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Un residente de Indio enfrenta varios cargos de felonía incluyendo asesinato por provocar un accidente vehicular que involucró a varios autos mientras conducía en estado de ebriedad el pasado 26 de Diciembre. Juan Alvarez Gómez de 48 años se presentará frente al juez mañana martes a las 8:00 a.m. en el Centro de Justicia Larson

Olympian Michael Phelps will headline the annual Champion Honors Luncheon to benefit the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, it was announced Monday. Phelps, who recently became a first-time father, said he is “extremely honored to have been invited to the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children Annual Champion Honors Luncheon, and to support Barbara” as the

It was the 6th annual Epiphany Day celebration took place at the Galilee Center in Mecca on Sunday. The nonprofit organization, in partnership with local churches, handed out free shoes and blankets to underprivileged children in the Valley. “It’s such a big holiday, especially in Mexico, the Epiphany Day. It’s kind of compared to Christmas,

Whale watchers in Southern California were recently treated to a rare sight: A pod of orcas, including a calf, swimming about a mile off shore. The Orange County Register reports that the five orcas, also known as killer whales, were seen near Point Vicente on Saturday afternoon. California Killer Whale Project researcher Alisa Schulman-Janiger says

On Saturday Indio High School hosted an open house celebration in honor of the completion of the Science Innovation Center. The Agriculture building was the final building at the high school to be completed. The renovation has been in the works for about a decade. Students in the agriculture department say they are excited to

More than a dozen firefighters helped rescue an injured hiker on a trail in La Quinta Sunday afternoon. Crews responded to a hiker that fell on the La Quinta Cove to Lake Cahuilla Trail just after 1:30 p.m. The man suffered moderate injuries, and was airlifted to a nearby hospital.

The city of Indio’s Public Works Department has announced road closures for this week, while crews work on the Jefferson Street interchange project. The closures of northbound and westbound Indio Boulevard at Jefferson Street will begin Monday morning at 6 a.m., and will continue through Friday afternoon.

Hundreds gathered at a car wash fundraiser in Indio, an effort to raise money for the Leon family, whose daughter died Wednesday. Elizabeth Castro Leon was 15-years-old and attended Indio High School. Those who helped organize the car wash say they did it to support the Leon family and help raise funds for funeral services.

It was chaos at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airport in Florida on Friday. Law enforcement said a shooter took his legally-transported firearm from his checked luggage and began shooting. The suspect killed five people before he was arrested. “It’s almost a daily occurence so why would it shake me up? It sickens me,” Keith Chase said.

Recent studies show an increase in cyberbullying across the country. On Friday students at a middle school in Indio took an anti-bullying pledge, after hearing just how dangerous bullying can be. Riverside Medical Clinic Charitable Foundation’s Anti-Bullying Institute visited Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Indio on Friday. Students watched a video featuring a number of

A special Huey helicopter that saw service during the Vietnam War is now on display at the Palm Springs International Film Festival as part of the film “Take Me Home Huey.” The film, which is being shown at the festival, is a documentary about the development of helicopter into an arts display and it reunites

UPDATE: 6:09 p.m. Michael Thomas said he carries thoughts of his sister, Jill Grant, every day. But he said some memories that happened around the holiday season a few years ago will not go away. When authorities found the Palm Desert High School teacher’s body dumped near a golf course in Indio. “She was a

The coroner’s office has identified the teenage girl who was struck by several vehicles on eastbound I-10 at the Jackson Street Interchange Wednesday night. The coroner said the victim was 15-year-old Elizabeth Castro León. KESQ News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2’s Lauren Coronado talked to a woman representing the victim’s family Thursday afternoon, and

A PSPD representative released a statement on the shooting at the FT. Lauderdale Airport and whether it will affect the Palm Springs International Airport. A representative of the Palm Springs Police Department told KESQ News Channel 3 & CBS Local 2 that PSPD’s Chief Reyes was assessing the situation to determine any potential threats to

Following the discovery of human remains buried near the Riverside Municipal Airport, believed to be that of a baby born to a transient woman about a year ago, police on Friday were uncertain whether criminalcharges would be filed against the woman. The remains were found Thursday near the intersection of Central and Hillside avenues, just

Authorities looking for the identity of person who killed two previously missing Lucerne Valley pitbulls. Two missing pitbulls were found dead in August, the dogs were found tied up and mangled. One dog had a rope around its neck and the other a chain. The San Bernardino District Attorney’s Animal Cruelty Prosecution Unit, in conjunction

The Big Hearts for Little Hearts (BHLH) Desert Guild is a fundraising arm of Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital (LLUCH) was founded in 2002 by E. Jane Woolley, MD and The Honorable Shirley N. Pettis Thompson to raise awareness and support LLUCH. Over the past 14 years, the BHLH Desert Guild has raised on excess

Funeral services for Riverside County Supervisor John J. Benoit will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in La Quinta. The service will take place at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, located at 47225 Washington Street, beginning at 10 a.m. The service is expected to last two hours, according to county officials. Parking will not

A Sacred Heart Church group has been working hard to make blankets for the homeless. Companions Visitations Ministry is a group of volunteers that go and visit lonely seniors. Now there’s a sub-group of those volunteers called ‘Blankets from the Heart’, they meet to make fleece blankets for the homeless. The LINK Leadership class at