Month: September 2015

A campaign to reduce waste at USC football games will begin Saturday night as the Trojans open their season against Arkansas State at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The “Zero Waste Coliseum” campaign will transform the stadium’s trash cans into compost bins with the goal of achieving “zero waste” status, according to Halli Bovia, the

The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway will offer extended hours for Labor Day, while other summertime hours promotions come to an end. On Monday, the first tram up will depart at 8 a.m. and the last tram up at 8 p.m. Trams depart every 30 minutes on the hour and half-hour, with the last tram down

A tiger cub found wandering a neighborhood in Hemet will be taken in by the Lions, Tigers & Bears animal sanctuary in Alpine, in the foothills east of San Diego, the operator of the facility said Friday. The tiger, estimated to be about 2 1/2 months old, was turned in to an animal shelter Thursday.

Three games took place Thursday night and seven more games were played Friday as Week 1 of the high school football season is underway. Desert Christian Academy and Trinity Classical Academy play Saturday. All of the highlights from Friday night’s games and our Play of the Week can be seen Friday’s at 11 p.m. on

With lower gas prices more people are hitting the road this Labor Day weekend. Long lines of motorists waited to fill up at some of the cheapest gas stations in Palm Desert. Gas prices are down compared to this time last year and local gas station owners are welcoming in the extra drivers that are

A 15 year old girl is in critical condition Friday after she was shot in Desert Hot Springs. The shooting happened between two cars just after 11:15 a.m. Friday at the Valero gas station at the corner of Palm Drive and Dillon Road. The crime scene was cleared around 4 p.m. Friday and the intersection

A 15 year old girl is in critical condition Friday after she was shot in Desert Hot Springs. The shooting happened between two cars just after 11:15 a.m. Friday at the Valero gas station at the corner of Palm Drive and Dillon Road. The crime scene was cleared around 4 p.m. Friday and the intersection

Las autoridades siguen tras la pista del presunto autor de robarse varias piezas de arte de un negocio en Palm Springs.Los propietarios estman las prdidas materiales en miles de dlares. El hurto fue reportado al filo de las cuatro de la tarde ayer sobre Cherokee Way. Agentes dicen que un trailer de 14 pies de

En Desert Hot Springs se produjo un tiroteo la maana del viernes en la gasolinera Valero localizada entre las calles Palm Drive y Dillon. Sabemos que la vctima fue una mujer y fue llevada de urgencia a un hospital local para recibir atencin mdica. El Departamento policial recibio una llamada de emergencia reportando un acto

Emergency crews spent most of Friday cleaning up thousands of pounds of spilled Gatorade products on Interstate Ten Friday. According to the California Highway Patrol a truck traveling Westbound overturned just after midnight on the Westbound lanes of I-10 between the Cactus City Rest Area and Chiriaco Summit. The truck was reportedly carrying 44-thousand pounds

Caltrans is reminding motorists to be cautious and patient this holiday weekend east toward Phoenix and the Colorado river. Motorists can expect some delays at the washed-out Tex Wash crossing a half hour’s drive east of Coachella in Desert Center. It collapsed last month during a violent thunderstorm where flood waters undermined it’s support columns.

The Palm Springs Police Department is investigating after a trailer full of artwork was stolen Wednesday afternoon in the 2600 block of Cherokee Way. The victims said the art is valued at tens of thousands of dollars. Lieutenant Mike Kovaleff said the 2015 Eagle trailer was taken sometime between 12 p.m. and 3:50 p.m. The

Officials say all three victims of a shooting at a Sacramento college campus were students. Sacramento City College spokesman Rick Brewer said one dead and two injured men were students at the school where they were shot in a parking lot near a baseball field Thursday. Police are still seeking a gunman they say fired

Two men are on the loose Thursday after they broke into a home in a gated community in La Quinta Tuesday morning. One of the men held the homeowner, at gunpoint and took a purse and a computer. It happened at a home on the 44-700 block of Via Rosa in La Quinta Del Oro

Kraft Heinz is expanding a recall of Kraft Singles products, saying a problem with the packaging film affects 10 times as many cases as it first thought. The company recalled 335,000 cases Thursday because a thin strip of packaging film may stick to the slice after the wrapper has been taken off, creating a choking

A fire along Interstate 10 is backing up traffic Thursday night in the Yucaipa area. The fire closed two lanes on the eastbound side of the freeway near Yucaipa Boulevard. The fire had grown to about 5 acres. Firefighters reported making good progress on the flames but it wasn’t clear how long the lane closures

Police say three people have been shot and one of them has died in a parking lot next to a baseball field on the campus of Sacramento City College. Police say the campus is on lockdown Thursday night while they search for a suspect with no shirt wearing cargo shorts. Sacramento police say the three

Mayor Steve Pougnet has hired a Sacramento lawyer, who specializes in white collar criminal investigations that include civil and criminal fraud litigation, tax fraud, and other complex civil litigation. Attorney Malcolm Segal, based in Sacramento, confirmed to KESQ/CBS Local 2 Wednesday afternoon that he is representing the Mayor. He would not state when he was

It only took two teaspoons of a chemical spilling in a genetics lab at Eisenhower Medical Center’s Lucy Curci Cancer Center to evacuate the whole second floor Thursday morning. An unspecified chemical was spilled onto the floor at about 10 a.m. by a tenant who was using the lab located inside the cancer center, according

El alcalde de la ciudad de Palm Springs, dice que no resignara a su puesto tras el allanamiento del concilio de la misma ciudad y pese a las acusaciones de conflicto de inters en su contra. sto, lo dio a conocer ayer durante la reunin del consejo de la ciudad que se realiz ayer por