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A pivotal court hearing scheduled today for a woman and her boyfriend, who are accused in the death of her 22-year-old developmentally disabled twin brother, was taken off calendar due to “significant developments in the case,” a judge said. Ines Patrisia Mendez, 30, and her boyfriend, Shanen Ryan Riley, 31, were arrested in Aug. 2017
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Two months ago, the city of Palm Springs issued a notice of violation to the property owner of the proposed site of the Tova Hotel and Beach Club project in downtown. The property, located at 1875 N Palm Canyon Drive, was formerly the Garden Vista Hotel. The original plan first unveiled in 2016 was to
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Case Changes Today Riverside County reported 738 new cases since Friday. This brings the total number of cases to 57,419. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Testing 613,711 600,554 tests have been conducted so far, an increase of 13,157 tests conducted reported over the weekend. Riverside County is
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September is National Hunger Action Month and the Coachella Valley is lighting up orange to raise awareness of food insecurity. News Channel 3’s Caitlin Thropay met with FIND Food Bank and some of our valley’s local leaders to see how they are taking action. “It is not acceptable to have hunger in our country,” FIND
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A person was killed Monday morning in a traffic collision southeast of Desert Hot Springs. Police and firefighters were called to Dillon Road just east of Johnson Road at 7:07 a.m. near the Caliente Springs Resort and Almar Acres Association. Firefighters said the injured victim was a pedestrian and died at the scene. There was
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INDIO, Calif. – As of Sunday residents living in Riverdale Estates Mobile Home Park, a senior community in Indio, were without running water. “Here we have no water since Friday evening and that’s the longest we’ve ever been like that. It’s usually within the day or midnight, it will come back,” said one resident who
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There’s a chance churches could reopen next weekend. “They can go gambling but they cannot go to church and that’s not very nice,” chairman of parish council at Saint Garabed Armenian Apostolic Church of the Desert Sonia Matossian told News Channel 3 on Sunday. Riverside County Public Health said last week there’s a possibility we
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On Saturday night CalFire Riverside County lifted the evacuation order for the Snow Creek Village community at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains in unincorporated Palm Springs. Residents were told to leave on Thursday after a fire sparked in the nearby brush when a vehicle pulled to the side of Snow Creek Road while
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Walkers and runners turned out in the valley today for a “virtual celebration” called the “Zero Prostate Cancer Run/Walk”. The event was part of a national campaign aimed at raising money for Prostate Cancer research. Several valley businesses and organizations sponsored the event including Urologic Institute, Palm Valley Pain Management, Halo Diagnostics and News Channel
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Continuing coverage on the Snow Fire burning northwest of Palm Springs in the Snow Creek Canyon area. The fire is now 4,200 acres with 5 percent containment on Friday night. An evacuation order remains in place for Snow Creek along with an evacuation warning for nearby communities including Windy Point. As News Channel 3’s Dani Romero
Continue Reading As of Saturday the 6,013-acre Snow Fire burning in Palm Springs has already forced the evacuation of the Snow Creek Village community since it first sparked Thursday at around 2:30 p.m. As of Saturday evening firefighters were able to get 15% containment. Click here for continuing updates on the Snow Fire According the California Highway
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A woman was sentenced today to 15 years to life in state prison for fatally stabbing her 83-year-old husband as he slept at their Rancho Mirage home more than 10 years ago. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Harold Hopp, who handed down the sentence at the Larson Justice Center in Indio, gave Marsha Kay Esswein,
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In a time when many restaurants have had to close their doors because of the coronavirus pandemic, one is opening up in Palm Desert. Hula’s, a taste of Hawaii, opened this week at The Village at University Park, on Cook Street in Palm Desert. Opening a restaurant during a pandemic is not ideal, but for
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at her home in Washington, the court says. She was 87. Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court says. TRUMP'S FIRST REMARKS:"She just died? Wow. I didn't know that. She led an amazing life. What else can you say? she was
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As News Channel 3 has previously reported, there is a $33 million fund that exists locally to help Riverside County residents struggling to pay rent due to the pandemic. Lift to Rise, one organization involved is now hosting mobile pop-up events to help residents through the application process. “It’s helped us a great deal because
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The U.S. Forest Service says a firefighter has died battling the El Dorado wildfire in the San Bernardino National Forest west of Palm Springs. Crews and residents lined up on the streets to salute the firefighter as their procession drove by on the way to the coroner’s office Friday afternoon. The San Bernardino National Forest
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All three of our local school districts are asking parents to fill out a survey indicating whether or not they want their children to return to school once in-person learning resumes. As of now, all three of our local school districts are continuing distance learning from home. But they are beginning to make preparations for
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A 21-year-old is in police custody after allegedly stealing a SunBus from a bus stop in Desert Hot Springs, leading police on a pursuit that ended in a crash Friday afternoon. Multiple viewers reported seeing the end of a crash between a SunBus and a fire hydrant on Bob Hope Drive and Varner Road in
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The Indio Police Department arrested two suspects wanted in connection with the shooting of a woman last month. Jesse “Trigger” Hernandez, 18, and a juvenile were arrested on Thursday. The two were wanted for their alleged role in a shooting of a bystander who was parked at the K & A Market on Avenue 44
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Case Changes Today Riverside County reported 307 new cases since Thursday. This brings the total number of cases to 56,681. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Testing 600,554 tests have been conducted so far, an increase of 8,482 tests conducted reported over the past 24 hours. Riverside County
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