Month: April 2015

April is National Autism Awareness Month and the Coachella Valley Unified School District is joining the movement by promoting acceptance and support in its schools and communities. Students, teachers and staff at Desert Mirage High School in Thermal, 86150 66th Avenue, are proud to announce their first annual Autism Awareness Week from April 20-25. The

The FBI is seeking the public’s help in identifying an unknown man who may have information about the identity and whereabouts of a young girl depicted in a series of photos being sexually abused. The abuse may be ongoing. FBI Video Agents don’t know where the abuse is taking place; they said it could be

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is searching for three suspects who robbed the Community Valley Bank in Palm Desert Tuesday afternoon. The bank, located on the 39000 block of Washington Street, was targeted by the thieves just before 5 p.m. Deputies said two suspects entered the bank and demanded money from the teller. The bank

En estos momentos y desde las 6 de la maana en diferentes puntos de Coachella, autoridades de diferentes agencias del orden estn llevando a cabo un operativo tipo redada en la casa de varios sujetos pertenecientes a pandillas en conexin con crmenes, tiroteos y violencia pandillera ocurridos en los ltimos meses. El Departamento del sheriff

Officials at The Living Desert said a baby bighorn lamb was born at the zoo on Friday. The new baby is a ram (male) and weighed in at 4.2 kilograms at his newborn wellness check. The zoo hasn’t yet named the newest member of its family. This is the first bighorn born at the zoo

As Aretha Franklin’s 1967 classic “Respect” blared through a loud speaker, a crowd of hundreds of teachers rallied to ask the Palm Springs Unified School District to take a cue from the song’s catchy lyrics. “I just want teachers to be respected as professionals,” said Marissa Davis, a science teacher from Palm Springs High School.

Law enforcement arrested fifteen people suspected of gang activity after serving search warrants at 27 residences throughout the Coachella Valley early Wednesday morning. Officials said ten of those arrested are active gang members. The warrants stem from gang violence and shootings that have occurred over the last several months. The majority of the activity took

On any given day, you can find Dr. Barry Stockhamer, principal of Lyndon B. Johnson Elementary School, using the school’s new pseudo “baseball” cards to teach kids life’s important lessons. But, years ago, he wore a much different hat -a baseball hat. “First year (at college) I wrote a letter to the owner of the

On April 1, Governor Jerry Brown asked some Californians to cut water use by 35 percent. The Coachella Valley Water District met Tuesday to talk about how it plans to achieve that. Patti Reyes of CVWD talked about the progress it’s made even before the new mandate went into effect. “Between 2003 and 2014 we

A Riverside jury has recommended a death sentence for an ex-con who fatally beat and slashed a Canadian businessman during an Indio robbery. Robert Lee Dunson, 33, killed 48-year-old William George Dobbs in November 2007. Jurors deliberated one day in the penalty phase of Dunson’s trial before returning with a verdict. The same panel found

El Mdico Forense del Condado de Riverside dio a conocer que es muy temprano para saber si el consumo de drogas o el alcohol fueron un factor en la muerte de un asistente al festival de msica y arte Coachella Fest durante el fin de semana. Un tren de cargamento de la compaia Union Pacific

Ms de medio milln de inmigrantes sin autorizacin para radicar en Estados Unidos han solicitado licencias de conducir en California desde que la ley que otorga este beneficio entr en vigor en enero, revel el Departamento de Vehculos Motorizados del estado. Del 2 de enero al 30 de marzo se procesaron 502.000 solicitudes y se

El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos emiti una nueva lista de alertas dirigida a sus ciudadanos sobre los riesgos de viajar a 21 estados en Mxico y especific 10 entidades ms donde no hay advertencias. Esta serie de recomendaciones sustituye la publicada el 24 de diciembre pasado y actualiza informacin de seguridad y asesora

El presidente Barack Obama retirar a Cuba de una lista de pases patrocinadores del terrorismo, inform el martes la Casa Blanca, un paso clave en su intento por normalizar las relaciones entre los dos pases. Obama tom la decisin despus que el Departamento de Estado analiz la presencia de la isla en la lista. La

El presidente Barack Obama avis hoy al Congreso de su intencin de retirar a Cuba de la lista de Estados patrocinadores del terrorismo, en la que ese pas permanece desde 1982 y que supone la imposicin de sanciones. “Hoy el presidente de EEUU envi al Congreso el informe y las certificaciones requeridas que indican la

Una investigacin est en curso despus de que un joven que patinaba fue atropellado por un coche muy cerca de la Indio Middle School en Indio. CAL FIRE dio a conocer que la vctima se describe como un hombre de unos 20 aos de edad, quien despus del percance fue transportado al Desert Regional Medical

“I went to the main office to have them recommend someone to rent my property, and immediately the lady wrote this gal’s name down,” said Margaret, who asked us to keep her last name private. Margaret needed help renting out her condo at Sunrise Country Club in Rancho Mirage back in 2012. The club, she

The Palm Springs Police Department confirmed there was an “unattended death” near a Palm Springs motel. Police were called out to the New Palm Springs Inn at 2525 North Palm Canyon at around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. Police say it is not considered suspicious at this time. Dispatch could not release any more information about the

31-year-old Maria Duarte is the fifth victim of homicide in Desert Hot Springs this year. Police are still looking for the gunman who shot her in the early hours of Sunday morning near Palm Drive and Pierce Boulevard. “I don’t think anyone feels safe here. If you’re not a police officer there isn’t any hope,”

Officers have reopened all lanes of westbound I-10 after a four-vehicle crash forced the California Highway Patrol to shut down three lanes of the interstate for about an hour and a half Monday morning. Officers responded to the crash just after 10 a.m. It happened about one mile east of Indian Canyon Drive. The No.