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The Palm Springs Art Museum is reopening Thursday after a year of being closed due to the pandemic. “You know an empty museum is a pretty lonely and sad place. It needs people. We’re very excited.” said Scott Slaven, Director of Marketing, Communications & Graphic Design, Palm Springs Art Museum. Slaven says it’s been a
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Administrators at Desert Regional Medical Center are celebrating as the number of coronavirus patients in the Palm Springs hospital has dropped tremendously. The medical center reported no COVID-19 patients in its intensive care unit on Wednesday. The hospital’s Chief Operating Officer, Mike Ditoro, said he believes social distancing and other health precautions are working. Ditoro
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18 undocumented immigrants were arrested and sent back to Mexico Wednesday after being discovered in an Imperial County stash house. The El Centro Border Patrol Station received a call at 5:10 p.m. that 10 people had been dropped off at a home in an imposter Imperial Irrigation District truck with a business logo on the
Continue ReadingFour people, including a child, were killed in a shooting at an office complex in Orange, California, on Wednesday, a police official said. A fifth victim was wounded and transported to a local hospital in critical condition, Lt. Jennifer Amat said. Police responded to a call of shots fired around 5:30 p.m. and encountered gunshots
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Andres Martinez Pita Jr. got the call overnight Monday that his dad, Andres Martinez, had been shot and killed at Desert Hot Springs Mobile Home Park. “It’s crazy; I’m still in disbelief,” Martinez said. “My dad was a very good guy. He was always looking out for people, and to me it was random.” A GoFundMe
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On Wednesday Pfizer announced that clinical trials for its COVID-19 vaccine “demonstrated 100 percent efficacy and robust antibody responses” in adolescents ages 12-15. “If we can get ahead of the virus and get more and more people vaccinated I think this will be really helpful,” said Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist,
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Prospective home buyers from Sacramento home check out a home up for sale in south Palm Desert. They’re shopping in a valley market unlike any seen in the past. “The whole desert area has been on my mind without exaggeration for 25 years, and now for the first time we are seriously considering it which
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UPDATE: 04/06/21 Palm Springs Police announced that Nagy was located safe on April 1. Original Article: 03/31/21 On Wednesday, the Palm Springs Police Department asked for the public’s help finding a missing at-risk person. 34-year-old Henry Janos Nagy was last seen at 2 p.m. on Tuesday on Deepwell Road in Palm Springs. Police said that he
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The investigation into the Rancho Palos Verdesrollover crash that seriously injured golfer Tiger Woods has been completed, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said today, but details were being withheld due to privacy issues. “A cause has been determined, the investigation has concluded,”Villanueva said. “However, we have reached out to Tiger Woods and his
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A student at Indio High School is spending his weekends on a project building a garden that will help the students and the community. Farina Shatavyzadeh is a junior at Indio High School who is spending his free time building a garden on campus. “I think this a great opportunity for people to give back
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Palm Springs police say a car crash brought power lines down in the area of Vista Chino and Gene Autry Trail. The accident was reported just after 1:30 pm on Wednesday. All lanes of traffic on Vista Chino Drive was shut down for nearly an hour while crews worked to remove the wreckage and power
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Riverside County reported 269 new cases on Wednesday, bringing the total up to 294,461 positive Coronavirus cases. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Riverside County Metrics Update Riverside County remains in the red tier, but the county could move to the orange tier next week. “Our numbers are
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Authorities today publicly identified a 78-year-old woman killed in a three-vehicle crash in Sky Valley. Linda Burtenshaw of Coachella was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision, which was reported at about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday on Dillon Road, east of Lamel Drive. The California Highway Patrol is investigating the cause of the crash.
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Governor Gavin Newsom and First Lady Jill Biden will be in Delano, California on Wednesday in honor of Cesar Chavez Day. Newsom and Biden will visit ‘The Forty Acres’ to take part in a Day of Action alongside the Cesar Chavez Foundation and the United Farmworkers Foundation, according to the state. Cesar Chavez was a
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Xavier Prep became the first local high school program to play basketball games this season. The Saints hosted Aquinas on Tuesday night without fans in attendance. The boys team lost but the girls team won. Ultimately though, the entire program won because they got the chance to compete. Just being thankful, honestly. Just being thankful
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Update – Sept. 8, 2021: An arrest has been made in the murder of Jennifer Dillon. Full Story: Man arrested in connection with two separate Palm Springs murders News Channel 3’s Jake Ingrassia spoke with Dillon’s wife about the arrest. Original Report 03/30/21 Palm Springs police promised to inform the community on the investigation into
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A Mexicali man was charged in federal court with organizing the smuggling event that led to a crash between an SUV and a semi-truck that killed 13 people near Holtville, California on March 2, 2021. The SUV was carrying 25 people at the time of the crash. Some, including the driver of the semi-truck, were
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A Riverside County Sheriff’s deputy has been taken to the hospital after being stabbed in the leg with a knife in Palm Desert Tuesday afternoon. The stabbing happened near the area of Lupine Lane and El Paseo in Palm Desert at around 1:15 p.m. Deputies were in the area searching for a suspect who was
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A Desert Hot Springs couple accused of illegally manufacturing weapons and explosives pleaded guilty to some — but not all — of the charges against them today and were immediately sentenced to probation. Kevin Boykin, 21, and Naomi Medina, 22, were arrested in June 2019 following a Desert Hot Springs Police Department investigation that stemmed
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The Palm Springs Unified School District has partnered with Desert Healthcare District and Rite Aid to host a Pfizer vaccine clinic on Thursday, April 8. Registration for this clinic are scheduled April 2 and 6 from 1 to 6 p.m. at Agua Caliente Elementary or online at bit.ly/cvecvaccine. The doses will be available to the first
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