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One woman is dead and another in the hospital after getting hit by a reckless driver in Coachella. It happened at 7:10 Sunday evening on Calhoun street between Avenue 49 and Las Plumas. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is handling the investigation. Deputies say the Indio police department received calls of a reckless driver in

La Quinta high school’s wrestling coach, Tom Jenkins lost his battle with cancer on Sunday. The beloved teacher and coach was diagnosed with Stage IV esophageal cancer that had spread to his liver on November 7, 2011. His family posted this message on facebook, “It is with a heavy, heavy heart that I have to

A rock the size of a softball broke through the rear passenger window of a car traveling on Highway 111 early Saturday morning. “It’s really sad to hear that we have to worry about being in our cars and having rocks thrown at us,” said Paula Karcher, a concerned local resident. The driver was a

A suspected drunken woman, with two young children in her car, crashes her sedan into a parked car and ran red lights as she sped across Palm Desert with a witness in chase, police said. Marcella Monique Garza, 29, of Palm Desert, was stopped by police and her children taken into police custody. Officers said

Very few earthquake faults in California have been mapped over the past two decades despite an ambitious campaign launched in the early 1970s to help scientists learn more about the state’s seismic activity. The Los Angeles Times reports only 23 maps have been drawn since 1991 and there haven’t been any between 2004 and 2011

A dirt bike rider got dislodged in mid-air and landed while doing a tabletop jump in Jurupa Valley and later died of his injuries, according to a sheriff’s sergeant. The rider, whose name was not released pending notification of relatives, had already been taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center by the time sheriff’s deputies arrived

A convicted sex offender was arrested in San Jacinto for failing to register all of his home addresses with the sheriff’s office, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Jason Warrick, 42, was one of two offenders sheriff’s deputies did not find Saturday during a compliance check at 18 locations in San Jacinto, the sheriff’s

(CNS) – The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the Inland Empire dropped to its lowest amount since Jan. 29 Sunday, falling three-tenths of a cent to $3.75. The average price in Riverside and San Bernardino counties has decreased for 32 consecutive days and is 4.1 cents less than one week

Much of the Union Bank on El Paseo is now rubble. “I haven’t seen a fire like that in Palm Desert in quite a while and I’ve lived here a long time,” said Paul Kortz, who witnessed the fire last night. Firefighters and other investigators were on the scene early Saturday morning spraying water, cleaning

Another ‘sea serpent’ has attracted gawkers on a Southern California beach. This time the rare, snakelike oarfish washed up Friday afternoon in Oceanside. U-T San Diego reports that it measured nearly 14 feet long. While it’s unusual to find the deep-water fish near shore, this is the second time in the past week that one

New University of California President Janet Napolitano said Friday that she will work to keep tuition costs from rising beyond the reach of families. The former Homeland Security chief spoke to students and university officials at the school’s Founders Celebration. It was part of her system-wide tour of campuses. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that

Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner was formally booked and released at the downtown jail today, it was reported Saturday. The disgraced mayor, who has confessed to one felony county of false imprisonment by violence and two misdemeanor counts of battery, was processed at the Central Jail one day before he was supposed to, several

A confrontation involving several men at a Coachella street corner nearly turned deadly early today when one of them was shot and wounded, a sheriff’s sergeant said. Dispatchers received a 911 call at 1:45 a.m. and sent deputies to 4th Street and Vine Avenue where the shooting happened. The victim was sent to a hospital

The Union Bank on El Paseo in Palm Desert erupted into flames just after 9 p.m. Friday night. The fire was fully contained at 10:26 p.m. The building is completely destroyed. The two alarm fire brought crews in from across the valley to fight the blaze located along the popular shopping district. Heavy smoke and

Police are looking for at least two suspects who they believe are responsible for throwing rocks and hitting a car on Highway 111 in Palm Springs. Palm Springs police responded at about 1 a.m. Saturday when they learned a softball-size rock broke through the right rear passenger window of a sedan traveling on Highway 111,

Police are looking for a suspect after a 21-year-old man was shot three times Friday night in Desert Hot Springs. Desert Hot Springs police were called to the 66900 block of Ironwood at about 7:30 p.m. Officers say the victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the hospital for treatment. Police received conflicting descriptions

The owners of Bones N Scones want your help to identify two thieves that took a donation box raising money for the Humane Society. Wednesday a man and woman entered the store and looked around. While the man distracted the employee, the woman grabbed a donation box off the counter and walked out the door.

Lisha Astorga became interested in landscaping when she got fed up with her water bill. “A third or a quarter of an acre I think our lot was, and we were spending probably about $150 dollars a month,” Astorga said. So she began taking conservation classes at her local water district, and at her new

It’s been more than two weeks since campers could set up shop in Joshua Tree National Park. Alan Vetter has been counting “I was following that closely and hoping I’d be able to get here,” Vetter said. He already had to cancel one trip. “I was supposed to go rim to rim to rim of