Month: August 2017

The Best Local Sports Show Friday night football edition will begin Friday, August 25th with highlights from every single area team in action! Tune in at 11:15pm on KESQ or CBS Local 2 for all the best coverage in the valley. The only TV station that will have ALL the teams covered.

People learned how to apply to become a U.S. citizen Saturday at Training Occupational Development Educating Communities’ free workshop. The workshop goes from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Workforce Conference Center in Indio. Participants got free application assistance, screenings and learn if they qualify for citizenship. Organizers say this is their way of

Desert Hot Springs philanthropist John H. Furbee, who died last month, was remembered Friday during a celebration of his life and accomplishments. The event was held at the aquatic center named after him at 11750 Cholla Drive in Desert Hot Springs. The celebration of his life, titled: “More Fun Tomorrow,” was free and open to

Prepare to see super heroes, zombies and more as Comic Con returns to Palm Springs. The event is a chance to walk among comic book and entertainment enthusiasts and showcase your favorite characters. Comic Con Palm Springs gives exhibitors a chance to display comics and memorabilia, as well as concerts, panels and autograph signings for

With the Great American Eclipse just a few days away, some Cathedral City High School students spent their school day learning about this celestial event. With terms like “orbit” and “corona”- students got a crash course on solar eclipses. Three teachers at Cathedral City High School are feeding the curiosity of these kids, Martha Hunter,

A 19-year-old Cathedral City man pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for the accidental shooting death of a friend at the defendant’s Cathedral City home earlier this year. Calvin Villareal is slated to be sentenced on Nov. 15 to four years and four months in prison for the Feb. 15 death of Henry Neri, 18. Cathedral

Demand for special eye protection to watch Monday’s solar eclipse has many Coachella Valley retailers sold out of glasses used to protect your eyes from UV rays, and some retailers may have sold glasses that might not be as safe as advertised. Stores like the 7-Eleven in Cathedral City, and the Walmart and Lowe’s in

The Coachella Valley Arabs football team saw 190 players come out for their football program this season, Desert Hot Springs a solid 100, but in Desert Mirage there are just 30-players ready to wear the Ram’s Jersey this season. You only need 11 on the field at one time, so what they don’t have in

CAL FIRE says 8 small fires were set in Desert Hot Springs Friday morning. All were set withing two to three hours of each other. The brush fire near the Two Bunch Palms Resort is the largest of the fires, it is about a quarter of an acre. The fire was first reported just before

Este 21 de agosto, un eclipse total del Sol cruzará Estados Unidos de costa a costa, algo que no ha pasado en casi 100 años, la Luna cubrirá el Sol por completo y el fenómeno se podrá ver en 14 estados de la unión americana incluyendo california, Sin duda, es un evento astronómico que no

Police were investigating a crash in Indio at the Interstate 10 Jackson Street Interchange early Friday morning. A motorist fled after a pickup truck went over an embankment and hit a palm tree shortly before 6:00 a.m. The truck was loaded onto a flatbed tow truck to be removed. This is a breaking news update.

Indio Police are investigating a deadly collision this morning at Avenue 43 and Calhoun Street. It occurred Friday morning shortly after 6:00 a.m. just north of the freeway east of Jackson Street in a residential intersection just east of the Jackson Center Shopping Center. Sgt. Dan Marshall with the Indio Police Department said a motorist

The suspect accused on Wednesday’s attempted kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl inside a Rancho Mirage grocery store pleaded not guilty on Friday during his arraignment. 39-year-old Roberto Arce Cardenas of Los Angeles, faces kidnapping, evading arrest, firearm and drug possession charges that were filed on Friday. Roberto Arce Cardenas, 39, is accused of trying to

Un hombre pierde la vida en accidente en la ciudad de indio. la fatalidad se dio en la Avenue 43 y Calhoun St, en la ciudad de Indio, alrededor de las 6:30 de esta mañana , un hombre fue atropella por un conductor cuando el hoy occiso intentaba cruzar la calle, el hombre murio en

Fire officials say the Mias Fire has decreased to 540 acres and is 95% contained. For a second day, firefighters are battling the flames of a vegetation fire off Mias Canyon Road and Bluff Street in Banning. The fire was 80% contained late Wednesday night and had grown to 540 acres. {“url”:”https://twitter.com/CALFIRERRU/status/897466675590610944″,”author_name”:”CAL FIRE Riverside”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/CALFIRERRU”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p

A store owner of a popular hobby shop in the valley has been identified as the person found dead in Thousand Palms on Wednesday. Deputies received a call around on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. on a report of a possible deceased male in the area of Washington north of Varner Road where it turns into

One person was taken to the hospital after a pickup truck and a golf cart were involved in an accident in Indio. Cal Fire, says crews responded to the scene located on Westward Ho Drive and Jefferson street at 11:50 a.m. Thursday morning. No word on the condition of the person taken to the hospital.

A 20-year-old Cathedral City man who fired several gunshots at a man during a robbery pleaded guilty today to robbing and assaulting the victim and was immediately sentenced to 27 years in state prison. An attempted murder charge that Antonio Campos had been facing for the Feb. 21, 2016, crime near the 33300 block of

A brother and sister who helped conceal a man’s shooting death in Desert Hot Springs pleaded guilty today to being accessories after the fact. Candelaria DeSantiago, 32, and Alejandro DeSantiago, 39, were each sentenced to one year and four months in state prison, but both had already accumulated enough credit for time served to secure

Nearly five months after signing a contract for new cabinets and countertops to be installed in her Palm Desert home, Carole Pateman says she is still waiting for the handyman to do the work. “I’m very upset, I’m upset with myself, at being taken advantage of, but he was a brilliant con artist,” said Pateman.