5 percent. That decision will increase the pay of