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Palm Springs’ annual gay and lesbian film festivalwill screen more than 50 films starting this week. The sixth annual Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs Gay and Lesbian FilmFestival, put on by the nonprofit Palm Springs Cultural Center, will be heldThursday through Sunday at Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs. The festival will open at 5:30 p.m.

A vehicle crashed and slid 30 feet down the side of Highway 74 near Lake Elsinore and left two people hurt Sunday, a spokesman said. Dispatchers received a call at 6:17 a.m. and sent firefighters to the highway and Wasson Canyon Road. One person suffered a major injury and was sent to a hospital, Riverside

A vehicle struck a child riding on a bicycleyesterday in an unincorporated area of Desert Hot Springs and left him with minorinjuries, according to the California Highway Patrol. CHP officers received a dispatch at 4:09 p.m. and went to the corner ofCamino Campenero and Via Vista drives. They determined the child was notseriously hurt almost

Since the 1850s Gold Rush, some folks in the rugged hills and valleys along the Oregon-California border have felt they would be better off if they could break away and form their own state. That old secessionist feeling is rising again, triggered by a belief that those in the urban halls of power in both

The Eisenhower Medical Center’s seventh annual Arnold Palmer Prostate Center Symposium, focusing on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease, continues Monday. September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and staff at Eisenhower’s Lucy Curci Cancer Center planned the free lectures to raise pSeptember is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and staff at Eisenhower’s

A woman used pepper spray on the estranged father of her 2-year-old son in Perris and kidnapped the child, but was later arrested in Hemet, a sheriff’s sergeant said. Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched at 8:41 p.m. Saturday to an apartment building at 549 N. D St. about vehicle assault. Witnesses told deputies that Mishay Alls,

A drunken driver rear-ended his luxury sedan into another vehicle Sunday afternoon in front of a La Quinta country club, a Riverside County sheriff’s sergeant said. Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched at 1:45 p.m. to Jefferson Street, south of Avenue 50, where they learned the collision occurred at the entrance of the Mountain View Country Club,

Define irony – a smoke shop employee trying to kick the habit. “Well, right now I’m trying to quit smoking and I cut down drastically. But I’m still craving every once in a while,” Khal Assaf said. Assaf’s kids have recently started the hookah. “It’s their prerogative, I don’t like it to be honest with

“I’ve never…never seen so many people come out for one person,” April Anderson said. Almost two months after Christopher Douglas was killed in the line of duty, friends and family continue to honor him and help his wife and children. “We’ve had three fundraisers, one in Temecula, back in August, this one, and then another

A second-alarm fire broke out Saturday at a La Quintaapartment building but no injuries were reported, a Riverside County firespokesman said. Firefighters received a call at 10:51 a.m. and went to the 78000 blockof Cobalt Drive, where heavy smoke was seen coming from a lower-floorapartment. The blaze was contained to an apartment and doused within

Palm Desert 14 @ Damien 49 Final Palm Springs 21 @ Silverado 34 Final La Quinta 49 @ JW North 7 Final Indio 0 @ Hemet 58 Final Coachella Valley 7 @ Brawley 42 Final Vista del Lago 6 @ Cathedral City 42 Final Xavier Prep 40 @ Desert Hot Springs 14 Final Palo Verde

Desert Hot Springs 6 @ Aquinas 24 Final Big Bear 44 @ Desert Hot Springs 7 Final Xavier Prep 40 @ Desert Hot Springs 14 Final Rubidoux @ Desert Hot Springs 09/20, 7:00 pm Desert Hot Springs @ Palo Verde Valley 09/27 7:00 pm Desert Hot Springs @ Rim of the World 10/04, 7:00 pm

Xavier Prep 13 @ Yucca Valley 51 Final Twentynine Palms 12 @ Xavier Prep 25 Final Xavier Prep 40 @ Desert Hot Springs 14 Final Notre Dame @ Xavier Prep 09/20, 7:00 pm St. Monica @ Xavier Prep 09/27 7:00 pm Xavier Prep @ Aquinas 10/04, TBA Xavier Prep @ Ribet Academy 10/12, 7:00 pm

Palm Springs 34 @Palm Desert 14 Final Pacific 6 @ Palm Springs 63 Final Palm Springs 21 @ Silverado 34 Final Corona @Palm Springs 09/20, 7:00 pm Redlands @Palm Springs 09/27 7:00 pm Coachella Valley @Palm Springs 10/11, 7:00 pm Palm Desert @Palm Springs 10/18, 7:00 pm Palm Springs @ La Quinta 10/25, 7:00 pm

Perris 13 @ Shadow Hills 33 Final Shadow Hills 20 @ Palm Desert 55 Final Palo Verde Valley 31 @ Shadow Hills 35 Final Ramona @ Shadow Hills 09/20, 7:00 pm Shadow Hills @ Banning 09/27 7:00 pm Yucca Valley @ Shadow Hills 10/11, 7:00 pm Shadow Hills @ Twentynine Palms 10/18, 7:00 pm Desert

Arlington 7 @ La Quinta 27 Final La Quinta 49 @ JW North 7 Final La Quinta @ Temescal Canyon 09/20, 7:00 pm La Quinta @ Roosevelt 09/27 7:00 pm Eisenhower @ La Quinta 10/04, 7:00 pm Indio @ La Quinta 10/11, 7:00 pm La Quinta @ Coachella Valley 10/18, 7:00 pm Palm Springs @

Coachella Valley 41 @ West Valley 28 Final Coachella Valley 42 @ Brawley 7 Final Coachella Valley @ Desert Mirage 09/20, 7:00 pm Calexico @ Coachella Valley 09/27 7:00 pm Banning @ Coachella Valley 10/04, 7:00 pm Coachella Valley @ Palm Springs 10/11, 7:00 pm La Quinta @ Coachella Valley 10/18, 7:00 pm Cathedral City

Banning 13 @ Cathedral City 63 Final Vista del Lago 6 @ Cathedral City 42 Final Cathedral City @ West Valley 09/20, 7:00 pm Cathedral City @ Desert Mirage 09/27 7:00 pm Twentynine Palms @ Cathedral City 10/04, 7:00 pm Cathedral City @ Palm Desert 10/11, 7:00 pm Cathedral City @ Indio 10/18, 7:00 pm

West Valley 41 @ Indio 10 Final Indio @ Palo Verde Valley CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER (rescheduled for October 1st) Indio 0 @ Hemet 58 Final Indio @ San Jacinto 09/20, 7:00 pm Yucca Valley @ Indio 09/27 7:00 pm Indio @ La Quinta 10/11, 7:00 pm Cathedral City @ Indio 10/18, 7:00 pm Indio

Palm Springs 39 @ Palm Desert 14 Final Shadow Hills 20 @ Palm Desert 55 Final Palm Desert 14 @ Damien 49 Final Redlands @ Palm Desert 09/20, 7:00 pm Palm Desert @ San Jacinto 09/27 7:00 pm Cathedral City @ Palm Desert 10/11, 7:00 pm Palm Desert @ Palm Springs 10/18, 7:00 pm Indio