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A person had to be transported to the hospital after being bitten twice by a rattlesnake in Mecca on Thursday morning. Firefighters responded to the incident shortly before 10:30 a.m. at the 65000 block of Lincoln Street. The person suffered serious injuries. More: Today’s Top Stories First Alert Forecast More: I-Team and Stands for You

A Desert Hot Springs man who allegedly robbed a Palm Desert bank earlier this week has been charged by federal authorities. 26-year-old Otis Mixon was released into federal custody Wednesday after being arrested in connection with a Palm Desert bank robbery Monday. Mixon was suspected in a robbery that occurred at 12:20 p.m. Monday at

A big rig and a truck crashed around 5:00 Thursday morning, leaving at least one person dead. It happened on I-10 westbound east of Dillon in unincorporated Riverside County near Coachella. California Highway Patrol says a service truck rear-ended a big rig and got dragged by the rig. The driver of the truck, identified as

Palm Springs Police detained a stolen vehicle suspect who fled from officers on Thursday morning. Officers were searching for the suspect in the 700 block of Spencer Road. {“url”:”https://twitter.com/PalmSpringsPD/status/915991104423473153″,”author_name”:”Palm Springs PD”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/PalmSpringsPD”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;POLICE ACTIVITY: Officers searching for stolen vehicle suspect in the 700 block of Spencer Rd. Avoid the area. CHP Helicopter assisting. &#lt;a

A Yucca Valley man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of possession of a stolen off-road motorcycle. At around 7:20 p.m., the Yucca Valley Multiple Enforcement Team conducted a security check at a residence located on the 7600 block of Joshua View Drive in Yucca Valley. Jaden Derry was contacted inside a detached garage on the

UPDATE: Three young men who allegedly took part in a rock-throwing assault outside a Palm Desert house party, leaving a young man in a coma, must stand trial on assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy charges, a judge ruled Wednesday. Miguel Angel Ramirez, 20, Nickolas Hernandez, 19, and Luis Becerra- Gomez, 19, are accused

An update to a CBS Local 2 Stands For You story we first brought you in August. Watch: Handyman accused of taking money without completing kitchen renovation A handyman accused of taking a woman’s money without completing a renovation job has been arrested for fraud. 74-year-old Carole Pateman of Palm Desert reached out to CBS

A San Diego man is receiving a mental health evaluation after he posted on Twitter Wednesday morning threatening next year’s Coachella Music and Arts Festival. 24-year-old Nick Braun posted an image on his Twitter page standing in front of a San Diego gun shop. In the post, Braun wrote, “waiting for the shop to open

At roadside memorials along the Las Vegas Strip, people continue the write well wishes to those who were injured in Sunday night’s mass shooting. One those injured is and Indio teacher who survived with the help of her husband, her cousin, and numerous Good Samaritans. “It’s a gunshot wound people recover from this and as

Palm Springs Police have determined that a suspicious package found in front of the USO at the Palm Springs International Airport was an irrigation water timer in a plastic container with wires that left by a worker. Authorities responded to earlier reports of a possible bomb threat at the Palm Springs International Airport. {“url”:”https://twitter.com/PalmSpringsPD/status/915639903148400641″,”author_name”:”Palm Springs

A man who allegedly tried to rob a Palm Desert business owner with a pellet gun, then grappled with a sheriff’s deputy while attempting to flee, was charged Wednesday with assault with a deadly weapon, attempted robbery and resisting arrest. Jose Banda, 21, of Palm Desert, is accused of threatening the victim with a weapon

An Arizona man suffered major injuries after a crash in Desert Center on Tuesday morning. California Highway Patrol officials say it happened just after 8 a.m. on the westbound side of the I-10 near Highway 177. The driver, 22-year-old Turner Kallen of Gilbert Arizona, who was driving his 2014 Dodge Ram 1500, traveled into the

The Saints officially added boys volleyball to their athletic program on Wednesday, becoming just the second local high school to offer the sport. Athletic Director Mark Campbell said, “interest started peaking years back, at that point we started the conversation. We realized is wasn’t a reality at that point but kept the conversation open. Fast

Officer Gil Vega started working in the jail at the Palm Springs Police Department in 1982, for the next three decades he’d be assigned to the Raid Task Force and as a patrolman on the streets, winning multiple awards. Check out more “In the Line of Duty” stories Vega’s daughters say he would cut out

KESQ News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2 pay tribute to fallen Palm Springs police officers Lesley Zerebny and Jose “Gil” Vega in a 30-minute special. Officers Zerebny and Vega were gunned down on Oct. 8, 2016, while they were answering a domestic call in Palm Springs. Hear from the families of the fallen officers

Rancho Mirage and Coachella Valley are set to meet Friday in their league opener and as our Week 7 Best Local Sports Show game of the week. Both teams comes in with injuries that will certainly factor in the outcome. Arguably the top player in the valley, Rattlers’ star Marques Prior, is out with a

El asambleísta Eduardo García esta trabajando junto con la compania AT&T para ayudar a organizaciones no lucrativas de el Valle de Coachella. El dia de ayer reconocieron 3 de estas organizaciones las cuales trabajan ayudando a la comunidad. Fueron varias organizaciones las que nominaron pero pero solo las instituciones Angel View,Find FoodBank y Boys and

Diciendo que fue un “día muy, muy triste” para el personalmente y para el país, el presidente Donald Trump viajó el miercoles a Las Vegas, donde un atacante mató a 59 personas durante un concierto. El mandatario se reunió con supervivientes y autoridades de agencias del orden tras el peor tiroteo masivo en la historia

A motorcyclist was severely injured following a collision with a truck in Cathedral City Tuesday night. It happened along the 22600 block of Palm Drive near the I-10 Palm Drive interchange. According to a press release by the Cathedral City Police Department, a motorcyclist collided with a light-duty truck on Palm Drive near the Chevron

La Escuela Primaria Morongo fue cerrada hoy miercoles por la mañana tras un reporte de un amenaza que se divulgó en medios sociales. Tom Baumgarten, Superintendente del Distrito Escolar Unificado de Morongo, dijo que la amenaza fue reportada el martes por la noche. El post de Facebook muestra una imagen de un rifle con el