Month: September 2014

Firefighters were able to put out a palm tree fire in the backyard of a Palm Desert home before it spread. According to Cal Fire they were called out to a home on the 74-600 block of Old Prospector in Palm Desert just after noon. When they arrived they found 6 palm trees on fire

Palm Springs police say two people died following a crash on North Gene Autry in Palm Springs early Sunday morning. The Riverside County Coroner’s Office released the names of the victims on Monday. The Coroner says 21 year old Osvaldo Ramirez, of Cathedral City and 18 year old Tierra Reagins, of Palm Springs both were

Three Palm Desert-based beauty businesses teamed up to cut hair for charity Sunday morning. Sherry Mesa The Salon, Strands Hair Color, and the International School of Beauty offered discounted cuts to families, with 100 percent of the proceeds to benefit Living the Dream Foundation. The Beauty Cutathon raised $1,000 in just four hours. According to

Coachella Valley High School has retired a controversial Arab mascot. The hook-nosed, snarling mascot who wears a head scarf did not appear at Coachella Valley High School’s season opening football game Friday. A belly-dancing genie that often appears with the mascot was also retired. These steps are the first changes Coachella Valley Unified School District

CAL FIRE says a home in Rancho Mirage has more than $500,000 in damage after and early-morning fire Monday. It happened around 2:45 a.m. at a home on Carolyn Court near Palm View Drive and Tamarisk Lane. The home, built in 1962, is somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 square feet in size. The homeowner says

El viernes alrededor de las 11:45 p.m.mientras realizaba su patrullaje de rutina, un agente de la polica le orden al conductor de una motocicleta detenerse ya que no portaba el casco de seguridad que exige la ley. El sujeto trat de huir a toda velocidad pero se estanc en una rea de construccin y el

A Banning man is in custody accused of transporting meth. Police attempted to pull over 28-year-old Oscar Villalvazo-Granero for not wearing a helmet at 11:45 p.m. Friday in the 700 block of Williams. Villalvazo-Granero sped off, but stalled the motorcycle in the construction area near Lincoln and Sunset. The officer was able to detain Villalvazo-Granero.

It’s the corporate equivalent of high-stakes poker. Tesla Motors has five states bidding to attract a $5 billion factory that will make batteries for a new generation of electric cars. The winner is expected to offer publicly financed incentives exceeding a half-billion dollars. And the package could be far more, because the states don’t know