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Gabe Cotting director del Campeonato Kraft Nabisco dijo que se espera la visita de unos 50 mil turistas, lo que representa importante derrama econmica no solo para Rancho Mirage y Palm Springs, sino para todo el Valle de Coachella.. La ocupacin hotelera se reporta al 100% en el rea. El Campeonato Kraft Nabisco se junta

Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, will make fourpublic appearances in the Coachella Valley over the next several days, startingWednesday. At 11 a.m. Wednesday, Ruiz will visit the James O. Jesse Desert HighlandUnity Center in Palm Springs to commemorate National Community DevelopmentWeek. On Thursday at 10 a.m., Ruiz will visit the Betty Ford Center in RanchoMirage.

A transgender whose divorce request was rejected by an Arizona judge is expected to comment for the first time Tuesday on the ruling that prevents a divorce. Thomas Beatie was born a woman and later underwent a double-mastectomy and began hormone therapy to become a man, but then retained female reproductive organs to give birth

Barbara Sinatra will give an on-stage interview and host a luncheon today as part of National Child Abuse Awareness Month. The event will raise money for Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, which provides counseling for victims of physical, sexual and emotional child abuse. Sinatra is the widow of singer Frank Sinatra. At 11:45 a.m., former “Entertainment

“We’ll have 50 thousand people here for the week, so we partner with a lot of local businesses,” Kraft Nabisco tournament director Gabe Cotting said. Thousands flood the desert for the Kraft Nabisco Championship this week, and not only do local businesses feel it, but they are a crucial part of it. “Acqua Pazza, Catalan

Celebrity golfers were set to begin two days of pro-am play Tuesday at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the LPGA’s first major tournament of the year. Tee time for the tournament’s celebrity pro-am is 7:15 a.m. atthe Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage. Celebrities Ray Romano, Craig T. Nelson, Kevin Nealon, Dennis

With the Transportation Security Administration planning to lift the ban on small knives in the cabins of commercial aircraft later this month, flight attendants not in favor of the idea have been lobbying passengers to voice their disapproval. They’ve been handing out leaflets at airports around the country that say, “Terrorists had small knives. No

Smell-o-vision is finally here. Monday, Google announced it has created a way that allows your phone or computer to change the molecules around you to mimic a certain scent. April Fools’. This cyber joke is a part of a growing trend of elaborate fooling, all on the Internet. There are hundreds, if not thousands of

Former Desert Hot Springs developer Michael Kryzaniak (known as Michael Crosby while he was working in DHS) is one of two people who escaped from a low-security federal prison camp near Duluth over the weekend. Kryzaniak is the man that once promised to bring a high-end golf resort and lavish commercial space to Desert Hot

The Los Angeles Dodgers will open their 2013 season Monday against the World Series champion San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium, which underwent $100 million worth of improvements during the offseason. The upgrades — including new high-definition video boards in left field and right field, wider concourses and expanded restrooms — will make attending a

The Rancho Mirage Public Library will host a freescreening tonight of a documentary about classical pianist Marika Bournaki,followed by a performance by Bournaki. The screening of the documentary, “I Am Not a Rock Star,” will beginat 7 p.m., library spokeswoman Susan Cook said. Bournaki began studying piano at age 5 and at 9 was a

El viernes a las 11:40 p.m. un hombre circulaba en su auto sobre Harrison Street en Coachella, cuando a la altura de 6th Street dos hombres se le aproximaron y a punta de pistola le robaron su cartera. La polica confirm que los ladrones vestan con ropa oscura y llevaban la cara tapada con pauelos.

A man robbed a Rancho Mirage gas station atgunpoint early Monday morning, a sheriff’s sergeant said. The robbery was reported at 3:15 a.m. in the 36100 block of Bob HopeDrive. The gunman entered the gas station’s convenience store, demanded all themoney in the cash register and left with an undisclosed amount of cash in ablack

Coachella Valley residents can buy passes for theCoachella and Stagecoach music festivals online starting today. Starting at 10 a.m., residents can buy up to two passes for bothweekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — April 12-14 and 19-21 — and/or for the Stagecoach country music festival, which is scheduledApril 26-29, according to

The gusty west winds that blew through the mountainand desert areas of Riverside County and the Coachella Valley overnight areexpected to continue through early Tuesday, according to the National WeatherService. A trough of low pressure moving inland through the Great Basin pushedwinds of 20 to 30 miles per hour, with gusts of up to 50

This weekend’s White Party, the annual gay danceand music festival held in Palms Springs, set a new attendance record,according to its producer. The festivities began Friday and wrapped up Sunday with a splashyoutdoor extravaganza staged across from the Palm Springs Convention Center. “White Party was originally designed to be a weekend getaway for theL.A. boys,”

Riverside County supervisors today will begin the process of figuring out how to address multi-million-dollar deficits confronting the sheriff’s department and the county hospital going into the next fiscal year. The first budget workshop focusing on appropriations for departments in2013-14 will be held at the County Administrative Center starting around 9 a.m. “While the county

Police in Palm Desert are looking for a Hispanic man who attacked two others over the weekend. Police responded to a report of a fight at the intersection of Fred Waring Drive and One Quail place in Palm Desert just after 9 Friday night. Authorities say two men were injured during a fight with a

Indian Wells Police arrest a La Quinta man for DUI after an early morning traffic accident. Police responded to the accident at about 2:00am Sunday at the the intersection of Hwy 111 and El Dorado Drive. Officers say a white Ford Explorer was traveling eastbound on Hwy 111 when he failed to stop for a

The Cathedral City community came together to hold a car wash at Dennis Keat Soccer Park in honor ofAYSO Regional Commissioner Diane Keat on Saturday. Keat, 55, passed away on Monday afternoon. It will be a quiet Saturday for young soccer players when they hit the field next weekend. After whistles blow to kick off