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“The outpouring is just incredible, it’s so heart-touching,” said Carly Cechin, Desi’s grandmother. At the Believing For Desi fundraising festival at the Riverside County Fairgrounds in Indio, people from all over came to help Desi’s family raise the money they need for her cancer treatment. “We embraced our own and came together to help out

The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Warning until 5:30 pm Saturday for Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree. The full text is copied below: Flash Flood Warning FLASH FLOOD WARNINGCAC071-270030-/O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0038.140726T2230Z-140727T0030Z//00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTEDFLASH FLOOD WARNINGNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV330 PM PDT SAT JUL 26 2014THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS

A suspected gunman was arrested in the killing of an Indio resident earlier this month, a sergeant said Saturday. An officer pulled over Nestor Gazca Cervantes, of Coachella, as he was driving near Avenue 54 and Shady Lane at 7 p.m. Friday. He was arrested for his alleged role in the fatal shooting of Christopher

Fire swept through a mobile home in Cabazon and left three people homeless, according to CAL FIRE. Firefighters were dispatched at 9:57 p.m. Friday to the 51900 block of Maxine Avenue. The mobile home was engulfed in flames when they arrived, Riverside County Fire Department/CAL FIRE spokeswoman Melody Hendrickson said. No injuries were reported. Three

(AP) – State transportation officials are reserving the right to install toll lanes on a notoriously congested section of Interstate 405 in Orange County, but local officials aren’t happy. The Orange County Register reported Saturday that Caltrans wants to add 14 miles of toll lanes between Seal Beach and Costa Mesa. The stretch of freeway

(AP) – A 12-year-old Southern California boy will be the youngest full-time student in the history of Mira Costa College when he enrolls this fall. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports Saturday that Kyle Litzenberg, of Oceanside, has been home schooled his whole life. At age 6, he wrote a song. He’s written a book and

A judge on Friday ordered a Palm Desert man accused of fatally shooting his neighbor’s 24-year-old son and 2-year-old granddaughter to undergo two psychological examinations. Juan Carlos Alcala, 46, is charged with the April 8, 2011, murders of Felipe Lozano Jr. and his daughter, Doria Zoe Reynoso Lozano, at the Hovley Gardens Apartments in the

This week’s dry, scorching heat gave way to heavy humidity, rain and rumbling. “I heard the lightning and the thunder and we had probably a quarter inch of rain,” said Paul Copeskey of Rancho Mirage. “It was pretty surprising,” said Eric Brooks of Palm Desert. Fire crews were called out when lighting actually struck a

A 1-year-old girl was bitten today on an ear, lip and cheek by her family’s pit bull in Cathedral City. The girl was bitten just before 5 p.m. at a home on San Susanna Avenue, said John Welsh of the Riverside County Department of Animal Services. The girl was taken to a hospital, but her

Motorcycle lane-splitting is prohibited in 49 of the 50 states, with the lone exception being California. But two weeks ago, proper safety guidelines from certain government websites were removed regarding lane-splitting. One California man made a complaint to the California Office of Administrative Law, saying the service the CHP and DMV was providing was “underground

Assemblyman Victor Manuel Perez is back in the desert from a trip to Central America. He and six other California lawmakers visited El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama. He talked about the conditions people are trying to flee at a news conference at Coachella City Hall. The goal of the trip was to strengthen ties, exchange

The Desert AIDS Project will celebrate 30 years Friday night with a big birthday party at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs. It’s fight against AIDS transformed the Coachella Valley, providing thousands of people with support and medical care. “I was diagnosed in 1983,” said Robert Conklin. “One of the first things that they would

El presidente Barack Obama exhort a los mandatarios de tres pases centroamericanos y al Partido Republicano el viernes a que ayuden a detener la afluencia de menores y familias migrantes a la frontera sur. El presidente guatemalteco Otto Prez Molina dijo estar “muy satisfecho” por el resultado “muy favorable” de la reunin, ya que Obama

The director of Riverside County Animal Services said he plans to seek animal cruelty charges against the owner of 61 Shetland sheepdogs that were impounded after a house fire displaced them near Riverside last Sunday. The dogs were recovered after an attic fire damaged a single-story home on Pick Place in the Woodcrest neighborhood south

The Time Warner Cable office in Palm Springs was evacuated Friday morning after a white envelope with a suspicious powder was received. According to the Palm Springs Fire Department, the powder turned out to be nothing more than sugar. Police said an a TWC employee called them at about 10:30 a.m. to report that the

A fundraising festival is scheduled Saturday for a 5-year-old Indio girl battling late-stage cancer. Desirae Cechin — who goes by Desi — was diagnosed in April with stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma, which affects the nervous system. The Believing For Desi fund was started to raise money for her treatment, including a trip to Memorial Sloan

A state appeals court has upheld a proposed route for California’s bullet train project connecting the San Francisco Bay Area to the Central Valley. The decision issued Thursday is a short-term win for Gov. Jerry Brown, who has made the $68-billion project a priority. The original lawsuit filed by Bay Area cities had argued that

Using the internet to diagnose your aches and pains has become commonplace. Dr. Erica Ruiz runs a family medical practice in La Quinta. She’s noticed an up-tick in the amount of patients who come in for their check-ups armed with information they gathered on the internet about their symptoms. Dr. Ruiz says, there is some