Month: April 2017

Whether it’s a cup of coffee or grabbing lunch, some restaurants throughout the Coachella Valley are making each meal count when it comes to giving back to an HIV/AIDS organization. “They take care of thousands of people a month whether its meals or medical services or housing. It’s something that’s not going away and we

Police are searching for two gun-wielding bicyclists who fired shots at a man in Banning, missing him but striking a nearby home. Read: More Crime Headlines around the Coachella Valley The shooting happened at 12:07 p.m. Wednesday near 3100 W. Jefferson St., according to Banning Police Chief Alex Diaz. The chief said two “younger looking”

Indio High School was on a short lockdown early Thursday morning. Mary Perry of Desert Sands Unified School District says there way a 10 minute lockdown due to nearby police activity. It was lifted at around 8:30. Indio Police tell us the lockdown was precautionary as police were in the area serving search warrants. Viewers

It’s almost time to grab 10-gallon hat, put on some cowboy boots and two step to the Empire Polo Grounds. Country music festival Stagecoach is this weekend. The Indio Police Department will once again be on high alert for people illegally using handicapped placards. During both weekends of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival 182

“Smokey” the cat has a new home! Smokey was rescued after a 30-acre brush fire in Mecca by our news crew on the morning of April 13th. After appearing on the weekly Animal Samaritans Segment on Wednesday’s News Channel Three at Noon, one of our own employees decided to adopt him! Reporter Jeremy Chen and

UPDATE as of 5:15 a.m.: Freeway westbound lanes have reopened to traffic and are back up to speed. ———————— Westbound Interstate 10 was closed to all traffic late Wednesday and early Thursday morning at the Jefferson Street Interchange construction project. All Westbound lanes were expected to be closed during the overnight construction project. The #1

The California Highway Patrol has arrested a man accused of stealing a truck on Wednesday afternoon. Officers identified the suspect as 30-year-old Michael Marquez. The chase initially started at 1:41 p.m. in Desert Hot Springs. Watch: CHP chase ends in arrest According to Deputy Chief Jim Henson of the Desert Hot Spring Police Department, a

A 35-year-old mother who allegedly abducted her 6-year-old son from his elementary school in Venice this morning was arrested and the boy rescued after a short police chase. Nishia Burnett-Hayer, who does not have legal custody of her son, was arrested about 7:30 p.m. after she got out of her car and ran with the

Illegal camps along a stretch of I-10 in Indio is creating some safety concerns for Caltrans and other agencies. This comes after a small brush fire Monday broke out near the Golf Center Parkway exit in which firefighters determined was likely caused by homeless activity. Caltrans crews and the California Highway Patrol surveyed the area

The owner of this bicycle couldn’t bee-lieve what he was seeing. Roman Ocelo was leaving his job at Luigi’s Barber Shop in Palm Springs, but when he got to his bike parked near the intersection of Palm Canyon Drive and Tahquitz Canyon Way, he found that his bicycle was taken over by hundreds of bees.

Indio Mayor Pro Tem Michael Wilson has called the city home for nearly four decades. It’s a place he said that’s grown in popularity, in part to music. “Anywhere I fly for city business or vacation, all you have to say is Coachella or Stagecoach, and they say,’Oh Indio,” Wilson said. “It has definitely put

President Donald Trump signed another executive order Wednesday, this time calling for an unprecedented review of 24 national monuments, including two in this region. The Sand to Snow National Monument was proclaimed by President Barack Obama in 2016 and covers 154,000 acres. The Mojave Trails National Monument, also proclaimed by the Obama administration in 2016,

After months of investigating by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, the district attorney’s office says it will now receive the case where Indio police officers shot and killed a 71-year-old man back in August of last year. The coroner identified the man as Pedro Montanez about a month after the deadly shooting took place outside

El Departamento de Policía de Indio reveló el número de arrestos y sanciones durante el segundo fin de semana del festival de Música y Arte Coachella Fest. Se realizaron 152 arrestos, 25 de estos por intoxicación pública. 71 arrestos fueron por posesión ilegal de alguna sustancia controlada y 37 por delitos relacionados con el alcohol.

Sentencing is scheduled for June 9 for a Desert Hot Springs man convicted of attempted voluntary manslaughter in the shooting of a homeless friend. Eric Deshon Brown, 36, was found guilty Tuesday of attempted manslaughter and assault with a firearm after jurors deliberated for less than a day. He was acquitted of attempted murder, mayhem

A suspect is dead after an officer-involved shooting took place in Cabazon on Saturday, March 4. Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies said it happened at 10:15 p.m. on Johnson Lane, south of Interstate 10. The coroner’s office identified the man on Wednesday, April 26, as 26-year-old Edward Manning III. Authorities said he passed away at Desert

The Indio Police Department released crime statistics from the second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. 152 people were arrested: 25 arrested for public intoxication 7 arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance 76 arrested for illegal possession of a controlled substance (71 of those were misdemeanor offenses; 5

Un hombre de 21 año años despues de supuestamente asaltar a punta de pistola al empleado de un restaurane ubicado en Palm Springs. Supuestamente el hombre entró a un restaurante ubicado sobre la manzana 2500 de East Tahquitz Canyon Way de Palm Springs el lunes a las 9:41 p.m., le mostró una pistola al empleado