Month: August 2018

A man who ran a red light during a high-speed street race in Palm Springs, triggering a crash that seriously injured another motorist, pleaded guilty today to felony counts of reckless driving and willfully engaging in a speed contest. Steven Howlett, 28, of Palm Springs, is slated to be sentenced in October for the June

Incight hosted one of six annual job fairs at the Kimpton Rowan Hotel in Downtown Palm Springs today. Several businesses attended to interview candidates including TSA, the Riverside County Sheriff’s office, Carl’s Jr., Marriott Hotels and more. “You know as long as I’ve lived here everyone is always telling you no one is hiring in

One person suffered minor injuries while a dog died following a house fire late Thursday night in Indio. Cal Fire, Riverside firefighters were responding to reports of a house fire just after 11 p.m. on the 84,000 block of Canzone Drive. The first arriving firefighters on scene reported seeing heavy smoke and fire coming from

After almost having to cancel their program in the summer of 2017, the Wildcats found a way to keep their football team together. And they won some games along the way. It was their first winning season in 11 years as they went 6-4 overall and competed for a CIF San Diego Section 8-man championship.

Starting Thursday all students attending public schools in the Coachella Valley will be back in class as it marks the first day of school for the Desert Sands Unified School District. DSUSD has 20 elementary schools, seven middle schools, and four high schools. It serves over 28 thousand students in the Coachella Valley spanning the

The deaths of four students by suicide in Rancho Cucamonga school districts have brought increased attention to the importance of student mental health awareness as many children head back to school. SafeHouse of the Desert aims to support Coachella Valley youth and teens with its anonymous 24/7 mobile app. “When they’re experiencing problems in relationships,

One-year-old Parker Lee Schumacher was found with skull fractures and a damaged brain stem at his Yucca Valley home on February 10. Schumacher was pronounced dead from his injuries on the evening of Feb. 12 at Loma Linda University Medical Center. The boyfriend of the toddler’s mother, Arthur Thomas Davies, was arrested and charged with

Students are back in school in all three of the valley’s school districts and people are getting used to the mayhem outside schools all over again. News Channel 3 found a lot of drivers passing those schools and in many cases, the parents of the children being picked up or dropped off are behaving badly.

Yesterday, Toro Canyon Middle School was the epicenter of chaos for several schools in the East Valley. An electrical room fire burned for two hours and prompted the evacuation of the school, but the ripples didn’t stop there. The blaze caused a million dollars worth of damage to the Thermal “Megasite”; a high school, middle

An appeals court today upheld the conviction of a former Palm Springs High School teacher who sexually assaulted a young boy over the course of several years and tried to seduce two of his students with games and other favors. Ronald Steven Bishop, 46, was convicted in 2016 of 43 sex-related offenses, including sodomy of

A Cathedral City man who amassed more than 2,000 sexually explicit images of underage children, some of which he posted on social media websites, pleaded guilty today to charges of possessing and distributing child pornography. Kevin Lee Nichols, 56, is slated to be sentenced next month following an investigation that began earlier this year when

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a registered sex offender and convicted felon on Wednesday morning. The Calexico Border Patrol Station observed the man, a 27-year-old United States citizen, make an illegal entry by climbing over the international boundary fence near the Calexico port of entry. That’s when agents placed him under arrest. Records

Arresto hecho en relación con el tiroteo en Palm Springs, pero el sospechoso aún sigue profujo de la justicia. El martes a alrededor de las 4:30 p.m., el Departamento de Policía de Palm Springs recibió informes de un tiroteo en la cuadra 500 de Rosa Parks Drive. En la escena del tiroteo, los agentes encontraron

The pools at the Four Seasons, 55+ community in Palm Springs, are back open after a two-month long closure. The pools were originally closed in June after testing positive for Legionnaires’ Disease. The pools were supposed to be open earlier this month but 6 of the 11 areas that tested positive pools for the disease

Arthur Thomas Davies will face murder charges in the death of a 1-year-old Toddler at a Yucca Valley residence on Feb. 10. The toddler was pronounced deceased at Loma Linda University Medical Center at 10:44 p.m. on Feb. 12. The alleged murder took place at a residence on the 555000 block of Twentynine Palms Highway

Una nueva escuela primaria en el este del valle abrió sus puertas oficialmente hoy La primaria Richard R. Oliphant es una de las escuela que ofrecerá aprendizaje desde kinder hasta el quinto año la escuela abrió sus puertas en Indio Las aulas de este plantel educativo cuenta con la mejor tegnoligía de pantallas para que

A spate of recent youth suicides has rocked parents in Rancho Cucamonga. It all started when an 11-year-old student from Victoria Groves Elementary took his own life earlier this month. “It’s only elementary school, so that was really quite upsetting to hear that a child that young would have no one to go to,” said

Riverside County health officials next month will continue a campaign initiated earlier this summer to highlight concerns about an increasing number of syphilis infections and how residents can take steps to prevent getting sick. The highest incidence of syphilis contractions has been in the Coachella Valley, but the county’s public health officer emphasized that the

This fall, in the Palm Springs Unified School District, they are planning to significantly expand a program that will allow almost all of the students in the district to take home district-owned Chromebook computers. The 16 thousand devices will be used to complete lessons from the classrooms. Children are also allowed to use the computers

A brush fire that broke out today alongside the Moreno Valley (60) Freeway just west of Beaumont scorched 23 acres and prompted the partial closure of the freeway was caused by a CALTRANS Tractor Mower operating in the area clearing brush, according to Cal Fire. The non-injury fire was reported about 1:40 p.m. on the