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The Coachella Valley’s Mariner Girl Scout Troop #103, also known as M.S.S. CONCHILLA, traveled to Newport Dunes last weekend to compete in the annual Mariner competition known as GAM. The girls quietly sailed past a troop that has won the competition 19 times, including a winning streak more than a decade long. Mariner Girl Scout

If you’re looking for ways to help residents of Oklahoma, ravaged by a monstrous tornado Monday, the following relief organizations are working in the area: American Red CrossThe American Red Cross has several shelters open in Oklahoma and Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicles have begun delivering hot meals throughout the affected areas. The Red Cross

Desde ayer lunes y hasta el 2 de Junio estar en vigor la campaa a nivel nacional “Click it or Ticket” o “Abrochado o Multado” por lo que agencias del orden tanto estatal, regional y local estarn tras la pista de conductores que no utilicen el cinturn de seguridad o que no lo usen de

Golf’s governing bodies have adopted a new rule that outlaws the putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions. The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and U.S. Golf Association announced Tuesday that Rule 14-1b would start in 2016. The new rule will make it illegal to anchor the club against the body

Hundreds of wind farms around the world have slowed operations after huge turbine blades fell in Southern California and Iowa. U-T San Diego says a 170-foot blade fell last week at a wind farm in Ocotillo, 70 miles east of San Diego. The paper says turbine-maker Siemens confirmed Monday that it’s sent a team of

The state medical examiner’s office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children. Spokeswoman Amy Elliot said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the storm. Authorities said initially that as many as 51 people were

Ironing out Riverside County’s fiscal priorities for 2013-14 is among the leading items on the Board of Supervisors’ agenda today, with Supervisor John Tavaglione expected to lead a discussion about resolving the county hospital’s shortfall and assessing the value of merging agencies. Tavaglione last week introduced a three-page memorandum listing a number of issues that

Riverside County supervisors are expected to sign off today on a proposed settlement to end a lawsuit challenging a county policy mandating that solar power developers pay per-acre fees for projects on county land. The Independent Energy Producers Association and the Large-scale Solar Association worked out an agreement with county attorneys that was certified Wednesday

University of California medical center workers have begun a two-day strike that could involve thousands of employees and prompted postponement of some surgeries. A union representing some 13,000 pharmacists, nursing assistants and other workers struck at 4 a.m. Tuesday in San Diego, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento. Ruben Gomez, a radiation therapist in

Brian Pelletire was emotional he told us about how he found out long time friend Eric Strzelczyk was gone. “At first I didn’t think it was real,” Brian says. “And I called his cell phone, it was kind of just weird. And then making sure like hey man, heard some bad news, call me if

Local law enforcement agencies are participating in a national seatbelt enforcement campaign scheduled to run through the second of June. The “Click It or Ticket” campaign targets people who do not wear seatbelts or use them incorrectly. The local agencies participating in the effort include the Indio office of the California Highway Patrol and the

President Obama will meet with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of Chinanext month at the Rancho Mirage estate Sunnylands, WhiteHouse officials said today. The two presidents will meet June 7-8 for “in-depth discussions on awide range of bilateral, regional and global issues,” according to the WhiteHouse. The world leaders “will review progress and

A heavily traveled stretch of Ramon Road between Date Palm Drive and Landau Boulevard will receive a major overhaul this summer. Work begins this week on widening the road to three lanes in each direction with new pavement, and sidewalk and drainage improvements. Cathedral City officials met with business owners along Ramon Road Monday handing

A community is mourning the death of a loved one, while police search for a suspect. Eric Strzelczyk died early Sunday morning after his motorcycle collided with a white pick up truck in Palm Springs. The driver of the truck ran away from the scene. The crash happened around 4:30 AM on Sunday morning at

Linda Ha wants to be a news reporter, and she knew Women Leaders Forum’s ‘Young Women Ambassadors’ program would put her on the right track. “I knew I had to sign up right away. It involved women empowering other women, increases leadership skills, and stuff you don’t get to learn at school,” Linda Ha, a

We all know when you are out in the sun you should wear sunscreen, but what you may not know, is most of us are using it wrong. Dermatologists say most people don’t use a enough sunscreen. One in five of us will develop skin cancer in our lifetimes, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.

El presidente estadounidense, Barack Obama, y su homlogo chino, Xi Jinping, visitarn el valle de Coachella en plan de trabajo el prximo 7 y 8 de junio, los mandatarios se reunirn en la finca Sunnylands en Rancho Mirage. As lo informaron oficiales de la Casa Blanca. Los madatarios abordaran temas de asuntos bilaterales, regionales y

Ironing out Riverside County’s fiscal priorities for2013-14 is among the leading items on the Board of Supervisors’ agendatomorrow, when Supervisor John Tavaglione is slated to lead a discussion aboutresolving the county hospital’s shortfall and assessing the value of mergingagencies. Tavaglione last week introduced a three-page memorandum listing a numberof issues that he says had not

California would take steps to regulate the sale of medical marijuana under a bill approved by the state Senate. The measure is intended to restrict dispensaries that federal prosecutors say had grown out of control in California, where voters first supported legalizing cannabis to treat illness in 1996. Federal prosecutors recently cracked down. They said

Two lawmakers are seeking to strip broad secrecy provisions from the California agency overseeing implementation of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms. Monday’s announcement comes less than two weeks after The Associated Press reported that the degree of privacy granted the state’s health benefits exchange could shield the public from seeing how hundreds of millions