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KDI Kares, the non-profit arm of KDI Elements, is coordinating a shoe drive this summer to obtain as many new shoes as possible to be given to school children in conjunction with the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission’s Back to School Backpack Giveaway which will take place on Saturday, August 22 at the Van Buren Elementary

DESERT HOT SPRINGS – Thousands of people in the Coachella Valleyare vowing to fight crime in their neighborhoodsas part of the National Night Out. From Indio to Desert Hot Springs, neighbors spent the night getting to know their neighbors in an effort to fight crime.Some residents ofthe Arroyo de Paz Apartmentsin Desert Hot Springs don’t

CATHEDRAL CITY – Hundreds of residents from the Sky Valley Mobile Home Park were told to go to Workman Middle School in Cathedral City after an electrical fire shutoff all power to the mobile home park. The fire happened just before 5 p.m.Monday.According to firefighters and residents, the electrical swtich boxes and lines caught fire

Heat waves don’t always translate into crime waves. But criminal activity does change during the long, hot summer in the desert. Cathedral City Police, like other police departments, see a rise in domestic violence. “With increased drinking, with the heat, being uncomfortable, we tend to see a little bit more arguments, a little bit more

LA QUINTA – It is the age-old question: How old is “too old” to be driving? Many families are struggling with this sensitive issue, and they need help on how to take away the car keys from their elderly parents. The gentler approach: Hire a senior helper. Leo Mehan and Jeanine Puskas met two months

INDIO – The Valley’s largest job fair is canceled. Companies aren’t hiring and there aren’t enough jobs to go around. The job fair was scheduled at the Fantasy Springs Convention Center in Indio. The job fair is postponed until October 2010. There’s the hushed silence of a library inside the county employment office in Indio.

INDIO – Cesar Santamariamuniz nervously played with his shackles shortly before Judge James Hawkins decided his fate in an Indio courtroom Monday. Santrmariamuniz was handed a prison term of 99 years to life for the 2007 murder of Jordan Ketchersid and the kidnapping of three other people. The known drug dealer pleaded for a retrail

WASHINGTON – Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says the success of the “cash for clunkers” auto rebate program is a matter of timing and reason for optimism. Greenspan tells ABC that car and truck building had begun to rebound even before the program got under way. But, he adds that the “extraordinary response is

PALM DESERT – Zero waste, that’s California’s goal. Recycling and reusing not only helps the environment, it also saves money. This weekend the California Resource Recovery Association launched a three day conference to educate businesses on how to become more environmentally and financially aware. One of the many speakers at the conference was 11 year

RANCHO MIRAGE – Timothy Bradley defended his WBO 140-pound title Saturday night by battering Nate Campbell, whose eye injury forced the fight to be stopped after three rounds. Bradley (25-0, 12 KOs) rode the energy of his hometown crowd in a dynamic performance, although television replays appeared to show an accidental head-butt opening a cut

RANCHO MIRAGE – Desert businesses are battling the weak economy, but a real fight may help. It’s the first event of it’s kind at Aqua Caliente’s “The Show.” Timothy Bradley takes on Nate Campbell in a world championship boxing match, attracting thousands of fans including some celebrities. ” There will be some TV stars and

COACHELLA – A man found with a gunshot wound to his torso at an apartment complex died at a hospital late Thursday night, police say. Coachella Police were called to the Cedar Springs Apartments in the 53000 block of Harrison at 10:45 p.m. on reports of a person shot. That’s where they found the 24-year-old

INDIO – An admitted methamphetamine user was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder for beating and strangling his mother in her Indio home in 2006, but jurors cleared him of a torture allegation. The three-woman, nine-man jury, which got the case late Thursday and reached its verdict this afternoon, must now determine if 43-year-old Efrain

PALM DESERT – It hasn’t been the best of weeks for tanning salons. The World Health Organization came out and placed tanning beds in the top cancer category, right up there with smoking. It’s putting local salons a bit on the defensive. “Got a little nervous, obviously.” D.J. Jacobs, manager of Bronze Your Buns in

CATHEDRAL CITY – Ford Focuses are on sale at Palm Springs Motors in a nearly empty parking lot. It’s just one sign of how many cars are being sold. “Car sales are up for the first time in a long, long time,” sales manager Roy Hoffman says. “We’re up about 40 percent from last month

PALM DESERT – To some consumers it’s simple: the more you spend, the more there is to complain about. “The higher the prices you pay, the more you should expect,” consumer Eric Shute points out. However, that’s easier said than done. Some say getting what you pay for is a novelty these days. “People don’t

IDAHO FALLS – You might expect to see a sight like this in Spain, but Thursday a bull caused quite a commotion in downtown Idaho Falls. “At first I was really freaked out why we had so many people around with police and Local News 8 and then (my sister) said, ‘Katie get up here

PALM SPRINGS – A large majority of the vintage World War II planes at the Palm Springs Air Museum could be grounded indefinitely.The Palm Springs Air Museum filed alawsuit against the owner of the planes, Jo Rose Pond, in the Riverside County Court. The 32-page lawsuit includes several allegations lodged against the owner, the widow

BANNING – Police are investigating a vehicle vandalism spree in the Banning area. It happened in a four-block area between King Street and North Second Street. Police got the first call just before 6 Tuesday morning and quickly realized it was not an isolated incident. By 3:30 p.m., they had identified around 15 victims. All