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Right now some 14-hundred students are getting a jump on medical careers here in the valley. It’s part of a program launched at several valley schools by the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership. Paul Hulbert and Martha Orozco are both products of the Palm Springs High School Health Academy which comes under the umbrella of the

After our recent investigation exposed a Sea Mountain Spa employee sharing exactly what goes on inside, Desert Hot Springs Councilman Russell Betts confirms he has asked Desert Hot Springs City Manager Rick Daniels and the City’s Attorney Ruben Durran to draft sample ordinances for presentation to and consideration by the city council that will limit,

The following is a correspondence received by KESQ regarding our coverage of the Sea Mountain Hotel: “Allow is to clear up some real misconceptions and Sea Mountain Hotel. At no time does our hotel legally licensed as a nude resort call itself a sex spa. The Hotel is a Nude Hotel and spa resort. The

A 35-year-old employee of a Palm Desert pool company suffered burns to nearly a third of his body today when a propane line exploded at a home under construction, authorities said. The explosion was reported at 7:30 a.m. at a home at 71301 Cholla Lane in Palm Desert, said Capt. Fernando Herrera of the Riverside

A Riverside couple together face 149 felony charges for allegedly stealing around $500,000 in public funds intended for physically and sexually abused children in foster care, prosecutors announced today. Purcell Johnson, 50, and his wife, Laverne Johnson, 47, are accused of taking state money meant for the support of foster children and using it to

A Palm Springs man shot a romantic rival in the head without warning, a prosecutor told jurors today, but the defendant’s attorney claimed his client’s girlfriend was the shooter. Dale Farquhar is charged in the Nov. 13 slaying of 57-year-old Larry Roger Fisk of Apple Valley at the Palm Springs Villas condominium complex at 680

The Palm Springs City Council is scheduled to consider issuing a permit for a third medical marijuana dispensary to operate at tonight’s meeting. In March 2009, the council voted to allow two collectives, or cooperatives, in compliance with state law to operate within the city’s three industrial zones. Of 11 applicants, the council awarded the

Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of a Cathedral City house fire. Firefighters were called to Corregidor Drive near Date Palm and Gerald Ford Tuesday night around 7:30. The fire appears to have been limited to an attic area. No one was home at the time. The landlord says he had just stopped

Redlands Police confirm they caught 34-year-old William Jones after leading them on an hour-long high speed chase. It started in Redlands after an officer saw Jones run a stop sign and had no license plates on his car. Officials say that Jones was involved in an assault and kidnapping that occurred on May 31st in

Senator Barbara Boxer arrived at the Riverside County Registrar of Voters Wednesday to grab a ballot. The Rancho Mirage resident says she was planning to vote absentee, but decided to take care of it in-person and talk about the advantages of early voting. “You have lots of time to contemplate who you’re going to vote

President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered executive-branch agencies to extend to employees’ same-sex partners the same benefits provided to their opposite-sex partners, to the extent allowed by law. The move followed up on Obama’s memorandum last year that extended some benefits to same-sex partners of government workers and ordered federal agencies to review additional benefits

A light plane on an emergency landing approach to Gillespie Field clipped trolley power lines and crashed onto a street at the western edge of the East County airport today, coming to rest upside-down with the pilot trapped inside and the severed live electrical wires draped across it. The man flying the Czech Aircraft Works

More than 160 people were arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Riverside County over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, authorities said today. The arrests were made during a three-day drunken driver crackdown conducted by the “Avoid The 30” campaign, which is named for the number of police agencies that operate in the county. Law

A probe into the handling of ex-Riverside police Chief Russ Leach’s drunken driving crash concluded there was no cover-up by officers, but “deficient decisions” resulted in Leach receiving preferential treatment, city officials said today. According to Riverside City Manager Brad Hudson, a 2,500-page internal affairs report on the chief’s DUI crash in a city-owned vehicle

More than 24 hours after an explosion caused a massive power outage in southern Palm Springs, nearly 200 people started Wednesday without power. Southern California Edison says power was finally turned back on at 10:40am. The company says the first response team completed initial repairs from an underground explosion on Tuesday, but the damage is

An independent review has found that state parole agents missed numerous chances to send a convicted child molester back to prison before he raped and killed two teenagers. The report issued Wednesday by the inspector general for the state corrections department examines how agents handled the case of John Gardner. It concluded that they did

A 45-year-old Desert Hot Springs middle school security guard was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of inappropriately touching two female students and telling several others he wanted them to have his baby. Marvin Cash, who worked at Desert Springs Middle School on Two Bunch Palms Trail, was taken into custody at his home in the 65500

A Cathedral City man is hospitalized, and police are looking for the man who shot him. Officers were called to the 68-700 block of Cedar, just north of Dinah Shore, Monday night at 9:30 after neighbors heard gun shots. Police searched the area, and found the man and some bullet shells. They haven’t released the

Mosquitoes infected with West Nile Virus turned up along the Riverside County line, last month, just south of Chino, and just last week along the North Shore area of the Salton Sea. West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control in Ontario says the discoveries make Riverside County the first area in the state to report West

A “massive area” of Palm Springs lost power this morning, according to Southern California Edison. The outage affected 1,300 customers. By 9:55am, power had been restored to 1,123 customers, according to the power company, leaving nearly 200 more waiting. They may have to wait until 12:30am (past midnight). The outage affects the area of Palm