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Lynette Niebla EL CENTRO, Calif. (KYMA) – Brutal triple-digit temperatures in Imperial County are driving a severe public health crisis, pushing local emergency rooms to their limits. New data released by local health tracking systems reveals that since March, extreme environmental heat exposure has triggered 210 cumulative heat-related illness cases, leading to 206 emergency department
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Jessamyn Dodd CALEXICO, Calif. (KYMA) – Imperial County officials confirmed the first local case of huanglongbing (HLB), a destructive bacterial citrus disease, following a state-verified sample in late July. Assistant Agricultural Commissioner Rachel Garewal and Deputy Nelson Perez explain that the disease causes asymmetrical yellowing of leaves and poor fruit development. “It’s going to be
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Reigniting a court battle that began in 2017, Jeanie Buss has filed a petition to stop her five siblings from selling the family’s remaining ownership in the NBA team and to have two of them explain why they should not be held in contempt of court. “In the immortal words of
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – Chinese hackers targeted and broke into the DOJ, NASA, and the U.S. Senate among other governmental agencies, according to court documents unsealed in San Diego federal court. The Department of Justice and FBI said they have seized internet domains used by a People’s Republic of China state-sponsored group dubbed
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Criminal proceedings were suspended today pending a mental competency hearing for a man who was allegedly carrying ammunition in his pocket and a loaded gun in his vehicle at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes days ahead of President Donald Trump’s recent visit to the resort. Jeanine John Taele,
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VAN NUYS, Calif. (KESQ) – Criminal proceedings were suspended today after a doubt was declared about the mental competency of a model and social media influencer charged with six felony counts, including burglary and grand theft, involving alleged victims she met through dating apps. Adva Lavie, 29, is due in at the Mental Health Courthouse
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JULIAN, Calif. (KESQ) – A Julian man was arrested today near the U.S. Capitol on suspicion of having a guillotine in the bed of a pickup truck. The truck was spotted around 3 p.m. illegally parked along the 100 block of East Capitol Street, according to U.S. Capitol Police. Philan-Tam-Duy Le, 35, was arrested
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – NASCAR will return to San Diego County next year, with the stock car association announcing today that Naval Air Station North Island will again host NASCAR San Diego Weekend presented by Anduril on July 30-Aug. 1, 2027. The race weekend — held on the 16-turn, 3.4-mile Qualcomm Circuit on the
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – San Diego Padres’ minor league catching coordinator Oswaldo Pirela, who was detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents, has been released from ICE custody, it was reported today. Pirela, 34, was detained earlier this month at El Paso International Airport while on a work-related trip, and was released on bond after
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Connor Emery YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA) – Federal officials announced over the weekend that there will be major cuts to water deliveries to the Colorado River for the next two years. The Department of Interior has approved a new plan that will reduce the water deliveries by 1.2 million acre feet each year between Arizona, California
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A man who pulled up next to a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy in Palmdale and shot him in broad daylight nearly three years ago was convicted today of first-degree murder. The downtown Los Angeles jury deliberated about two hours before finding Kevin Eduardo Cataneo Salazar, now 32, guilty of the
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – Kwanza Jones and José E. Feliciano were officially introduced today as the San Diego Padres’ new owners. One week after Major League Baseball and its owners unanimously approved the sale of the team for an MLB-record $3.9 billion, the husband-and-wife team spoke at an introductory news conference of their
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The California Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Monday regarding two legal challenges to Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco’s seizure of over 650,000 ballots from the November 2025 special election.
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A TV writer is suing “Yellowstone” co-creator Taylor Sheridan and several companies in Los Angeles for allegedly lifting key elements from a series she developed and using them in the Kevin Costner-led neo-Western, according to court papers obtained today. Lauren J. Salkin contends that her rejected 2016 pitch for a TV
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A San Jacinto woman accused of killing a 7-year-old girl and injuring members of her family in a driving under the influence collision at a Perris intersection pleaded not guilty today to second-degree murder and other charges. Silvia Corona, 52, was arrested — for the second time — on Thursday after
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – An employee of a service provider at Los Angeles International Airport and another South Bay man have been charged with possessing nearly 24.3 pounds of fentanyl that authorities allege was intended to be transported on a flight to Minnesota, officials announced today. Miguel Angel Tuz-Noh, 24, of Lennox, who works at
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HACIENDA HEIGHTS, Calif. (KESQ) – An 89-year-old woman died, and another person was injured when a tour bus caught fire on the Pomona Freeway in Hacienda Heights. The fire was reported at 5:38 a.m. Friday on the eastbound Pomona (60) Freeway, east of Hacienda Boulevard, according to the California Highway Patrol. According to the CHP’s
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Jury selection turned into a referendum on rap music today in the trial of the Grammy Award-winning rapper known as Lil Durk, who faces federal charges arising from a suspected murder-for-hire plot carried out near the Beverly Center in which prosecutors say a relative of the intended target was mistakenly gunned
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (KESQ) – A man who spent nearly 19 years in state prison for an armed robbery he had nothing to do with was freed today of his conviction in state court in Santa Ana. When Guy Donnell Miles won the right to a retrial in 2017, he was given the chance to
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RIVERSIDE, CA (KESQ)– The United States Department of Justice today announced that a Riverside man was sentenced today to 480 months in federal prison for using social media and other internet platforms to solicit minor victims to produce and provide him with child sexual abuse material featuring themselves, sometimes in exchange for money. A registered
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