Month: March 2015

The Cathedral City Fire Department knocked down a fire that ignited in a business park neighboring homes on the 35000 block of Date Palm Drive Wednesday morning. Officials said they were called to the fire just before 11 a.m. It started in a dumpster and there was a lot of vegetation and rubbish in the

Senior citizens in Desert Hot Springs say they’re being eaten alive by bed bugs, which have infested the Linda Vista Senior Residences for months, biting residents in what they say are unhealthy living conditions. “They’re everywhere. Everywhere. In books. It’s unnerving,” said resident Annie O’Donnell. Some of the residents called us for help Tuesday after

An apparent failure in communication has stalled negotiations between the City of Desert Hot Springs and the Police Officers’ Association. A notice to appeal the decision to cut officer pay went unnoticed for months, causing the City of Desert Hot Springs to walk away from negotiations. Last year the city cut police pay to avoid

The California Board of Education is expected to decide whether or not schools should be held accountable on the state’s performance index for student results in the new Common Core-aligned assessments. The state Department of Education is recommending that the state suspend the Academic Performance Index for the 2014-15 school year. The index uses student

Northern California authorities say a man fleeing from police officers serving a felony warrant had to be rescued by a fire crew after he impaled himself on a spiked fence. Sacramento police spokesman Officer Justin Brown tells the Sacramento Bee police were trying to serve a warrant to the suspect on Tuesday when he fled,

Hollywood meets the hard court at the 11th Annual Desert Smash. Will Ferrell brought his closest friends to the desert, which happen to be some of the biggest names in Hollywood: Kevin Spacey, Justin Bieber, Lance Bass, Billy Bush, Kit Hoover, Lifehouse, Kevin Hart, the list goes on. All these celebrities at the La Quinta

We’ve all heard it before — be ready for the big one. But, a new study from the US Geological Survey found the chance of a magnitude eight or higher earthquake hitting California is up to about seven percent. The last Earthquake Forecast by the US Geological Survey came out in 2008. In it, the

Drivers were asked to avoid westbound Interstate 10 through North Palm Springs for a couple of hours Tuesday morning as crews worked to clear wreckage and debris from the roadway following a three-vehicle crash. Just after 7 a.m., a Nissan Altima driven by 19-year-old Lucero Perez of Mecca was involved in two separate collisions, according

A suspect who was being sought by the Indio Police Department in connection to an armed robbery that happened on January 18 was arrested Tuesday afternoon, according to police. Authorities requested the public’s help in tracking down 20-year-old Narcisco Jacob Pea on January 29. Pea was wanted in connection to the robbery of four victims

Un fuerte y largo sismo sacudi a Colombia la tarde del martes pero las autoridades no reportaron de inmediato vctimas y slo algunos daos materiales aislados. El sismo tuvo como epicentro el nororiente colombiano y tuvo una intensidad de 6,2 grados a una profundidad de 147 kilmetros, segn el Servicio Geolgico de Estados Unidos. El

Una mujer de Palm Desert le pide ayuda al pblico para dar con el paradero de las cenizas de su padre que fueron robadas. De acuerdo con el reporte policial, Reagan Richter dejo una de las ventanas de su automvil media abierta el domingo por la noche. Fue entonces cuando agentes creen que un malhechor

Conductores fueron desviados de los carriles en direccin oeste en la Autopista 10 al norte de Palm Springs por varias horas la maana del martes mientras que equipos de limpieza realizaban labores por los escombros esparcidos despus de un choque que involucr a tres automovilistas. Un poco despus de las 7:00am un sedan se estrell

Border Patrol agents with the Indio Station arrested a suspected drug smuggler after discovering packages of methamphetamine stashed in the fuel tank of his pickup truck Friday morning. According to authorities, the 21-year-old U.S. citizen was approaching the Highway 86 checkpoint near Salton City around 7:30 a.m. when a Border Patrol canine detected something near

Hillary Rodham Clinton reconoci el martes que debi haber usado el correo electrnico del gobierno cuando era secretaria de Estado y que destruy decenas de miles de correos en su cuenta privada, que dijo eran de naturaleza personal. Enfrentada a una controversia cada vez ms fuerte sobre el uso de una cuenta y servidor privados

Agentes de Aduanas y Proteccin de Fronteras hallaron a 36 personas que se encontraban en el interior de un camin refrigerado que se dispona a pasar la frontera en el cruce fronterizo de Falfurrias, Texas. El incidente ocurri el pasado domingo y las autoridades dieron con los inmigrantes cuanto el vehculo fue enviado a una

A 25-year-old man was taken into custody by Border Patrol agents Saturday morning at the Highway 86 checkpoint after a canine team detected nearly 26 lbs. of methamphetamine stuffed inside the firewall of an SUV. According to agents with the Indio Station, the suspected drug smuggler was traveling with his 24-year-old girlfriend and their two

Esta maana poco despus de las 7 se registr un choque entre una camioneta y un vehculo en los carriles con rumbo al oeste de la I-10 en North Palm Springs. Segn el informe la conductora del coche se distrajo por ir comiendo un burrito, se sali del camino y al entrar de nuevo impact

When Tadd Loucks arrived to work last Monday he discovered his office was broken into. Indio police said sometime last weekend more than $4,000 was stolen from the safe at Martha’s Village Thrift Store in Indio. The suspects went to unusual lengths to get into the safe. They broke into the Riverside County Mental Health

The Riverside County Fire Department and the Indio Police Department will be conducting training exercises at Indio High School in the evenings this week. They will be using classrooms that have been slated for demolition. The fire department will be having live fire exercises, setting these old classroom buildings on fire and putting them out.

A News Channel 3 update tonight. The one year old boy at the center of an Amber Alert in Southern California has been found safe. Police say Jayden Nathaniel Santiago was found tonight in Tijuana. His father, 37 year old Giovanny Santiago-Enriquez is in custody accused of stabbing a man dating Jayden’s mother. The victim