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Case Changes Riverside County reported 1,148 new cases since Thursday. This brings the total number of cases to 87,945. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Gov. Newsom announces regional stay-at-home order that could take effect in the next few days Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new regional stay-at-home
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Jesse Torres, 44, has been sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of 17-year-old Norma Lopez in 2010. “They say that time heals everything, but it doesn’t. We just had tolearn how to go on with our lives and live with the pain, even though it isn’t easy to do,” Lopez’s sister told the
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Attorneys for former Palm Springs Mayor, Steve Pougnet, and developers, John Wessman and Richard Meaney, are expected to argue for the dismissal of the corruption case that has been 5 years in the making. A hearing is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. at the Larson Justice Center in Indio, Pougnet is accused of receiving money from
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The demand for COVID testing has increased along with the holidays and our climbing case numbers. Many test sites are open throughout the valley with results taking about 48 hours. But what if you need a rapid result test? There’s a new test site called Covid Clinic that opened on November 3rd in the parking
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Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new regional stay-at-home order that will be triggered when fewer than 15% of beds are available in ICUs for regional hospital networks. Watch Newsom’s full announcement below: Newsom said the order isn’t currently in place for any of the regions, but that could change within the next few days. ICU
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This California fire season has already been the largest in history with four million acres already burnt. And it’s showing no signs of stopping. Wildfires are currently ripping across Southern California and it’s only the beginning of a fairly strong Santa Ana wind event. “Well, it’s pretty critical. Now we have four significant fires that
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Riverside County Fire Department / Cal Fire firefighters were able to knock down a fire burning inside a Desert Hot Springs home Thursday evening. The fire was reported at approximately 6:51 p.m. in the 9600 block of Troon Court, in a residential area near the intersection of Indian Canyon Road and Mission Lakes Boulevard. The
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News Channel 3’s I-Team is uncovering the latest details in the investigation of a prominent Palm Springs doctor who was arrested on Wednesday at his office. Agents from the CA Department of Consumer Affairs were on site of the office of Dr. Derakhsh Fozouni on East Tachevah Drive until late Wednesday afternoon. Fozouni, an obstetrician-gynecologist,
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The Riverside County Registrar of Voters has certified the final election results revealing the official winners of our local races. Winners in most local races were pretty much already known since early November, but there have been some close races where candidates were separated by just a handful of votes. One of those races was
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As coronavirus hospitalization continue to hit record levels in Riverside County, Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage is facing a possible staffing shortage as the medical center braces for its annual holiday season surge of patients, its chief medical officer said today. “I think we are as prepared as we can be,” Dr. Alan Williamson told
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Palm Springs Mayor Geoff Kors struck an optimistic tone in his state of the city address. He said the decisions made by the city council, chief of police and fire helped make the most of a difficult situation this year. News Channel 3’s Dani Romero has more on the mayor’s thoughts on the year and
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Residents of a neighborhood in Indio say there’s a couple of grinches on the loose. Decorations meant to lift their Christmas spirits are vanishing from their front yards. “I don’t understand why people can do things like that,” Zenon Castro, an Indio resident, told our sister station Telemundo 15’s Marco Revuelta. Castro said he was
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Case Changes Riverside County reported 901 new cases since Tuesday. This brings the total number of cases to 86,797. The Coachella Valley reported 107 of today’s new cases (18,819 total). Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Gov. Newsom announces regional stay-at-home order that could take effect in the
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A father of four was killed and his wife and children were injured when their SUV overturned because of a tire blowout on Interstate 10 near Cabazon, the California Highway Patrol reported today. David Foxworth, 56, of Banning was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which occurred about 5 p.m. Wednesday on eastbound
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The Cathedral City Council voted Wednesday evening to place a short-term vacation rentals initiative on the upcoming March public ballot. The measure would decide whether the businesses would be allowed to operate in the city’s neighborhoods in the future. City council members met virtually to discuss the future of the rental properties in the city
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The Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce is hosting the 2020 State of the City presentation via Zoom on Thursday, Dec. 3. The free event begins at 11 a.m. and the public is encouraged to participate. Mayor Geoff Kors and the City Council will highlight the City’s many accomplishments and milestones over the past year. In
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An investigation is underway at the office of a Palm Springs-based obstetrician-gynecologist. Agents from the CA Department of Consumer Affairs were on site of the office of Dr. Derakhsh Fozouni on East Tachevah Drive until late Wednesday afternoon. News Channel 3 crews saw agents going in and out of the office, and office staff turning
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Another strange monolith has been found in a remote area, this time in Central California. The large metal monument was found on top of a mountain in San Luis Obispo County. As our sister station out in Santa Barbara, KEYT, reports, the tall silver monolith was found at the pinnacle of a roughly two-mile hike
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Palm Springs Unified School District students won’t be back in classrooms until at least February, Superintendent Dr. Sandra Lyon confirmed on Wednesday. The district was originally planning for in-person classes to return after the winter break in mid-January under the hybrid model. The model set student capacity to 50 percent with in-person classes held two
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Murder charges have been filed against a woman accused of causing a DUI crash that took the lives of the two teen children of a producer of “Black-ish” in Morongo Valley back in June 2019. Nicole Packer,34, of Morongo Valley has also been charged with Felony D.U.I. causing injury and driving 20 miles per hour
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