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By LAURAN NEERGAARD The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters as it confronts the omicron surge, with the Food and Drug Administration allowing extra Pfizer shots for children as young as 12. Boosters already are recommended for everyone 16 and older, and federal regulators on Monday decided they’re also warranted for 12- to 15-year-olds once enough time has
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There’s a new law in California that will change how you throw away your trash from here on out. The law came into effect on Jan. 1 and it requires residents and businesses to recycle all of their organic food and yard waste. California residents will need to sort their leftover food and kitchen scraps
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Update: According to SCE, power has been restored to these customers. Original coverage: 317 Palm Desert residents are without power following a Southern California Edison outage Sunday morning. The utility confirmed the outage on its website, which started around 11:00 a.m. SCE did not provide a timeline for when power will be fully restored to
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The Coachella Valley is waking up extra chilly this morning, with temperatures dipping down to the 20s in some eastern cities. We came close to tying up the 1970 record low temperature for Thermal at 20°. KESQ The National Weather Association issued a Freeze Warning last night through Monday morning at 8 a.m. to account
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After a busy week due to the holidays, people are back on the roads or in the skies to go back home. But the rush to return home has caused delays nationwide. Throughout the weekend, thousands of flights were canceled across the U.S. due to weather and Omicron-fueled staff shortages. “Airlines did not see this
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Desert Sands Unified School District hosted a COVID-19 testing clinic before starting classes again on Monday. This comes as pediatric COVID-19 cases are increasing in Riverside County. Long lines of people waited for the free testing clinic on Sunday at the DSUSD office in La Quinta. Some waited for more than an hour and a half
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After a nearly two-year hiatus since March 2020, The Street Fair at College of the Desert makes its grand reopening. “After a long absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are excited to welcome everyone back to our new and improved Street Fair,” Executive Director Betsy Young said. “Familiar and favorite merchants will be joined
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The Coachella Valley welcomed its first baby of the new year at Desert Regional Medical Center. Mateo was born a little after 12:30 in the morning on January 1st weighing in at 6 pounds. He is the first son in the family with three older sisters. His mother, Adriana Espinosa, said she wasn’t expecting him
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Gene Autry Trail from Via Escuela to Salvia Road and North Indian Canyon at the Whitewater wash have reopened after police closed off the roads Friday night due to low visibility and blowing sand. The area is south of Palm Springs Station Road and north of Sunrise Parkway. In case you missed it. The following
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Temperatures generally stayed above normal while precipitation stayed below in 2021, according to the National Weather Service office in San Diego. It released annual climate statistics for Palm Springs and surrounding areas Saturday afternoon, suggesting that overall, the region has remained warmer and drier than what is considered normal. The average daytime high for Palm
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Deputies are investigating an armed robbery at a hiking trail in Bermuda Dunes. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, at around 3:35 p.m., deputies were called to a strong-armed robbery that occurred on the Willis Palms Trailhead in Bermuda Dunes. “While en-route to the scene, dispatch advised that the suspect had displayed a firearm during
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A large police presence unfolded near a Del Taco restaurant on 4th Street in Beaumont early Friday morning. NEWS CHANNEL 3 UPDATE: The Riverside County Sheriffs Department (RSO) said on Thursday night deputies from the Perris Sheriff’s station took a domestic violence call in an unincorporated area of Perris, Woodcrest. When deputies arrived, the male
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The Coachella Valley will see a lot of change and improvements in the New Year 2022. We spoke to local leaders about what they expect to see and what they’re anticipating in the year ahead. The Palm Springs International Film Festival was set to kick off the new year by screening 129 films from 70
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By FRAZIER MOORE LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, whether as a man-crazy TV hostess on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” or the loopy housemate on “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 99. White’s death was confirmed by her longtime
Continue ReadingDeputies have taken a suspect into custody following a search throughout Bermuda Dunes. The search was initiated after deputies were told that a suspect had threatened occupants of a home. The Riverside County Sheriff Department was first called to a home on the 79-600 block of Port Royal Avenue, just after 9:00 am, regarding a
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Firing guns to ring in 2022 could mean criminal prosecution, so don’t do it, Indio police said today. “Discharging firearms in the air endangers the public’s safety,” the Indio Police Department said in a statement. “Remember, what goes up will ultimately come down.” The agency posted the warning along with messages exhorting residents not to
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It’s almost time to ring in 2022! Wherever you may be celebrating the start of the new year, please don’t drive under the influence. Don’t start the new year in jail or with something even worse. Check Out: Police amping up New Year’s Eve DUI enforcement after deadly Palm Springs collision If you need a
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A convicted felon from Orange County was allegedly caught by Riverside County sheriff’s deputies in Coachella with a rifle. The arrest culminated in an investigation that led to the seizure of a large quantity of drugs, including fentanyl. The man, identified as a 29-year-old from Westminister, was arrested and booked into the Smith Correctional Facility
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The pandemic has tested businesses with the service and retail industries among the hardest hit. News Channel 3’s Jennifer Franco took a look back at the Coachella Valley’s recovery process over the past year…and where we stand heading into 2022.
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The California Department of Health has announced it has added additional recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new quarantine and isolation guidelines. On Tuesday, the CDC announced it was shortening quarantine recommendations for those who tested positive from 10 to five days. The organization also shortened the time that close contacts need
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