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Several downtown Palm Springs merchants are still trying to recover after a rough July. A power outage three weeks ago, forced restaurants and stores to close down and send away customers on a Saturday night. “During the summer, businesses on Palm Canyon, we depend on Saturdays,” said Mindy Reed, the owner of Zin American Bistro.

El secretario de estado estadounidense, John Kerry, hizo un anuncio desde Londres que esta generando muchas reacciones a nivel mundial. John Kerry asegur que su pas le otorgara visas a parejas homosexuales casadas mediante el mismo proceso que se sigue con las heterosexuale. Dijo: “Si usted es el cnyuge de un ciudadano Estados Unidos su

Three million Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas are losing the CBS channel, as the cable provider says it is dropping the network in a dispute over fees. The nation’s second largest cable operator says that CBS refused to have productive discussions despite a monthlong extension of talks since a

hristian Bentez padeca de un fallo cardaco congnito que provoc el infarto que le cost la vida hace cuatro das en Catar, dijeron el viernes dirigentes de la federacin ecuatoriana de ftbol, tras la llegada a Quito de los restos mortales del destacado goleador. El mdico de la seleccin ecuatoriana, Patricio Maldonado, explic que en

A family of three was rescued in Palm Springs this afternoon after a 55-year-old woman become dehydrated while hiking behind the Palm Springs Art Museum. The woman, her husband, and also their son, were rescued by helicopter and transported to Desert Regional Medical Center for further evaluation, according to a Palm Springs Police Officer on

A Rancho Mirage man who operated a mortgagelending company was charged today with allegedly scheming to defraud an out-of-state bank, causing the bank to lose more than $5 million. Steven Pitchersky, 64, was charged by federal prosecutors with one countof wire fraud, and the case is being handled in Philadelphia. He could faceup to 20

The Supreme Court has refused to delay a court order for California to release nearly 10,000 inmates by year’s end to improve conditions in state prisons. The court voted 6-3 Friday to reject a plea from Gov. Jerry Brown. Brown argued the early release would jeopardize public safety. Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence

Ayer a las 6:00: a.m. un hombre conduca ebrio un Toyota Corolla con cuatro pasajeros a bordo por el rea de Minnesota Ave y Kansas Street cuando perdi el control y se impact con un poste de la luz, de inmediato bajaron del coche y huyeron a pie. La polica acudi al lugar del accidente

Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. will start processing visa applications from same-sex spouses in the same way it handles those from heterosexual spouses. The change, which takes effect on Friday, will make visas easier to get for same-sex spouses. It also means that the State Department will now be jointly processing applications

A 26-year-old Coachella man was suspected of drunkendriving and crashing his truck into another vehicle in Palm Desert, and wasreleased on bail today. The crash was reported at 8:10 p.m. Thursday at Washington Street andFred Waring Drive. Deputies found a Mazda truck had rear-ended a Volvo whichhad stopped at the traffic light in the southbound

A deal has been reached to pave over 8 miles of unpaved roads in the eastern Coachella Valley, according to a press release from the o ffice of County Supervisor John Benoit. The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) signed the contract with Riverside County to pave approximately 8.3 miles of roads within 31

Ellen DeGeneres will host the Academy Awards inMarch, the second time she will have done so, the show’s producers announcedtoday. “We are thrilled to have Ellen DeGeneres host the Oscars,” producersCraig Zadan and Neil Meron said in a statement. DeGeneres hosted the 79th Academy Awards in 2007 and was nominated foran Emmy for her efforts.

A gay teacher at a Catholic high school in Southern California has lost his job after his wedding pictures were published in a local newspaper. The San Bernardino Sun reports 45-year-old Ken Bencomo was fired from St. Lucy’s Priory after marrying his partner of 10 years. Bencomo’s lawyer says officials were aware of Bencomo’s sexual

A woman suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol when she sideswiped two cars within 10 minutes in Palm Desert, leaving the scene both times, could face possible criminal charges today. Shelly Brown, 49, of Palm Desert, was allegedly at the wheel of a white Lexus that sideswiped a gray Toyota outside a shopping

Two women and a man were behind bars and four children were in protective custody today after deputies conducted a raid in Perris and found hundreds of growing marijuana plants and more than 100 pounds of dried pot, authorities said. A search warrant was served Thursday in the 1000 block of Warbonnett Drive as part

Mount San Jacinto State Park is due to reopen Friday after a closure caused by the now-contained Mountain Fire, which broke out July 15th near Idyllwild. National Forest areas closed by the fire were reopened on Thursday, officials said. The Mountain Fire, which was sparked by an electrical malfunction on private property northeast of Idyllwild

Blogger Joe Jervis will serve as national grand marshal for the 27th. annual Greater Palm Springs Pride Parade later this year. Jervis will join community grand marshals Melanie Jones, Ellen Zimmerman, Mark Jones and Brian Vatcher, and other to-be-announced marshals for the Nov. 3 parade in downtown Palm Springs. The parade is part of the

As bars around the world, including in West Hollywood, emptied bottles of vodka down gutters today in protest of a series of anti-gay laws enacted across Russia, calls were also renewed for the city of Los Angeles to sever its sister-city relationship with St. Petersburg. The California-based Courage Campaign and Los Angeles area gay advocates

Just four weeks away from the start of the high school football season, the Desert Hot Springs should be focused on practice. Instead, they are working with police to figure out who stole nearly $4,000 in equipment from them. “It’s just frustrating, because our guys are always working hard,” said Steven Steed, the senior quarterback

Prepackaged salads could be hazardous to your health. Authorities have revealed some salad mixes could be responsible for making at least 21 people so sick they had to be hospitalized. While no cases have shown up in California yet, the Centers for Disease Control and the FDA are looking into a link between bagged salad