Month: April 2016

Voters in Rancho Mirage are giving incumbents the nod in the race for city council and are saying “no” to the CV Link. Unofficial results in the mail-in ballot election: City Council – Choose 2 Candidates: 44.52% Ted Weill(I) 41.09% Richard Kite(I) 14.38% Michael Harrington Please note: The text on the ballot measures has been

A registered sex offender was arrested Tuesday afternoon in Desert Hot Springs after allegedly trying to lure a local student into his car. Scroll down to see list of Registered Sex Offenders in the Coachella Valley Desert Hot Springs Police Chief Dale Mondary tells CBS Local 2 and KESQ a student reported to staff at

Rancho Mirage was the only city voting in the Coachella Valley Tuesday. Some people were scrambling to cast their votes after a mailing vendor for the county, ProVoteSolutions, forgot to send 36 voters their ballots. The residents registered near the deadline and were among the last in the registrar’s mailings for the election. The Riverside

The Palm Springs City Council will meet in special closed session Wednesday night to hold evaluations on the city manager and city attorney. The meeting was called by Mayor Robert Moon. Last week, Mayor Moon called for reviews of David Ready and Doug Holland. Moon made that announcement at the end of a long council

Un hombre fue encarcelado despus de supuestamente tocar inapropiadamente a una nia de 8 aos. Agentes del Departamento de Policia de Palm Springs aprehendieron a Jesus Mendiola Carrasco de 30 aos. Durante la investigacin, los agentes policiacos se percataron de que Carrasco era vecino de la menor. El presunto incidente sucedio el 21 de marzo

En Coachella, seis personas quedaron sin techo tras un incendio anoche. Elementos de seguridad llegaron al hogar ubicado en la cuadra 85-600-de la calle Via Tepeyac un poco despus de la medianoche. Autoridades informaron que comenz en el garaje del inmueble, se esparci al tico y posteriormente al interior de la vivienda. 20 bomberos sofocaron

The California Highway Patrol found a car Monday morning belonging to a 78-year-old woman who was found dead Sunday night at a mobile home park in Banning. Homicide investigators were searching for the woman’s car and her granddaughter — both missing in the wake of the grim discovery. But, CHP officers also found a deceased

The California Highway Patrol continues to investigate Friday’s crash on Highway 74 in Mountain Center, which turned out to be deadly for a 48-year-old man from Indio. The coroner’s office identified the man as Eutiquio Ramirez. The California Highway Patrol said Ramirez was driving a Toyota pickup eastbound on Highway 74 when his truck went

CAL Fire responded to a residential structure fire on the 85600 block of Via Tepeyac in Coachella early Tuesday morning. When firefighters arrived on scene, most of the fire was in the garage and then spread to the rest of the home, according to CAL Fire. It took them 20 minutes to put out the

Un incendio de maleza consumio por lo menos tres acres y cruz una calle en Mecca el lunes por la tarde, forzando un desvio vial mientras que bomberos trabajaban arduamente para sofocar el fuego. La hoguera fue reportada a las 2:43 p.m. cerca de la Carretera 111 y la Avenida 66, as lo inform Jennifer

Detectives are warning the public after a 30-year-old man from Palm Springs was recently arrested on charges of inappropriately touching an 8-year-old neighbor while she was watching a movie at his home with his girlfriend’s children. Sgt. William Hutchinson with the Palm Springs Police Department said the investigation into 30-year-old Jesus Mendiola Carrasco began on

Esta madrugada estall un incendio en una vivienda ubicada sobre la manzana 85600 de Va Tepeyac en Coachella. Cuando los bomberos llegaron al lugar las llamas que iniciaron en la cochera ya se haban extendido al tico y a la casa segn report CAL Fire. En 20 minutos la lumbre fue extinguida. Debido a los

Two members of band Led Zeppelin are to face a jury over claims they stole the opening chord progressions of their classic Stairway To Heaven. On Friday, US District Judge Gary Klausner said the 1971 song and an instrumental work called Taurus, written by the band Spirit in 1967, had “substantial” similarities. His decision means

Tuesday is election day in Rancho Mirage and officials are encouraging residents to mail-in their ballots. The election is being done completely by mail so there will be no local polling places. Rancho Mirage voters can go to the Registrar of Voters office in Riverside between 7:00 a.m. And 8:00 p.m. If they would like

The human remains found in a recycling bin over the weekend were tentatively identified as those of a missing mother of three who vanished Friday night after going on a date with a man she met online, a police chief said Monday. Ingrid Lyne was last seen Friday night before going on a date to

Riverside County is reporting a 12 percent decrease of homeless people countywide after comparing a recent survey to a similar count from 2015. Despite decreases countywide among the unsheltered homeless in much of the county, the homeless populations in a few cities increased since last year; Blythe, Coachella, Corona, Desert Hot Springs, Lake Elsinore, Menifee,

Avenue 66 was closed from the 86 Expressway to Lincoln Street while Cal Fire battled a brush fire that sparked in Mecca at about 2:45 p.m. Monday. Firefighters contained the fire by about 5 p.m. and stopped the forward progress of the blaze. Officials said about a half dozen palm trees caught fire and the

The Coachella Music and Arts Festival is less than a week away and there are billboards along Interstate 10 warning concertgoers of the risk of sexually transmitted diseases. Thousands of people driving west on the 10 freeway between Bob Hope Drive and Date Palm Road might notice a billboard put up by the AIDS Healthcare

We are following the second near drowning of a child over the weekend. The first incident was reported Friday night in Indio when a toddler was found unconscious in a backyard pool at a home on Arlene Court, near Janet Avenue. Paramedics administered first aid and then rushed the child to a hospital. The toddler

Palm Springs and another popular Southern California tourist destination are teaming up to drum up more business. Oranj Palm Vacation Homes, a local vacation home rental company, is working with Catalina Island Vacation Rentals. The whole idea is to get more visitors who might not have thought to come here before. “The merger of the