Month: May 2015

Riverside County law enforcement leaders say the state’s AB 109 prison realignment plan and Proposition 47 have resulted in a lot of unintended consequences. The efforts give shorter jail terms and reduced penalties to criminals who commit some non-violent drug and property crimes. News Channel 3 hosted the top heads of law enforcement from every

Some water agencies restrict when you water, why you water and how much you water. But, there is no restriction when it comes to the use of misting systems. That’s because they use much less water than one may think. Mike Lemche, CEO of MicroCool in Thousand Palms, has installed misting systems across the Coachella

Bomberos contuvieron un pequeo incendio este lunes por la tarde que se haba propagado cerca de las inmediaciones de las calles Grapefruit Boulevard y la Avenida 54 en Thermal. El fuego se report justo antes de la 1 p.m. en un campo vaco. Autoridades sealaron que un quemado agrcola estaba planeado en el mencionado campo

Cuatro personas se recuperan hoy de sus heridas tras un accidente de 4 autos en Indio. El percance sucedio justo despus de las 6:30pm del domingo en la Avenida Miles al oeste de Sedona Drive. Por lo menos una persona fue rescatada de los fierros retrocidos con las pinzas hidraulicas de la vida. Otra persona

Una autoridad mexicana inform el lunes que el director general de la compaa SurveyMonkey, David Goldberg, muri de un trauma craneal en un accidente cuando hacia ejercicio en una zona turstica del oeste de Mxico. Goldberg, esposo de la directora de operaciones de Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, fue encontrado el viernes tirado junto a una caminadora

Firefighters have contained a small brush fire in Thermal that ignited near Grapefruit Boulevard and Avenue 54 Monday afternoon. The fire was reported shortly before 1 p.m. in an empty field. Officials said an agricultural burn was planned in the field a couple of years ago but it never actually took place. One of the

A Coachella man was arrested Sunday afternoon in connection to a home burglary in Palm Desert. Officers said 45-year-old Julio Anaya is charged with committing a felony while out on bail. An officer with the Palm Desert Police Department was alerted to a suspicious vehicle backed onto a driveway in the 73200 block of Santa

The city of Indio will be going through a telephone system upgrade in two phases during the beginning of May. During the scheduled upgrade, non-emergency calls to the Indio Police Department dispatch center will be impacted, officials said in a release. The first phase takes place on Tuesday, May 5 between 5 a.m. and 8

Deputies with the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station are investigating after someone vandalized dozens of post office boxes at the 29 Palms Post Office over the weekend. Officials said the vandalism occurred sometime between Saturday night and early Sunday morning. The suspect(s) broke into an estimated 120 post office boxes. Mail was thrown all over the

Emergency crews responded to a gas leak at an apartment complex in North Palm Springs Monday morning. Officers with the Palm Springs Police Department said the gas leak was reported around 10:30 a.m. at the Parkwood Apartments, located on the 2600 block of N. Palm Canyon Drive. Only one unit had to be evacuated and

Hoy lunes a las 10:30 a.m. se registr una fuga de gas en el complejo de apartamentos Parkwood que se ubican en la manzana 2600 de N. Palm Canyon Drive en North Palm Springs, al parecer un jardinero golpe accidentalmente la lnea de gas. Los equipos de emergencia acudieron de inmediato y evacuaron a algunos

One man is recovering after being shot multiple times in Desert Hot Springs, police say. Desert Hot Springs Police Commander Jim Henson says a 19-year-old man was shot on the 66900 block of Ironwood Dr., near Verbena Dr., at 1 o’clock Sunday morning. The man, shot in the upper torso, is expected to survive. He

Millions of people are homeless and in need of immediate help in Nepal after last weeks devastating earthquake. Officials said the death toll from last weekend’s magnitude-7.8 earthquake has reached more than 7,000 and is expected to continue to rise. Nepal’s capital city Kathmandu is in ruins and remote villages are cut off by land

Say goodbye to plastic bags at liquor stores in Palm Springs As of Sunday convenience and liquor stores will no longer provide single-use carryout plastic bags to customers. This is part of the city’s initiative to become a more green and sustainable community. Some liquor store owners are not pleased with the ban. “I don’t

Art work, tents and cars were damaged after strong dusty winds ripped through a Palm Springs swap meet Sunday. Our viewers told us the dust storm happened in downtown Palm Springs and swept through the market near Indian Canyon Drive around 3 p.m. Our viewer Dan Adams sent us video showing the damage caused by

Two people are expected to recover after being shot in Coachella, police said Sunday morning. Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept. Sergeant Alan Northrup says at 12:17 a.m. Sunday, there was a shooting at the 48000 block of Grapefruit Blvd. Before officers arrived, two people were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds. The two are expected

Border Patrol agents discovered a backpack containing several pounds of heroin on a commercial bus at the Highway 86 checkpoint Friday night. Nobody was arrested because agents couldn’t identify the owner of the backpack. According to the release, agents were conducting an immigration check on the bus at about 9:15 p.m. They noticed the backpack

We’re learning more information after a man and his six-month-old son were hit by three vehicles while walking across I-10 in Beaumont Thursday night. Officers with the California Highway Patrol said a 23-year-old woman from Beaumont called 911 to report an argument she had with her boyfriend, 40-year-old Miguel Mariscal, at about 10 p.m. Before

Former technology executive Carly Fiorina and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson are set to launch their runs for president. Fiorina is likely to be the only prominent woman to seek the GOP nomination, with Carson the only likely African-American. They are both also political outsiders in a field likely to be dominated by governors, former governors

The USGS reported a 2.5 magnitude earthquake hit around 9:45 Sunday night. It centered four miles northeast of Desert Hot Springs. Viewers in Desert Hot Springs called into our newsroom saying they felt the small quake shaking their homes.