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DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – Desert Hot Springs, long known as a hub for cannabis in the Coachella Valley, is making a dramatic move to help struggling dispensaries – cutting the city’s cannabis tax from 10% to 5%. The proposal for the tax cut came as local cannabis businesses face rising pressure from high
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DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – Desert Hot Springs City Council voted Tuesday night to remove Public Safety Commission member Michael Rizzio, who says he is being terminated from the position for doing his job in protecting the public. Rizzio says he requested an emergency Public Safety Commission meeting April 6 to discuss police brutality
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – The Board of Supervisors today signed off on Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco’s initial plans to establish a permanent aircraft hangar at March Air Reserve Base, granting the sheriff’s request to allocate $655,255 for architectural, design and engineering services provided by a San Diego firm. In a 5-0 vote without
Continue ReadingBy David Wright, Fredreka Schouten and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Donors filled the coffers of Democrats who have emerged as prominent critics of President Donald Trump in the first months of his second term – signaling an early surge of enthusiasm among progressive contributors, new campaign reports filed Tuesday show. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
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DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – The City of Desert Hot Springs is welcoming the new Chief of Police, Steven Shaw. Shaw had been acting as interim Chief since February of this year, when former Chief Jim Henson retired after 30 years in law enforcement. In Tuesday’s swearing in at the Desert Hot Springs City
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby and Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — In his first major action on health care costs this term, President Donald Trump issued a multi-part executive order on Tuesday aimed at lowering drug prices and reducing costs for Medicare. The move comes as his administration seeks to impose tariffs on pharmaceutical imports that many
Continue ReadingBy David Wright, Tami Luhby and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Former President Joe Biden offered his first public critique of President Donald Trump’s second term Tuesday, painting the Trump administration’s handling of the Social Security Administration as destructive. “Look what’s happened now. Fewer than 100 days, this new administration has made so – done
Continue ReadingCNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Joe Biden has been hankering to do more. Many leading Democrats across the country — including some former top aides and close allies, who note they’re sad to say it — are desperate for the former president to stick to a quiet retirement. But Tuesday in Chicago, Biden
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – Easter could cost you more this year. Last month, the average cost for a dozen eggs in the U.S. rose to $6.23, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last year, the average price was $2.99. As a result, many are ditching eggs altogether and looking for cheaper alternatives to avoid
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – The Palm Springs Parks and Recreation Department is inviting the community to dive into the exciting spring celebration of the Egg-cellent Duck Dive this coming Saturday. This is a free family-friendly event, which features a pool rubber ducky hunt, arts and crafts, and prizes. The event is this Saturday, April
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – The Board of Supervisors today tentatively approved an ordinance restricting where electric bicycles can be operated, generally prohibiting them from being driven on pedestrian walkways, along sidewalks or on nature and equestrian trails in unincorporated communities throughout Riverside County. The E-Bike Safety Ordinance was drafted at the request of Supervisor Chuck
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (KESQ) – Wink Martindale, who became one of the most well-known and recognized television game show hosts of his generation by helming programs such as “Tic-Tac-Dough,” “High Rollers” and “Trivial Pursuit,” died today at age 91. According to a statement from his family, Martindale died in Rancho Mirage “surrounded by his family
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MURRIETA, Calif. (KESQ) – Prosecution testimony got underway today in the trial of a 21-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting and trying to kidnap a Thermal girl as she walked home from school. Christian Daniel Arreola of Coachella was arrested in 2022 following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the alleged attack on the
Continue ReadingBy Mauricio Torres, Jimena De La Quintana, Ivonne Valdés and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Peru’s former First Lady Nadine Heredia has fled to Brazil, where she has been granted diplomatic asylum after a court in her home country sentenced her and her husband, former President Ollanta Humala, to 15 years in prison on money
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration is testing systems to detect drones in New Jersey, after a series of unexplained drone sightings in the state last year raised alarm. The testing, over a two-week period in the community of Cape May, includes about 100 off-the-shelf Unmanned Aerial Systems, commonly called
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Editor’s Note: We have removed the name and photo of the suspect after charges were not filed due to insufficient evidence, Indio police and the District Attorney’s office said. Police said they are aware that the suspect was not charged in this crime and they will continue to work the case, and if they get
Continue ReadingBy Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador has talked to the United States about receiving support in its battle against criminal gangs, President Daniel Noboa said in an exclusive interview with CNN, his first since winning Sunday’s presidential election. “There are plans … we had conversations, we had a plan, we had options that we
Continue ReadingCNN By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador has talked to the United States about receiving support in its battle against criminal gangs, President Daniel Noboa said in an exclusive interview with CNN, his first since winning Sunday’s presidential election. “There are plans … we had conversations, we had a plan, we had options that
Continue ReadingBy Evan Perez, Alayna Treene and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is set to name Gary Shapley, the former IRS criminal investigator who alleged that the Justice Department slow-walked the investigation of Hunter Biden, as acting commissioner of the IRS, three people briefed on the matter told CNN. Shapley provided whistleblower testimony
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole and Angelica Franganillo Diaz, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge overseeing the case of a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador said she would allow for expedited fact-finding to help her figure out whether the Trump administration is complying with her order that it “facilitate” his return from one of the country’s
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