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The trustees of California State University approved 10 and 9 percent salary increases Tuesday for three new campus presidents. The board’s action marked the first under its controversial executive compensation policy adopted in May after a firestorm of criticism over presidential pay during a period of drastic belt-tightening caused by state funding cuts. The board
Continue ReadingCathedral City saw an outburst of crime over the weekend. Officers responded to two separate shootings and an armed robbery on Saturday. They were also called to another robbery and beating early Monday morning. The recent spike in violence has some pointing fingers at the budget passed by the city council which calls for staff
Continue ReadingThis weekend’s burglary at the Gucci store in Palm Desert is the latest in what seems to be a recent rashof thefts along El Paseo.Last month, Louis Vuitton and the Lucky Brand store were robbed within a week of each other. “It’s a little disturbing, (we’ll) definitely make sure we’re a little more safe,” said
Continue ReadingA plan by Riverside County to move migrant farm workers out of a substandard trailer park in Thermal is on hold. Late last week, people living in the Duroville Parklearned they might not be moving to the new Mountain View Estates Park in Oasis afterall. The state of Californiarejected the county’s appeal for $12 millionin
Continue ReadingThe Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection, a milestone in the 30-year battle against the virus that causes AIDS. The agency approved Gilead Sciences’ pill Truvada as a preventive measure for people who are at high risk of acquiring HIV, such as those who
Continue ReadingGulf California Broadcast Company in Palm Springs, California, is currently seeking an outgoing, career minded individual who would like to control their income and career selling the two most powerful advertising mediums ever created: television and the internet. We have an immediate opening for the right person to step up and into an exciting and
Continue ReadingKESQ/ABC KDFX/FOX & KCWQ/CW KESQ.COM/ serving the Palm Springs, California DMA is currently seeking an outgoing, career minded individual who would like to control their income and career selling the two most powerful advertising mediums ever created; Television and the Internet. We have an immediate opening for the right person to step up and into
Continue ReadingThe Palm Springs Public Works Department will begin the city’s annual Street Overlay Program Monday. The program provides an asphalt overlay on city streets every eight to 10 years. Cross streets at major roads will be closed, or partially closed, so crews can install new concrete gutters before asphalt is laid on the major road,
Continue ReadingCathedral City police searched today for whoever kicked a man in the head while robbing him of his wallet, authorities said. The man staggered into his home in the 32000 block of Canyon Vista Road just before 2 this morning with his head and face covered with blood, said Cathedral City police Sgt. Corwin de
Continue ReadingRiverside County sheriff’s deputies are looking for someone who stole merchandise from the Gucci store in Palm Desert, a sheriff’s department spokesman said. The suspect entered a rear door of the store, which is on the 73-000 block of El Paseo, just before 9:30 a.m. Saturday just before the store was opened. He then made
Continue ReadingCalling the desert a “mini Hollywood” is now truer than ever. Famed director Steven Soderbergh’s up-coming HBOmovie about Liberace, ‘Behind the Candelabra’, will be produced by valley resident and powerhouse producer Jerry Weintraub. The lights, cameras, and action is all taking place in Palm Springs. Hundreds of valley residents lined up at an open casting
Continue ReadingA road project at a busy intersection in Palm Desert will slow traffic Monday and Tuesday, officials warn. City crews will be working those two days at Highway 111 and Plaza Way, near the Westfield Palm Desert shopping mall, on the final scheduled part of the project, according to city spokesman David Hermann. On Monday,
Continue ReadingCathedral City police are investigating another shooting near the intersection of Ramon and Date Palm. This second attack happened Saturday night around 7:45 p.m. in front of the Rancho Vista Plaza Complex. A security guard spotted someone there drinking and hiding in a stairwell, according to police. Later in the parking lot the guard approached
Continue ReadingA suspected drunk driver was arrested Sunday morning, as police officers responded to an armed robbery report in Cathedral City. Officers arrested 59-year-old Gregorio Perez of Cathedral City on suspicion of drunk driving near Buddy Rogers Drive around 9:22 p.m. Saturday. Police were responding to reports of an armed robbery outside a convenience store, when
Continue ReadingRumblings are expected in the Palm Springs, Coachella Valley and mountain areas of Riverside County today as summer thunderstorms threaten the region, but the storm clouds also brought a cooling to valley areas. “Increasing moisture and instability will generate thunderstorms over the mountains and deserts during the day today,” according to a National Weather Service
Continue ReadingA driver was in critical condition Saturday morning, after a shooting, followed by a crash in Cathedral City. Police were called to the 68800 block of Ramon Road around 4:05 A.M., where officers found a vehicle crashed into a Jiffy Lube. The driver was suffering from a gunshot wound to the head, but was alive.
Continue ReadingHow many different ways can you say “hot and sunny”? Gulf-California Broadcast Company (ABC, CBS, FOX and Telemundo), in hot and sunny Palm Springs, California, is looking for a weather-caster for our weekend evening newscasts. We get 354 days of sunshine here, but we get bad weather, too.: wind, rain and snow (believe it or
Continue ReadingA man suspected of stealing copper from the Rancho Mirage Library on July 2nd has been arrested. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Burglary Suppression Unit was following up on a lead, when they received information from a metal recycling business in Banning, that cooper sold to them matched the description of the copper sheets stolen from
Continue ReadingThe county coroner Friday identified a 45-year-old woman who was killed in a shooting in Indio that also left a man in serious condition. Police responding to a report of gunfire about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday found the victims in the 46700 block of Daisy Street, said Indio police spokesman Ben Guitron. Paramedics took them to
Continue ReadingActor Michael Clarke Duncan went into cardiac arrest today and was taken to a Los Angeles hospital, where his condition stabilized. “According to doctors, Michael Clarke Duncan suffered a myocardial infarction early this morning,” according to Duncan’s publicist, Joy Fehily. “He is now stable, and we look forward to his full recovery.” The 54-year-old actor
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