Month: February 2015

A fiery crash involving two semi trucks shut down traffic on Interstate 10 just east of Dillon Road in Coachella for much of the morning. One of the semis, carrying frozen chicken, tried to pass a slower truck carrying about 500 honey bee hives. The driver clipped the back end of the bee truck releasing

The gap in bachelor-degree attainment between the nation’s richest and poorest students by age 24 has doubled during the last four decades. A study released Tuesday by two education organizations finds that the percent of students from the lowest-income families earning a bachelor’s degree has inched up just 3 points since 1970, rising from 6

A state board has approved a permit to allow the city of Santa Barbara to restart its desalination plant and tap the ocean to turn salty seawater to fresh water amid an historic drought. The Central Coast Regional Water Board said Monday that its action modifies a 1991 permit to clarify that the facility meets

State officials are reporting how much water Californians are using and urging conservation as the state heads into the fourth year of a drought. The State Water Resources Control Board releases its monthly report card on water use Tuesday. The board started collecting numbers on water use when it imposed water restrictions last summer. Local

The Anti-Defamation League has offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who spray-painted swastikas on a University of California, Davis off-campus Jewish fraternity house. Davis police are investigating the weekend vandalism as a hate crime. The reward was announced Monday. Police spokesman Tom Waltz says no suspects

El Distrito Escolar Unficado de Palm Springs le advierte a los padres de familia y alumnos de los peligros de extraos. Una carta fue enviada a todos los alumnos de las escuelas del distrito la semana pasada tras recibir una llamada sobre el posible incidente en Cathedral City. La carta indica que el incidente sucedio

Update at 1:30 p.m. CalTrans says all lanes are now opened, but Hazmat crews will remain on the shoulder in the area for the next few hours for clean-up. The California Highway Patrol has called for a bee keeper to remove the bees from a small, dirt road located off the freeway. Please use caution

El Departamento de Transporte Pblico (CalTrans) reporto que todos los carriles en direccin oeste fueron reabiertos esta tarde tras un accidente vial sobre la interestatal 10. Segn el reporte de la Patrulla de Caminos de California (CHP), dos camiones de carga se volcaron alrededor de las 7:10 a.m., ambos estallando en llamas a la altura

Pilots in the Coachella Valley can now join the first not-for-profit flying club in the area, giving them a chance to fly without having to own a plane. Palm Springs Aviators, Inc. is a flying club that started in late 2014. “Flying clubs are kind of the new next generation of general aviation, giving a

An Indio judge lowered to $500,000 the bail for a Palm Desert woman charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars from dozens of business owners for table-top advertising she never delivered. Bail had been set at $1 million for Theresa Marie Darrah, who has been in custody at the Riverside County jail in Indio

Palm Springs Unified School District administrators are warning parents and students about stranger danger. A letter was sent out to all schools in the district last week after the district received a call about an incident in Cathedral City. The letter says a James Workman Middle School student was walking home from school last Monday

California State University, San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus will dramatically increase the size of its campus following the approval of a land transfer from the City of Palm Desert. The campus is currently 53 acres with four buildings and now the university will triple in size with the addition of 113 acres on Frank Sinatra

For the last eight years, about 3000 Catholics in Mecca didn’t have a church to worship in. Saturday night, At the Sacred Heart Gala, Father Lincoln announced that 3 million dollars was raised to build Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Mecca, and we learned on Monday that construction is complete and the church is

A Cathedral City family is asking for the public’s help in locating their missing dog. The missing dog is Maltese-poodle mix named Shaggy. Shaggy’s owner said he disappeared after getting out of a side gate at their home near Davall and 30th Avenue around 6:30 p.m Sunday. “Neighbors saw him run down the street while

An art installation of deer sculptures was vandalized Friday night in Idyllwild, the Art Alliance of Idyllwild announced Sunday. Community members found pieces of the demolished public art in the parking of a nearby bank on Saturday morning. The public art exhibition, called “Deer Sightings,“was on display at the Town Monument on Village Center Drive,

Ayer en la madrugada se incendi un edificio abandonado ubicado en el 83500 de Indio Blvd en Indio, la estructura perteneca a JJ Batering y ya se haba incendiado en Diciembre pasado. Con las llamas el techo de los 25 mil pies de la estructura se colpas y cay. 34 bomberos combatieron las llamas por

Los conductores que circulen en los carriles con rumbo al oeste de la I-10 estn experimentando caos vial ya que hoy a las 7:11 a.m. se volcaron dos semais al este de Dillon Road en Coachella. Las autoridades confirmaron que ambos semais estallaron en llamas, uno de ellos se calcin totalmente. Uno de los vehculos

A federal judge has granted a delay in court proceedings for a Mexican man accused of an identity theft scheme in which he changed a U.S. citizen’s legal name to his own. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren set a May 5 trial date in the case of Ramon Perez-Rivera and his wife, Antonia

A Ventura County dentist is in jail on suspicion of setting the offices of potential competitors on fire. Leopold Weinstein was arrested on three counts of arson, three counts of attempted arson and possession of a silencer. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department says Weinstein already had attracted the attention of authorities when on Wednesday surveillance

A Ventura County dentist is in jail on suspicion of setting the offices of potential competitors on fire. Leopold Weinstein was arrested on three counts of arson, three counts of attempted arson and possession of a silencer. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department says Weinstein already had attracted the attention of authorities when on Wednesday surveillance