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Jessamyn Dodd EL CENTRO, Calif. (KYMA) – The City of Imperial, along with the Sierra Club sued the County of Imperial, over a proposed hyper-scale AI data center. They argued the county issued a Notice of Exemption for a grading permit before the planning commission could complete their report, and that the county illegaly approved
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Lynette Niebla IMPERIAL COUNTY, Calif. (KYMA) – Imperial County residents are sharing their reaction to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) signing Senate Bill (SB) 169. SB 169, which Gov. Newsom signed into law earlier this month, is to expand the state’s digital drivers license program. The bill, according to the governor’s office, is said to raise
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IRVINE, Calif. (KESQ) – A 25-year-old man was behind bars today on suspicion of vandalizing multiple Teslas in Irvine. The suspect was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of felony vandalism, according to Irvine police. Police this week asked for the public’s help tracking down a suspect who was caught on surveillance video vandalizing a
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – An anti-human trafficking law enforcement operation conducted in San Diego County amid Comic-Con International led to 27 arrests of alleged sex buyers and the recovery of nine trafficking victims, it was announced today. Operation Iron Justice, conducted from July 22 through July 24, focused on the demand for commercial sex
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RIDGECREST, Calif. (KESQ) – An Amber Alert was briefly in effect across Southern California today as police searched for a man suspected of abducting three children from a park in Ridgecrest in Kern County, but the suspect and kids were later found. According to the California Highway Patrol, which issued the alert on behalf of
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Federal agents allegedly used racial slurs to target Latinos while carrying out an ongoing campaign of “suspicionless and discriminatory” immigration enforcement stops in the Los Angeles area, according to a federal court filing obtained today. The allegations came in a motion for a preliminary injunction in the closely watched Vasquez Perdomo
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A 62-year-old parolee with active warrants who allegedly ran over and killed a pedestrian at a Riverside crosswalk while fleeing from patrol officers was arrested today. The suspect was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon following a roughly 24-hour investigation by the Riverside Police Department into the death of 42-year Peter Mullis,
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RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. (KESQ)– Local doctors are concerned that California has confirmed 52 measles cases so far this year, more than double the 25 cases reported in all of 2025. These numbers include five confirmed cases here in Riverside County. Children ages 5 to 19 account for more than half of this year’s confirmed cases,
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Environmental organizations sued the Trump administration today for approving a private company’s plan to resurrect a defunct oil and gas pipeline to transport and sell groundwater out of the Mojave Desert, a move the plaintiffs contend would devastate imperiled species like the desert tortoise and desert bighorn sheep. In their Los
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – No tickets were sold matching all six numbers in tonight’s multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing to $663 million. It was the 37th drawing since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold. The numbers drawn Monday were 6, 26, 46, 58, 65 and
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By Jason Kravarik, Taylor Romine, Melissa Gray, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — A Los Angeles judge ruled Monday there is enough evidence to move forward in the murder case against singer d4vd, who is accused of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The ruling was made after a five-day preliminary hearing that featured more than 10
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Amid a persistent heat wave that sent droves of people to beaches, nearly 2,000 people were rescued from the ocean by Los Angeles County lifeguards last weekend, and high surf is expected to continue pounding the Southern California coast through Wednesday, officials said today. Millions flocked to the beach for relief
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Mayor Karen Bass and her challenger in the Nov. 3 election, Councilmember Nithya Raman, traded jabs today as they criticized one another over the increase in homelessness in Los Angeles. Homelessness increased by 3.4% in the city to an estimated 45,194 people, and unsheltered homelessness also rose by nearly 8%,
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By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Paramount says its takeover of CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, will be delayed for many months, and potentially well into 2027, due to pending lawsuits by state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America. Paramount said in a Friday afternoon court filing that it has agreed not
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, Thomas Bordeaux, Allison Gordon, Kyung Lah, Jason Kravarik, CNN (CNN) — In the 10 months since a girl’s severely decomposed remains were found in d4vd’s abandoned car, prosecutors have described in gruesome detail how they believe the famed singer killed and dismembered the 14-year-old runaway to prevent her from disclosing details about
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BANNING, Calif. (KESQ) – A convicted felon who sold a deadly dose of fentanyl to a 27-year-old Moreno Valley man was sentenced today to 15 years to life in state prison. After deliberating a couple of hours, a Banning jury in June convicted Savanna Michelle Carlos, 24, of Moreno Valley of second-degree murder for causing
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The Dodgers visited the White House today and were honored by President Donald Trump for winning the 2025 World Series, the team’s second consecutive title. The Dodgers made the visit during an off-day between series in Philadelphia and New York. “For the first time in the proud history of this famous
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Following two straight years of decreases, homelessness increased by 3.4% in the city of Los Angeles this year, with the number of unsheltered individuals jumping by 7.9%, according to reports published today, with Mayor Karen Bass blaming federal government service cuts for the rise. Fox11 and the Los Angeles Times
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (KESQ) – In a partnership with the Orange County Health Care Agency, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department today began a program to refer some emergency calls to social workers in an effort to better allocate resources. By the early afternoon, seven calls to 911 were referred to the experts at the Health
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Los Angeles County health officials today confirmed a case of measles in a traveler who was infectious while passing through LAX, prompting an advisory for people who may have been exposed. According to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, the traveler arrived aboard Delta Air Lines Flight 614 and
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