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Serena William has accepted a wild card into the BNP Paribas Open after a 13-year hiatus from the tennis tournament. Her return was announced Wednesday by BNP Paribas Open and Indian Wells Tennis Garden Chief Executive Officer Raymond Moore. Watch the video below as Serena explains her return to BNP Paribas Open in 2015 Williams,

Winter rain storms have quieted talk about California’s drought. But it continues, as do efforts to save water because of our state’s three year dry spell. A local water agency is continuing its effort to reach out to and educate the Coachella Valley’s youngest water users. Education specialist for the Coachella Valley Water District, Kevin

Former “Power Rangers” star Ricardo Medina Jr. was released from jail today after the district attorney’s office declined to charge him in the stabbing death of Joshua Sutter on Saturday. However, the DA has asked the Los Angeles Country Sheriff’s Department to continue investigating the incident. “I’m very, very, very sorry for what occurred,” the

A public memorial service will be held next week for “Sultan,” a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department canine who was fatally shot while pursuing a gunman in the Hemet area. The service will be held at 11 a.m. Feb. 11 at the War Dog Memorial at March Field Air Museum, 22550 Van Buren Blvd. in Riverside,

About 300 children, ranging from six weeks old to eight years old, attend My Gym Children’s Fitness Center in Palm Desert each week. The owner, Nancy Scott, said she’s not allowed to ask if a child’s had shots, because of medical protection laws. Instead she said hands have to be washed and everything has to

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department says a suspected car thief is behind bars after leading deputies on a high speed pursuit and foot chase through a La Quinta neighborhood. According to the Sheriff’s Department a 1994 Honda Accord was reported stolen early Tuesday morning from the area of the 44-000 block of Dune Palms Road

Condado de Imperial, California: El dueo de las tiendas AM-PM, Nachattar S. Chandi ha anunciado que estar reduciendo el precio de la gasolina regular Unledaded en su franquicia en la ciudad de El Centro California. La recin remodelada gasolineria esta localizada en el 398 Aurora Street en la Ciudad de El Centro. “El Sr. Chandi

Frank Sinatra’s 1986 Chrysler LeBaron limousine will be up for sale at the Feb. 20-22 Keith McCormick’s Palm Springs Collector Car Auction. After Sinatra used it for years, “It was gifted to his housekeeper of 30 years in 1995,” said Jason McCormick. The dark blue limo had 6,568 miles on it at the time of

2 years ago today, 54-year old Carla Reyes disappeared from her Yucca Valley home, and her family continues to search for clues into what happened to her. Reyes family says she was last seen at her home on Skyline Ranch Road. She reportedly drove away in her maroon colored 2002 Mitsubishi Galant. Reyes didn’t take

The California Highway Patrol says that a man intentionally drove off the road and crashed his car in a ditch in Bermuda Dunes Tuesday morning. According to officers on scene, around 11:00 a.m. the driver was traveling westbound on Country Club Drive near Yucca Lane when for some unknown reason intentionally drove off the roadway

Disoriented bees from Monday’s crash on Interstate 10 in Coachella will likely settle into new hives in the area, says a local bee removal expert. Mike Murdoch with “Killer Bees Inc” in Palm Desert says the situation was handled “very professionally” by the truck driver and his passenger. Murdoch says he believes that about ten

Agentes del Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Riverside confirmaron que lograron la captura de un sujeto que se sospecha conduca un carro robado y que protagoniz una persecucin policaca a gran velocidad hoy alrededor de las 9:00 a.m. en una comunidad ubicada en el rea de Jackson Street cerca de la Avenida 50 en

A fiery crash involving two semi trucks shut down traffic on Interstate 10 just east of Dillon Road in Coachella for much of the morning. One of the semis, carrying frozen chicken, tried to pass a slower truck carrying about 500 honey bee hives. The driver clipped the back end of the bee truck releasing

The gap in bachelor-degree attainment between the nation’s richest and poorest students by age 24 has doubled during the last four decades. A study released Tuesday by two education organizations finds that the percent of students from the lowest-income families earning a bachelor’s degree has inched up just 3 points since 1970, rising from 6

A state board has approved a permit to allow the city of Santa Barbara to restart its desalination plant and tap the ocean to turn salty seawater to fresh water amid an historic drought. The Central Coast Regional Water Board said Monday that its action modifies a 1991 permit to clarify that the facility meets

State officials are reporting how much water Californians are using and urging conservation as the state heads into the fourth year of a drought. The State Water Resources Control Board releases its monthly report card on water use Tuesday. The board started collecting numbers on water use when it imposed water restrictions last summer. Local

The Anti-Defamation League has offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who spray-painted swastikas on a University of California, Davis off-campus Jewish fraternity house. Davis police are investigating the weekend vandalism as a hate crime. The reward was announced Monday. Police spokesman Tom Waltz says no suspects

El Distrito Escolar Unficado de Palm Springs le advierte a los padres de familia y alumnos de los peligros de extraos. Una carta fue enviada a todos los alumnos de las escuelas del distrito la semana pasada tras recibir una llamada sobre el posible incidente en Cathedral City. La carta indica que el incidente sucedio

Update at 1:30 p.m. CalTrans says all lanes are now opened, but Hazmat crews will remain on the shoulder in the area for the next few hours for clean-up. The California Highway Patrol has called for a bee keeper to remove the bees from a small, dirt road located off the freeway. Please use caution

El Departamento de Transporte Pblico (CalTrans) reporto que todos los carriles en direccin oeste fueron reabiertos esta tarde tras un accidente vial sobre la interestatal 10. Segn el reporte de la Patrulla de Caminos de California (CHP), dos camiones de carga se volcaron alrededor de las 7:10 a.m., ambos estallando en llamas a la altura