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Siete mujeres que se extraviaron mientras excursionaban en las montaas San Jacinto fueron rescatadas el sbado por la noche despus de que fueran reportadas por sus familiares. Una de las mujeres experiment problemas de salud y fue transportada al hospital de Palm Springs va helicptero.

Phyllis Claire Burgess is back in the spotlight. She’s now running for mayor, using a straw-made statue of a chicken as a prop. “Don’t chicken out!” she said. “Vote for Phyllis.” Burgess made headlines in 2008 when Prop 8 passed. She arrived at a city hall rally carrying a cross. An angry mob attacked her,

Hoy lunes a las 12:15 a.m. los bomberos sofocaron un incendio en una casa abandonada ubicada sobre Calle Camacho y Ave 53 en Coachella. Y ayer a las 3:30 p.m. una estructura ubicada sobre la Ave 38 ardi en llamas que fueron extinguidas de inmediato por los traga humo. En ambos casos no hubo heridos

Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of 4 people shot in Coachella early Sunday morning. They were called to the scene around 4 a.m. on Jackson Street and 50th Avenue. Deputies arriving on the scene found two adults and two minors suffering from gunshot wounds. An investigation is underway. The Sheriff’s Department says it

(CNS) – The Ocean View Little League All-Stars from Huntington Beach earned a berth in the Little League World Series today with a 2-1 victory over their counterparts from Red Bluff in Northern California in the West Region Tournament championship game in San Bernardino. Steven Kotkosky greeted reliever Lane Pritchard with a two-run home run

A Cathedral City man is recovering from several gunshot wounds after shots were fired out of a passing car early Sunday morning. Sgt. C. de Veas said the gunshots were reported just after 4 a.m. at the Creekside Apartments, 68200 33rd Avenue, just west of Cathedral Canyon and south of Ramon Road. Officers arrived and

Indio’s Antonio Diaz ended his 16-year boxing career in convincing fashion. Diaz beat Mexico’s Ernesto Zepeda by technical knockout in the eighth round at Fantasy Springs Resort and Casino. A sold out crowd of 2,000 saw Diaz put the finishing touches on a long, successful boxing career. He plans to stay around boxing as a

Go outside before dawn, and if the Perseid meteor shower of 2011 is good to you, you will be able to see the sky falling. Every year at this time, the Earth passes through the orbit of a comet called Swift-Tuttle, and the result is a meteor shower — shooting stars, up to 50 or

A world-famous guitarist with a reputation for backing environmental causes has filed suit against the California Coastal Commission, charging that the agency improperly turned down a request to build a series of five houses on a prominent ridge overlooking Malibu. David Evans, better known as “The Edge,” and several business associates filed four lawsuits late

The wife of a man charged with murdering a 70-year-old La Quinta woman in June has been arrested and charged with being an accessory to the crime, the sheriff’s department said today. On Friday, sheriff’s investigators arrested Madelyn Alexis Oudin, 73, of Lakewood, and booked her at Indio Jail for suspicion of being an accessory

A search was underway today for a man who broke into an apartment in Palm Springs and tried to rape a woman, police officers said. Officers responded at 2:30 a.m. Saturday to an apartment in the 2800 block of Golf Club Drive, where a woman reported that an unknown adult male had broken into her

Authorities asked for the public’s help Friday in tracking down a 2-year-old California girl who the FBI says was abducted by her father. An Amber Alert was issued Friday for Madeline Samaan-Fay, who was last seen around 9 a.m. five days earlier in Sacramento, California. The FBI said in a press release that the girl

A man was taken into custody on Wednesday in connection with a deadly shooting in Desert Hot Springs on Aug. 2. Investigators said a collaborative effort with several law enforcement and investigative agencies located Paulino Lora, 22, in Calexico on Wednesday. He was taken into custody without incident, said Sgt. Kenneth Peary. Lora had been

Habitat for Humanity partnered with the city of Indio and other local organizations to build three new homes in Downtown Indio on Bliss and King streets in the Coachella Valley. Alma Gonsales and her family were chosen to live in one of the three new homes, and Gonsales says the process took more than a

Cathedral City police are looking for any information that may lead them to the identity of a juvenile female who was hit by a car on East Palm Canyon Drive late Thursday night. Sgt. C. de Veas said the accident was reported at 10:15 p.m. near the intersection of Buddy Rogers Avenue, where officers found

A Palm Desert man accused of killing his next-door neighbor’s son and 2-year-old granddaughter amid a dispute over scratches on a pickup truck pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in Riverside County court in Indio on Friday. His plea came more than four months after the fatal shooting. Juan Carlos Alcala, 43, is charged

The wildest week in Wall Street’s history is ending on an up note. A rebound in retail sales in July helped the stock market push higher Friday. The week has been marked by seesaw trading. The Dow Jones industrial average rose or fell by more than 400 points each of the first four days of

The class of 2010 at Riverside County high schools had a 16.7 percent dropout rate, below the statewide figure of 18.2 percent, according to figures released today by the state Department of Education. The dropout figures are the first from a new system that tracked students beginning when they started ninth grade in the 2006-07

Un sujeto de La Quinta se encuentra en custodia de las autoridades acusado de asaltar sexualmente a una adolescente. El hombre ha trabajado como maestro y entrenador en una escuela del Distrito Escolar Desert Sands. Se trata de Daniel Patrick Armstrong, quien fue arrestado ayer en su hogar de la Avenida 52. La presunta vctima

Fue arrestado un sujeto sospechoso de participar en un tiroteo donde una persona muri. Se trata de Paulino Lora quien presuntamente dispar contra un grupo de personas que se encontraban reunidas sobre la calle Ironwood, en Desert Hot Springs el pasado 2 de agosto. Lora fue detenido en Calexico, tras ser localizado por una unidad