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The Health and Human Services Department approved free birth control pills for women today. This means insurance companies must offer this and other free preventative services for pregnancy. Some women have been waiting for this for years. The president of the National Organization for Women says “we have been working on issues for birth control

Dos personas continan hospitalizadas despus de que se incendi el vehculo en que viajaban sobre Grapefruit Blvd. y Mitchel Drive en Coachella el pasado domingo alrededor de las 11:50 p.m. Las vctimas fueron transportadas al hospital, una de ella en estado crtico, ambas recibieron quemaduras en diversas partes de su cuerpo.

Los homicidios aun sin resolver incrementaron en el Valle de Coachella. En el 2010 se registraron 22 asesinatos, ocho an estn sin resolver. En este 2011 suman ya 17 homicidios y nueve an estn pendientes en el limbo. Es por eso que las autoridades piden ayuda de la comunicad y testigos, que si tienen informacin

The driver of a car which crashed through the gates of Palm Desert Country Club on Monday morning was transported to a local hospital, where her condition is not known. Palm Desert police told News Channel 3 a 4-door, green sedan hit a median and a fountain outside of the resort and country club, which

You never know what’s going to happen in the desert when it rains. “Lots of lightning,” said Ross Prout, visiting from Santa Monica. “Heard the thunder. Woke us up around 4 a.m. It was impressive.” The early morning storm caused some electrical problems at the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. The tram remained closed until approximately

A pair of bullet holes — one on the window and one on the wall — became evidence of a house party gone bad. The shooting happened at the 34-000 block of Rebecca Way in Rancho Mirage. Neighbors of the apartment complex couldn’t believe it. “It’s hard enough to hear about it,” said Michelle Wright,

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the Inland Empire increased two-tenths of a cent today to $3.794, one day after decreasing by the same amount. Click here for a list of the 10 least-expensive places to buy gas in the Coachella Valley The average price in Riverside and San Bernardino

I’s a statistic that no one is proud of. The Coachella Valley’s unsolved murders are trending up while California’s numbers are down. In 2010, police across the Valley investigated a total of 22 homicides. Investigators still haven’t solved 8 of them. So far in 2011, there have been 17 homicides valleywide. Nine of those remain

Riverside County issued the following statement on Monday as part of a settlement with the Vagos Motorcycle Gang, which was once being investigated as part of a terror plot against the Hemet Police Department: “In or around March of 2010, the City of Hemet, the District Attorney’s Office, the Riverside Sheriff’s Department and other law

Bomberos del condado Riverside combatieron un incendio de vegetacin que amenaz con expandirse a ms de 100 hectreas. El siniestro se reporto hoy a las 9:11 de la maana al Oeste del Interestatal 10 cerca del rea Whitewater”. Las condiciones climticas fueron un factor en contra de los bomberos ya que las temperaturas aumentaron rpidamente

Dr. Max Henry Weil, a man credited with saving “thousands and thousands of lives,” died at his Rancho Mirage, Calif., home on Friday at the age of 84. He died of an undisclosed illness with his family around him. Just last week, Weil’s accomplishments were hailed in Washington, where Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., paid tribute

A partir del prximo ao todas las mujeres podrn recibir pruebas, para detectar el virus del papiloma humano y obtener sin costo alguno las pldoras anticonceptivas. Bajo la reforma de salud del presidente Obama, a partir de agosto de 2012 las mujeres podrn obtener mtodos anticonceptivos sin ningn costo, con el fin de mejorar la

Un accidente entre un automvil y un carrito de golf que transportaba qumicos dej a una mujer en el hospital. El contratiempo ocurrio al rededor de las 9:30 esta maana. Al momento del choque, los materiales cayeron sobre los autos. La conductora del automvil fue transportada al hospital con heridas menores. Segn autoridades, la mujer

A former Desert Hot Springs police officer was sentenced today to probation and community service and was fined for using a Taser on a handcuffed suspect. David Raymond Henderson, 52, pleaded guilty in April in Los Angeles federal court to a misdemeanor civil rights charge of deprivation of rights, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Cheryl

Southlanders were warned today about a scam in which victims are told they must make a “payment” of several thousand dollars in order to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in “prize winnings.” “Don’t be fooled,” said Melissa Arnson of Farmers Insurance Group. Arnson said people have received what appears to be an official letter

Central Riverside County is under a Flash Flood Warning untiil 3:30 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. At 2 p.m., the NWS said flash flooding was indicated by Doppler radar from a storm over the warned area. Click here for live radar images and the latest forecast from KESQ’s First Alert Weather Center “The

El sbado a las 3:20 a.m. la polica recibi una llamda que reportaba una balacera en una fiesta que se desarrollaba en una casa ubicada sobre Rebecca Way en Rancho Mirage. Cuando los oficiales llegaron, encontraron a dos jovencitas heridas de bala, de inmediato fueron transportadas al hospital. No se dieron mas detalles del tiroteo

El sbado a las 7:30 p.m. un hombre que era buscado por la polica viajaba como pasajero en un carro cuando fue visto por agentes que realizaban patrullaje de rutina sobre la carretera 111 en Thermal, donde inici una persecucin policaca. Mas adelante los dos sujetos bajaron del auto y huyeron a pie. El chofer,

Dos personas se recuperan en el hospital como resultado de un choque entre dos vehculos ocurrido el sbado a las 4:10 p.m. en la interseccin de Fred Waring Drive y Hoover Street en Indio. El rea fue cerrada al trnsito mientras se realizaba una investigacin.