Month: November 2014

Federal judges are telling California to speed up its process for releasing some nonviolent inmates as part of a previous order forcing the state to sharply reduce its prison population. The three-judge panel on Friday gave the state a Jan. 1 deadline to start considering parole for nonviolent second-strike inmates. The state is required to

San Diego County public health officials say a person at California State University, San Marcos is being treated for tuberculosis. The county Health Department said Friday that others on campus may have been to the disease. The university and health officials are working together to find everyone who might have been exposed between Aug. 25

Gusty Santa Ana winds in the Inland Empire’s mountains and valleys, combined with low humidity, were expected to raise the risk for wildfires over a roughly 24-hour span starting Sunday evening. Fire weather and high wind watches are set to go into effect for the mountains and valleys Sunday evening. The high wind watch will

Palm Desert-based animal welfare organization Loving All Animals will hold its sixth annual Super Pet Adoption Festival in Rancho Mirage Saturday and Sunday. The event, which starts at 10 a.m. both days at Rancho Mirage Community Park, will include hundreds of dogs, cats and birds up for adoption, activities, food, live entertainment and vendors. The

The Desert Hot Springs Police Department said a girl who went missing Friday afternoon is back home again. Police didn’t say where the 12-year-old girl was Friday night but she is now safe and with her family. Hannah Lipps didn’t return home after school and she doesn’t have a history of running away, which triggered

The winner of this year’s “Dancing with the Desert Stars” is News Channel 3/ CBS Local 2 Reporter Natalie Brunell. The dancing competition Friday night at the Palm Springs Convention Center was judged by West Side Story stars Rita Moreno and George Chakiris. Brunell was competing against other community and business leaders in the Coachella

A popular valley chef was killed in a tragic motorcycle crash Thursday night in Desert Hot Springs. According to police it happened at about 7:15 p.m. in the area of Little Morongo Road near 15th Avenue. Paramedics took 53-year-old Palm Desert resident, Tyrone Love Jr., to Desert Regional Medical Center where he later died. The

Millions of dollars in damage from the 2014 Floods is not enough to get state and federal aid. The City of La Quinta’s request for emergency funds after the September flash flood got denied, now business and home owners are left with few options to rebuild. These emergency funds would have given flood victims in

A high desert family who has had to overcome severe medical conditions is getting a new home built from the ground up in just three days. Debbie and Lloyd Tilch along with their 16-year-old grandson Cody are going to have a brand new house to call home in Twenty Nine Palms. “I’ve always wanted to

Officials from the Riverside County Sheriff Department are investigating an officer-involved shooting that happened in Indio Thursday night. The incident began in Coachella around 6:53 p.m. when Sheriff deputies responded to reports of a male discharging a firearm on the 49600 block of Harrison Street. During the investigation 40 year-old, Mario Soto Campana, a Coachella

Un popular chef del restaurante Capri ubicado en el hotel Miracle Springs muere tras un accidente en motocicleta. El residente de Palm Desert Tyrone Love Junior de 53 aos murio en un accidente ayer en Desert Hot Springs. El lamentable hecho sucedio en el rea de Little Morongo Road cerca de la Avendida 15. Paramedicos

2 people are taken to the hospital after sustaining injuries from a Friday afternoon crash in Indio According to Cal Fire just before 3:00 p.m. two cars collided at the intersection of Varner Road and Jefferson Street. The driver of a black Honda for unknown reasons veered into Westbound lanes, and crashed head on with

Ms de 50 valientes jvenes del valle se propusieron a vivir en carne propia lo que encarna ser una persona desamparada. Este pasado jueves 13 de noviembre, estudiantes de la escuela secundaria Sacred Heart de Palm Desert hicieron de un almacn vaco localizado en un rancho baldo en Mecca su hogar por la noche. El

The Palm Springs Art Museum names Elizabeth Armstrong as the new Executive Director to succeed Dr. Steven Nash in January 2015. On Friday, The Board of Trustees of Palm Springs Art Museum announced the appointment of Armstrong as its JoAnn McGrath Executive Director. Most recently the Founding Curator of Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute

We’re learning more about a 53-year-old man from Palm Desert who died Thursday night after his motorcycle collided with a vehicle in Desert Hot Springs. Tyrone Love Jr. was a well-respected chef at Miracle Springs Hotel and Spa on Palm Drive. The crash happened shortly after 7 p.m. as Love was driving northbound on Little

Un hombre permanece hospitalizado hoy viernes despus de ser baleado por un agente de polica de Indio ayer jueves por la noche . El hombre , cuyo nombre no ha sido revelado , recibi impactos de bala alrededor de las 8:30 p.m. en el rea de Dr. Carren Boulevard al oeste de Via Sorrento ,

A 10-year-old dealt with a scary situation Thursday afternoon when a Hispanic man, who appeared to be transient, attempted to abduct him in Desert Hot Springs, according to police. Officers said the incident happened around 1 p.m. in the open desert, just south of the intersection at Verbena Drive and Hacienda Avenue. According to a

The City of LaQuinta learned yesterday it will not be getting any aid from the State to help with expenses stemming from September’s flooding. The Riverside County Office of Emergency Services informed the City that the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services has denied any financial assistance for flood damages from the storms of September 7

Nothing scary about this sweet little treat named Boo. He was found in the middle of the street on Fred Waring on Halloween. Boo, a toy poodle, is approximately eight years old and fully housebroken. He is an ideal dog if you are looking for a companion. Boo is a perfect pup to take along

A protest at a Los Angeles-area Walmart focusing on better wages has ended in some two dozen arrests. Authorities say 23 men and women were arrested Thursday after they blocked traffic at a Pico Rivera intersection during a protest that began with a sit-down strike inside the local Walmart. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department