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Cathedral City police were investigating a possible kidnapping today. A police spokesperson said a dispatcher received a 911 call at around 9:45 p.m. reporting the possible kidnapping in the 29-000 block of Avenida La Vista. Officers arrived and contacted a 24-year-old man who claimed he was assaulted by the suspect. The man told officers his

It’s a story still getting a lot of talk around water coolers: the Jet Blue flight attendant who snapped on a flight from Pittsburgh to New York on Monday. 38-year old Steven Slater has been arraigned on charges of criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and trespassing. According to police, Slater got into an argument with a

Riverside County supervisors postponed action today on a Cal Fire proposal to fold the county’s 500-member volunteer firefighter force into a new reserve firefighter program with stricter standards. “There are more steps that need to be taken before we (proceed with) this,” said Supervisor John Benoit, a volunteer fireman. “There have been concerns raised by

A heat warning was issued today for eastern Riverside County, where daily high temperatures are expected to climb into the low 100s for the next week. The warning was issued for all areas extending from Cabazon east to the Arizona border, according to Danyte Mockus with the Riverside County Department of Public Health. Stay with

Funeral services were pending today for three women, including California Baptist University cheer coach Wendy Rice, who died in a fiery three-vehicle crash on the Sierra Nevada eastside south of Bishop. People mourned Tuesday on two Southland campuses, at Cal Baptist in Riverside and at Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diego. Of the four

The man accused of kidnapping actor Jeremy London in Palm Springs on June 10 is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday morning. Brandon Adams, 26, has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of carjacking, kidnapping, robbery, taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent and receiving stolen property. He also faces a sentence enhancing allegation

Un hombre de Cathedral City est tras de las rejas por presuntamente raptar a su ex novia. El presunto rapto ocurri cerca de las 9:25pm del Martes sobre la Avenida La Vista. Eduardo Vallejo de 23 aos fue arrestado en conexin con este caso. Ahora, enfrentar cargos de secuestro y agresin.

Una anciana desat una persecucin policiaca esta maana sobre las calles de Indio. Una mujer de 84 aos conduca de forma errtica sobre el Bulevar Indio cuando al parecer choc un vehculo, pero continu al volante. Los agentes la siguieron hasta que termin impactndose contra una banqueta, fue cuando descubrieron que estaba sufriendo de un

The last time the annual Perseid meteor shower happened during a run of good moonless nights was in 2007. It turns out that every three years, the same phase of the Moon returns to roughly the same date each month (2.2 days earlier, on average). So in 2010 we’re on for moonless Perseids again! The

A 3.4 magnitude earthquake shook an area near Borrego Springs on Wednesday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake’s picenter was 9 miles north northwest of Borrego Springs, 32 miles south of Palm Springs, and hit at 1:47 p.m. There were no reports of injuries. This is the same area that experienced the

(ABC NEWS) – Anne Rice has never been one to mince words. When her novel “Interview With the Vampire” was made into a movie, she publicly declared her dissatisfaction with lead actors Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt (although she later changed her mind). These days, from her home near Palm Springs, Calif., Rice regularly posts

A search was continuing today for a man who allegedly pointed a gun at a California Highway Patrol officer, prompting him to fire multiple shots at the suspect, who made his getaway by commandeering a woman’s car. The officer-involved shooting occurred around 6 p.m Tuesday in the area of San Juan Drive and Avenida Valencia

An 84-year-old woman who police thought may have been intoxicated at one point was transported to a local hospital on Wednesday after they determined she was suffering from a diabetic seizure. Police responded to a call just after 10 a.m. that a car was driving erratically on Indio Boulevard. One call came into dispatchers indicating

Jurors resumed deliberations today in the trial of a young man accused of sexually assaulting two Cathedral City women. Juan Pablo Ramos, 19, faces charges of rape, penetration with a foreign object, false imprisonment, burglary and oral copulation by force. The eight-man, four-woman jury received the case Tuesday afternoon and deliberated about two hours before

Cathedral City firefighters were able to put out a fire that broke out at an abandoned home just inside the city limits. Firefighters were dispatched at 4:20 p.m. on Monday to San Diego Drive in the Dream Homes area, which is near Agua Caliente Elementary School and the Palm Springs International Airport. They were able

NASA has a new plan of attack to get the International Space Station back to full cooling. Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, who is a graduate of Beaumont High School, spent Tuesday completing preparations for their second spacewalk Wednesday out of the Quest airlock to replace the failed ammonia coolant

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors today approved a $4.71 billion budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year that incorporates across-the-board spending cuts to close a $133 million deficit. “We’re showing the shareholders of this county, the residents, that we’re using their money wisely,” Supervisor Jeff Stone said before the 5-0 vote to put the budget

El sospechoso de perpetrar un robo a mano armada, donde dos personas resultaron heridas, fue arrestado. La polica identific a Brandon Hibler de Twentynine Palms como el posible responsable de dispararle a dos personas en el negocio de bienes races Del Gagnon el lunes pasado durante un atraco. Luego de recibir algunas pistas, Hibler fue

Viviendas embargadas por los bancos se estn convirtiendo en el blanco de la delincuencia. Bomberos en Cathedral City investigan un incendio que pudo haber sido provocado de forma intencional en la comunidad de Dream Homes localizada entre las calles San Diego y San Jose. Nadie fue herido ya que el hogar estaba vacante durante el