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Hand-foot-mouth disease is still plaguing our valley’s youngest residents. That’s just one thing local doctors are talking about when looking at “What’s Going Around” the area where you live. In Palm Springs Dr. Michael Jardula is seeing a resurgence of bronchitis over the last week, along with several cases of pneumonia. He says “once again,

High-profile retired Riverside County district attorney Grover Trask will now look into allegations about eligibility and recruitment practices within the football program at College of the Desert. The investigation was called at Tuesday’s College Board of Trustees meeting after a story appeared in Sunday’s edition of the Desert Sun newspaper. “It felt like a personal

An Indio police officer injured after a deadly shooting on Monday is recovering from substantial but non-life-threatening injuries, said Riverside County sheriff’s spokesman Angel Ramos. He said the officer had responded to the 81900 block of Hoover Street around 2:25 p.m. Minutes later, the officer requested emergency assistance. Riverside County sheriff’s deputies responded to assist

College football will finally have a playoff. Come 2014, the BCS is dead. A committee of university presidents on Tuesday approved the BCS commissioners’ plan for a four-team playoff to start in the 2014 season. The move completes a six-month process in which the commissioners have been working on a new way to determine a

Dos personas muertas y dos agentes de la Polica de Indio es el resultado de un tiroteo registrado ayer poco despus de las 2:30 p.m. en los Apartamentos “Las Brisas” que se ubican en el 81950 Hoover Ave en Indio muy cerca del Departamento de Servicios Sociales. Ben Guitron, vocero del Departamento de Polica de

A 19-vehicle pile-up on the southbound 14 Freeway in Agua Dulce left at least 17 people injured on Tuesday, according to ABC 7 Los Angeles. Authorities say the crash in northern L.A. County was reported just before 10 a.m. At least one big rig was involved in the accident. For live traffic conditions, check out

If there’s something you’d like to say to aliens, now’s your chance. The Wow! signal, a mysterious radio transmission detected in 1977 that may or may not have come from extraterrestrials, is finally getting a response from humanity. Anyone can contribute his or her two cents — or 140 characters, to be exact — to

Leaders with the Marines Corps say they have failed to curb sexual assaults within their ranks, reporting 333 attacks nationwide over the last fiscal year. The Los Angeles Times says Monday’s report cited 88 reported sexual assaults at Camp Pendleton in California, 24 at the Twentynine Palms airbase, three at Miramar air station and nine

The United StatesSupreme Court Mondaythrew out parts of Arizona’s controversial immigration law. The Obama Administration had challenged four provisions of the Arizona law.While the court struck down threeof the provisions, it ruled the most debated part of the law can stand. The justices are going to allow police to check the immigration status of every

An investigation was under way today into an armed robbery at a Walgreens store in Cathedral City. A masked man with a handgun in his waistband entered the store at 33975 Date Palm Drive around 12:30 a.m. Monday, jumped over an unattended counter, took cash from a register drawer and ran from the store, said

A woman walking near her Palm Desert home was attacked by a coyote that authorities later tracked down and killed, a Riverside County official said Monday. Around 4:30 a.m. Sunday, the 69-year-old resident of the Del Webb Sun City community was taking a predawn walk when a coyote wandering through the area bit her, according

The Coachella Valley Mosquito Vector Control District has scheduled spraying to help prevent the spread of West Nile Virus. What the district called “ultra-low volume ground applications” will be dispersed using truck-mounted sprayers, according to a statement released Monday. Treatments will begin on Tuesday, June 26, between 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. They will repeat

Two Northern California men conspired with others and acted like “vultures” in plotting to kill a Palm Springs retiree and steal his possessions and money, a prosecutor told jurors Monday. Daniel Carlos Garcia, 29, and Kaushal Niroula, 31, are each charged with 10 felony counts, including murder and conspiracy, for the Dec. 5, 2008, stabbing

A California Highway Patrol spokesman confirms their officers are on the scene of a shooting at the Las Brisas apartment complex in Indio. Details are very limited, but police radio traffic indicates ambulances and other law enforcement units were dispatched to the complex, near the intersection of Hoover Street and Monroe Avenue just after 2:30

A parolee who beat and gunned down a Riverside police officer trying to arrest him at the end of a foot chase was sentenced to death today. Earl Ellis Green, 46, was convicted May 11 of murdering Officer Ryan Patrick Bonaminio, and less than four weeks later, the same eight-man, four-woman jury recommended that he

El hombre que estaba en libertad condicional que golpe y balace a un oficial del Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Riverside mientras trataba de arrestarlo despus de una persecucin a pie, fue sentenciado a pena de meurte esta maana. Earl Ellis Green de 46 aos fue declarado culpable en Mayo 11 de matar al

Opening statements are scheduled Modnay in the trial of two men accused in the financially motivated slaying of a Palm Springs retiree. Daniel Carlos Garcia, 29, and Kaushal Niroula, 31 — each one is representing himself — each face 10 felony charges, including murder and conspiracy, in the Dec. 5, 2008, stabbing death of 74-year-old

Three people were injured in a crash on the 34 thousand 400 block of Cathedral Canyon early Monday morning. Police are still investigating but say two vehicles were involved in a high speed collision when a vehicle crashed into a street sweeper near the Dinah Shore intersection around 2a.m. One person is reportedly in critical