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A small brush fire that erupted in San Bernardino’s Waterman Canyon Sunday afternoon resulted in a temporary closure of Highway 18 as firefighters tried to douse the flames. The 15-acre fire broke out around 3 p.m. Firefighters from San Bernardino City Fire and San Bernardino County Fire departments are at the scene. Three helicopters, two

Prison officials say they have confirmed six San Quentin State Prison inmates are ill with Legionnaires’ disease. State corrections department spokeswoman Dana Simas said Sunday another 51 inmates are under observation at the prison’s medical unit. Simas says cooking at the prison has stopped because Legionella bacteria grow in water and spread through water molecules.

A fire at a home in Coachella was contained to an air conditioning unit, CalFire said. The fire started around 1 o’clock Sunday morning on the 55200 block of Rue Montigny. The fire was contained to the air conditioning unit with no extension into the living quarters. It took firefighters 30 minutes to put out

Police in Desert Hot Springs are continuing the stepped up number of officers on the streets, saturation patrols and checkpoints as part of an 18-day maximum DUI enforcement period meant to coincide with the Labor Day holiday period. The “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” crackdown, conducted in partnership with the California Office of Traffic

Public safety members from across the southland duked it out at the Battle of the Badges Charity Boxing Tournament at Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage Saturday. For one night, cops, firefighters, and correctional officers exchanged their uniforms for boxing gloves. It was a friendly rivalry in the ring as members from different law enforcement

An alleged drunk driver rear ended another vehicle that was stopped at a DUI checkpoint in Palm Springs Friday. While the Palm Springs Police Dept. conducted its checkpoint on the 1100 block of East Tahquitz Canyon Way, a speeding vehicle approached the screening area and hit another vehicle that police had stopped at the checkpoint.

Two people suspected of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol were arrested during a DUI checkpoint in Desert Hot Springs Friday. Officers were at the 12800 block of Palm Drive from 8 p.m. Friday until 2 a.m. Saturday conducting their DUI and driver’s license checkpoint. More than 600 vehicles were screened. One person

Valley students are back in school and it didn’t take long for some to hit the ground running, kicking off the new school year with fundraising. The “Cathedral City Chamber Choir” is trying to raise enough money to take a prestigious trip to the Big Apple. Every musician always dreams of the chance to perform

A Yucca Valley Walmart is back open Friday after an early morning fire engulfed the outdoor living section in flames. Authorities say 56-year-old Dennis Chance was seen on surveillance footage setting fire to cages of propane tanks. Chance is now behind bars. Frequent customers say they weren’t that surprised to hear the fire was arson.

The Best Local Sports Show welcomes in the 2015 high school football season as Coachella Valley teams prepare to battle it out on the gridiron. News Channel 3 Sports Director Blake Arthur will have all of your highlights and a full recap of scores beginning at 11 p.m. Friday. **Game of the Week** Rancho Mirage

Players with Shadow Hills High School hopped on a bus Friday afternoon to head to Perris High School. The game was originally scheduled to be a home game for Shadow Hills, but that had to change. “Perris’ district has a heat thing where they can’t play in a certain degree of temperature, and we had

Se le insta a los residentes del Valle de Coachella tomar medidas de proteccin para prevenir la picadura de un mosquito portador del virus del nilo. Cuatro muestras de mosquitos dieron positivo esta semana con el virus del nilo occidental. Una de las muestras se tom de una trampa colocada en la esquina de Lima

El Coachella Valley Mosquito & Vector Control revel que esta semana dieron positivo al virus del Nilo cuatro muestras recogidas en la ciudad de Bermuda Dunes. Por medio de un comunicado de prensa emitido hoy dijeron que la trampa donde se encontraron los mosquitos estaba cerca de la esquina de Lima Hall y Starlight Lane

Four samples of mosquitoes collected this week have tested positive for West Nile virus, says The Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District PIO Jill Oviatt. Oviatt stated in a news release Friday, that one sample came from a trap in Bermuda Dunes near the corner of Lima Hall Road and Starlight Lane. This is

Right now it’s just a big piece of fenced-in sand off Highway 111 and Date Palm Drive. “Many of the councils in the past started the vision, they always wanted a hotel at that intersection,” said Mayor Stan Henry. The Saxony Group, led by Canadian businessman Martin Dolemo, says it’s ready to make that happen

A Yucca Valley transient is suspected of setting the town’s Walmart on fire overnight. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Dennis Lee Chance, 56, after firefighters from as far away as the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base were called to the Walmart on the 58500 block of Highway 62 at 1:30 a.m. Friday. Burning propane

The head of a conservation group is recovering after being gored by a bison on Santa Catalina Island, off the Southern California coast. Forty-three-year-old Chris Baker was airlifted to a hospital yesterday. American Conservation Experience says its CEO was doing field work for a new trail system when the bison charged at him.

Estos son los ltimos detalles de el arresto de Sara Salcido en Cathedral City. Un total de 9 casos de supuestas estafas migratorias son confirmados y continan saliendo ms a la luz pblica.Salcido est detenida en el centro de detencin Larson Justice Center en Indio con una fianza de medio milln de dlares. Aqu la

Nearly 10 years ago Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. While it destroyed many lives, it also brought many together. People from all over the country volunteered their time and skills to the people who lost everything. Some of those volunteers came from the desert. Two RVs full of volunteers from Eisenhower Medical Center where

This year’s top controversies are being turned into Halloween costumes. One Southern California-based company is making the big bucks because of it. This year the hot-ticket items from costume company Costumeish are a Caitlyn Jenner costume and a Cecil the Lion costume, which comes complete with a severed lion head. The costume company said it’s