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Cathedral City police and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department are actively looking for a fifth person who they believe may have been involved in at least one burglary. Four others, all minors, were arrested after their vehicle crashed at the intersection of Dinah Shore and Denise Way, this afternoon. All four people inside ran from

The California Highway Patrol tells News Channel 3 that a CHP plane, Cessna 206, and its pilot were found late Friday afternoon after missing somewhere in the region of the Salton Sea. The pilot had been killed. Details are very limited right now, but the FAA tells KESQ the last contact with its base was

“We have a risky job everyday that we go out. It’s one of those things,” said Officer, Pablo Torrez. CHP pilot Danny Benavides was enforcing the laws of the road from the sky when his plane went down. “He was just doing his job,” said Torrez. The 39-year-old had just finished a speed detail and

As the childhood obesity epidemic soars out of control, parents and schools encourage children to get active and participate in physical education. Now, a new study reveals a surge in injuries among children during P.E. class. It’s the time and place for kids to run around, get exercise, learn new sports and, get hurt? “Me

The oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is hitting home for some here in the Southland. “This is going to be a lot worse than anyone thinks it’s going to be,” said Gary Rosenblum, a former corporate manager for oil company Arco, which merged with British Petroleum in 1999. Since the Deepwater Horizon

An early-morning fire in North Palm Springs caused $15,000 in damage to a single-family home, Riverside County fire investigators said. The fire was first reported at 3:17 a.m. Friday at a home on Sanborn Street at Thumb Drive. Firefighters arrived to find smoke showing from the outside of the home, with flames visible through the

More than a dozen Palm Springs city workers have received pink slips, including workers from the City Clerk’s office, Building Planning, Street Maintenance and Public Works. Meanwhile, budget cuts are also hitting the city’s fire department. City leaders are trying to cut more than $7 million dollars from the budget. That’s why fire station number

The newest version of the Cabazon Elementary School mascot will be dedicated Friday morning. It was back in January when vandals broke into the school causing thousands of dollars of damage. Perhaps the most emotional loss was the school’s dinosaur mascot. The community raised nearly $4,000 to rebuild it. A new dinosaur was delivered to

A juvenile inmate tried to escape by jumping out of a moving van on Interstate 10 near Palm Springs today but was quickly taken back into custody, authorities said. The 17-year-old boy picked a door lock around 1 p.m. as the van was westbound on I-10 at Indian Canyon Drive, said Alan Crogan, chief probation

A couple from Bermuda Dunes are the proud parents of four babies. Scott and Cari Young gave birth to a set of quadruplets on Wednesday. The one girl and three boys are healthy, stable, and remain under care at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs. The names have

A former Banning police officer, his father and two friends are facing insurance fraud charges for filing claims on a pickup truck that was reported stolen, but which allegedly was actually hidden by the defendants. Travis Earl Jones, 24, Jeffrey Earl Jones, 52, Ernest Leite, 44, and Steven Kyle Mestas, 31, were arrested April 30

The Riverside County Sheriff’s office confirms Kennedy’s Market, owned by Coachella City Councilman Gilbert Ramirez, was broken into Thursday morning, A worker says thousands of dollars in cash and items in the market were stolen in the theft, which happened early in the morning before the store opened. The market is located at Monroe street

The turbulence continued in the stock market Friday, a day after some of the most volatile trading in history. Traders looked past a surprisingly strong report on the U.S. jobs market and focused instead on Europe’s spreading debt crisis and Thursday’s plunge, which gave the Dow its largest-ever drop. The Dow fell almost 1,000 points

El Departamento del Sheriff ya revel los nombres de tres criminales que encabezan la lista de lo ms buscados del Valle de Coachella. Se trata de Jorge Aguilar de 69 aos quien de 1996 a 1997 forz a una nia de 8 aos a tocar sus genitales, Aguilar admiti los hechos t se dio a

La Comisin de Valores de Estados Unidos (SEC por su sigla en ingls) abri una investigacin por el repentino derrumbe de los mercados accionarios el jueves, dijo el viernes una fuente con conocimiento del tema. El jueves, la SEC y la Comisin de Negociacin de Futuros de Materias Primas dijeron que estaban trabajando junto a

San Bernardino County firefighters responded to a house fire call, Thursday, to find the home fully engulfed in flames and a 17-year-old suffering burns. The fire broke out around 7:10pm Thursday night, and was reported by a pastor that lives nearby and saw the smoke and flames. The fire department tells News Channel 3 the

Windows shot out at a sheriff’s substation in Mecca did not appear to be connected to recent, unsolved attacks on Hemet law enforcement, a sheriff’s deputy said today. A deputy discovered the windows had been shot out around 7:30 a.m. at the unoccupied substation at 91260 Avenue 66, said Deputy Herlinda Valenzuela of the Riverside

With the judge unavailable, sentencing was postponed today for a Cabazon couple who let their diabetic teenage daughter’s condition deteriorate until she slipped into a coma and died. On March 24, a Riverside jury found Gregory Lee Latham, 63, and Yvonne Dee Latham, 53, guilty of second-degree murder, child endangerment and a sentence-enhancing allegation of

El cineasta Robert Rodrguez dej claro su rechazo a la nueva y controversial ley de inmigracin de Arizona al difundir un avance especial de su nueva pelcula de accin. Fox no estrenar “Machete” sino hasta septiembre, pero Rodrguez colg el mircoles en internet un avance presentado por el protagonista Danny Trejo, quien dice que el

(Por CNN En Espanol) El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos extendi este jueves la alerta de viajes hacia Mxico debido a los altos niveles de violencia producto del narcotrfico. La dependencia estadounidense agreg que contina en vigor la salida autorizada de dependientes de funcionarios estadounidenses en los consulados fronterizos de Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Jurez,