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Tickets are on sale for the World’s ChampionshipChili Cookoff, which will be held in Palm Springs this year, the event’sproducer said today. Spa Resort Casino will host the 47th annual world championship cookoff,considered one of the largest food festival contests in the country, Oct. 11-13. The event will include 400 competitors, 50 vendors and food

The state Senate has approved a bill outlawing so-called “revenge porn,” which lawmakers say is an increasing problem on the Internet. People who post identifiable nude pictures of someone else online without the victim’s permission, intending to cause emotional distress or humiliation, could be charged with a misdemeanor under the bill. The penalty is up

Being burglarized or robbed leaves you feeling violated. That feeling is motivation for Riverside County Sheriff’s Department’s new Forensics Investigator Jillian Frisby. “I’ve been a victim of burglary, my home’s been broken into, I’ve been a victim of a robbery — I was a bank teller and I was the teller that was robbed, and

Researchers are announcing the rare discovery of a new species of mammal. It’s a raccoon-sized creature with a teddy bear face called the olinguito (oh-lihn-GEE’-toe). A Smithsonian researcher says it lives in the mountainous forests of Ecuador and Colombia where it leaps through the trees at night. It eats fruit and weighs about 2 pounds.

A suspected drunken driver barreled across a centermedian early today in Palm Desert and was arrested, a sergeant said. Tiffany Lynn Sill, 21, of Cathedral City, was heading east on FredWaring Drive when she lost control of her Kia Spectra and crossed the raisedcenter median at Elkhorn Trail, Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Ken Black said.

A California bill that would give some sex abuse victims more time to sue has failed to gain enough support to make it out of a key legislative committee. The Los Angeles Times reports the bill, which needed nine votes to move forward, received only six votes Wednesday. The bill would lift the statute of

The California Highway Patrol in Indio will offer a free“Smart Start” teen driver class tonight for parents and teenagers. The 6:30 p.m. class at the CHP’s Indio office at 79-650 Varner Roadincludes information designed to help teenagers become better equipped tohandle situations behind the wheel, according to the CHP. The class starts with a “Red

The Pentagon says it will make health care, housing and other benefits available to same-sex spouses of military members by Sept. 3. The Pentagon said Wednesday that it reached the decision after consulting with the Justice Department, following the Supreme Court’s ruling in June on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. The benefits

Legendary Pictures has worked out a deal with Sean O’Keefe to adapt a movie about the 2006 Esperanza Fire, according to Deadline Hollywood.The movie will be adopted from John Maclean’s book, “The Esperanza Fire.” The wildland fire that burned near Cabazon west of Palm Springs killed five firefighters after it was started by an arsonist.

It looks like your typical grade school classroom. Motivational mantras are written on white boards, books line the shelves, and the alphabet wraps around the walls. The thing that sets this school apart though, is the shiny new desks will only be sat in for half the day. For kindergarten through 8th graders at Hope

Four people were injured, three of them seriously, in a single-vehicle crash south of Beaumont late Wednesday afternoon. The crash was reported about 4:55 p.m. on northbound Lambs Canyon Road north of Gillman Springs Road. Some of the injured were trapped in the vehicle — four were transported to a hospital, three with major injuries

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the Inland Empire dropped Thursday to its lowest amount since May 6, decreasing 1.5 cents to $3.892. The average price in Riverside and San Bernardino counties has fallen for 16 consecutive days and 22 of the past 23, according to figures from the AAA

Thousands of people from all over the state flooded the office of Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy demanding action towards immigration reform. The caravan from Dodger stadium included people from the Coachella Valley. The activists want the Republican Whip to push his party towards a vote on comprehensive reform. The congressman was unavailable, because he is

The general manager of the Hard Rock Hotel in Palm Springs, Hector Moreno, described the new hotel. “Hip, cool. We want to be a little different than everyone else,” Moreno said. Many people hope it will bring some new energy to the desert. Room rates start at $159.00. We toured the new hotel, still the

Las autoridades estadounidenses han rechazado apenas 1 % de las casi 560.000 solicitudes presentadas durante el ltimo ao por inmigrantes sin papeles menores de 30 aos que desean suspender sus deportaciones, determin un estudio difundido el mircoles. Al analizar las 557.412 solicitudes recibidas desde el 15 de agosto del 2012 a raz de un programa

Centenares de simpatizantes por una reforma migratoria, entre ellos del valle de Coachella y activistas pro inmigrantes de todo el estado llegaron a Bakersfield, California. Anoche parti de Coachella una caravana con destino al distrito 23 de California que representa el congresista republicano Kevin McCarthy. El objetivo de viajar hasta Bakersfield es seguir presionndo a

Llega una nueva fuente de empleo para residentes del Valle de Coachella. El hotel “Hard Rock Cafe” abrira sus puertas en el mes de octubre el, hotel contara con ms de 160 habitaciones, tambin contara con salones de reservaciones para eventos especiales y banquetes, bar, lobby, entre otros , estar localizado en las estructuras de

More than a month after the U.S. Supreme Courtcleared the way for same-sex weddings to resume in California, the state’shighest court today rejected the last remaining legal challenge to the unions. The state Supreme Court dismissed a last-minute petition by supportersof Proposition 8 — which was approved by California voters in 2008 and bannedsame-sex marriage

Hundreds of people from across California descended Wednesday on Bakersfield by car and bus to rally for an immigration overhaul that includes a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants lacking legal status. Organized by labor unions, immigrant rights group and faith communities, the rally was meant to pressure U.S. Rep Kevin McCarthy of

CVUSD Superintendent Darryl Adams announced today that their Board of Education has approved a plan to supply every student, pre-school through high school, with iPads, according to a press release from CVUSD. Also, teachers willreceiveMacbook Air laptops, although the release does not say if every teacher will bereceivingone. Distribution of the technology will be completed