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A man who attacked and robbed somebody with a blunt object is on the loose today. The attack was reported at 5:30 a.m. on Avenida Maravilla at Ramon Road in Cathedral City. The suspect beat the victim with what may have been a 2-by-4 stick and stole several items, said police Sgt. Corwin de Veas.

Fifteen of the top collegiate golf programs are in the desert this weekend for one of the nation’s most prominent tournaments, The Prestige. Hosted by PGA West, the tournament offers a professional-type atmosphere for the collegiate athletes. The tournament also steps beyond the bounds of competition. Players and coaches teamed up to host a clinic

Police today arrested a 26-year-old Monrovia man they believed assisted in the abduction of two Anaheim boys by the children’s father and grandfather last week. Anaheim officers said they arrested David Nicholas at his home in Monrovia, and booked him on suspicion of conspiracy for the Thursday kidnapping case. His bail was set at $1

The caretaker of Cheetah the Chimp, Dan Westfall, will be honored today with a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars. The 4 p.m. ceremony will be held at 100 S. Palm Canyon Drive, according to Amy Blaisdell, the city’s director of communications. Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet said the city is “thrilled” Westfall’s

A man wanted for attempted murder is on the loose after a stand-off that stretched into the late night near Desert Hot Springs. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department tried to serve an arrest warrant at a residence on the 15000 block of Bubbling Wells Road around 2:30 Friday afternoon. They were looking for Juan Carlos

State lawmakers have sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger the main bill in a legislative package aimed at ending California’s record budget impasse and closing a $19 billion deficit. The Senate’s vote early Friday comes more than three months after the start of the fiscal year, as the state was preparing to issue IOUs to state contractors.

Two people were in police custody after a homeowner walked in on a burglary in his home on Thursday, said Riverside County Sheriff’s Sgt. Randall Wedertz. The resident walked in to find a man inside his home on the 45000 block of Quailbrush Street at 12:45 p.m. He subdued the suspect, suffering injuries to his

Investigators are searching for two children abducted from a California apartment complex Thursday night, police said. Authorities issued an Amber Alert for Jacob Quinones, 4, and Justin Quinones, 2, who were abducted from an alley outside the family home in Anaheim, California, said Sgt. Rick Martinez with the Anaheim Police Department. The mother of the

The doors of a Palm Springs medicinal marijuana dispensary Thursday were still closed. The Holistic Collective of Palm Springs was raided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Wednesday for illegally selling and producing marijuana. The city said it played no role in the raid but that it has been trying to close the dispensary

A carport suddenly collapsed Thursday night on Deep Canyon just south of Highway 111 in Palm Desert. Emergency personnel received the call at just before 8 p.m. and arrived to find two cars damaged by a partially collapsed structure. No one was injured from the collapse, but several residents are being kept out of their

Actor Jeremy London was expected to testify today that he was kidnapped and forced to take drugs in Palm Springs, but the hearing was delayed until Tuesday at the request of the defense. Brandon Adams, 27, is charged with carjacking, kidnapping, robbery, taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent and receiving stolen property, along with

Two men charged with the financially motivated murder of 74-year old Clifford Lambert are lodging serious allegations against the Riverside County District Attorney’s office. Twenty-seven year old Daniel Garcia and 28-year-old Kaushal Niroula told Judge Downing they believe the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office obtained hundreds of phone conversations between themselves and their lawyers. Private

A seemingly deranged gunman carrying a can of gasoline, a propane tank and numerous rounds of ammunition opened fire into a crowd of students at a Carlsbad primary school today, grazing two second-graders before being chased down and subdued by witnesses. The unidentified assailant walked onto the grounds of Kelly Elementary and began shooting with

The Riverside County Gang Task force was trying to serve a warrant at a home near Desert Hot Springs Friday afternoon when the man refused to come out, according to a sheriff’s spokesperson. The warrant was issued for Juan Carlos Perez Valenzuela, charged with attempted homicide in King City, near Monterey. Six other people came

KCET announced today it will sever ties with PBS and become an independent television station beginning Jan. 1. The station cited an inability to negotiate an agreement that would decrease the amount of dues paid to PBS and provide for a wider range of programming. Al Jerome, the station’s president and chief executive officer, said

For fifteen days, 5,000 Marines will spend their time in the high desert taking part in Steel Knight. KESQ TV’s crew was embedded with part of the 1st Marine Division. They will take part in different operations in the live-fire combat zone. The first training mission is 2 1/2 hours away from Wilson Base at

Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle has been released from the hospital after collapsing at practice. Team president Donnie Nelson said Carlisle was released from Baylor University Medical Center on Friday afternoon and “is doing good” after fainting on the practice court at the American Airlines Center. The 50-year-old coach was conscious and responding to questions

A single-engine plane that departed from Palm Springs International Airport crashed today as the pilot was making an emergency landing west of Las Vegas, an FAA spokesman said. The plane took off from Palm Springs at 10:18 a.m. Friday morning. The pilot of the Beechcraft Bonanza told air traffic controllers at 11:38 a.m. that the

California Attorney General Jerry Brown, the state’s Democratic candidate for governor, left a phone message in early September for a union official whose endorsement he was seeking, but apparently forgot to hang up — because a lively discussion between him and some staffers afterward is caught on tape. And either Brown or a staffer —

Ayer jueves se les present a los alumnos de 9no grado de Coachella Valley High School el programa ?Operation Graduation? en el que los estudiantes que tenga las 4 ?A?s ganarn un loptop. Las 4 ?A?s significan Attendance, Academic, Activities y Attitud.