Month: December 2017

Marques Prior of Rancho Mirage football and Madison Walker of Palm Desert golf were named the top male & female athlete of the fall season and were given $1,000 from My Thai in La Quinta to be donated to each of their programs.

After a successful season in rookie ball for the Chicago Cubs organization, 6th round draft pick and former Palm Desert Aztec Jeremiah Estrada is enjoying some time home before it’s back to business.

Palm Desert takes down Servite High School 6-5 to move to 3-1 in the Desert Challenge Tournament.

A 35-year-old man accused of stealing metal items from various farms in the Coachella Valley was arrested in Thermal, a sheriff’s deputy said on Saturday. Authorities said Ramiro Valladares, of Mecca, was in possession of burglary tools when they apprehended him at 12:41 p.m. Friday in the 89500 block of Avenue 78, near Harrison Street.

A 3.5 magnitude earthquake on Saturday shook the area near Cahuilla, according to the U.S. National Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:45 p.m. at a depth of 3.1 miles, the agency said. Its epicenter was about six miles southwest of Anza and 19 miles south of Hemet. There were no reports of injuries.

College of the Desert’s Early Childhood Education program is hosted a free pop-up playground and book drive for children up to age 10 and their families Sunday morning. The event was hosted at Coachella Veterans Park, 1515 6th St. It started at 9 a.m. and went until noon. The pop-up featured recycled materials, aimed to

A bicyclist is dead after being hit by a car that blew a stop sign in Thermal. The accident happened shortly before 12:10 p.m. on Avenue 62 and Fillmore. The Riverside County Coroner’s Office has identified the bicyclist as 68-year-old Jack Laird of Bellingham, Washington. According to CHP officer Steven Rivas, the vehicle blew a

A new manufacturing business has started in the eastern Coachella Valley, building modular homes that can withstand natural disasters like devastating wildfires and floods. At an open house Friday for Quadrow Specialty Environments, a blow torch burning at more than 800 degrees for more than an hour was not able to burn through the material

A small brush fire broke out earlier this evening around 7:30 p.m. around Grapefruit Boulevard and Tyler Street. First fire engine got on scene just minutes after the call.The small brush fire broke out near a homeless encampment. Fire officials says the fire is under investigation. The fire was put out within minutes. No one

The holiday season is usually a busy time for organizations, like the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission, hoping to help people out around this time of year, especially those who’ve served our country. “I’m also 80 years old. I need a whole lot better than what I’m getting,” said David, a homeless veteran. David’s has been

The Desert Recreation District was presented with a $3 million check in Palm Desert Friday, representing grant funding for the North Shore Community Park project. California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Los Angeles-area Democrat, Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella, and Supervisor V. Manuel Perez handed the check, celebrating recently acquired grant money for the five-acre park,

The horse community is rallying together to collect key items as fires rage throughout Southern California. It was pure chaos at the San Luis Rey Training Center on Thursday, when workers risked their lives set to more than 450 horses free as the Lilac Fire in San Diego County was burning just yards away. Read:

Nearly 90 percent of senior drivers are not making simple and inexpensive modifications to their cars that could save lives and extend their time behind the wheel according to a recent study by the Automobile Club of Southern California. “When it comes to these inexpensive adaptive devices, most seniors don’t even know they exist,” said

The families of a 26-year-old Coachella woman and 28-year-old Palm Desert man are asking for help as they haven’t been heard from since Wednesday night. Audrey Moran and her boyfriend, Jonathan Reynoso, also known by family and friends as Jon Darling, were last seen in a ‘selfie’ photograph taken at his home in Palm Desert.

The mother of a missing Valley man is looking for help from the public. 28-year old Jonathan Reynoso and 26-year old Audrey Moran were last seen more than a week ago. The mother of a missing valley man is looking for help tonight from the public. The mother of Jonathan Reynoso, Mayra Torres, and a

Missing for more than six weeks. Family and friends of a local couple who vanished without a trace are still looking to the public help. Learn more about the search for Jonathan Reynoso and Audrey Moran More than 40 days with no clues and no verified sightings of this missing couple. Family and friends refuse

El presidente de la Asamblea de California, Anthony Rendon, estuvo presente junto al asambleísta García en una visita al valle de Coachella este viernes 8 de diciembre para abordar las necesidades críticas de infraestructura del parque en la localidad de North Shore. Durante la ceremonia de presentación de un cheque por $3 millones de dolares.

Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Central Homicide Unit has officially taken over the investigation into the disappearance of 28-year-old Jonathan ‘Darling’ Reynoso and his girlfriend, 26-year-old Audrey Moran. Both the Palm Desert and Indio Police Departments were working alongside the Sheriff’s Department to find the missing couple, who were last seen on May 10. Read: Timeline

Thursday marks three months since a local couple disappeared, and one Cathedral City printing company is working to keep the couple’s faces out in the community. The owner of Zippy Copy on Date Palm has created business cards with the images of 26-year-old Audrey Moran and 28-year-old Jonathan Reynoso. The cards are the original hand

On Friday, KESQ News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2 will be live from Mathis Brothers Furniture in Indio for the annual California Highway Patrol “CHiPs For Kids” Toy Drive. Help us “Cover the Cruiser” with toys! The televised drive will be held at Mathis Brothers Furniture in Indio, from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.