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VALLEJO -Vallejo police are still searching for a 12-year-old girl who was allegedly snatched by her biological mother Wednesday morning. Christy Adoshjuaniq had been walking home from school at about 10 a.m. on Whitney Street when she was picked up by her mother, police said. Christy called her aunt, who she was staying with while

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EAST PALO ALTO -A small plane that went down in a Northern California neighborhood, killing all three aboard, is owned by an employee of Tesla Motors Inc. The twin-engine Cessna 310 crashed in a residential area of East Palo Alto on Wednesday morning after hitting some power lines. It had just taken off from Palo

FT. LAUDERDALE -Tiger Woods will end nearly three months of silence Friday when he speaks publicly for the first time since his middle-of-the-night car accident sparked stunning revelations of infidelity. However, his agent said Woods will not take any questions from a small group of media. “This is not a press conference,” Mark Steinberg said

By News Channel 3newsline3@kesq.com PALM DESERT -We have a quick note about some possible traffic delays. In Rancho Mirage, Monterey will be down to one lane in each direction between Gerald Ford and Frank Sinatra. Crews are re-paving the roadway there. And we may be enjoying great weather right now, but the storms from a

PALM SPRINGS – Three-dimensional movies like ‘Avatar’ wowed us with it’s magical display of images. “I think the technology is here to stay,” says professor Martin Banks. Hesays if it’s done incorrectly,3D movies or 3DTV can cause eye strain and headaches for some viewers, particularly younger one. “So when you hit your 50’s and 60’s

WASHINGTON -President Barack Obama says his team has done “an outstanding job” in staving off another Great Depression. Marking the one year anniversary of the economic stimulus law, Obama praised the $787 billion recovery act. In his words, “There has never been a program of this scale, moved at this speed, that has been enacted

INDIO -Police are looking for a suspect who stabbed a homeless man at an Indio market, Tuesday night. It happened around 4:45pm at the Baja Meat Market on Van Buren, just behind the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission. Police say the victim is a 46-year old man, who does go to the rescue mission. Sheriff’s deputies

WASHINGTON -The White House is confirming for the first time the capture of the Afghan Taliban’s leader in Pakistan. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Wednesday that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was arrested earlier this month in a joint operation by CIA and Pakistani security forces, “is a big success for our

NEW ORLEANS -Despite temperatures falling to the freezing mark overnight and not expected to get much above 50, Mardi Gras in New Orleans is staying hot. Parades rolled until late Monday night. People partied on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter until much later. Along historic St. Charles Avenue, revelers stacked ladders, chairs, and roped

WASHINGTON -Toyota says it plans to idle production at assembly plants in Texas and Kentucky while it grapples with massive recalls in the United States. Toyota spokesman Mike Goss says a plant in San Antonio, Texas, has scheduled production breaks for the weeks of March 15 and April 12. Goss says a plant in Georgetown,

PALM DESERT -Friends and family of a College of the Desert student are praying for his survival after a crash that killed his girlfriend and a motorcyclist. Zachary McMan is reportedly in a medically induced coma after the car he was driving Sunday swerved into oncoming traffic on Highway 74 south of Palm Desert. Police

CATHEDRAL CITY -A stabbing victim is recovering after an armed robbery in Cathedral City overnight. Police say it happened on the 68-600 block of Corral Road near Cathedral Canyon. Officers say three men– all hispanic– between 18 and 20 years old– approached the victims walking on the sidewalk. One of the victims explains what happened

CATHEDRAL CITY – Don Krell looks at what’s left from a fire that burned down this mobile home Sunday Night. Pictures from a neighbor show flames engulfing the vacant home at the Tram View Mobile Home Park. “Sirens close and then they quit. So we immediately look up out our front door window and we

PALM DESERT – If Magnesia Falls Drive in Palm Desert is part of your daily commute,Monday was the time to find a detour. “Surprise, surprise, surprise,” says motorist Mike Hitchcock. “How long is this going to be out?” asks motorist Julie Fleischman. The section of Magnesia Falls Drive between San Pablo and Portola Avenues is

PALM DESERT – The valley is coming off a big weekend that was a boon for business.There was plenty going on in both ends of the valley. The Riverside County Fair in Indio helped bring people to town. On the west side,nearly 10 thousand cyclists converged on Downtown Palm Springs for the annual Tour de

BEAUMONT – A substitute teacher at San Gorgonio Middle School has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a student. The superintendent tells authorities that 35-year-old Kimberly Lavonne Fleming-McBeth grabbed the student shortly after school started and pushed her against a wall. The student also reported that the teacher grabbed the girl’s cell phone and looked

MOUNT SAINT HELENS, Wash. – A rescue helicopter from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island has recovered a body of in an area where they had been searching for a 52-year-old Kelso man who fell 1,000-feet into the crater of Mount St. Helens.Witnesses said the body was partially buried in the snow, and rescuers used shovels

LOS ANGELES -Former Los Angeles Police Department Chief Daryl Gates has been hospitalized for three weeks with bladder cancer, which has spread to part of the bone structure near his hip, his brother said today. “The bone cancer has been very painful and has significantly but temporarily reduced his normal activities,” retired LAPD Capt. Steve