Month: April 2016

When the buzzer sounds, this run down garage turns into a boxing gym for Olympic hopefuls. Local boxers are fighting to keep the doors of the Thermal Boxing Club open for young fighters training for free for their professional careers. Ralph Romero ran the gym and the Desert Showdown regional boxing event held at the

Police arrested a Palm Springs man on Monday afternoon following a one-month investigation into a home burglary in Rancho Mirage. The burglary happened on March 10 on Porto Cielo Court. During the investigation, deputies in Palm Desert identified the suspect as 31-year-old Teddy Kaiser Hartwell, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The Palm Desert

The Sunline Transit Agency and The Living Desert are both hosting Earth Day events on Friday. Sunline is celebrating Earth Day by offering free rides all day in the Coachella Valley. The free rides are joined with the commissioning of the agency’s new solar system installation, which will take place at 10 a.m. Friday. Sunline

Customers across the Coachella Valley are still having problems with their phone, Internet, and television following Frontier Communications taking over for Verizon about three weeks ago. They’re not alone. Complaints are wide spread in California, Florida, and Texas. Over at S.O.S Resale Boutique and Veteran’s Communication Center in Palm Desert the owners of the nonprofit

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a small earthquake in the mountains near Idyllwild early Wednesday morning. The USGS initially reported the magnitude as 3.2, but downgraded it to 2.9 afterward. The quake was centered 6.2 miles south-southwest of Idyllwild, and 7.5 miles north-northwest of Anza. It was reported at 4:41 a.m. There were no reports

Ayer a las 5:30 p.m. agentes del Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Riverside respondieron al reporte de un incidente de violencia domstica en la manzana 26-800 de Dollar Road en Indio Hills. Cuando los uniformados llegaron un sujeto intent huir a pie iniciando una persecucin policaca por espacio de seis minutos, apoyados por aire

Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH has officially announced plans to open a new store in Palm Desert at El Paseo Square, located at the intersection of El Paseo Boulevard and San Pablo Avenue. KESQ and CBS Local 2 first reported the store possibly coming to Palm Desert, but it was made official Wednesday morning. The

A man with a felony warrant out for his arrest is in custody after he was taken down by a police K-9 during a foot pursuit in the Indio Hills community. Authorities identified the man as 31-year old Jesus Beltran of Pacoima, CA. Sheriff’s deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call in the 26-800 block

A parolee accused of shooting his girlfriend and leaving her body in a car that was abandoned on a Perris roadway pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and other charges. Martin Jason Estrada, 41, of Desert Hot Springs was arrested in February following a Riverside County sheriff’s investigation into the slaying last fall of 45-year-old

Omar Akbari, an assistant professor of entomology at UC Riverside, and his team of undergraduate and graduate students are focused on stopping the spread of the Zika Virus. They’re going straight to the source. “Right now we’re working on developing a mosquito that’s unable to transmit Zika virus,” said Akbari. They’re also focused on engineering

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and the Coachella Police Department are looking for a Hispanic man who robbed a gas station early Tuesday morning, and they’re hoping the public can help point authorities in the right direction. Officials said the robbery happened just before 2 a.m. at the AM/PM gas station on the 48000 block

Construction on a four star hotel in the El Paseo shopping district in Palm Desert is well underway and small businesses are looking forward to the possibility of having new customers. Hotel Paseo is going to be the first major upscale hotel built near the high-end shopping center. “We are a bit ahead of schedule.

Fires continues to plague the city of Desert Hot Springs. Now, a burning question, ‘what happens after firefighters put out the flames?’ City officials said it’s a process that involves a lot of people and a lot of time. But those who live nearby said they’re concerned. “If they’re not going to be occupied then

Le tenemos nueva informacin hoy en kuna Noticias Telemundo 15 sobre un incendio anoche en La Quinta Cove que provoc daos materiales estimados en aproximdamente cien mil dlares. Bomberos se abocaron a la vivienda ubicada en la cuadra 52- 500 de la Avenida Carranza justo despus de la una de esta madrugada. Al parecer, el

Indio police have released the arrest statistics from the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, and the numbers show an increase over the amount of arrests made during the first weekend of last year’s gathering. A total of 128 people were arrested over the first weekend, compared to 93 in 2015,

Authorities in Western Washington contacted KESQ and CBS Local 2 Tuesday morning after a car driven by two wanted men, accused of murder, was recently found in Phoenix, Arizona. But the search for the suspects continues and police are concerned they may be trying to escape to Mexico. According to Shari Ireton, director of communications

Cielo Vista Elementary School in Palm Springs was placed on precautionary lockdown as PSPD officers searched the area for a suspected burglar on Monday morning. Officials with the Palm Springs Police Department said two suspects were seen running from a home on the 3900 block of Calle San Antonio when officers arrived to the reported

Riverside County Firefighters were called to a residential structure fire in the 52000 block of Avenida Carranza in La Quinta early Tuesday morning. Multiple people reported the fire just after 1 a.m. The first arriving fire engine reported a 2,500 square-foot, single-story home with flames coming from the back side of the structure. It took

Coachella weekend one is a wrap and the cleanup is underway, as nearly 100,000 people head home. The mass exodus is backed up traffic from Indio all the way to Banning. Many festival goers said they were dreading the drive home. “Hopefully we’ll find a back road that will keep us off the freeway because

Why did the goose cross the road? Possibly to get to its mother on the other side. The Press Democrat reports that a few drivers called California Highway Patrol on Monday to report a gaggle of baby geese on the side of Highway 101. CHP officer Josh Phillips was patrolling the area and says the