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Palm Springs city leaders announced Fire Chief Blake Goetz will retire at the end of the year. Goetz served the city for 33 years, joining the fire department in 1977 and promoted to fire chief in 2004. Under his leadership, the city developed its Community Emergency Response Team for earthquake preparedness. The city council will

Franklin American Mortgage Company has agreed to a multi-year sponsorship with the Bob Hope Classic, tournament officials announced on Tuesday. Under terms of the three-year, $1.5 million Platinum-level sponsorship, Franklin American Mortgage will receive a variety of benefits, including pro-am playing opportunities, tickets, hospitality and signage on multiple platforms at the event. FAMC will serve

A family friend says Elizabeth Edwards has died of cancer. The estranged wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards died in North Carolina Tuesday at 10:15 a.m., according to the friend who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the family had not announced her death. The family had issued a statement Monday that

El Departamento de Polica de Palm Springs ha incrementado el patrullaje en el rea de Ramon Road y Sunrise Way donde dos peatones han sido atropellados y muertos en menos de dos semanas. Las autoridades han recibido un gran nmero de quejas en torno a personas que cruzan sin usar la zona peatonal y lo

El poltico Steve Snchez de Indio est condicin crtica y en coma inducida. Steve Snchez y su amigo Gabriel Dvalos estaban en una fiesta en Whittier, California el pasado fin de semana cuando llegaron dos sujetos intoxicados e iniciaron una pelea, Snchez y Dvalos en su intento por parar la ria fueron apualados. Snchez recibi

Riverside County law enforcement leaders are detailing the gang crackdown that happened in the eastern part of the Coachella Valley on Tuesday as part of Operation Eastern Encore.

El Palm Springs Unified School District llev a cabo una junta en la que reunieron unos 60 alumnos para discutir el creciente tema del acoso conocido como ?bullying?. Los jvenes compartieron sus experiencias tanto de vctimas como de acosadores, incluso hubo quienes comentaron que en ocasiones son vctimas de sus maestros de quienes deberan tener

La polica est tras la pista de los ladrones que entraron a un saln de 5to grados de la escuela primaria Cahuilla de Palm Springs y se robaron 30 computadoras laptop con un valor de $1,600 dlares cada una, las cuales estn aseguradas, pero toma de cuatro a seis semanas reemplazarlas. En la memoria de

Wayne Gretzky, hockey?s ?Great One,? and former boxing world champion and 1976 Olympic gold medalist Sugar Ray Leonard are set to make their inaugural appearances as celebrity amateur golfers in the Bob Hope Classic, and are joined by actor Kurt Russell among the initial celebrity athletes and entertainers who are scheduled to play in the

Ayer lunes el Condado de Riverside honr en La Quinta con una ceremonia de luces azules a todos los oficiales muertos en cumplimiento de su deber. Adems de autoridades del orden, acudi mucha gente a dicho evento. Entre los recordados se encontraba el oficial Ryan Bonaminio del Departamento del Sheriff quien recientemente fue asesinado en

News Channel 3 and the California Highway Patrol need your help to make this a happy holiday for our neighbors in need. Show You Care, and donate to CHiPS for kids. You can drop-off NEW unwrapped toys at the CHP headquarters at 79-650 Varner Road in Indio or the KESQ Studios at 42-650 Melanie Place

After an 18-month investigation, a team of law enforcement officers started serving search warrants at 450 locations throughout the Coachella Valley on Tuesday morning, according to Indio Police Department spokesman Ben Guitron. Operation Eastern Encore targeted three gangs: the Southside Gang, Jackson Terrace Gang and the Campo Gang. All of them were based in Indio,

U.S. inspections agents assigned to the Indio station on Highway 86 said they seized about $950,000 worth of marijuana on Sunday. At 5:45 a.m., they said a semi-tractor trailer being driven by a 32-year-old male Guatemalan citizen, illegally present in the United States, approached the first inspection area. It was referred for secondary inspection after

Despus de una investigacin de 18 meses, un equipo de ms de mil agentes de 42 dependencias tanto federales, estatales, regionales y locales, realizan en estos momentos el operativo ?Operation Eastern Encore? enfocados en 450 sitios. En dicho operativo las autoridades han etiquetado a las pandillas ?Southside Gang?, ?Jackson Terrace Gang? y ?Campo Gang? del

Steve Sanchez, one-time candidate for the 80th District Assembly Seat, is in critical condition at a Los Angeles-area hospital after being stabbed at a birthday party over the weekend. Whittier police told News Channel 3 they responded to a complaint at 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning on the 6200 block of Friends Avenue. They said two

Palm Springs Unified School officials and police are investigating how thieves got away with thousands of dollars in electronics from Cahuilla Elementary School. The break-in occurred Saturday morning around 4 a.m. The suspects broke a window to get inside a 5th grade classroom. Once inside they took 30 Apple lap top computers which they placed

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is working to identify a body found in Whitewater Sunday morning. Deputies were searching for a missing man when they found the body near the base of the Whitewater Canyon area around 7 a.m., according to Deputy Melissa Nieburger. Forty-eight-year old Paul Kluge from Alhambra went missing last weekend. It’s

A local car club is gearing up for the holidays with a toy drive. The proceeds will go to the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission. The group Rollerz Only held their 5th annual car show and toy drive at the Fantasy Springs Casino. The toys will go to the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission who hope to

Defense attorneys will begin presenting their cases today in the trial of two men accused in the financially motivated killing of a Palm Springs retiree. San Francisco attorney David Replogle, 61, and Miguel Bustamante, 27, of Daly City, face first-degree murder and theft charges in the Dec. 5, 2008, slaying of 74-year-old Clifford Lambert. The

Coroner’s investigators determined today that a body pulled from Whitewater River is that of an Alhambra man. Paul Kluge, 48, was reported missing Friday, by authorities, after his personal effects were found in a rented silver Hyundai Accent at the Whitewater Road Cutoff, near the river, and his information was entered into a national missing