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LA QUINTA – A few schools in the Desert Sands Unified School District are wrestling for more money. The Empire Wrestling Federation is putting on a wrestling show fundraiser later this month at La Quinta High School. It’s not only the pros that are getting in on the action, the principal of Amelia Earhart Elementary

PALM SPRINGS- The Palm Springs Unified School District Board members Tuesday night voted in favor oflaying off62 teacher. Thereductionmeans larger classrooms and less one on one attention for students. The Board voted unanimously in an effort to close an $8 milliondeficit. Board member, Justin Blake, says “The fat is gone, we’re cutting bone and it

COACHELLA– Police saya woman got a knock at her Coachella home around 11:30am Tuesday morning. When she opened the door, 2 armed men forced their way inside. They locked the woman and her two children in a back room while they ransacked the home. They took some jewelry and cash and got away. “It’s kinda

PALM DESERT – Run-away acceleration continues to plague Toyota.The automaker and federal officials are investigating why a Prius ran out of control on a San Diego Freeway. Jim Sikes says he was driving his 2008 Prius on Interstate 8 on Monday when the car accelerated on its own. He called 9-1-1 and a C-H-P officer

The City of Los Angeles got the message;not in our backyard. A project to get electricity to LA-through power lines cutting through Desert Hot Springs, Pioneertown and Oak Glen is off the table.In Yucca Valley Wednesday,the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced it was scraping its plans on theGreen Path North Project.The idea

HEMET – Police in Hemet announced the arrest of a teenage fugitive suspected in the shooting death of a boy whose body was burned in a bonfire last November. Jose Manuel Campos and his girlfriend Felicia Sharp, who were both 17 at the time of the murder, were picked up in Mexico and were expected

We’re glad you asked. There are only two kinds of physicians qualified to be licensed for the unlimited practice of medicine in all 50 states: those holding the M.D. degree, and those who have earned the D.O. – Doctor of osteopathic medicine – degree. Osteopathic physicians perform surgery, deliver babies and prescribe medicine in hospitals

Dr. Bernard was born and raised in the Midwest, one of five children in an old time general physician’s family. He received his undergraduate degree with a teaching certificate from Michigan State University. After a short stint teaching, Dr. Bernard moved his own young family to Texas where he was involved with cancer research and

LA QUINTA – A busload of high school studentscheer and wave as drivers pass them at the intersection of Eisenhower Drive and Calle Sinaloa. They sound thrilled to be out of school, but the situation that left them strandedWednesday is a bit more serious. “Iwas sitting next to my friend Kyrie,” recalls tenth-grader Mysha Cunningham,

RANCHO MIRAGE- It took firefighters 3 1/2 hours to extinguish 15 palm trees on fire in a remote area of Magnesia springs inside the Mountain Park in Rancho Mirage Monday afternoon. The fire started just after 2:30p.m southwest of Bob Hope Drive and Highway 111. Firefighters had to hike several miles in from the trail

COACHELLA VALLEY – The wind may not move mountains, but it certainly moved everything else Tuesday. A chain link fence in Palm Desert toppled over like dominoes. The sand bags obviously were useless. In Indian Wells at the BNP Paribas Open, wind was a concern as the men’s qualifying rounds were set to begin at

KESQ is giving away tickets to the La Quinta Arts Festival! The La Quinta Arts Festival takes place March 11-14th, at La Quinta’s Civic Center Campus. La Quinta Arts Festival is nationally recognized by artists and art patrons alike as one of the renowned art festivals in the nation! This is a one-day contest, so

El Monterrey, actual campeón del fútbol mexicano, viajó a Colombia sin el volante Luis Ernesto Pérez y el delantero Aldo de Nigris, ambos lesionados, para enfrentar el miércoles próximo al Once Caldas colombiano dentro del marco de la Libertadores Andrés Farsi descarta cualquier posibilidad de cambio en la dirección técnica de los Tuzos El Vicepresidente

HOLLYWOOD – The Academy Awards went according to expectations, as the Iraq war drama “The Hurt Locker” was named best picture and Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock took home the top acting awards. “The Hurt Locker” won a total of six Oscars during the 82nd annual ceremony, out-dueling the 3-D fantasy “Avatar” to win the

The news is still sinking infor the winnersat Sundaynight’s Academy Awards.The night belonged to KathrynBigelow’s film “The Hurt Locker.”The motion picture won 6 Oscars including best picture and best director. In winning the best director award,Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to pull off the feat.News Channelspoke with a couple of local women film makers.They’re

INDIAN WELLS – Watching some of the world’s best tennis players up close is one reason the Grimes family keeps coming back to the BNP Paribas Open. It’s their second time. “At the bigger events, they’re so sealed off from the public, you rarely get autographs from bigger players,” says Allen Grimes, from Yuma, Arizona.

Monterrey llegó por primera vez a cinco victorias en torneos cortos, su marca de todos los tiempos es de ocho de la campaña 1963-64 Jaguares puso fin a su racha de 16 partidos seguidos sin ganar en casa, además no anotaba goles desde Octubre de 2008 Guadalajara sufrió su primera derrota del torneo, la marca

BEVERLY HILLS – Here is a list of nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards, which will be presented tonight at the Kodak Theatre. Best Picture (10 nominees) –“Avatar,” James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers –“The Blind Side,” nominees to be determined –“District 9,” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, producers –“An Education,” Finola Dwyer and Amanda

PALM DESERT/INDIO – Hundreds walk in two different locations to fight two different diseases, but their goal is the same. “We definitely want to find a cure,” says Susan Rudenick whose mother had Alzheimer’s. “My ultimate goal is to find a cure,” says Mirna Flores, Indio Relay For Life Team Development Chairperson. At the Memory

LOS ANGELES – “Alice in Wonderland” shattered records for the normally-sleepy midwinter box office, and is expected to open with $116.3 million in North American receipts, Hollywood.com estimated today. The Tim Burton-Johnny Depp collaboration is the sixth-largest opening film ever, and the first movie ever to top the $100 million domestic water mark in any