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A motorist was injured today in a head-on crash in Mecca that blocked traffic for over an hour, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash was reported at 7:42 a.m. at Grapefruit Boulevard at state Route 195. Passing motorists told the CHP that a sedan and an SUV crashed head-on and the SUV overturned.

After 43 years at KABC-TV, veteran Inland Empire reporter Bob Banfield is retiring at age 79. The station paid tribute to Banfield Thursday with photos and clips from his many years on the air. Banfield got his start in broadcasting at age 18 at a tiny radio station in his hometown of East Liverpool, Ohio.

City officials said tattoo shops inspired an ordinance under consideration by the City Council. It would stop any new tattoo businesses from opening along Highway 111 and El Paseo Rd. There are 5 of those businesses – all within a mile or two along Highway 111. Ron Sharp, owner of 111 Tattoo, said feels the

After our reports with the employee of the Sea Mountain Inn confirming the business provided a playroom for people to have sex in surfaced, many said a new spa in the City modeled itself after Sea Mountain Spa. The owner of Areolas Tantric Spa and Resort, Jim Bendis insists it is not. On Thursday night

A security guard-turned-preacher accused in a 1981 triple homicide in Rancho Mirage is due in court for a felony settlement conference today. James “Jimmy” Hughes faces charges of conspiracy and murder in the deaths of Ralph Arthur Boger, 42, Patricia Roberta Castro, 44, and Alfred Alvarez, 32, who was vice chairman of the Cabazon Band

Firefighters made quick work, putting out a fire at the intersection of Belardo and Ramon Road in Palm Springs on Friday afternoon. The call came in at 3:29pm, and crews had to evacuate hikers from the Taqhuitz Canyon area to get them to safety. If you have pictures of the fire, click here to send

The roads were flooded with drivers headed out of the valley for Memorial Day weekend Friday, and the California Highway Patrol beefed up patrols to enforce its ‘2010 Click it or Ticket Campaign.’ CHP will also assist other agencies that are holding DUI checkpoints. DUI deaths have dropped more than 20 percent since 2005, but,

Attorneys on both sides said today they needed more time to prepare for a preliminary hearing for the onetime head of security for the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, who allegedly killed a tribal leader and two other people in 1981. James “Jimmy” Hughes faces murder and conspiracy charges in the deaths of Ralph Arthur

A tanker truck that overturned and exploded today on the eastbound Riverside (91) Freeway near the Corona (71) Expressway was involved in a chain-reaction crash that resulted in no serious injuries, authorities said. The crash involving the gas truck, another big rig and four compact vehicles occurred around 10:30 a.m., according to the California Highway

The daughter of a terminally ill Joshua Tree man will get married this afternoon in the chapel of a Palm Springs hospital so that the stage four cancer patient can witness the ceremony, a spokesman said. Terry Lukens, 66, is being treated for an inoperable brain tumor at Desert Regional Medical Center, where the 5

One person was shot, and two others wounded in a drive-by shooting that that sent a car swerving into a telephone poll, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The car hit the pole at West 7th Street and South Lion Avenue in San Jacinto at 10:31am, Friday. Authorities responded to what they thought was

Ayer jueves a las 6:28 a.m. el Departamento de Bomberos recibi una llamada que reportaba el incendio de una traila tipo vivienda ubicada en el Tri-Palm Estates de Thousand Palms. Una mujer fue transportada al hospital con quemaduras y lastimada de una rodilla en su intento por salir de la vivienda.

Hoy viernes a las 7:30 p.m. iniciar la ceremonia de graduacin de ms de 500 alumnos de College of the Desert que despus de aos entre los libros, exmenes y clases llegan a tan esperado da de graduacin. Despus se realizar una recepcin en el gimnasio del College of the Desert.

La polica arrest a un sujeto que en Mayo 17 pasado entr a una casa ubicada sobre Desert View Ave en Desert Hot Springs y se rob nueve guitarras con valor de miles de dlares. Un testigo vio el carro del malandrn y lo report a los investigadores que finalmente lo atraparon. Se trata de

El Departamento de Polica de Indio anunci un retn de sobriedad para maana sbado desde las 8 p.m. en un punto no revelado. En Desert Hot Springs habr otro retn hoy viernes desde las 8:00 p.m. sobre Palm Drive y Park Lane.

Millions of Southern Californians will be on the roads for the long Memorial Day weekend, and gasoline prices have dipped a few cents to make the travel a little easier on your wallet. The L-A County average for a gallon of regular stands at 3-dollars-and-3-cents … down about 7-cents over the past week. While that

Five people were hurt late Wednesday afternoon — one critically — in a rollover crash on eastbound Interstate 10 east of Coachella, authorities said. The crash was reported at 4:23 p.m. on eastbound Interstate 10 at Frontage Road, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said. One patient was airlifted to a hospital for treatment of serious

Each year consumers spend millions of dollars on computer repairs. But how do you know you’re getting what we paid for? With the help of a Hollywood makeup artist, we went undercover with four Dell Desktop computers. The only thing wrong with each of them was a power supply cable to the hard drive was

After more than a year of paperwork and bringing the business up to code, Cannahelp, a medicinal marijuana dispensary, celebrated Wednesday it’s grand reopening. It’s been a long wait for medical marijuana patient, Ava Weinstein. “I was born legally blind, and I use it for muscle spasms in my eyes,” she said. Weinstein moved to

A brush fire sparked by a metal grinder scorched 75 acres of vegetation today east of Hemet, but no structures were threatened. The blaze broke around noon near Fairview and Whittier avenues east of Hemet, said Jody Hagemann of the Riverside County Fire Department. Firefighters fully contained the fire by 5 p.m., according to Hagemann,