Month: August 2018

The man accused of starting the 18,137 acre “Holy Fire” burning in Riverside and Orange County made his first court appearance on Friday. Forrest Gordon Clark, 51, is charged with aggravated arson damaging at least five inhabited structures, arson of inhabited property, arson of forest and criminal threats, all felonies, as well as two misdemeanor

A Cathedral City resident accused of assaulting and seriously injuring a man, then leaving him to die inside a burning Desert Hot Springs home, was charged today with attempted murder, aggravated mayhem, torture and arson. Miguel Espino, 25, pleaded not guilty Friday afternoon to all counts in connection with the 7 p.m. Tuesday blaze at

In September 2006, authorities discovered the bodies of Vicki Friedli, her boyfriend Jon Hayward, and Vicki’s 18-year-old daughter Becky Friedli following a fire at their home in Pinyon Pines. “We knew right away that everyone was dead. I learned that Becky was found in a wheelbarrow. Apparently, she had been placed in this and set

Funcionarios del Bosque Nacional de San Bernardino informaron que el incendio de Cranston, que quemó 13.139 acres cerca de Idyllwild y Mountain Center, fue contenido al 100% la noche del jueves. El fuego, que estalló el 25 de julio en la autopista 74 en las montañas de San Jacinto, entre Hemet y Mountain Center, al

Man accused of pepper spraying a group of people in downtown Palm Springs has been identified. Palm Springs police responded to reports of a large fight and a possible assault with a deadly weapon around the 100 block of S. Palm Canyon Thursday at around 10 p.m. Police were able to determine that Dylon Cooke,

Heavy police presence in downtown Palm Springs as a pair of fights break-out in two locations, leading to multiple people being pepper sprayed and one tasered. Palm Springs police confirmed that 4 to 5 people are being treated for decontamination after fights broke out in two separate areas shortly before 10 p.m. Police responded to

More kids are getting caught with pot on campus at our local schools. The Palm Springs Unified School District has noticed the trend of more students getting their hands on the drug’s many forms since the state legalized recreational marijuana in January. In an I-Team Investigation, the district is rethinking it’s approach to drug abuse

The raging Holy Fire made an aggressive run into Lake Elsinore today, prompting a new round of mandatory evacuations and bringing flames dangerously close to a mountain-side neighborhood, but fire crews appeared to successfully divert the flames before any homes were damaged. The Holy Fire, which erupted Monday afternoon in the Holy Jim Canyon area

Banning Unified School District teachers are on the second day of a three-day strike today to protest extended instructional hours that union officials say come without appropriate compensation for educators after no consultation with the teachers’ union. School district officials have brought in substitute teachers to staff district campuses through the duration of the strike,

Caltrans is issuing a traffic alert for motorists planning on attending the “Jazz in the Pines” music festival this weekend in Idyllwild. Drivers are encouraged to use Highway 243 from Interstate 10 in Banning to attend the festival. Caltrans is continuing to work with through the weekend to make repairs to guardrail and signs on

Christie Quinn won a gold medal in individual women’s golf and a silver in team play at the 2018 Gay Games in Paris, France. Quinn is the only individual USA woman to win a medal in golf. The competition was played at Golf De la Boulie-RCF-Versaille in a two day combined score competition. Christie had

Robert Pape and Cristin Smith have been found guilty of murdering Jon Hayward and Vicki Friedli. Robert Pape has been found guilty in the killing of Becky Friedli. {“url”:”https://twitter.com/JeremyChenKESQ/status/1004872741990699008″,”author_name”:”Jeremy Chen”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/JeremyChenKESQ”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;To recap: Robert Pape and Cristin Smith found guilty of murdering Jon Hayward and Vicki Friedli. Pape found guilty of killing Becky Friedli.

A former Beaumont cop who blinded a woman when he fired a pepper spray pistol inches from her face during a DUI arrest pleaded guilty today to a misdemeanor charge under an agreement negotiated with Riverside County prosecutors. Enoch “Jeremy” Clark, 43, entered his plea to a charge of assault by a public officer, and

With the sun beating down on the east valley a small but tight knit family continues to push on. “We have 26 kids out here that love being here. Here everyday working their butts off. We’re going to coach them up. We don’t look out in the parking lot waiting for more to show up,”

Many residents of the Indian Wells RV Resort in Indio woke up to the sight of a home on fire. “I thought I heard a person screaming, then I saw orange coming through the blinds and I looked and called 911 and grabbed my laptop and backed up as fast as possible,” When firefighters contained

The first day of school for thousands of kids in Banning didn’t go quite as planned, as parents had to walk their children into class past their picketing teachers. Many educators are on strike over what they’re calling “unfair labor practices.” A large group of teachers boycotting several decisions they said were made by Superintendent

It’s time to “Pack the Bus”! The Sunline Transit, KESQ News Channel 3, CBS Local 2 & KUNA are working together to help families struggling with poverty by helping them provide their students with school supplies for the new school year. The “Pack the Bus” drive is today, Thursday, from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Errol Wilson taking over as the head coach of the Desert Hot Springs Golden Eagles. “Just don’t trust you right away. They have had guys come and go and to them I am just the next guy up,” Errol Wilson said. When you don’t win a game all season the only way to go is