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Firefighters made quick work, putting out a fire at the intersection of Belardo and Ramon Road in Palm Springs on Friday afternoon. The call came in at 3:29pm, and crews had to evacuate hikers from the Taqhuitz Canyon area to get them to safety. If you have pictures of the fire, click here to send

The roads were flooded with drivers headed out of the valley for Memorial Day weekend Friday, and the California Highway Patrol beefed up patrols to enforce its ‘2010 Click it or Ticket Campaign.’ CHP will also assist other agencies that are holding DUI checkpoints. DUI deaths have dropped more than 20 percent since 2005, but,

Attorneys on both sides said today they needed more time to prepare for a preliminary hearing for the onetime head of security for the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, who allegedly killed a tribal leader and two other people in 1981. James “Jimmy” Hughes faces murder and conspiracy charges in the deaths of Ralph Arthur

A tanker truck that overturned and exploded today on the eastbound Riverside (91) Freeway near the Corona (71) Expressway was involved in a chain-reaction crash that resulted in no serious injuries, authorities said. The crash involving the gas truck, another big rig and four compact vehicles occurred around 10:30 a.m., according to the California Highway

The daughter of a terminally ill Joshua Tree man will get married this afternoon in the chapel of a Palm Springs hospital so that the stage four cancer patient can witness the ceremony, a spokesman said. Terry Lukens, 66, is being treated for an inoperable brain tumor at Desert Regional Medical Center, where the 5

One person was shot, and two others wounded in a drive-by shooting that that sent a car swerving into a telephone poll, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The car hit the pole at West 7th Street and South Lion Avenue in San Jacinto at 10:31am, Friday. Authorities responded to what they thought was

Ayer jueves a las 6:28 a.m. el Departamento de Bomberos recibi una llamada que reportaba el incendio de una traila tipo vivienda ubicada en el Tri-Palm Estates de Thousand Palms. Una mujer fue transportada al hospital con quemaduras y lastimada de una rodilla en su intento por salir de la vivienda.

Hoy viernes a las 7:30 p.m. iniciar la ceremonia de graduacin de ms de 500 alumnos de College of the Desert que despus de aos entre los libros, exmenes y clases llegan a tan esperado da de graduacin. Despus se realizar una recepcin en el gimnasio del College of the Desert.

La polica arrest a un sujeto que en Mayo 17 pasado entr a una casa ubicada sobre Desert View Ave en Desert Hot Springs y se rob nueve guitarras con valor de miles de dlares. Un testigo vio el carro del malandrn y lo report a los investigadores que finalmente lo atraparon. Se trata de

El Departamento de Polica de Indio anunci un retn de sobriedad para maana sbado desde las 8 p.m. en un punto no revelado. En Desert Hot Springs habr otro retn hoy viernes desde las 8:00 p.m. sobre Palm Drive y Park Lane.

Millions of Southern Californians will be on the roads for the long Memorial Day weekend, and gasoline prices have dipped a few cents to make the travel a little easier on your wallet. The L-A County average for a gallon of regular stands at 3-dollars-and-3-cents … down about 7-cents over the past week. While that

Five people were hurt late Wednesday afternoon — one critically — in a rollover crash on eastbound Interstate 10 east of Coachella, authorities said. The crash was reported at 4:23 p.m. on eastbound Interstate 10 at Frontage Road, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said. One patient was airlifted to a hospital for treatment of serious

Each year consumers spend millions of dollars on computer repairs. But how do you know you’re getting what we paid for? With the help of a Hollywood makeup artist, we went undercover with four Dell Desktop computers. The only thing wrong with each of them was a power supply cable to the hard drive was

After more than a year of paperwork and bringing the business up to code, Cannahelp, a medicinal marijuana dispensary, celebrated Wednesday it’s grand reopening. It’s been a long wait for medical marijuana patient, Ava Weinstein. “I was born legally blind, and I use it for muscle spasms in my eyes,” she said. Weinstein moved to

A brush fire sparked by a metal grinder scorched 75 acres of vegetation today east of Hemet, but no structures were threatened. The blaze broke around noon near Fairview and Whittier avenues east of Hemet, said Jody Hagemann of the Riverside County Fire Department. Firefighters fully contained the fire by 5 p.m., according to Hagemann,

Superior Court Judge Paul Zellerbach is challenging incumbent Rod Pacheco for Riverside County District Attorney. The candidates have made few campaign promises. Instead, they took the gloves off in a town hall meeting of republican women in Banning. Zellerbach criticized Pacheco, specifically about a grand jury report accusing the district attorney of using fear and

“He was always so happy. He was a mama’s boy for sure.” 23-year-old Katie Tagle remembers her 9-month-old son Wyatt, who was just learning to pull himself up on his feet. “I’m still in shock, it hasn’t fully hit me.” On January 31, along a mountain road in Twin Peaks, Tagle’s ex-boyfriend, Stephen Garcia, shot

Indio will mark its 80th anniversary with a celebration at City Hall today. At 9 a.m., Mayor Gene Gilbert will speak and unseal a time capsule. Among the tell-tale items in the capsule is the book “Indio: Reflections and Visions,” city spokesman Jim Curtis said. Copies of newspapers in English and spanish will be placed

State, county, and local political leaders along with environmental scientists will meet today in Indian Wells. They plan to discuss a solution for the Salton Sea before it dries up and creates an environmental and economic calamity. The concern is over increasing salinity and dwindling water supply at our state?s largest lake. One point of

The Riverside County Probation Department tells News Channel 3 a 17-year-old who escaped from Indio Juvenile Hall last Friday is back behind bars. The teen was tracked down Monday morning in Moreno Valley. They caught up to him when someone reported a possible prowler on Frederick Street. He was arrested without incident. Probation officials do