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CATHEDRAL CITY – Several students at Cathedral City High School woke up extra early on Thursday to stand up for their teachers.They stoodat the driveway entrance to the school chanting “No more cuts! Save our schools!” Eleventh grade student Jenny Olea said, “I care about my teachers a lot because they’re the ones giving us

México recupera liderato en Concacaf ubicándose en la posición 15 mientras que Estados Unidos ocupa la 18 Con anotaciones del Chicharito Hernández y Carlos Vela, que acabó lesionado, el Tri sigue su buen paso en el camino previo a Sudáfrica, superando a Nueva Zelanda 2-0 Cuauhtémoc blanco recibió la confianza del Vasco Aguirre iniciando como

DESERT HOT SPRINGS -The City of Desert Hot Springs has just announced a public safety tax will be on the June ballot. Voters approved raising the tax back in 2008 giving the city $1.5 millionto hire more police officers and save for a new fire station. Police Chief Pat Williams added more officers to the

CATHEDRAL CITY -Raymond Bowen spoke to News Channel 3 after posting $50,000 bail. He faces accusations that he sexually assaulted his former girlfriend, and that he was growing marijuana plants inside his apartment. “They had known whatI was doing inside, and she had already explained to them from the way they were questioning me,” Bowen

RANCHO MIRAGE – It is quite fitting to be reading a Dr. Seuss book to students at Rancho Mirage Elementary on Tuesday. It isthe author’s birthday and the “Read Across America” event. “You can learn stuff and learn new words and build up your education,” saysthird grade student, Jordan Bradley. The school’s principal is proud

By: Mike Daniels, News Channel 3 Reportermdaniels@kesq.comLA QUINTA – The Desert Sands Unified School District Board of Education members unanimously gave the okay for the district if needed layoff 155 teachers.Assistant principals, counselors and other positions are also on the chopping block. A total of 211 people could be laid-off. Indio High School teacher Richard

DETROIT – (WXYZ) – Hundreds of students have been evacuatedafter anexplosive device went off on the third floor of a school in southwest Detroit. All 540 students who attend Phoenix Multicultural Academy were evacuated andmoved to Roberto Clemente.Detroit Police say a student brought what’s called a Drano-bomb to school. It went off in the hallway

CABAZON-A suspect wanted for allegedly trying to kill a police officer was arrested today during a dawn raid at the Morongo Band of Mission Indians’ reservation, just east of Banning. With the help of Morongo tribal officers, members of the Riverside County sheriff’s Special Investigations Bureau arrested 34-year-old Clifford Wilson Matthews at a house he

SAN DIEGO -A registered sex offender pleaded not guilty today to charges of murdering Poway High School senior Chelsea King, who vanished last week while jogging in northern Rancho Bernardo. John Albert Gardner III, 30, was arrested Sunday in connection with the disappearance of the 17-year-old straight-A student and San Diego Youth Symphony French horn

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COACHELLA -Six Coachella men were arrested in connection with an investigation into a residential burglary and several vehicle burglaries in southern Coachella Valley, a sheriff’s sergeant said today. The arrests came after deputies from the Southern Coachella Valley Community Services District served a search warrant around 6 p.m. Tuesday in the 52000 block of Shady

INDIO -A sheriff’s deputy accused of having illegal sex with a teenage girl pleaded not guilty today to a felony charge. Deputy Christian Rene Talavera, 28, who has been with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department for three years, faces one felony count of sexual penetration with a minor. Talavera surrendered around 10 a.m. and was

Hoy enfrenta México su segundo examen rumbo a Sudáfrica y el rival en turno es mundialista: Nueva Zelanda Rafael Márquez se apretó el gafete de capitán del Tri y se comprometió a lograr algo histórico en Sudáfrica La sentencia de Jesús Corona llegó por parte de Alberto Aguilar, entrenador de porteros de la Selección, mientras

RIVERSIDE -The sentence is two years for a former Catholic priest. Fifty-one-year-old Anthony Garduno was accused of selling methamphetamine out of his chapel in Home Gardens, near Riverside. He pleaded guilty in January to possessing drugs for sale, as well as receiving stolen property and prescription drugs. Garduno has also been accused of several sexual

HEMET -Court documents show that a bloody mattress pad and carpet with traces of blood were found in a Riverside County home where a 17-year-old’s burned body was found. A page of a Dec. 1 search warrant was unsealed by a judge on Monday. Other portions of search warrants unsealed last week said police found

COACHELLA -The Riverside County Sheriffs Department is looking for a man who they say led law enforcement on a brief pursuit, this morning, in Coachella. Officers were trying to pull over themanwhen they say he took off. He eventually jumped out of the car andran off in the area of Fillmore and Avenue 52 and

PALMSPRINGS -With the disappearance of 17-year-old Chelsea King after being out for a run, “being aware”is a very serious reminder. It’s the first thing the Palm Springs girls cross country runners learn: not how to run fast, instead how to stay safe. They are also told not to listen to an iPod. The music is

INDIO – Sergio Villegas couldn’t hold back the tears of relief after he learning more than a dozen of his extended family, who live in Chile, are alive after Saturday’s 8.8 earthquake. “God can do miracles and I think this is one of them that my family’s okay,” says Villegas, fighting back tears. He first

PALM SPRINGS – Medical marijuana users in Palm Springs are still waiting for twodispensaries to openafter the City Council approved them last month. Thedispensaries that got the green light are Cannahelp and Desert Organic Solutions.They beat out 9 other applicants to operate legally out of industrial tracks within city limits. However, neither dispensary has opened

PALM SPRINGS -Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will join today with a local wind farm company and Palm Springs city officials to talk about creating clean technology jobs in the Coachella Valley. The governor is expected to discuss a tax credit for green tech manufacturing equipment sales and the city’s innovation hub designation at the 9:30 a.m.