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PALM DESERT – The head coach of the Palm Desert girls softball team, Ashley Nietois on administrative leave. Her husband, Ronald Nieto,a registered sex offender is out of jail and charged with three counts of not disclosing he is a sex offender.News Channel 3 first learned about the allegations last Tuesday,we waited to report on

TEMECULA – There is a select group of elite state drug agents that go inside the Mexican drug cartels, gain their trust by acting as one of them, and busting them with piles of meth and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. In this high stakes game of spying and intercepting, there’s a lingo

INDIO – Riverside County Public Defenders and the District Attorney’s office are fighting over the personnel files of a Sheriff’s deputy investigated for raping a teenaged girl. News Channel 3 first broke news Friday of Deputy Christian Talavera. He’s now on paid administrative leave. No formal criminal charges have been filed at this time against

LOS ANGELES – After weeks of court wrangling, advance ticket sales and worldwide publicity campaigns, the Michael Jackson rehearsal-footage film “This Is It” will open Tuesday in selected theaters, with a red-carpet premiere planned in downtown Los Angeles. Hundreds of Jackson fans are expected to begin lining up by late afternoon for 9 p.m. advance

INDIO – An 18-year-old reputed gang member accused of fatally shooting a man in the head outside a Desert Hot Springs supermarket is scheduled to be arraigned today. Anthony Raymond Magdaleno was charged Monday with murder and a sentence- enhancing allegation of using a firearm in the Oct. 10 death of 45-year-old Chi- Lu “Tony”

PALM SPRINGS– Three years ago Monday,an arsonist started the deadly Esperanza Fire. Each year on the anniversary,family, friends and fellow firefighters meet to remember the five men who died that Octoberday. The families describe it asa sad day, but a day that helps them mourn and find closure. Mondaywas the second time they’ve met as

PALM SPRINGS – You asked for it, and you got it! “Mind blowing. Mind blowing,” says moviegoer Jeff Radcliffe-Nelson. “It’s just nuts,” says moviegoer Albert Arroyo. Paranormal Activity, a low-budget horror flick about a California couple being haunted by a demon, is Hollywood’s biggest success story since ‘The Blair Witch Project.’ “I’d give it that

THERMAL– It was once peddle to the metal. Now, illegal street racing is on the skids around the Coachella Valley. “There were guys coming out of here from LA, Riverside on the outskirts of the area out here street racing but that’s tamed down tremendously,” says Randy Walker, owner of Walker Automotive in Bermuda Dunes.

INDIO – Riverside County jails have begun quarantining inmates with flu-like symptoms in attempt to keep viruses from spreading through the population, a sheriff’s captain said today. Capt. Raymond Gregory, who oversees jails in Indio and Blythe, said inmates with flu-like symptoms are quarantined, along with their cellmates, for up to seven days to help

CATHEDRAL CITY – He’s called a pimp, a thief, and a scam artist by local prosecutors, and now theU.S. Marshals are adding the title of “fugitive” to Boaz Benmoshe. His trial for allegedly running a Coachella Valley prostitution ring is on hold until federal marshals catch him all over again. Benmoshe was first arrested by

COACHELLA – A 32-year-old man was in custody today on suspicion of attacking his mother and brother when she refused to give him money, a sheriff’s sergeant said. Taurino Galindo was arrested around 6 p.m. Monday at a home in the 50000 block of Jalisco Avenue when deputies responded to a report of a domestic

INDIO- U.S. Border Patrol Agents seized more than $1.45 million dollars worth of narcotics yesterday near Indio. Agents tell News Channel 3 a black Dodge Charger entered the Highway 111 checkpoint for inspection, and was referred to the secondary inspection area. During the secondary inspection, a Border Patrol canine team alerted to the center console

INDIO – Joseph Edward Duncan III, who is representing himself in his murder trial, will have a “standby counsel” waiting to help him during his trial, if he needs it. Duncan is charged with first-degree murder in the April 1997 death of Anthony Martinez, who was snatched from an alley in Beaumont by a knife-wielding

The Miss California USA pageant is coming to the desert. It’s bringing a lot of change, feeding of the past year’s controversy. “I never expected to get the title how I did,” says Miss California USA, Tami Farrell. Runner up, Tami Farrel was crowned Miss California after Carrie Prejean was de-throned for “contract violations.” “There

DESERT HOT SPRINGS – Police announced they have made an arrest in last week’s murder of Chi-lu “Tony” Chen. Anthony Raymond Magdaleno, 29, was arrested this week after witnesses identified him from surveillance video seen on local television stations. Magdaleno is being held on a million and a half dollars bail. Chen was shot about

THERMAL – Riverside County firefighters are keeping a close eye on a fire that is still smoldering, this morning, in the east valley. Fire crews contained a vegetation fire that ignited Sunday afternoon around 1:30 near the intersection of Avenue 73 and Pierce Street. When the first engines arrived on scene, the fire was estimated

PALM SPRINGS – News Channel 3 learned Monday that the injectible form of the H1N1 vaccine should start arriving in Riverside County sometime this week. Health officials say when it does get here, they will look at medical groups that have the highest priority for the shots. President Obama declared the outbreak of the H1N1

DESERT HOT SPRINGS – Neighbors worked together, loading up a large van in Desert Hot Springs, emptyinga house that belonged to Myrna Blanc. She is disabled from a car crash and can hardly walk. We first showed you in August how she was being evicted from her home. She made a bad decision and signed

INDIO – A reputed gang member from Los Angeles County should appear in an Indio courtroom,Tuesday afternoon to respond to charges connected to a murder in Desert Hot Springs. His original hearing on Monday was delayed becuase of an “unknown medical problem.” Eighteen year-old Anthony Magdaleno was arrested last week, accused of shooting and killing

LA QUINTA – A Palm Desert man is behind bars, today, accused of holding his ex-girlfriend against her will at her home. Joshua Hill, 29, is accused of violating a restraining order, coming to the woman’s home, and holding her hostage of three days. He’s also accused of assulating and robbing her earlier today. He