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The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is looking for the rightful owners to thousands of stolen items. The Burglary Suppression Unit says items were stolen in a months-long burglary spree spanning across the Coachella Valley, Yucaipa, and Redlands. On May 1, Cathedral City Police arrested 41-year-old Arthur Byrd of Cathedral City and 21-year-old Kaylah Long of

Ms de mil personas resultaron afectadas por un apagn que se registr en el rea de las calles El Cortez Way y De Anza Way en Palm Desert ayer desde las 3:00 p.m. En media hora se haba restaurado el servicio para todos a excepcin de 48 afectados. Hasta hoy no han confirmado si el

Experts say the economic downturn has brought new interest in self-employment from people having a difficult time finding well-paying jobs. That in turn has led to significant growth in microbusiness development programs that teach skills such as business plan writing, marketing and accounting. Interest in opening a business is especially high among immigrants and refugees.

Los Angeles police say officers shot and killed an armed suspect after gunfire broke out near a nightclub at Universal CityWalk. Sgt. Barry Montgomery says the shooting happened around 1:15 a.m. Monday in a common area outside Infusion Lounge at the popular entertainment complex in North Hollywood. Montgomery says officers responding to a call of

All roads are back open Monday morning following closures over the weekend due to windy conditions and sandstorms. Palm Springs police reported that Vista Chino and Gene Autry were reopened around 7:30 a.m. Indian Canyon was reopened shortly after 9 a.m. All of these roads were closed by police on Saturday night. These roads close

Some businesses in Palm Desert are still without power on Monday after a car crashed into a transformer on Sunday afternoon. The crash happened near Dinah Shore Drive and Dick Kelly Drive. Crews with Southern California Edison are fixing power lines in the area and hope to have the issues resolved by 3:30 p.m. More

For Verna Watson, Mother’s Day carries a special meaning. It was on this holiday 17 years ago that she and her husband, Doug, received their greatest gift: a child. “Reid was in Korea waiting for us and we went to South Korea to pick him up,” Verna said. “He was six months old.” But from

If you are pregnant, ask your doctor questions about their delivery habits long before you go into labor. Several studies now suggest doctors may be performing too many cesarean sections. Doctors may be performing them based more out of habit, training, expediency or worry about lawsuits than out of medical necessity, according to the studies.

If you were one of the 70 million Americans who purchased a pair of those weird-looking “barefoot running” shoes, you may be entitled to some cash. Vibram, the company behind FiveFingers shoes, just settled a $3.75 million class action lawsuit over false claims that its running shoe yields health benefits, Runner’s World reports. The thin-soled,

Expect some road closures Sunday morning as a result of Saturday night’s winds. They’re the usual closures in the Whitewater Wash area of Palm Springs. Gene Autry Trail, North Indian Canyon, and Vista Chino were closed by police Saturday night. Ramon Road should be open and can be used an alternate route to get to

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department says authorities raided two homes across the street from each other on Friday in San Bernardino and found about 2,600 marijuana plants. Seven people were arrested. Authorities were tipped off by city firefighters who saw pot growing in a backyard. The plants, some of them 4 feet tall and

(AP) – Mother Nature is giving the greater Los Angeles area a hot and gusty gift this Mother’s Day. And the weather is just a preview of what forecasters say to expect across California in coming days. Winds in coastal mountains near Los Angeles reached as high as 73 mph early Sunday, while morning brought

If you’re planning to enjoy this spring or summer at a national park, you’d better leave your drone at home. On Friday, Yosemite National Park in California turned heads when it announced that drones, the unmanned aircraft increasingly making their way into private hands, aren’t welcome in the park, famous for its picturesque valley of

It’s getting hot outside and more people are hitting the pools, making swim safety a priority right now. For that very reason the Palm Desert Aquatic Center hosted its second annual “Just Add Swim” event. “It’s not every day you get to have a swim lesson from an Olympian so we thought it was a

More women over 35 are giving birth for the first time, according to a government studyreleased Friday. The report, issued by the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looked at data compiled over the past four decades. Among the findings: In 2012, there were more than nine times

A faulty underground cable caused an outage Saturday that initially affected 34 customer accounts at a Palm Desert subdivision. The outage was reported shortly after 8 a.m. and happened along Presidio Place. Eighteen residents were still without power by midday, Southern California Edison spokesman Amado Zavala said. Power should be back on by 3:30 p.m.

Three Republican state senators are calling for increased criminal penalties for lawmakers convicted of taking bribes under state law, a move that comes as two Democratic colleagues face federal corruption charges. Senators Mike Morrell, Steve Knight and Ted Gaines said Friday that the ethics reforms proposed by California Democrats are too weak. Their proposal would

It feels like everybody’s going gluten-free these days, but the fad diet has also spread quite a bit of misinformation about the g-word. Some people -– even those who claim to follow gluten-free diets -– don’t even know what gluten is. And if you’re one of them, that’s OK. We won’t tell anyone your secret.

Two men allegedly ran off with an underage decoy’s money during a liquor buying sting in Coachella, missing out on liquor-related misdemeanors, and instead they were charged with petty theft, a sergeant said Saturday. Deputies began their five-hour operation at 4 p.m. Friday at three liquor or convenience store locations. The decoy hung out at

A new luxury car brand has opened it’s doors in the Coachella Valley. Telsa Motors officially cut the ribbon Friday for it’s new service and sales center in the Cathedral City Auto Mall. It’s adding over a dozen jobs, but also adding a new way of looking at cars. Luxury car dealers are nothing new