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The California Emergency Management Agency is marking the 20th anniversary of the Landers-Big Bear earthquakes with a call for preparedness. The magnitude 7.3 Landers earthquake struck in the San Bernardino County desert east of Los Angeles shortly before 5 a.m. on June 28, 1992. Three hours later a magnitude-6.5 quake struck near Big Bear Lake

A 43-year-old man was in critical condition after being pulled from a pool in Indio this afternoon, a county fire department spokeswoman said. The near-drowning was reported shortly before 1:30 p.m. in the 48600 block of Andorra Street. The man was pulled out of the pool before firefighters arrived, Riverside County Fire Department spokeswoman Melody

Indio city officials announced new hours of operation for city facilities, effective July 9, 2012. “It is important that we provide our residents, businesses, and visitors with important city services and access to their city government five days a week,” said Indio Mayor Glenn Miller. “We’ve enhanced our fiscal position and we continue to make

Longtime ABC7 Inland Empire Bureau Chief Bob Banfield — a fixture in Southern California broadcasting for more than four decades — died Thursday. He was 82 and had been battling cancer. The radio and television newsman signed on with ABC7 in 1967 and soon found himself at the forefront of major developments, covering the assassination

Judy Agnew, the wife of former Vice President Sprio Agnew, has died at her home in Rancho Mirage. She was 91. The New York Times describes her as the woman who went to Washington after Richard M. Nixon plucked her husband from relative political obscurity to make him vice president and who later stood by

Morlita Wiggins says on Monday, she received a phone call from her father. “I said, ‘Daddy why are you calling me from Anna Marie’s phone? Where is Anna Marie, daddy?’ He said, ‘I killed that B,’” said Wiggins. He called her after police say he shot and killed 50-year-old Anna Marie Gonzalez in her car

Firework vendors prepare for the 4th of July holiday, while firefights are on high alert. Every year, thousands of people across the nation injure themselves lighting fireworks. Oftentimes, those injuries are from the use illeagal fireworks. Officials in the Coachella Valley are bulking up their resources to crack down on any illegal fireworks. “If you’re

A 74-year-old man was stabbed multiple times, with two knives at one point, in his Palm Springs kitchen, according to testimony today by a Northern California man who said he witnessed the financially motivated murder and helped mop up the blood. Craig McCarthy, who pleaded guilty in 2010 to voluntary manslaughter in connection with Clifford

Newschannel 3 anchor John White joined sister station KRDO Newschannel 13 in Colorado Springs to help with continuing 24-hour coverage on the Waldo Canyon fire. White and photojournalist Chris Tarpening landed in Denver Wednesday morning and drove into Colorado Springs, Colo. Their coverage began with a live phone report on Newschannel 3 at noon. KRDO

A Cathedral City man was arrested on suspicion of burglary Tuesday morning. Police were called to the 1200 block of Oro Ridge in Palm Springs around 1:15 a.m. A female resident reported waking up to a noise in her bedroom and noticing her sliding glass door open. According to Palm Springs police, the woman saw

Hand-foot-mouth disease is still plaguing our valley’s youngest residents. That’s just one thing local doctors are talking about when looking at “What’s Going Around” the area where you live. In Palm Springs Dr. Michael Jardula is seeing a resurgence of bronchitis over the last week, along with several cases of pneumonia. He says “once again,

High-profile retired Riverside County district attorney Grover Trask will now look into allegations about eligibility and recruitment practices within the football program at College of the Desert. The investigation was called at Tuesday’s College Board of Trustees meeting after a story appeared in Sunday’s edition of the Desert Sun newspaper. “It felt like a personal

An Indio police officer injured after a deadly shooting on Monday is recovering from substantial but non-life-threatening injuries, said Riverside County sheriff’s spokesman Angel Ramos. He said the officer had responded to the 81900 block of Hoover Street around 2:25 p.m. Minutes later, the officer requested emergency assistance. Riverside County sheriff’s deputies responded to assist

College football will finally have a playoff. Come 2014, the BCS is dead. A committee of university presidents on Tuesday approved the BCS commissioners’ plan for a four-team playoff to start in the 2014 season. The move completes a six-month process in which the commissioners have been working on a new way to determine a