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About 100 organizations that serve teenagers andyoung adults will participate in a forum in Rancho Mirage today. Oasis Community Services’ Desert Region TAY “UnConvention,” whichstarts at 9 a.m. at the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at EisenhowerMedical Center, is meant to create awareness of the resources the groups offerin eastern Riverside County. The county Department

Firefighters continue to make slow but steady progressas they inch their way toward full containment of the Hathaway fire in the SanGorgonio Wilderness east of Banning. At last report, the fire was 83 percent contained, having scorched 3,823acres, the U.S. Forest Service reported. The blaze broke out in the northern part of the Morongo IndianReservation

James Gandolfini would have hated all this fuss. He was an actor who shrank from attention for anything but the roles he brought to life. No false modesty. He simply did his best to remain a private citizen behind his public characters. These included, of course, Tony Soprano, the fiendish, tormented mobster who the world

Southern California regulators have put the brakes on plans to extend an Orange County toll road. The Orange County Register says the permit for a 5 1/2-mile extension of State Route 241 was turned down Wednesday by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board. The permit would have allowed the toll road agency to

The battle over the valley’s water could cost you big time. Earlier this month, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians sued the Desert Water Agency and the Coachella Valley Water District. At its latest meeting, the DWA released a memo about the potential costs if the tribe wins the suit. It would mean the

Obesity is no longer just a major public health problem. The American Medical Association says it’s a disease. Some people call that classification unnecessary. “It’s self made. You make yourself obese. Every fat person knows how to get think they just can’t be bothered,” Anghel Angelo said. Others think society needs this wakeup call. “People

Immigrant advocates have filed a lawsuit alleging that immigration agents are filing paperwork to keep arrestees in custody longer without investigating whether they’re in the country illegally. The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and other advocates filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Los Angeles. The suit alleges that Immigration and Customs

A state legislative committee has approved a bill that would require California’s health insurance exchange to make more contract information publicly available. The Senate Health Committee voted 9-0 to pass the legislation by Republican Sen. Bill Emmerson and Democratic Sen. Mark DeSaulnier. They introduced the bill after a story by The Associated Press revealed the

Attorneys who represent California inmates are asking a federal judge to expand the court’s oversight of prison mental health care to include the Department of State Hospitals. The department is responsible for treatment at some of California’s 33 adult prisons, including one in Soledad that is at the center of the current legal tussle between

Up to 115,000 ravers are expected each night this weekend for a dusk-to-dawn sensory overload of electronic dance music, partying and mingling at a sprawling racing complex outside Las Vegas. Electric Daisy Carnival organizers said Wednesday that all 345,000 available tickets have been sold for the event being held Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the

“If I took a full tank of gas, right now, it’s right at 80 dollars,” Paul Burleson shares his pain at the pump outside ARCO in Thousand Palms. SunLine Transit Agency has a deal for Paul, and everyone else who thinks gas prices are just too high. “From Indio to Palm springs, it’s a buck.

The federal government is spending less and less on preventing wildfires even as the nation endures increasingly destructive blazes. The Obama administration is proposing a 31 percent cut to the main program that clears brush and overgrown trees to prevent forest fires. That program is already funded at lower levels than 11 years ago. Automatic

A 61-year-old Thermal contractor accused of repeatedlymolesting a young female relative was ordered today to stand trial on felonycharges. A judge ruled that enough evidence was presented at John Ruiz Ureste’spreliminary hearing to proceed to trial on seven counts of committing a lewdact with a child younger than 14. He is due back in court

Ayer a las 3:00 p.m. chocaron un BMW y un Ford Focus en el rea de Hwy 111 y Dune Views Road en Rancho Mirage, ambos conductores tuvieron que ser extrados de los autos y continan hospitalizados. La pasajera de uno de los coches Barbara Schmitz de 81 aos residente de Rancho Mirage fue transportada

Top amateur players in the Humana Challenge will beable to play in the golf tournament’s final round for the first time next year,it was announced today. Under the new format, three amateurs with the lowest net score and threeamateurs with the lowest gross score after the first three rounds willadvance to Sunday’s final round, where

Southern California authorities say it’s a dirty business and a bizarre trend – drug users trading Tide detergent for crack. The Riverside Press-Enterprise says it’s a nationwide problem – people are stealing the popular but expensive detergent and trading it for marijuana and crack cocaine. San Bernardino police Sgt. Travis Walker says detectives raiding dope