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The eighth annual Fashion Week El Paseo, a nine-day run of fashion shows and social events, gets under way Friday in Palm Desert. The week will start with a “Best of Saks Fifth Avenue” runway show at 8 p.m. to benefit The Living Desert zoo. Organizers expect 14,000 people to attend Fashion Week, which is

The ABC Recovery Center in Indio will celebrate its 50th anniversary and honor the CEO of the Betty Ford Center at a gala tonight. The gala featuring music by the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies swing band will begin at 6 p.m. at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino. The ABC Recovery Center provides detoxification, residential, transitional and

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the Inland Empire Friday recorded its largest daily decrease since Dec. 13, dropping 1.7 cents to $4.172. The average price in Riverside and San Bernardino counties has dropped for 15 consecutive days and is 7.1 cents less than one week ago, 1.1 cents lower

A job fair will be held in Indio today to fill positions for the upcoming Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival. Goldenvoice, which produces both festivals, is looking to fill hourly temp positions as stagehands, tollbooth operators and customer service staff. The fair will be held 45149 Smurr Street

A job fair will be held in Indio today to fill positions for the upcoming Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival. Goldenvoice, which produces both festivals, is looking to fill hourly temp positions as stagehands, tollbooth operators and customer service staff. The fair will be held 45149 Smurr Street

A job fair will be held in Indio today to fill positions for the upcoming Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival. Goldenvoice, which produces both festivals, is looking to fill hourly temp positions as stagehands, tollbooth operators and customer service staff. The fair will be held 45149 Smurr Street

A job fair will be held in Indio today to fill positions for the upcoming Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival. Goldenvoice, which produces both festivals, is looking to fill hourly temp positions as stagehands, tollbooth operators and customer service staff. The fair will be held 45149 Smurr Street

As more than 100 students and parents protested administrative cuts at the Coachella Valley Unified School District board meeting, one of the people now without a job watched quietly. “In my 12 years as an administrator, I’ve never done anything illegal, immoral, unethical. Nor did my team,” former Desert Mirage High School principal Dr. Marrio

As Catholics celebrated a new pope, thieves targeted a church in Mecca, and it’s not the first time. Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mecca, will be rebuilt this summer. This is after it’s roof collapsed several years ago. A church in Orange County even donated a marble altar to be the centerpiece. But, as the

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress, best known as the aircraft from which the first atomic bomb was dropped, landed at Palm Springs International Airport today four a four day visit to the Palm Springs Air Museum. The B-29 was accompanied by a P-51 Mustang, British Spitfire, Japanese Zero, C-45 Expeditor, T-6 Texan, and a PT-17 Stearman.

Jurors returned death penalty recommendations Thursday fortwo men convicted of carjacking, kidnapping, robbing and killing a 55-year-oldIndio resident. The panels — one for each defendant — rejected life imprisonmentwithout parole for Daniel Cervantes, 35, and Carlos Contreras, 34. The same juries convicted the pair of the May 7, 2008, murder of DanielKuzawa, along with other

The winner of last year’s BNP Paribas Open and women’s top seed, Victoria Azarenka of Belarus,withdrew from the tournament today, citing an injured right ankle.She was set to face eighth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark in the next match. The announcement came just minutes ago via Twitter: The withdrawal doesn’t come as too much of a

An unidentified individual at College of the Desert is currently being treated for an active case of tuberculosis. The person is expected to make a full recovery. Of the eight TB cases reported this year in Riverside County, this is the first involving a school setting. Fifty-six were reported last year in the county. “College

The eighth annual Fashion Week El Paseo, a nine-dayrun of fashion shows and social events, gets under way tomorrow in Palm Desert. Organizers expect 14,000 people to attend Fashion Week, which is billedas the largest consumer fashion event on the West Coast. Nine runway shows andfour trunk shows by more than 50 designers, including “Project

Hundreds of students are protesting the firing of two top administrators at Desert Mirage High School. Students walked out of Desert Mirage High School around 7 this morning and arrived at the CVUSD office around 10 a.m. One student said they would stay there until this evening when the school district is holding an open

Ayer a las 9:45 a.m. el conductor de un vehculo perdi el control del mismo cuando en lugar de pisar el freno, pis el acelerador impactndose con ventana y pared del negocio Postal Annex que se ubica sobre Washington Street y Varner Road en Sun City Palm Desert. El vocero de California Highway Patrol dijo

One of the greatest rivalries in tennis comes toIndian Wells tonight, when Roger Federer faces Rafael Nadal in a quarterfinalmatch at the BNP Paribas Open in their first meeting in a year. The match at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden will be the 29th meetingbetween Federer and Nadal, the first since Federer’s 6-3, 6-4 victory

Riverside County’s foreclosure activity continued its downward spiral last month as the number of properties being repossessed dropped significantly on an annualized level. A total 1,660 mortgage default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions were recorded countywide in February, translating to 1 in 479 households in some stage of foreclosure, according to Irvine-based RealtyTrac.

Penalty verdicts will be read Thursday for two men convicted of carjacking, kidnapping, robbing and killing a 55-year-old Indio resident. Daniel Cervantes, 35, and Carlos Contreras, 34, could both face the death penalty for the May 7, 2008, murder of Daniel Kuzawa. Jurors last month found true special circumstance allegations of murder in the commission

With an announcement made in Latin over the intercom saying “we have a pope,” students got the big news on Wednesday morning. It was a historical moment some of them say they won’t forget. “It was cool. It was history in the making in my lifetime. It’s awesome we can announce it over the intercom