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A student at Mountain View Middle School fought off a man who apparently tried to kidnap her while walking home from school last Friday. The man tried to grab the student by the arm, but she kicked him and managed to get away. It happened near 12th Street and Beaumont Avenue. The suspect is described

A Cathedral City man pleaded guilty today to sexually assaulting four teenage girls, one of whom he lured to his apartment by posing as a teenage boy on social networking websites.Jeffrey Thomas Sackman, 45, pleaded guilty to nine felony counts, including oral copulation with a person under 16, sexual penetration with a foreign object and

Traffic came to a crawl on Interstate Ten just West of the Highway 62 interchange late Wednesday afternoon. At 3:45pm CHP says a driver of a white van entered I-10 from Highway 62 going at a high rate of speed and made an unsafe lane change. The driver then hit an over-sized big rig, pulling

The LGBT Community Center of the Desert, is working with the Palm Springs Unified School District, to bring anti-bullying and suicide prevention workshops, to high school classrooms, all in an effort to save young lives. John O’Connor, Executive Director of The Center says, “It’s a dangerous world out there and because of the epidemic of

A federal crackdown on marijuana growing in seven western states has uprooted more than 1 million plants, about two-thirds of which were found on public land. The U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento says the pot found on public lands was worth nearly $1.5 billion. The agency released total figures for the July and August raids

A federal judge has ruled that Arizona authorities can enforce the most contentious section of the state’s immigration law, which critics have dubbed the “show me your papers” provision. The ruling Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton clears the way for police to carry out the 2010 law’s requirement that officers, while enforcing other

Palm Springs Police searched most of Wednesday after someone reported seeing an empty raft in the Whitewater ponds near the Windmills. Palm Springs Police called off the search around 2:00pm after there were unable to locate any missing rafters, or see any signs of distress in the area. Police called out the Palm Springs Mounted

Hoy mircoles a la 1:30 a.m. un sujeto armando entr al negocio de revistas para adultos The Hidden Joy que se ubica en la cuadra 68400 de Commercial Road en Cathedral City y a punta de pistola le exigi al cajero que le entregara el dinero de la caja registradora. El hombre huy con una

Firefighters were able to stop the spread of a fast moving brush fire late Tuesday afternoon in Mecca. The fire broke out near Avenue 66 in some palm trees lining the street just before 2:30pm. The fire then spread to nearby brush in the area. “We had to separate spot fires going off this very

Authorities are trying to identify human remains discovered in the Mojave Desert after a dog came home with a human foot. The Riverside Press-Enterprise (bit.ly/OYCj6Z) says a woman called San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies Sunday evening to report that her dog had turned up on the front porch of her Newberry Springs home with a

A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake has shaken Costa Rica and prompted tsunami warnings. There are no reports so far of damage or injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck about 38 miles from the town of Liberia and 88 miles west of the Costa Rican capital, San Jose. It was centered about 25 miles

The state attorney general’s office says the number of hate crimes reported in California dropped 4 percent last year. The office said Tuesday that 1,060 hate crimes were reported in 2011, 47 fewer than in 2010. Nearly six in 10 were based on the victim’s race, ethnicity or national origin, with nearly a third aimed

Cathedral city police continued to look Wednesday for an armed robbery suspect accused in an early morning hold up. Police were called to the Hidden Joy, an adult book store, on the 68400 block of Commercial road shortly before 1:30 Wednesday morning. Officers say a man was armed with a gun when he entered the

A second case of West Nile virus in humans was confirmed Tuesday by Riverside County Public Health officials. The 22-year old man lives in western Riverside County. No other details were provided about where he lives. According to officials, the man is “recovering at home after being hospitalized.” In August, officials confirmed the first human

News Channel 3 has new information on an odor around the Coachella Valley, apparently coming from the Salton Sea. A woman at the North Share Yacht Club says there’s a “green tide,” which is an algae bloom in the water. That could be the source of the smell along with a fish die-off that happened

Survivors of a deadly pipeline explosion in a San Francisco Bay area suburb are planning a memorial to commemorate the two years that have passed since the blast and pressing for stronger pipeline safety reforms. On Tuesday, neighbors gathered at the San Bruno blast site with Assemblyman Jerry Hill, a Democrat who represents the area,

After 50 years, Denny’s could serve up it’s last “Grand Slam”, at it’s popular location on the corner of Highway 111 and Monterey. Lease negotiations are underway and at this point it’s not clear whether or not the restaurant will be open much longer. It’s become more than just a place to eat, for many

A Cathedral City man who was drunk when he got behind thewheel and crashed into a man in a wheelchair, then took off, pleaded guilty today to felony charges stemming from the victim’s death. Randy David Merida, 27, pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while driving under the influence and hit-and-run causing death or injury

Se registro un incendio de vegetacin en el rea de Mecca. Los bomberos reportaron el siniestro a eso de las 2:25 PM sobre la avenida 66. El incendio se esparci rpidamente sobre la maleza. Unos 47 bomberos y 13 unidades ayudaron a combatir las llamas que era controlado en un 50 % hasta la tarde