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Riverside County firefighters are taking on a 150-acre blaze in Rancho Jurupa Regional Park that is burning near a number of homes and buildings. Two homes were damaged. Voluntary evacuations were ordered for two residential streets: Greenbrier Drive and Grassy Trail in Riverside. The fire was 30% contained early Friday morning. Winds were calm. No

A new poll shows that most Californians are downright gloomy about the state’s economy and very few voters think the job market will improve this year. The Field Poll released Friday found that 72 percent of California voters say the state is still experiencing bad times. While the figure is down from 88 percent last

Starting today, great white sharks will be protected under the state’s Endangered Species Act. “While targeted sport and commercial fishing for a white shark has been banned in waters off California since the mid 1990s, there were some exceptions that allowed for incidental take and take associated with research activities,” said Marci Yaremko, the fisheries

Someone was killed this morning in a house fire in Perris, authorities said. The fire broke out at 3:18 a.m. in a single-family house in the 2500 block of Jimmy Taylor Drive, said Jody Hagemann. The house was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived on scene, she said. The age and gender of the

For more than a year, Bugsy was a familiar face at the Palm Springs Animal Shelter. Volunteers noticed the 2-year-old pit bull mix’s file disappeared and so did he. The dog was euthanized on Feb. 10, at the shelter, which volunteers say prides itself on being a no kill facility. Some say they’re angry it

The residents of Tramview mobile home park are worried about their safety after someone in their community was hit in the head with a golf ball. The community sits right next to Cathedral Canyon golf club. Shattered windows, dozens of dents, even a large hole in the wall. All the result of wayward drives at

Por primera vez el congresista Ral Ruiz representante del valle de Coachella en el distrito 36, habl ante la cmara de representates en Washinton D.C. El congresista se dirigio a un grupo de legisladores bipartidistas en donde expuso y voto a favor de una versin del acta en contra de la violencia contra las mujeres,

17-year-old Palm Desert High School student Selina Smith Budinger has organized a polo charity event for epilepsy research andawareness. When Budinger was 5 years old, doctors diagnosed her with epilepsy; a brain disorder in which a person has repeated seizures over time. She never wanted people to know about her condition for fear of being

Two people injured in a solo vehicle crash todayon Interstate 10 near Desert Center had to be cut out of the wreckage, a countyfire department spokeswoman said. The accident was reported about 2:30 p.m. on westbound I-10 at EagleMountain Road, Riverside County Fire Department spokeswoman Melody Hendricksonsaid. The unidentified occupants were cut out of the

An 18-year-old Indio man was arrested today forallegedly stealing a bottle of alcohol from a CVS Pharmacy in Palm Desert andattacking an employee as he was leaving. The robbery was reported shortly after 1 a.m. at the CVS in the 42000block of Washington Street. A man entered the store, took a bottle of alcoholand “assaulted”

The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn California’s ban on gay marriage and take a skeptical view of similar bans across the country. That’s according to person familiar with the administration’s friend-of-the-court filing in the California case. The administration argues that denying gays and lesbians the right to marry violates the Constitution’s

Rep. Raul Ruiz today voted for the Violence AgainstWomen Act and will discuss the legislation — of which he spoke in favor in hisfirst House floor speech — in Palm Desert tomorrow, his spokeswoman said. The Violence Against Women Act passed the House of Representatives andU.S. Senate and will go to President Obama for his

Cada ao desde hace 36 aos en algn lugar del estado se lleva a cabo el “CPCA Trainning Symposium” y hoy toc el turno a Palm Springs, por lo que cientos de policas de todo California y de diferentes agencias del orden ya se encuentran participando. Esta conferencia es con el fin de juntar a

Branson Police have filed first-degree murder charges against a former Palm Springs resident, Thomas Philip Brown, 68, after his wife was found dead in a Branson, Missouri motel room. A hotel cleaning staff found Marilyn J. Brown in her bed February 24th,dead from a gunshot wound. She was 63. Branson police said officers located the

California counties are housing more than 1,100 inmates on long-term sentences in jails designed for stays of a year or less. A report obtained by The Associated Press details the growth in that population under Gov. Jerry Brown’s criminal justice realignment strategy. The oversight of so many inmates serving sentences of five years or more

Giving his final waves to cheering masses and taking one last ride through St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI, 85, is the first since the Middle Ages choosing to say farewell. “I give him credit for the courage to break about 600 years of tradition,” said Father David Foxen. Foxen, a missionary at

If you’ve paid Old Town La Quinta a visit recently, you may have noticed a change in the lighting. In late December the shopping and dining district converted its outdoor/common area lighting to energy-efficient LED lighting. The move was made to take advantage of an Imperial Irrigation District rebate that ended at the end of

A 35-year old unsolved murder case has a valley man pushing for answers. Jim Alt still deals with the pain from the terrifying night. Though he now lives with his girlfriend in Desert Hot Springs, “It really knocks me down sometimes,” said the now 52-year-old Alt. Jim continues to deal with the murder of his

When your cell phone talks, you answer. Studies show many of us have a serious addiction to this device. “It’s pretty much by the bedside, check email in the morning right when I wake up. That kind of thing,” Garrison Tarnow said. If the thought of a phone addiction makes you LOL, listen to this.