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Hoy a las 12:40 a.m. estall un incendio que da severamente una casa mvil ubicada sobre Ave 61 y Van Buren Street en Thermal y que oblig a la evacuacin de una familia de cinco. Segn el vocero del Departamento de Bomberos del Condado de Riverside Jody Hagemann, no se reportaron heridos. El fuego fue

A 49-year-old Desert Hot Springs man who allegedlydrove drunk and struck a parked vehicle and a planter was arrested today. The crash was reported around 11 p.m. Sunday near Monterey Avenue andDinah Shore Drive in Palm Desert. Timothy Lee Hill was driving a VolkswagenJetta west on an access road through the parking lot between Walmart

The University of California, Davis, is adding an associate chancellor’s position at a $260,000 annual salary as part of a plan to improve the university’s image. The Sacramento Bee reports the university hired Luanne Lawrence as associate chancellor for strategic communications earlier this year at a salary higher than any other campus communications chief in

On a warm spring evening, hundreds of investment bankers, venture capitalists and geeky tech entrepreneurs gathered near the pool at the Phoenician, a luxury resort outside Phoenix, for a high-profile gathering of education innovators. As guests sipped cocktails and nibbled hors d’oeuvres, the mood was upbeat. And why not? Major innovations — forged by the

An 8-year-old boy who was hospitalized after being found inside a washing machine has died, and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s homicide detectives are investigating his death, sheriff’s officials said today. The boy was pronounced dead at 10 a.m. Sunday, said Deputy Mark Pope of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau. The boy was hospitalized Wednesday at around

A 2-year-old exotic monkey was being cared for at an animal shelter following its discovery by sheriff’s deputies investigating an unrelated matter at a Thousand Palms home, a county official said. The female marmoset named “Penny” was found wearing a diaper Friday night at a home on the 31600 block of Christy Way. The animal

A La Quinta man is facing DUI charges after slamming into a vehicle over the weekend. Police responded to a call about a wreck on Avenida Martinez south of Calle Tampico on Friday at 10:24 p.m. That’s where they found the 27 year-old driver David Garcia, behind the wheel of a white Ford pickup truck.

A single-wide trailer was extensively damaged in Thermal Monday, causing no injuries but displacing a family of five, authorities said. The fire at Avenue 61 and Van Buren Street was reported at 12:40 a.m. and contained at 1:13 a.m., said Riverside County Fire Department spokeswoman Jody Hagemann. The American Red Cross was contacted to help

Firefighters in the Mt. David area south of Beaumont working today to improve containment lines and put out any flareups in the Relay Fire, which scorched around 60 acres of brush, authorities said. The blaze broke out in rough terrain near Relay Drive around 4:30 p.m.Sunday and was declared fully contained two hours later, said

Dirt, cones, and caution tape lining the intersection of Cook Street and Highway 111 look like a mess, but Donna Gowland of Lifestyles Nutrition assures us, “It’s not as bad at it looks.” Gowland says construction on the corner of Highway 111 and Cook Street in Indian Wells hasn’t hurt her business too much. “I

“We finally get to build our school,” Kathy McAdara, the executive director of Safehouse of the Desert, said. Safehouse of the Desert’s new addition is a long time coming, and it comes from a lot of generosity. “The Frank and Gertrude M. Doyle Foundation who have given us the money to put up the structure.

A surprise homecoming for one desert family. Kindergarten teacher Michelle Cherland has spent the last year serving our country in Afghanistan as an Army Reservist. She wasn’t due home for another couple of months but she came home early surprising her family at a local bar. It was just supposed to be a night of

Araceli Moreno has lived in the Paseo Vista development in Palm Desert for the past 8 years. She pointed out the areas where a series of rainstorms caused severe flooding, sometimes up to two feet, throughout her community in 2008, 2009 and 2010. A Riverside jury delivered a verdict of nearly $2.8 million in damages

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