Month: July 2017

Riverside County supervisors will weigh whether to increase appropriations to several agencies that cannot meet their expenses in the current fiscal year, including the Sheriff’s Department, where the shortfall is $50 million. The Board of Supervisors will hold a special afternoon session to review a list of allocation requests that the Executive Office has already

A pedestrian safety ad campaign in the Coachella Valley will be expanded to the greater Inland Empire to combat a growing trend of pedestrian fatalities and injury crashes, Caltrans announced today. The “Look Both Ways” campaign began last month with seven billboards along Interstate 10 and Coachella Valley roadways to address pedestrian-related car crashes. The

Outage in Twentynine Palms leaves thousands without power. According to Southern California Edison, at this time 3985 customers are without power in the city. SCE crew determined the outage was caused by damages caused by storm conditions. Power is expected to back for most customers by around 10:00 p.m. You can check the SCE outage

Local tattoo shops are coming together to help an Indio graduate raise money for her medical bills. Angelique Melendrez was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in January 2016, in the middle of her senior year at Indio High School. “ALL” is a rare type of leukemia that impacts fewer than 200,000 people a year. Melendrez

Jim Robinson, director of golf at Mission Hills Country Club and lead instructor Jerry Howse explain how to hit a ball above the feet. Robinson and Howse explain how the ball will naturally draw because of the slope. In order to execute a good shot, the player must choke up on the club and aim

CBS Local Two and the H.N. & Frances C. Berger Foundation partnered Monday to present the Coachella Valley History Museum with a surprise grant for $10,000. The museum’s Junior Historian program is what grabbed the Berger Foundation’s attention. “We want our children to gain a pride in their history and a sense of belonging, and

An injury crash involving two big rigs — one of which was hauling a military tank vehicle — blocked several freeway lanes just north of Desert Hot Springs on Monday morning. The collision occurred around 10:30 a.m. on westbound state Route 62, just north of Indian Canyon Drive, according to the California Highway Patrol. A

El hijo de la víctima, Robert Zendejas Jr., cree que la muerte de su padre es sospechosa, asi lo dio a conocer a nuestra reportera de nuestra estación hermana KESQ channel 3, Zendejas fue encontrado muerto despues de sufrir un aparente accidente automovilístico en donde el auto en el que viajaba ardio en llamas y

Ayer domingo se cumplieron tres semanas desde que un ex jugador de fútbol de Desert Hot Springs fue baleado y asesinado. Y por primera vez, la madre del joven asesinado habla de el asesinato sin resolver de su hijo. “El 2 de julio fue cuando sucedió, y pense que para este tiempo tendrían a quien

Southern California Edison moved forward with planned power outages on Monday in Palm Desert between 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The agency says the outage wass needed in order to do some routine maintenance in the area. It affected customers south of Highway 111 and east of Deep Canyon. Here are some tips form SCE

A Desert Hot Springs man who allegedly offered teenage girls money to get into his car was ordered Monday to stand trial on charges of lewd acts with a child and child annoyance. Daniel Hernandez, 21, was arrested last March after two teenage girls claimed he approached them and offered them money to get into

“He was born in 1906 —- 10 cents a gallon.” It was a time with Theodore Roosevelt in office, and also one of the deadliest earthquakes in U.S. history rocking San Francisco. The birth year of Clarence Larry Matthews born May 1st, 1906 and now 111 years later he passed away as the oldest man

Como ya se había anunciado, Southern California Edison llevó a cabo el apagón programado para el dia de hoy lunes de 8:30 a.m. a 12:30 p.m. en el que se vieron afectados alrededor de 400 clientes con la finalidad de realizar trabajos de mantenimiento en el equipo de transmisión. Los afectados son casas y negocios

The City of Indio is looking at the title for LifeStream’s Nine Cities Blood Drive Challenge for the third year in a row, but officials said Rancho Mirage and Desert Hot Springs are looking to play spoiler this year. According to LifeStream’s updated news release, more than 400 units of blood have been collected so

Authorities say a 16-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing a 79-year-old man in Southern California. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department says deputies found the victim dead with multiple stab wounds Saturday afternoon. Investigators believe the teenager was at the man’s apartment in the Mojave Desert town of Apple Valley when

Southern California Edison will conduct a planned power outage Monday in Palm Desert. Watch KESQ News Channel 3 live for updates this morning. An Edison statement said service will be cut to nearly 400 customers between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. The outage was scheduled to perform routine maintenance. It was set to impact customers

Sunday marks three weeks since a former Desert Hot Springs football player was shot and killed. On Sunday, for the first time, the young man’s mother is opened up about her son’s unsolved murder. “July 2 is when it happened, and I mean, I thought by now they would have whoever did it,” said Melissa

Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a Joshua Tree woman following a high-speed chase early Sunday morning. Deputies saw a grey van traveling westbound on Twentynine Palms Highway with no head lights on. Deputies tried stopping the van driven by Sierra Embry, 29, at the intersection of Twentynine Palms Highway and Palm Avenue in Yucca Valley,