The Riverside County Registrar of Voters is implementing new methods to loop voters into the ballot certification process. This comes after calls for increased election transparency after a turbulent 2020 election. KESQ was given a tour Wednesday highlighting new measures like increased technology, more registrar employees and different modes of voter outreach. Registrar Art Tinocco
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times has resigned after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president, a journalism trade publication reported Wednesday. Mariel Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review in an interview that she resigned because the Times was
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times has resigned after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president, a journalism trade publication reported Wednesday. Mariel Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review in an interview that she resigned because the Times was
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News Channel 3 and the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation presented another Impact Grant to a local nonprofit working to improve lives and help those in need. A $35,000 charitable gift was just awarded to Angel View, which helps children and adults with disabilities reach their maximum potential. For Luke Pennels and Jose Guardado,
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One of the valley’s main roads will be closed for 3 days for road repairs. The road Closure will take place on Indian Canyon Drive starting Tuesday night, October 22 at 11:00 pm through Friday, October 25 at 5:00 pm. The closure will be between Sunrise Parkway and Garnet Avenue in North Palm Springs for
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The Coachella Valley Unified school District says its safety protocols and training helped prevent tragedy on Tuesday afternoon, after a district bus carrying 17 Desert Mirage High School students was involved in a three car crash. It happened just before 1:00 p.m. in Rancho Mirage, along Bob Hope Drive and Ramon Road. Six students were
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A 36-year-old man was convicted of murder and attempted murder after stabbing his family members, one fatally, following a dispute in Indio. Anthony William Piña-German of Indio was convicted of second-degree murder, the District Attorney’s Office confirmed. He was also found guilty of one count of attempted murder with premeditation and deliberation and the use
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says trash carried by a North Korean balloon has fallen on the presidential compound in central Seoul. It’s the second time since North Korea began floating trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea since late May in a resumption of Cold War-style psychological campaign. South Korea’s presidential security
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The top election official in one of the nation’s most politically important counties said Wednesday she was forced out of her role just weeks before the November presidential election, disputing an official statement that she asked for a leave after experiencing “stress issues.” The abrupt departure of Cari-Ann Burgess as the interim registrar
Continue ReadingAP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are recommending that people 50 and older get a shot against bacteria that can cause pneumonia and other dangerous illnesses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on a recommendation made by a scientific panel Wednesday. It lowers the minimum recommended age for
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Cardi B says she has been hospitalized with a medical emergency and will have to miss a Saturday night headlining performance at an Atlanta music festival. “I am so sad to share this news, but I’ve been in the hospital recovering from a medical emergency the last couple of days and
Continue ReadingSHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky woman has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting her two young sons last year. News outlets report that Tiffanie Lucas entered guilty pleas to murder charges on Wednesday in Bullitt County Court. She had previously entered a not guilty plea by reason of insanity and was previously scheduled to stand
Continue ReadingAP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The plan to ease rookie receiver Ricky Pearsall back into form as he worked his way back from being shot in the chest didn’t last long for the San Francisco 49ers. With Brandon Aiyuk out for the season after tearing ligaments in his right knee on
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Police in Mexico have captured a man suspected of strangling an Illinois attorney to death in 2016. The U.S. Marshals Service announced Wednesday that Mexican authorities arrested John Panaligan in Tepic on Monday. Panaligan had been on the marshals’ 15 Most Wanted Fugitives List since 2020. Investigators allege he strangled 36-year-old
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court has ruled people whose mail ballots are rejected for not following technical procedures in state law can cast provisional ballots. That decision Wednesday is sure to affect some of the thousands of mail-in votes experts say are likely to be rejected this fall for not following
Continue ReadingRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli army has accused six Al Jazeera journalists covering the war in Gaza of also being current or former paid fighters for Palestinian militant groups. Al Jazeera rejected the claims made Wednesday. Israel cited documents it purportedly found in Gaza, and other intelligence it gathered, in making the accusations.
Continue ReadingMorgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party in an upcoming biography, saying the “MAGA movement is completely wrong” and that Ronald Reagan “wouldn’t recognize” the party today. “I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the Republican Party from what Ronald Reagan
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man is facing new federal charges after being arrested in a courthouse bomb attack that injured five people last month, prosecutors said Wednesday. Nathaniel McGuire, 20, has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction, maliciously damaging a building with an explosive, and possessing unregistered destructive
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man is facing new federal charges after being arrested in a courthouse bomb attack that injured five people last month, prosecutors said Wednesday. Nathaniel McGuire, 20, has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction, maliciously damaging a building with an explosive, and possessing unregistered destructive
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Cohen, Sean Lyngaas and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Georgia’s secretary of state’s office this month fended off a cyberattack believed to have come from a foreign country against the website voters use to request absentee ballots, the office told CNN. The state’s cyber defenses — aided by tech firm Cloudflare — repelled the hackers’ attempts to
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