Month: January 2017

Animal services is looking for the rightful owner of a nearly 5 foot long iguana that was found last month. A good Samaritan brought the iguana into the Coachella Valley Animal Campus in Thousand Palms Tuesday morning. He had been caring for the iguana while looking for the owner himself for the past month, but

Local Star Wars fans are outraged over an unlikely item being stolen from a Palm Springs real estate agency. A life-size Storm Trooper stolen from Leaskou Partners Sunday night, and no security systems triggered. “Well, we have motion sensors, we have glass sensors, every agent has a code, we have cameras so we can see

On the day of Riverside County Supervisor John J. Benoit’s funeral service, thousands of people gathered to remember the late public servant. While many attended the service at St. Francis of Assisi in La Quinta, a few were able to watch a live feed at Southwest Church in Indian Wells. Southwest Church was also the

A Corona man whose brother went on a deadly shooting rampage in San Bernardino pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to conspiracy to commit immigration fraud connected to a sham marriage that preceded hisyounger sibling’s terrorist attack. Syed Raheel Farook, 31, admitted the charge during an impromptu change-of-plea hearing before U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal,

Cal Fire treated a big rig driver for minor burns Tuesday afternoon when his truck became engulfed in flames on the eastbound I-10 off-ramp at Gene Autry Trail. Firefighters arrived to the truck fire just before 1 p.m. They doused the flames quickly and the driver was treated at the scene. There was a significant

Gov. Jerry Brown’s $180 billion 2017-18 state budget blueprint contains proposals that seem to put California’s finances on a stable path going forward, a Riverside County lawmaker said today, as the state braces for changes at the federal level. “I applaud the governor for recognizing that we cannot afford to keep spending at current levels

Funeral services were held Tuesday for county Supervisor John J. Benoit, a former law enforcement officer and member of the California Legislature who lost his battle with pancreatic cancer late last month. Benoit, who represented the Fourth District — an area that extends from the Coachella Valley to the Arizona state line — died at

A man who was working on his broken-down vehicle in the High Desert on Sunday evening had his bad night take a turn for the worse, when he was allegedly robbed by two men who approached him on the side of the road. Deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said the robbery occurred

A man accused of dragging a detective for several feet with his car after being pulled over, triggering a vehicle and foot pursuit through Palm Springs, was charged Tuesday with assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer. Anderzel Handel Lopez Morales, 31, is also facing additional felony and misdemeanor counts stemming from the

El Departamento de Policía de Indio está tras la pista de un sujeto de 31 años de edad quien es acusado de robarse un vehículo el pasado 16 de Diciembre en dicha ciudad. Ayer a las 3:45 pm.m agentes del orden vieron a un sujeto cuya descripción coincide con la de Derrek Wilson. El hombre

Pretrial motions and briefs were submitted today for the retrial of a former Beaumont police officer who blinded a woman when he fired a pepper spray pistol inches from her face while arresting her on suspicion of drunken driving. Enoch “Jeremy” Clark, 41, could face four years behind bars if convicted of assault by a

Many drivers use the Jefferson Street interchange as a main artery when it comes to driving to and from valley cities. One driver says the drive without it will be a challenge. “It’s going to affect me because it’s going to be a lot of mileage to go around to [get] back to the 10,”

The Indio Police Department is searching for a 31-year-old man accused of carjacking a victim on December 16. Officers said they saw a man matching Derrick Wilson’s description at Spotlight 29 Casino in Twentynine Palms at about 3:45 p.m. Monday, but the suspect ran away and deputies were unable to locate him. While it’s still

The Riverside County Fire Department Hazardous Materials Team is investigating an illness that evacuated a greenhouse near Thermal Monday morning. Eleven people had already left the greenhouse in Oasis before firefighters made it to the scene, health officials said in a news release. It turns out that only one person was taken to the hospital

Un residente de Indio enfrenta varios cargos de felonía incluyendo asesinato por provocar un accidente vehicular que involucró a varios autos mientras conducía en estado de ebriedad el pasado 26 de Diciembre. Juan Alvarez Gómez de 48 años se presentará frente al juez mañana martes a las 8:00 a.m. en el Centro de Justicia Larson

Olympian Michael Phelps will headline the annual Champion Honors Luncheon to benefit the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, it was announced Monday. Phelps, who recently became a first-time father, said he is “extremely honored to have been invited to the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children Annual Champion Honors Luncheon, and to support Barbara” as the

It was the 6th annual Epiphany Day celebration took place at the Galilee Center in Mecca on Sunday. The nonprofit organization, in partnership with local churches, handed out free shoes and blankets to underprivileged children in the Valley. “It’s such a big holiday, especially in Mexico, the Epiphany Day. It’s kind of compared to Christmas,

Whale watchers in Southern California were recently treated to a rare sight: A pod of orcas, including a calf, swimming about a mile off shore. The Orange County Register reports that the five orcas, also known as killer whales, were seen near Point Vicente on Saturday afternoon. California Killer Whale Project researcher Alisa Schulman-Janiger says