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A proposal that would have banned ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 bullets has died in the state Legislature. SB396 by Democratic Sen. Loni Hancock of Berkeley was placed on the inactive file Thursday, a day after it failed to gain enough votes to pass the Assembly. The legislation is among a slate of

A man charged with planting pipe bombs in Palm Springs is a fugitive and authorities are asking for public help to capture him. The U.S. attorney’s office says Edward Costa walked away from a halfway house in Riverside County last month. He was sent there after pleading guilty last year to being a felon in

More than 100 women demanding immigration legislation were arrested outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday after blocking traffic to protest inaction by Congress. The women, wearing white arm bands and red T-shirts that read, “Women for Fair Immigration Reform,” held a rally and then joined hands and sat down in a circle on Independence Ave., which

A subcontractor died Wednesday after beingelectrocutedwhile working atJulius CorsiniElementarySchool in Desert Hot Springs, according to PSUSD. The worker, Victor Gonzalez of Compton, was a subcontractor for Climatec Building Technologies Group, a company doing electrical work for at Corsini. Apparently, he came into contact with live wires. Medical crews took Gonzalez to Desert Regional Medical Center

For the first time since the twin towers fell twelve years ago, valley residents were able to remember the anniversary with a piece of the world trade center. Eagle Scout Andrew Davis worked for three years, standing on street corners and in shopping centers determined to bring a piece of history to the valley. 20,000

A new forecast says California will continue to outpace the nation in job growth but its uneven economic recovery will leave unskilled workers behind. The UCLA Anderson Forecast for the third quarter predicts California’s jobless rate will be around 8.9 percent this year – higher than the U.S. as a whole – but the gap

Fire officials say crews assessing the damage from a Northern California wildfire have determined 68 homes were destroyed. That’s up from the earlier tally of 37. State fire information officer Roy Del Carlo said Thursday the count of outbuildings destroyed by the Clover Fire in Shasta County also went up, from 74 to 128. Additionally,

Authorities say 17 people were arrested and nearly 2,000 marijuana plants were seized when sheriff’s deputies served search warrants in San Bernardino County. According to Jodi Miller spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Dept. the investigation was a combined effort between the Sheriff’s Narcotics Division and personnel from the Morongo Basin. 110 pounds of

California’s community colleges are set to increase enrollment for the first time in years, and officials are crediting a voter-approved tax for the bump. College officials announced on Wednesday that the state’s community college system is expected to add about 60,000 students this year. Overall, the system had about 600,000 fewer students in 2012 than

A fourth case of West Nile virus was detected in Palm Springs. It’s the fourth in the city, since July 25, and the 32nd in the whole valley this year. Its significant because there were zero cases in Palm Springs this time last year. Most positive cases come from the Salton Sea and the east

Federal officials say a high level of arsenic has been found in the water at a Riverside County mobile home park. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports sampling at D&D Mobile Home Park on the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Reservation near Thermal shows arsenic at almost six times the maximum contamination level set by regulators. About

City and tourism officials will break ground Thursday on the first hotel to be built in Palm Springs in more than a decade. Groundbreaking is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the site of the Arrive hotel at 1551 N. Palm Canyon Drive. The first phase of work for the 32-room “boutique” hotel will start next

College of the Desert in Palm Desert will host a career and education fair Thursday. The free event, “Which Education, What Career?” will begin at 5 p.m. in the multi-purpose room of the Cravens Student Services Center. The Girlfriend Factor, a Palm Desert nonprofit that gives grants to women so they can go back to

With prayer and song, people gathered at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Palm Springs to honor those who died in the September 11 attacks. “I was too young to remember this day. I was only one years old, it still means a lot,” 8th grader, Isabella Lanca. She and her schoolmates lit candles to remember

News Channel 3 has confirmed that the Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association, has decided to not hold their aviation summit and convention in Palm Springs in 2014 due to a strategy change. The convention was last held in October 2012 at the Palm Springs Convention Center and at the end of the festivities organizers announced

Domingo Hic is a hard working homeowner who says he has never missed a payment on the Desert Hot Springs home he has owned since 2004. He keeps a file filled with monthly mortgage statements and paid property tax bills to prove it. Two years ago, the property tax bill never came, so Hic went

A construction crew near Indio High School caused a gas leak that forced 2,000 students and faculty to evacuate to safety early Wednesday morning. SoCalGas crews say an operator of a third party backhoe hit a three inch pressurized gas line just before 10:00 a.m. They say crews stopped the flow of gas at 10:30

Mother of four Silvia Signoret does what she can to teach her young children about what happened on September 11, 2001. “We watched some of 9/11 on TV this morning, and we do that every year so they don’t forget,” says Signoret. She does so cautiously, knowing that it can be an overwhelming topic. “It’s

The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands and the Aspen Institute Justice & Society Program convened a task force to review a request to consolidate Congressional oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The task force consists of distinguished former and current members of Congress, executive branch and DHS officials, and other homeland security experts.

The Sheriff’s Narcotics Division Marijuana Enforcement Team and deputies from the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station say they uncovered a large illegal marijuana cultivation at a residence in Landers Wednesday morning. A total of 421 marijuana plants were seized, as well as three pounds of processed marijuana. Authorities arrested Phou Keomachaxay and Vanphachay Chanthaachon, who were