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Opponents of Mayor Bob Filner are scheduled to hold a “Not Welcome Back” rally at the Civic Center Plaza in downtown San Diego today, following his completion of a stint in a behavioral therapy program. Filner’s lawyer, Irvine-based James Payne, said his client finished theprogram on Saturday, although he would not return to work this

A missing 82-year-old woman has been located, Palm Springs police said Monday morning. The woman, referred to only as Maria, was walking on Avenida Ortega in Cathedral City around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, headed toward a bus stop, where she planned to board a bus to Palm Springs, a police statement said. She never reached Palm

What if there was a study dedicated to unearthing the secrets to a happy and purposeful life? It would have to be conducted over the course of many decades, following the lives of real people from childhood until old age, in order to see how they changed and what they learned. And it would probably

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has lifted the Evacuation Order for the community of Twin Pines as of 9:00 pm Saturday. Only local residents in these affected areas will be allowed to repopulate with an access pass until further notice. Residents must receive an access pass from The Riverside Sheriff’s Department check point at Highway

The four-day-old Silver Fire, which has destroyed 26homes, injured 10 people and forced hundreds from their residences, grew to19,000 acres on Saturday morning, but fire crews were able to make good progress containingthe blaze while some residents were allowed back into their neighborhoods. The blaze, which broke out for unknown reasons on Poppet Flats Roadsouth

Lisa Redwine eagerly moves back into her home in Poppet Flats. “It’s been crazy. We’ve been waiting at the bottom of the hill a lot hoping to come up. Haven’t been able to come up,” Redwine said. She worked until midnight the day evacuation orders were lifted, so this was her first chance to come

“Splash house” is adding a little more heat to summer in Palm Springs! The two day music festival kicked off Saturday afternoon at three different Palm Springs hotels: The Saguaro, Caliente Tropics, and The Curve. Guests can enjoy 30 DJs from all around the world. “It’s kind of like a progressive pool party. You can

At least four small earthquakes in eastern San Diego County were felt as far away as Hemet today. Automated seismographs measured a magnitude 3.9 quake at 7:09 a.m., and a magnitude 3.8 just 51 seconds later. Both had epicenters in the seismically- active valley at the eastern base of the Laguna Mountains, about 55 miles

Kathy Dexter and her husband Daniel filled their Poppet Flats home with 13 years of love and memories. “The flames were coming over the hill so fast. We had a feeling there was a chance we wouldn’t have a home when we came back,” said Dexter. As firefighters make headway on the Silver Fire, the

A Xavier Prep alumni was among four former Vanderbilt football players indicted on five counts of aggravated rape each of an unconscious 21-year-old student at a campus dormitory in June. Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson credited Friday’s indictment to the painstaking work of detectives from the sex crimes unit and an electronics expert from the

Aumenta a 17 mil 500 los acres calcinados por el incendio “Silver Fire”. Su contencin se mantiene en un 25%. Ms de 1,500 bomberos comabaten el infernal. Ha destruido 26 viviendas y provocado la evacuacin de centenares de residentes. As lo reportaron las autoridades el viernes a las 4PM. NOTA PREVIA: Deja hasta el momento

Riverside County Supervisors Marion Ashley and Jeff Stone said Friday that they will seek county financial relief for Silver Fire property owners who want to rebuild in the aftermath of the wind-driven inferno. Ashley and Stone said they will likely introduce a proposal at the Aug. 20 board meeting to waive development fees for the

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Inactividad de GOP en el camino a la ciudadana activa movilizaciones nacionales en agosto y septiembre. Familias del Consejo de Federaciones Mexicanas (COFEM) organizan un evento simblico con el propsito de poner presin al congreso para que tomen accin sobre la reforma migratoria. Las siguientes seis semanas son crticas para el impacto de nuestra campaa

Low-income residents who have lost their homes in the Silver Fire, or who have had to run their air conditioning units more than usual to avoid harmful smoke, may qualify for one-time assistance from the Community Action Partnership of Riverside County. CAP has activated the Severe Weather Energy Assistance and Transportation Service program (SWEATS) to

Fire broke out at a double-wide mobile home today just before 11:30 a.m., according to Cal Fire. The fire was at a mobile home park near the intersection of Highway 111 and Frank Sinatra. One mobile home was destroyed. Fire crews were able to put out the fire before it spread to any surrounding homes.

The South Coast Air Quality Management Districtissued a smoke advisory again today for the Coachella Valley and Banning Passdue to ash and smoke from the 16,000-acre Silver Fire burning south of Banning. The air quality could reach an unhealthy level, according to air qualityofficials, and residents should avoid vigorous outdoor activity, keep windowsand doors closed

San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore says a car belonging to the suspect in the disappearance of a teenage girl has been found in Idaho. Gore also said Friday that horseback riders reported seeing two people matching the description of the suspect and girl in the Cascade area 70 miles northeast of Boise on Wednesday.

En Desert Hot Springs ayer a las 4:35 p.m. lleg a la estacion de bomberos un hombre que conduca un vehculo en el que llevaba a un sujeto herido de bala, de inmediato fue transportado en ambulacia al Desert Regional Medical Center dePalm Springs donde fue declarado muerto a las 5:09 p.m. Despus de una

Today is the last day to ride the Palm SpringsAerial Tramway before it closes for three weeks for annual maintenance work. The tram will close on Saturday and reopen on Aug. 31. The first cartoday goes up at 10 a.m. “This year we are having our shutdown in August because of thecelebration of our 50th