The 10th annual Cathedral City International Hot Air Balloon Festival is this weekend! Friday morning, hot air balloons took to the skies. The festival goes from Friday to Sunday, featuring live entertainment, food trucks, face painting, outdoor activities, and giveaways. Balloons launched from the Agua Caliente Casino on Friday morning for a competition flight. People showed
Continue ReadingTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An elected official for an Arizona county has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $38 million in public funds that she used to renovate her luxurious Southwestern ranch home, maintain the family cattle business and buy at least 20 vehicles, including an Airstream camper van. Elizabeth Gutfahr, who was Santa Cruz
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The City Council approved the Palm Springs AIDS Memorial Thursday night. Councilmembers voted 4-0, with one councilmember absent, to accept the recommendation of the Palm Springs Public Arts Commission to approve the design and placement of the memorial. The Council also approved allocating $65,000 to the Memorial to assist in the installation and increased the
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in Southeast Asia that has worked hard in recent years to shed its reputation for excess. Vang Vieng, a popular backpacker destination in northern Laos, is at the
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general has announced an investigation into the death of a woman who was struck and killed by an unmarked police vehicle in Brooklyn. Police say the woman was lying in the middle of a street in the East New York neighborhood when she was hit by a Toyota
Continue ReadingBy Nick Bohr Click here for updates on this story WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (WISN) — The new parade tragedy memorial dedicated Thursday at Grede Park is a way to help Waukesha heal. But a last-minute discovery is causing additional pain. “Today is a difficult day for all of those families, so something like this being out
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Health officials on Friday confirmed bird flu in a California child — the first reported case in a U.S. minor. The child had mild symptoms, was treated with antiviral medication and is recovering, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in announcing the test results. State officials have said the child attends
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Health officials on Friday confirmed bird flu in a California child — the first reported case in a U.S. minor. The child had mild symptoms, was treated with antiviral medication and is recovering, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in announcing the test results. No details about the child have been
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El forense dio a conocer el nombre de la persona que fue encontrada muerta en un terreno de palmas de dátil ubicada en el área de la Avenida 51 y la calle Van Buren cerca de Coachella. Se trata de Zachary Sandoval Robert de 31 años cuyo cadáver tenÃa huellas de violencia y aunque testigos
Continue ReadingBy Aubry Killion Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — A New Orleans police officer was on duty smoking crystal meth, with his body camera rolling. After requesting the body camera video for nearly a year, WDSU Investigates uncovered the video and spoke exclusively with the now-former officer. Maurice Bailey said
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Durante un operativo decenas de agentes la policÃa llegaron a una casa ubicada cerca de la Avenida Hacienda en Desert Hot Springs para arrestar a un sujeto sospechoso de abusar sexualmente de un niño de Yucca Valley, además de distribuir material obsceno del pequeño, por lo que durante el cateo no encontraron a Winter Lessnau
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By Jennifer Hauser, Julia Vargas Jones, Stefano Pozzebon and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Brazilian authorities have indicted the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, alongside 36 other individuals as part of the investigation into an alleged coup plot to keep power following the election of his successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. On Thursday, Bolsonaro
Continue ReadingBy Bryce Oselen Click here for updates on this story BIRMINGHAM (WVTM) — Months after the Five Points South mass shooting, the city of Birmingham continues to honor victims. Candance Kemp’s daughter, Anitra Holloman, had everything to live for. She was a young mother enjoying a night out with friends when tragedy struck. Holloman was
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Mayes Click here for updates on this story LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — A local Lyft driver says she was assaulted by a passenger she was supposed to drive. Mary Carmen Parra Martinez says she’s been a Lyft driver for three and a half years, but she says she was assaulted on Tuesday near
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Cathedral City anunció que ya iniciaron los trabajos de mejoras en la Varner Road desde la calle Bob Hope de 7 de la mañana a 4 de la tarde y esperan que el proyecto esté completado en febrero del 2025. Los trabajos para mejorar la seguridad de los automovilistas incluyen señalamientos con luces intermitentes y
Continue ReadingAP Tennis Writer MALAGA, Spain (AP) — The last man to face — and beat — Rafael Nadal in an official tennis match has led the Netherlands into the Davis Cup final for the first time by eliminating Germany. Botic van de Zandschulp put the Dutch in front by hanging on to defeat Daniel Altmaier
Continue ReadingBy Erin Burnett Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WXII) — Fans of the hit television show “Scandal” were able to show their love of the show while lending a helping hand to Hurricane Helene survivors. The cast partnered with United Way of North Carolina for a script-read and raised about
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A jury is deliberating on whether a New Hampshire man held down a teenage boy while he was raped at a youth detention center in 1998. Bradley Asbury, now 70, served as a house leader at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester. He’s accused of restraining 14-year-old Michael
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Ayer en la corte de Indio se declaró culpable un sujeto de 48 años acusado de cometer varios de robos en Rancho Mirage y Thousand Palms durante octubre pasado por lo que el juez lo sentencio a dos años en prisión; se trata de Kenneth Cook quien se robó $2 mil dolares en efectivo, electrónicos
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Gracias a fondos federales los comercios de Palm Springs podrán beneficiarse con medidas antirrobo. La ayuda consiste en la instalación de vidrios de 7 milÃmetros que toma más tiempo para romperse, con esto los ladrones batallan más para ingresar al comercio. Los dueños de negocios interesados en solicitar la ayuda deben contactar la Departamento de
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