Month: March 2015

MLB.com is reporting that Reds prospect Tanner Jeremy Rahier was arrested Saturday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and disorderly conduct after police said he knocked a woman unconscious with a rock outside a restaurant in Glendale, Arizona Rahier, 21, is accused of throwing a rock at a woman in the parking

The BNP Paribas Open is officially underway at the Tennis Garden in Indian Wells. Last year, the event brought more than 400,000 people to the Coachella Valley. All of those people needs a place to stay, which brings big business to local hotels in the area. “I think the tennis tournament is the epitome of

Un alto porcentaje de hombres pertenencen al gremio poliical pero este fin de semana, se realiz una prueba de agilidad fsica slo para mujeres que quieren unirse al Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Riverside por lo que el Sheriff Stan Sniff y el Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Riverside patrocinaron el denominado Women’s

El Sbado, agentes de el Sector centro de la Patrulla Fronteriza asignados a la estacin Indio detuvieron a un supuesto traficante de drogasel arresto se origino en el puesto de control de carretera 86 despus de descubrir veinte paquetes de droga ocultos en el interior del vehculo que conduca. El incidente ocurri aproximadamente a las

A man has been arrested on charges of burglarizing the Southwest Church Thrift Store located at 82970 Requa Avenue in Indio. Authorities said 39-year-old Lorenzo Valenzuela was taken into custody early Friday morning after an officer with the Indio Police Department identified him from the store’s surveillance video. Valenzuela is accused of stealing $2,793 from

Officials with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said the Citibank located in the 44000 block of Town Center Way in Palm Desert was robbed Monday morning. Deputies responded to the robbery call at the bank near the Westfield Mall around 10:15 a.m. According to Deputy Albert Martinez, the suspect was described as being either Hispanic

A couple celebrity tournaments made their mark in two sports for great causes. The McEnroe Challenge for Charity entered its second year at the BNP Paribas Open and raised $80,000 spread out, depending on winners of matches in women’s doubles, men’s singles, men’s doubles, and mixed doubles. Eisenhower Medical Center earned the most ($30,000), followed

Only one local boys soccer team claimed a CIF-SS championship, and it continues its play, along with two others teams that thought their seasons were over. The CIF Regional Southern California Boys Soccer Championships invited La Quinta (Div. I), Rancho Mirage (Div. IV), and West Shores (Div. V) to play for the right to earn

On Saturday around 10:07 p.m., Indio police responded to a family disturbance call at the Mountain View Cottage Apartments at 46299 Arabia in Indio. That’s when 37 year old Benjamin Brewer threatened officers with a handgun. Brewer then barricaded himself in the apartment. He was alone inside the apartment. Brewer is the subject of a

The Arizona House is set to debate a proposal that would ditch the state’s new Common Core school standards and strip the state Board of Education’s power to adopt new standards. Monday’s floor debate comes two weeks after a proposal to eliminate the standards failed in the Senate. House Bill 2190 by Republican Rep. Mark

A vegetation fire was reported just before 4:00 p.m. on Avenida Del Norte and Dillion. According to Cal Fire, the vegetation fire involved a 100′ Long X 50′ Wide X 8′ High mulch pile. Mulch is a gardening material used to improve soil productivity. No word on how the fire started.

Authorities launched a search today for four hikers stranded from exhaustion and dehydration in the Indian Canyons trails. The hikers called Palm Springs Police about 2 p.m. roughly two milesinto the Fern Canyon trail, asking for help getting out, saying they said theywere dehydrated and that one hiker might have heat stroke. The Palm Springs

Liz McIntyre and her partner planed tennis on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Palm Springs, but it wasn’t just another match. “For us, it’s part of history, the idea of equality in all aspects of life,” McIntyre says as she leaves the court, admittedly defeated. The Plaza Racquet Club in Palm Springs on Baristo Road

An alleged drunk driver rear-ended another vehicle, whose driver followed until the alleged drunk ran off a road and crashed, deputies said Sunday. Josue Villareal Lopez, 21, of Coachella, was driving north on Grapefruit Boulevard when he crashed into another vehicle as its driver slowed for a red light at Avenue 49, according the Riverside

A Cathedral City man is in the hospital after being shot in a possible family dispute in Cathedral City, police say. Police say around 2:30 Saturday morning, a man was shot at the Park David Senior Apartments. The man, in his mid-twenties, told police he did not live there, but was staying the night. The

One of the nation’s largest Jewish cemeteries and the resting place of notables including Groucho Marx has been sued for allegedly breaking vaults to make room for more graves and throwing out human bones in a pile. The Los Angeles Daily News (http://bit.ly/1HeapfW ) says more than 60 people accuse Eden Memorial Park in Los

Hundreds explored the Friends of the Desert Mountains’ Coachella Valley Wildflower Festival at the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Visitor Center in Palm Desert. People took busses up the the center. There they learned about the wildlife and plantlife at the mountain preserve. The day included guided walks, vendors, exhibitors, along with

They were down, but never out. In a season where doubt has fueled the La Quinta boys soccer team, there was plenty of that to go around after the Blackhawks fell behind 2-0 in the first 10 minutes of the CIF-SS Division 2 Boys Soccer Championship. But La Quinta never gave up attacking against Santa

It’s becoming one of the Coachell Valley’s premier charity golf events. The Warburton Celebrity Golf Tournament continues to grow each year. KESQ News Channel 3 is the exclusive media partner of this great event. Besides the great golf, where you can catch celebrities teeing off to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, there are many

Harrison Ford’s crash is the second this week of a World War 2 era planes. We go in-depth with the Palm Springs Air Museum which flies and maintains these types of planes. Out of the museum’s 46 vintage planes, only 7 are maintained in flying condition. It’s a vigorous process overseen by the FAA that