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Palm Springs police asked for donations today to save the department’s police horse program. The Mounted Enforcement Unit costs about $14,000 annually to operate, and the price to replace a horse is between $4,000 to $6,000, said Sgt. Marc Melanson of the Palm Springs Police Department. The department cut funding for the program a few

A $35,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case. If you’d like to contribute to the reward fund, you can request to donate to the fund at Wells Fargo banks. Anyone with information related to the case is urged to call the Moreno Valley Police Department hotline

The family of 17-year-old Norma Lopez used a news conference in Moreno Valley Thursday to eulogize Norma in hopes that attention could turn to finding the person who killed her. Lopez, who would have been a senior in high school, disappeared July 15 while walking home from a summer school class. Her severely decomposed body

Nearly 50 counts of forcible rape were dismissed today against a former Riverside County probation officer accused of sexually assaulting an underage relative in the 1990s. But Donald Monplaisir, 54, still faces a dozen counts of lewd acts with a child under 16, with trial set for next month. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Dale

A Los Angeles man accused of leading deputies on a chase that began in Cabazon and ended in San Bernardino County when he crashed a stolen car into a power pole was behind bars today. Alan Ho, 26, was arrested just before midnight Wednesday near Yucaipa Boulevard in Yucaipa, said Sgt. Ken Reichle of the

Two men kicked in the front door of an Indio home, tied up four people and stole a pickup truck today, but no one was hurt, police said. The home invasion robbery was reported at 4:21 a.m. in the 47900 block of Austin Drive, near Avenue 48, said Ben Guitron of the Indio Police Department.

House Republican leaders have launched a targeted fundraising appeal on behalf of two California representatives facing tough re-elections. The National Republican Congressional Committee on Thursday kicked off several days of phone calls to donors to drum up support for nine vulnerable incumbents across the country. The list includes California Reps. Dan Lungren of Sacramento and

Ayer mircoles se celebr la junta del concilio de Indio en la cual jurament el nuevo Administrador de la Ciudad, quien inicia hoy jueves sus labores como tal. Dan Martnez creci en Indio y trabaj como Director del Departamento de Desarrollo Econmico del Condado de Riverside durante 24 aos. En su junta de ayer mircoles

En su junta de ayer mircoles el concilio de Palm Springs vot unnimemente a favor de comprar un predio de 119 acres con el fin de construir un campus del College of the Desert en el rea del Tramview Road e Indian Canyon Drive. Se espera que las instalaciones estn listas en 2012.

Investigadores del Departamento de Bomberos revelaron la causa que origin el incendio que acab totalmente con una casa y destruy otra en un 80%, ambas ubicadas sobre El Dobe Road al norte de Ramon Road en Cathedral City. Un corto circuito en una extensin en el patio trasero inici las llamas que se extendieron rpidamente

Un selecto grupo de 100 alumnos del Desert Sands Unified School District y 39 del Palm Desert Unified School District estn tomando sus clases de verano por Internet bajo el programa acreditado ?Apex Learning?. El objetivo, adems de que los alumnos puedan lograr sus crditos es ahorrar dinero en un presupuesto en nmeros rojos y

Con el dficit de $19 bdd que enfrenta el estado de California y sin que los legisladores se pongan de acuerdo en el presupuesto para el presente ao fiscal. Ayer se reunieron el Asamblesta republicano Brian Nestande, el demcrata Manuel Prez y la Sociedad Econmica del Valle de Coachella, para discutir el impacto que causa

Investigators trying to determine who abducted and killed a 17-year-old girl just blocks from her high school are conducting vehicle checkpoints and contacting all local registered sex offenders. Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Joseph Borja said Thursday authorities are conducting checkpoints along routes that Norma Lopez frequented. Authorities are also contacting registered sex offenders in Moreno

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,