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Veterans of foreign wars who didn’t graduate from high school have until Oct. 15 to apply for graduation certificates issued through a Riverside County program that awards diplomas to former airmen, soldiers, sailors and Marines who gave up school to serve their country. The county Office of Education this year will conduct its 13th “Operation

An Indio Starbucks is damaged after a woman reportedly drove her car into the building Monday morning. According to Ben Guitron, Indio Police Public Information Officer, at 10:59 am a 71-year old female drove her Mercedes into the Starbucks located at Monroe and Ave 42. According to Guitron there were no injuries but the coffee

A freshman from Palm Desert High School is dancing her way into the national Teen Miss World America competition. She’ll be representing the state of California and also advocating for a cause very close to her heart. Eye on the Desert’s Caitlin Thropay met with Sabrina Safron to learn about how she is preparing for

On August 29th, we aired the first two reports of West Nile Virus in Riverside County. It turns out, there may have been a third case. Joan Sotomayor, of Palm Springs, says her partner contracted the virus after they went for a morning walk in mid-July. They took their dogs on a walk near Gene

A fire in the Juniper Flats area between Perris and San Jacinto that has charred at least 490 acres of brush was 30% contained, authorities said Monday. Two hundred residents from 60 homes in the community of Mayberry in San Jacinto who had been under evacuation orders from the Riverside County Fire Department since Saturday

In Palm Springs, 125 Southern California Edison customers remain without power Sunday morning. We are told the outage was initially reported around 9 a.m. Saturday. SCE says there is a crew working on repairing some equipment. So Cal Edison initially said they were expecting the issue to be resolved by 7 p.m. Saturday but now

The Palm Springs Police Department will be conducting a DUI/driver’s license checkpoint starting tonight. PSPD says the checkpoint will be held at an undisclosed location within the city limits between the hours of 9:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. “DUI Checkpoints like this one are placed in locations based on collision statistics and frequency of DUI

Rancho Mirage’s Planning Commission approved a proposed In-N-Out Hamburger location at the Rancho Las Palmas Shopping Center, sending the matter to the City Council for final approval. The new business proposal has sparked controversy in the community. The council has not made a decision on the proposal. The Rancho Mirage Planning Commission members listened to

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department confirmed two people were killed in a shooting in Palm Desert. According to a Tweet by the Riverside County Sheriffs Department, deputies first received reports of a shooting at approximately 1:54 p.m. in the community of Desert Breezes, a gated community on the 43000 block of West Calle Las Brisas,

Workers at Ralphs, Albertsons and Vons/Pavilions throughout Southern California and as far north as Santa Maria “overwhelmingly” ratified a new contract with the grocery chains, averting a potentially costly and disruptive strike, union officials announced Thursday. Officials with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770, the Los Angeles-area union representing grocery workers, issued a