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Coachella police released a surveillance photo Wednesday showing a man allegedly holding up a check-cashing business last weekend. A police spokesperson said the robbery happened at 11:20am on Saturday at Frontera Financial Services in Coachella. The clerk told police a Hispanic man walked up to the counter, showed him a gun and demanded money from

A third baby has died of whooping cough in Los Angeles County, bringing the total to six deaths this year in California. Health officials on Tuesday did not immediately have further details about the death. Whooping cough has become an epidemic in California, which has recorded about 1,500 cases through July 13. That’s a fivefold

The Palm Springs City Council will likely approve a new incentive program aimed at reviving residential construction, and consider giving additional funding to two other programs, tonight. City Manager David Ready will present an update on the city’s Economic Recovery Plan to the council at the 6 p.m. meeting at the Council Chamber, 3200 E.

The budget mess in Sacramento is taking it’s toll on the Coachella Valley. From tourism and agriculture — to redevelopment projects. The state is in a fiscal crisis — and the Valley is feeling the pain. Wednesday, Assemblymen Brian Nestande and Manuel Perez met with the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership to talk about the dismal

Riverside County Sheriff’s investigators confirm human remains found Tuesday in a Moreno Valley neighborhood are that of a missing 17-year-old girl. Sheriff’s spokesman Joseph Borja said Wednesday they identified the body of Norma Lopez after an autopsy earlier in the morning. The body was found around 3 p.m., apparently by a resident, near Theodore Street

Cathedral City fire investigators confirm a house fire that erupted Monday evening was caused by an electrical malfunction in an outdoor extension cord in the back yard. The fire started just after 5 p.m. Monday on El Dobe in Cathedral City, near Sunny Sands Elementary School. Firefighters battled the fire in temperatures soaring past 111-degrees,

A Cathedral city couple recovered, today, after their home caught fire in a densely populated area of the city Monday evening, which spread to a home next-door. Cal Fire said the home on El Dobe Road near San Eljay caught fire just after 5 p.m. Monday, and spread to a vacant foreclosed property next-door, which

Luciano Ramirez is dusting off Old St. Nick five months early for a good reason: Palm Springs is celebrating Christmas in July. “Let’s see what we can do to help the city,” said Ramirez, who co-owns Latino Books Y Mas. “It’s great. We want to help the city.” The four-day event which begins Thursday will

Investigators called a news conference for 2pm, today, to discuss yesterday’s discovery of human remains in a Moreno Valley field. The FBI assisted Moreno Valley authorities collect evidence Tuesday near where the body was discovered by a neighbor. It was found within a short distance from where Norma Lopez, 17, disappeared last week. Authorities said

Ayer martes el jurado declar culpable de homicidio en segundo grado a Ral Glvez de 28 aos residente de Coachella, quien en Enero de 2006 propin ms de 30 golpes a su hijita de 21 meses de edad hasta causarle la muerte. Glvez ser sentenciado en Septiembre 10 y podra enfrentar 25 aos en prisin

En su junta de ayer martes el Bur del Desert Sands Unified School District vot unnimemente a favor de extender un mes ms los programas de preescolar y someterlo nuevamente a votacin en Agosto 17. La propuesta de eliminar dichos programas surgi en un intento de cerrar el dficit que enfrenta el distrito debido a

Ayer martes alrededor de las 3:00 p.m. fue encontrado un cuerpo sin vida en un rea agrcola de Moreno Valley a dos millas de donde desapareci el pasado jueves Norma Lpez de 17 aos, la cual era buscada por la polica y familiares. El forense del Sheriff coment en conferencia de prensa que tomar una

Palm Springs Police Chief David Dominguez told KESQ Monday afternoon he is no longer approving non-traditional sex stings that target gays. “We found a better way and we learned from that process,” he said. His department will instead use marked police cars and more enforcement. This all stems from the June 2009 Warm Sands neighborhood

It was a little uncomfortable Monday for people and their pets living in the Vista Del Montanas community of Palm Desert. They had to deal with a planned power outage announced by Southern California Edison. The company planned to conduct some routine maintenance. Edison alerted residents about the outage two weeks ago, but Darcy Van

A Coachella man was convicted today of second-degree murder in the fatal beating of his 21-month-old daughter, who had more than 30 injuries. Raul Galvez, 28, was also found guilty of a felony count of assault on a child causing great bodily injury in the Jan. 6, 2006, death of his daughter Yazlan. Galvez, who

The California Highway Patrol says wreckage of a flipped big-rig blocking southbound Interstate 5 near the Newhall Pass won’t be cleared and the freeway reopened until late morning. The 4 a.m. wreck has shut down all southbound travel lanes and has traffic gridlocked for at least 10 miles on I-5 and Interstate 14, some 30

A $35,000 reward was offered today for information leading to the safe return of a 17-year-old Moreno Valley girl abducted last week on her way to a friend’s house. Norma Lopez disappeared Thursday morning after she finished a summer class at Valley View High School and took a shortcut across a field to a residence

Nearly 1,400 Southern California Edison customers lost power today when an underground cable failed, a spokeswoman said. The outage was reported at 5:22 a.m. in an area bordered by Princeton Drive on the north, Clancy Lane on the south, Rancho Palmeras on the east and Creekside Drive on the west, said Edison spokeswoman Vanessa McGrady.

More than 30 local businesses will participate in a fundraiser as part of an effort to raise $10,000 for the Palm Springs Festival of Lights Parade. The four-day “Christmas in July” fundraising campaign will begin Thursday at the city’s weekly street fair, VillageFest, said Amy Blaisdell, the city’s director of communications. The parade, which draws

Desde hoy y hasta maana martes a las 8:00 a.m. se estn llevando a cabo trabajos de construccin sobre San Luis Rey Ave entre el Hwy 111 y El Paseo en Palm Desert, se sugiere utilizar la calle Portola como ruta alterna. En Indio, Varner Road est cerrado completamente a la altura de Jefferson Street