INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – “Home Improvement” star Zachery Ty Bryan has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for driving under the influence two years ago in La Quinta. Bryan was convicted Monday at the Larson Justice Center of Driving Under the Influence BAC .08 or Higher, court records show. Two other charges were dismissed,
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – Locals with close ties to Puerto Vallarta are reacting to the cartel violence that erupted there over the weekend. Some part-time residents who split time between the valley and Puerto Vallarta said the Mexican resort town shares many similarities with Palm Springs. “Puerto Vallarta is now ‘Palm Springs South,'” said
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By Mitchell McCluskey, Gonzalo Zegarra, Avery Schmitz, Sol Amaya, and Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Mexican security forces killed the country’s most-wanted cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes in a high-stakes operation on Sunday that set off a spiral of violence and chaos. Oseguera was the leader and co-founder of the powerful Jalisco New
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – In a case described today as “one of the most disturbing ideas to crawl out of the internet,” a Pennsylvania man has been arrested and charged after allegedly coercing a 13-year-old Northridge girl to send him sexually explicit material of herself and images of self-harm over the internet. Matthew Edward Pysher,
Continue ReadingBy Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday night will get his highest-profile opportunity to convince skeptical Americans that his policies are working — and that a promised economic golden age is right around the corner. But ahead of a State of the Union address meant to mark the unofficial start of
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BANNING, Calif. (KESQ) – A jury is slated to be seated before week’s end for the trial of an ex-substitute teacher in the Coachella Valley accused of perpetrating lewd acts during online contact with a female student, as well as sexually assaulting another woman. Edward Noel Alvarado Valadez, 31, of Coachella was arrested in 2019
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (KESQ) – Two people were arrested and 28 drivers were cited during a DUI checkpoint conducted over the weekend in Indian Wells. The checkpoint was held from 6 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday at Highway 111 and El Dorado Drive, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Of the 921
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Did you know that Saturn has 274 moons — far more than any other planet in our solar system? Astronomers say they have solved one of the ringed planet’s greatest mysteries. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A Los Angeles-area lawyer was sentenced today to seven years, three months in federal prison for receiving a $2.1 million bribe while serving as an officer of Nigeria’s state-owned oil company in connection with negotiating favorable drilling rights for a subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned oil company. Paulinus Okoronkwo, 58, also
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The organizing committee for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games has surpassed 5 million registrations for its ticket draw, officials announced today, calling it a “record-setting surge” of interest. Registration for the ticket draw opened in January and will remain open through March 18 at tickets.la28.org. Once registered, participants
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By Alli Rosenbloom, Nick Watt, CNN (CNN) — Nick Reiner, the 32-year-old charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of his parents, famed director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom on Monday. Reiner waived his right to a speedy preliminary
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (KESQ) – One woman is dead after she was hit by a car in Rancho Mirage on Sunday night. Just before 10 p.m., deputies responded to a traffic collision near Highway 111 and Frank Sinatra Drive. Upon arrival, authorities located a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian, with a woman in
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By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The gold medal-winning US Olympic women’s hockey team has declined an invitation to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, citing scheduling issues. The invite came after Trump regaled the US men’s team by phone Sunday as the players celebrated their historic Olympic victory, even offering to send
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By Clarissa Ward, Ivana Kottasová, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a plea to Donald Trump on Monday, telling CNN he wants the US president “to stay on our side.” Speaking at the Presidential Palace in Kyiv on the eve of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Zelensky said
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By Ellis Kim, Manu Raju, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is resisting calls, including from within his own ranks, to pressure Rep. Tony Gonzales to resign amid allegations he had an affair with a district staffer who later died by suicide, telling reporters he wants investigations to play out first. Johnson
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By Tim Lister, Ruben Correa, CNN (CNN) — The killing of Jalisco cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera, aka “El Mencho,” could fuel a turf wars among drug-trafficking gangs in Mexico and beyond, analysts say, with the rival Sinaloa cartel already riven by infighting. The Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels have long fought to dominate the lucrative US
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – The Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District is advising residents that recent rain and a warm-up this week have created ideal conditions for mosquito breeding. Standing water left behind from last week’s storms can quickly produce mosquitoes, officials said. The advisory follows confirmation of the first mosquito-borne virus detected locally
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By Christian Edwards, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — In the days after the extraordinary arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the former prince has faced a slew of allegations about his time as a trade envoy for Britain and his friendship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mountbatten-Windsor
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By Peter Wilkinson, Caitlin Danaher, CNN London (CNN) — The former UK ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson was arrested Monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office, according to London’s Metropolitan Police. Mandelson, a veteran Labour Party politician, has been accused of passing market-sensitive information to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when he was
Continue ReadingCNN By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Opening statements have begun in the murder trial of Kouri Richins, a Utah mother accused of poisoning her husband and then writing a children’s book about coping with grief. Prosecutors allege Kouri Richins, 35, killed her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl. She is also
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