Felony charges were filed against a 59-year-old man wanted in connection with two Palm Desert bank robberies. Anaheim resident Reese Westenberger was charged with one count of robbery, for which he pled not guilty Friday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio. Westenberger is only charged with one of the two bank robberies, the
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Eisenhower Health has landed on the 2024 Cal Hospital Compare Opioid Care and Patient Safety Honor Roll list. The Cal Hospital Compare Opioid Care and Patient Safety Honor Roll, a program by the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHS), recognizes hospitals that have made “significant strides in implementing best practices for opioid prescribing, patient
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The City of La Quinta is set to file a lawsuit that city officials said will protect the long-troubled Talus resort project. The project, originally known as the SilverRock resort, has been in works in the city since 2002. I-Team: Understand costs and other impacts of Talus La Quinta with online Timeline as troubled project
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Update 7/26/24 The person injured in the crash was pronounced dead Thursday night, according to the Riverside County coroner’s office. The coroner identified the person as Paul Devine, 56, of Palm Springs. Authorities said Devine was pronounced dead at Desert Regional Medical Center. Police said the call started as a three-vehicle crash. Officers learned the
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The Cathedral City City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to place a measure on the November ballot that would raise the sales tax by 1/2 cent per dollar. These funds cannot be taken by the state, which according to officials has taken about $30 million from the city in the last five years. According to city
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Marilyn is headed to a move! The city of Palm Springs announced that it has reached an agreement to relocate the “Forever Marilyn” sculpture to the Downtown Park. The move will settle a lawsuit filed by the Committee to Relocate Marilyn in 2021 over Marilyn’s current location on Museum Way. The committee argued its placement
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Thousands of dollars of personal belongings stolen after a valley resident used a service she thought she could trust. “I didn’t think I had to worry about that” News Channel 3 I-Team investigator Peter Daut goes deeper into the ongoing investigation. Watch the special report Theft for Hire, Thursday at 6:00 p.m. on News Channel
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Coachella Valley native and tennis player Desirae Krawczyk learned her first-round opponents today in women’s doubles at the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris. A Palm Desert resident and the current world No. 12 in doubles, Krawczyk is representing Team USA along with doubles partner Danielle Collins. The fourth-seeded duo will face Greece’s Maria Sakkari and
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A 32-year-old Palm Springs man has pleaded guilty to a felony charge for his role in a 2023 operation that started in Rancho Mirage in which a person was lured into a vehicle, driven away and robbed. Nicholas Tyler Young, accused of being the driver in the robbery, entered the guilty plea on Tuesday to
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A coalition of over 225 businesses, 175 within the Coachella Valley and Inland Empire areas, have joined tribal leaders, advocates and elected officials in pledging support to an initiative urging President Biden to establish a new Chuckwalla National Monument, as of today. Groups in favor of the proposal asserted the proposed protection status as
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A woman escaped injury today when the car she was driving became “fully engulfed” in flames on Interstate 10, authorities said. The woman was the lone occupant of a light blue Lexus that was traveling westbound near State Route 62 at 12:02 p.m. when it pulled over to the right shoulder, already on fire, according
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Actor Vince Vaughn has acquired a majority ownership stake in the National Pickleball League’s Coachella Valley Scorpions, it was announced today. View this post on Instagram A post shared by National Pickleball League (@nationalpbleague) The Scorpions were established in May, one of 12 teams in the 50-and-over professional league that launched in 2022. Team
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Several people have reached out to News Channel 3 in the past few months to share their concerns over emergency department wait times at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage. Some patients have reported waiting up to 8 hours to receive care while they experienced pain. One of these patients is Sam Zaidins, a longtime Palm
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More families need school supplies for the upcoming school year, Michael Aaronson, an event organizer said he’s noticed. Aaronson said on Thursday, The Salvation Army Dick & Beverly Davis Corps Community Center is having a back to school event. “We have over 20 vendors from around the Valley coming to support our event,” Aaronson said.
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The City of Palm Springs continues to investigate CEO of Queerworks Jacob Rostovsky for alleged ‘misappropriation of funds’ which were intended for the city’s Universal Basic Income Pilot Program. Records show the Palm Springs City Council approved payments to Queerworks, in which a majority of funds went towards staffing costs. But Council member Lisa Middleton
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By Ray Sanchez and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, buoyed by a recent US Supreme Court decision, issued an executive order Thursday calling on state officials to begin taking down homeless encampments. The move to begin dismantling thousands of encampments throughout California comes after the high court ruled last month in
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Fire crews fought a blaze that has sparked up in a strip mall in Indio. According to Cal Fire, they responded to reports of a fire at 8:15 a.m. near the area of Dr. Carreon Blvd and Monroe Street. The first on-scene engine reported smoke coming from the roof of a strip mall. A second
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Historically, summer brings a shortage in blood donations. Desert Care Network is hosting summer blood drives at all three of its locations to help combat these shortages. The network has partnered with LifeStream Blood Bank to meet patient needs. It aims to collect 500 donations daily to support its facilities. At Desert Regional Medical Center,
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Twentynine Palms was under a Flash Flood Warning along Highway 62 on Wednesday afternoon, the third warning of its kind in a week. The warning began at 3:00 p.m. and expired at 6 p.m., but it was enough rain to warn drivers to stay off the roads. City crews worked quickly to clear mud and
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President Biden addressed the nation from the oval office Wednesday evening. This announcement coming just three days after Biden announced he was dropping his Presidential-bid Sunday in a letter saying in part, “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely
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