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A man fatally shot in Cathedral City last week has been identified. 23-year-old Jaime Antonio Monjaraz died at Desert Regional Medical Center on Friday night. Cathedral City Police Department Commander Paul Herrera confirmed the victim’s identity on Tuesday. According to CCPD, Monjaraz was a Desert Hot Springs resident. Monjaraz’s best friend, Alex Estrada, spoke with
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The valley is remembering the lives of two Palm Springs police officers who were killed in the line of duty three years ago Tuesday. Lesley Zerebny and Jose ‘Gil’ Vega were shot and killed by John Hernandez Felix after they responded to a family disturbance call on October 8, 2016. Dozens attended a memorial service
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Southern California Edison has messaged Desert Hot Springs customers informing them to be prepared as there may potentially be a Public Safety Power Shutoff of electrical lines in the area Wednesday. Clearer version of the outage map In a message sent to customers who will be affected across Southern California, SCE wrote that the reason
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With the sun beating down on the valley floor nearly every day of the year, staying cool is always a challenge, especially in school buses, most of which in service locally don’t have air conditioning. “i mean it gets really hot in the desert so, yeah I’m surprised there wouldn’t be air conditioning already on
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An elderly woman was found in a pool at a Palm Desert community after drowning Tuesday afternoon. According to Deputy Mike Vasquez of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, deputies received reports of the drowning at approximately 5:30 p.m. in the 53000 block of Calloway Lane, inside the Del Webb Sun City community. Investigators do not
Continue ReadingA total of 50 people were arrested last Friday in a sweeping raid that took place throughout the Coachella Valley. Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested people with charges ranging from robbery to public drunkenness. Deputy Mike Vasquez says a series of complaints lead up to the raid. “We had focused areas that were going to
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The Desert Hot Springs Police Department announced Tuesday that it received a $48,000 grant for enforcement and education programs intended to reduce the number of road deaths and injuries. The grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety will fund programs including DUI and driver’s license checkpoints, the creation of “Hot Sheets” to identify repeat
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A man who allegedly shot at three people in Thermal was charged today with three counts of attempted murder and one count of negligently discharging a firearm. Juan Pablo Linares, 19, of Thermal, allegedly fired a handgun at the victims — none of whom were hit by the gunfire — on Sept. 27 as they
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One man is dead, another has been hospitalized after being shot in a Cathedral City neighborhood late Friday night. UPDATE: Man fatally shot in Cathedral City identified According to a news release by the Cathedral City Police Department, officers received several reports of a shooting at approximately 11:15 p.m. in the area of Navajo Trail
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Pre-trial motions will be heard starting today in the death penalty trial of a man accused of setting fire to his mother outside her Indio workplace, causing injuries that killed her about a month after he allegedly doused her in flammable liquid and set her ablaze. Israel Guardado-Ramirez, 38, is accused of setting fire to
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October is National Bullying Prevention Month. A local martial arts class is helping students gain confidence through self-defense training and character building. News Channel 3 spoke with a mother who found closure for her daughter who was a victim of bullying. “I never thought my daughter would go through that its..what do you tell somebody…you
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Sheriff’s deputies announced the arrests today of 50 Coachella Valley residents for various drug-related crimes during a sweep that also resulted in the seizure of weapons and stolen vehicles. GALLERY: Arrest details for East Valley patrol saturation sweep The operation was largely centered in the city of Coachella, as well as other unincorporated areas throughout
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The government of Saudi Arabia, which suffers from a battered image and seeks to open itself to tourism and expand cultural ties with Western countries, has found a willing partner in the Coachella Valley-based contemporary art biennial Desert X, which said this week it will collaborate on an exhibition in the kingdom in early 2020,
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Palm Springs and tribal firefighters were mopping up an overnight wildfire near the Indian Canyons early Monday morning. The fire reportedly broke out shortly before 1:00 a.m. along South Palm Canyon and Acanto Drive. A KESQ News Channel 3 news crew at the scene estimated the fire’s size at approximately two acres. Palm Springs Fire
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Riverside County health officials will be offering free flu shots in Indio on Tuesday morning at the Indio Senior Center, located at 45700 Aladdin St. People can come by from 9 a.m. to noon while supplies last. The clinic is part of a public health exercise aimed at training the responsiveness of health officials during
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The jury reached a verdict Monday in the case of a parolee charged with the beating death of his girlfriend’s 1-year-old baby nearly a decade ago. Esteban Alamo, 33, was found guilty in the murder of 1-year-old Serik Nieto. Alamo was arrested for causing the injuries to Nieto that led to his death Oct. 9,
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Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz is joining Representative Kathy Castor (FL-14) in calling for the Department of Transportation and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to take action and help students forced to ride in school without A/C during extreme heat temperatures. Ruiz cited accounts of children overheating on school buses and extreme heat in the county.
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Dr. Henry Tsai is currently treating three male breast cancer patients at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage. While men make up less than one percent of all breast cancer cases, he says the number is on the upswing. The father of Beyonce Knowles is one of the highest profile patients recently diagnosed. “Oftentimes male breast
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It’s the 15th anniversary of the AMVETS Express, a volunteer-based van service that gives veterans a ride to Loma Linda VA hospital free of charge. “Without this service I would have been stuck having to bum rides from people…having to take public transportation six hours to get to the hospital or to get the appointments
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The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway reopened at 10 a.m. Monday morning. The reopening comes after the tram was shut down for annual maintenance. Last weekend, tram officials announced the tramway’s reopening was being delayed one week because a new part in the tram operating system was faulty and had to be replaced before operation could
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