Month: May 2019

A 96-year-old volunteer crossing guard was honored by the city of Palm Springs for his over 30 years of service to the community. For 32 years, Jack Schreckengost, 96, has volunteered as a crossing guard at Vista Del Monte Elementary School in Palm Springs. Students and staff say waving to Schreckengost every morning is a

A fire in the garage of a home in Desert Hot Springs was extinguished in 34 minutes this morning. Firefighters responded at 4:41 a.m. to a home in the 16100 block of Avenida Atezada and found the garage fully involved in fire, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. Crews were able to contain the

The family of a veteran police officer killed in the line of duty testified Tuesday morning in the penalty phase of the man convicted of his murder. Palm Springs Police Officers Jose Gilbert Vega, 63, and Lesley Zerebny, 27, were killed Oct. 8, 2016, when John Hernandez Felix, 28, fired an AR-15 rifle from inside

A puppy found burned and tortured in a Coachella dumpster earlier this month has regained the ability to walk. Hope was just 2 weeks old when a passerby heard Hope’s cries and found her in a shopping bag inside a dumpster in Coachella on May 5. The passerby brought the puppy inside a store across

Sunday at around 4:40 a.m., Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigators were notified of a body found in a wash on Dillon Road and Berdoo Canyon Road in Indio Hills. According to RSO, the body was an adult female. The mother of 22-year-old Lesly Fernanda Alvardo told News Channel 3 that investigators notified her that the

Relationships are being strengthened in Cathedral City between the police department and the community. Districting in Cathedral City has brought political changes focusing on community-specific representation. It’s something the police department is impacted by as well. “We’re working on having the police, break up so to speak into different district areas, so they’re aligned parallel

This morning, North Indian Canyon was awash with the sound of protest. Registered nurses gathered in front of Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs to for an “informational picket,” with a mission; getting hospital management to invest more in its nursing staff, according to a news release sent out by the California Nurses Association

An ex-con suspected of cornering and molesting a 16-year-old girl while under the influence of methamphetamine on an interstate bus in the Beaumont area was free Tuesday on $5,000 bail. Eric Daniel Prindle, 49, of Bakersfield was arrested and booked into the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning Monday morning on suspicion of annoying/molesting a minor

An eighth-grader from Corona advanced to the third round of the 92nd Scripps National Spelling Bee today by correctly spelling agua fresca, a beverage consisting of water and sugar with fruits, grains or seeds added for flavoring. Aisha Randhawa will return to the stage at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor,

The Palm Springs International ShortFest is shaping up to be a jam-packed event this year; on Tuesday, the Palm Springs International Film Society released the festival’s lineup, which will include 369 films. The ShortFest, which is celebrating its 25th year, is kicking off on June 18 and will run through June 24. The event will

The California Highway Patrol officers investigating the weekend hit-and-run death of a pedestrian on Interstate 10 in Indio put out a call today for witnesses. The body of Jesus Francisco Torres, 39, of Coachella was found on the westbound I-10 between Jefferson and Washington streets by California Highway Patrol officers who responded just after 1

Un hombre ha sido arrestado en relación con el asesinato de una mujer de Coachella que estuvo desaparecida y cuyo cuerpo fue encontrado el domingo por la mañana . Según el Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Riverside, Carlos Javier Navarro-Nieves de 34 años , fue arrestado por el asesinato despues de haber encontrado el

Agentes del Sheriff del Condado de Riverside investigan un tiroteo en Palm Desert ocurrido hoy martes a las 12:30 a.m. Los oficiales recibieron una llamada que reportaba disparos realizados a lo largo de la cuadra 74400 de Arbonia Trail, cerca de Deep Canyon Road y la autopista 111. Los oficiales encontraron a un grupo de

In the eastern part of the Coachella Valley, there are many disadvantaged communities still living without access to clean or safe drinking water. Representatives from local and state agencies visited some of those problematic areas on Friday, discussing how to collaberate and improve infrastructure. State Water Board Chair E. Joaquin Esquivel participated in the visit

Since Saturday morning, Erica Hansen and her family have been relying on bottled water, and so has everyone else living in the other 226 units at Watercrest at the Polo Fields on Monroe Street, just south of Highway 111. “I woke up today, there is a roof over my head, but I’m stressed out for

Interstate 10 was fully reopened to traffic Tuesday morning at 6:00 a.m. as a hazardous materials crew cleaned up spilled diesel fuel from the roadside. The California Highway Patrol said the far right slow lane remained closed to traffic. The collision between two semi trucks happened on the westbound side of Interstate 10 just before

A man has been arrested in relation to the murder of a missing Coachella woman whose body was found in a wash over the weekend. Carlos Javier Navarro-Nieves, 34, was arrested for murder after evidence linked him to a body found in Indio Hills early Sunday morning, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. A

Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies were investigating reports of an overnight shooting in Palm Desert early Tuesday morning. Deputies received a call of shots fired shortly before 12:30 a.m. along the 74400 block of Arbonia Trail near Deep Canyon Road and Highway 111. Deputies found a group of people at the location but say they did