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Former Xavier Prep and College of the Desert football player Brandon Vandenberg appeared surprised hearing his guilty verdict in a Nashville courtroom. Vandenburg and another former Vanderbilt football player, Corey Batey were each convicted of multiple counts of aggravated rape and sexual battery. Prosecutors say Vandenburg brought his then-girlfriend, a 21-year-old neuroscience student, back to

Un jurado declaro culpable a dos ex-jugadores de ftbol americano de la universidad de Vanderbilt de violar a una mujer. Brandon Vandenburg de 20 aos, residente de Indio, en conjunto con Corey Batey fueron acusados de cinco cargos de violacin agravada y dos cargos de agresin sexual agravada. Los fiscales declararon que Vandenburg trajo a

To build a good sandwich, a voted number four in the country by Yelp kind of sandwich, you need a good foundation. “It started when I was five in Rancho Mirage in 1994 my two brother and I wanted to raise money for Christmas. We sold cookie dough door to door,” co-founder of TKB Bakery

Autoriades con el Distirto Escolar Unificado Desert Sands dijo que el alumno de Palm Desert High sospechoso de contraer sarampin se le permiti regresar a clases. Barbara Cole con el Departamento de Salubridad del Condado de Riverside dijo que cualquier persona sospechosa de tener un posible caso de sarampin no sera permitido regresar a las

Activistas que defienden los derechos de los inmigrantes pidieron a los hispanos que ignoren una demanda de 26 estados en contra del alivio migratorio anunciado por el presidente Barack Obama y calificaron el litigio de juego poltico. A pesar del anuncio el lunes de que los estados de Tennessee y Nevada se han unido a

More than 25 thousand undocumented immigrants have applied for a drivers license in January. It has led to overcrowding in some DMV offices. Virginia Linder has visited the DMV in Palm Desert six times to renew her drivers license. “It’s very time consuming,” said Linder. “And very frustrating.” She tried to make an appointment online,

A jury has convicted two former Vanderbilt football players of raping a woman. Indio resident Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey were each charged with five counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery. Prosecutors say Vandenburg brought an unconscious 21-year-old woman he had been seeing back to his dorm room after a

The city of Palm Springs has settled a lawsuit with a man who was accidentally shot by Palm Springs police back in January of 2013. According to City Attorney Doug Holland, the city has been working on the settlement deal with Benjamin Meza since November of 2014. Holland said Meza was an innocent bystander who

A Coachella man who admitted sexually assaulting two women in three attacks was sentenced to 26 years in prison Tuesday. Jose Luis Contreras, 27, admitted in a September plea deal to numerous charges, including three counts of rape by force and one count of oral copulation. In exchange, two counts of false imprisonment and a

Officials with the Desert Sands Unified School District said the Palm Desert High School student suspected of having measles has been cleared to return to school. Barbara Cole with the Riverside County Health Department said, “Anyone suspected of having a possible case of the measles would not be allowed to return to school until they

The popular app Waze is meant to outsmart traffic, but police officers are concerned that a feature on the app is putting their lives at risk. They want Google owned Waze to turn off a feature that warns drivers when police are nearby. “It’s their safety that’s at stake,” said Mary Beth Lawton Johnson of

Believed to be the first tribally owned Taco Bell in the nation, a new quick-serve restaurant is slated to open on the Morongo Indian Reservation on Tuesday, February 3. It’s located off of I-10 on Seminole Drive near the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon. The new Taco Bell is replacing the A&W restaurant

Some of the world’s leading innovators in health are in Indian Wells on Monday speaking with former President Bill Clinton about insurance, clinical care, cancer treatment, food systems, and the health environment. They’re talking about business models and how to grow the industry. Over the weekend, Clinton said people look to the Coachella Valley for

A new study shows high levels of uranium in one out of every four domestic water well in parts of California’s Central Valley. The U.S. Geological Survey released the study on the nation’s groundwater last week. Part of the research looks at groundwater in California’s Central Valley farm region. The study finds that farmers’ use

Prosecutors say a Central California man who set his wife on fire last year has been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. Eugene Bruno of Visalia pleaded guilty last month to attempted murder, aggravated mayhem, torture, corporal injury to a spouse and assault with a flammable substance. The Tulare County district attorney’s office

Two men were busted by Border Patrol agents at the Highway 86 checkpoint Friday afternoon when 79 lbs. of cocaine was discovered in their commercial utility truck. Agents said the men, both Mexican citizens, were stopped at about 2:45 p.m. After a canine detection team alerted agents to the truck, a secondary inspection revealed 33

Si su hijo/a desarrolla fiebre y salpullido, mantngalo/a en casa y consulte a su mdico . Esto es para prevenir el desparrame adicional de la enfermedad. Su hijo/a debe permanecer en casa por 4 das despus que el salpullido haya comenzado. Pngase en contacto con el Departemento de Salud Publico-Control de Enfermedades Contagiosas llamando al

Con la clausura del torneo Humana Challenge este pasado fin de semana, decenas de expertos de la salud se reunieron en el saln de baile del hotel Renaissance en Indian Wells para la conferencia anual Health Matters. El evento, en asociacin con la fundacin Clinton abri un panel de discusin ente los invitados sobre los

The Marine Corps has identified two pilots killed when their helicopter crashed during a training exercise in Twentynine Palms. The Marines said Sunday that Capt. Elizabeth Kealey and 1st Lt. Adam Satterfield died from their injuries in the crash Friday at the Twentynine Palms Marine base. The pilots were the only two people onboard the

Dos personas se recuperan despus de un aparatoso choque de frente sobre la I-10 en Palm Springs. Los hechos ocurrieron el sbado a las 3:30 a.m. en los carriles con rumbo al este de la I-10, segn el reporte de la polica una mujer conduca su coche sobre Garnet Avenue, calle que corre paralela a