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THERMAL, Calif. (KESQ) – Riverside County Sheriff’s investigators were looking for a suspect in a shooting in the 75000 block of Pierce Street in Thermal on Wednesday night. Deputies were called to that location just before 8:00 p.m. for a report of an assault with a deadly weapon and found a man there with injuries
Continue ReadingBy Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — The Fourth of July is nearly upon us and Americans are eager to get away. According to AAA, more than 61 million are expected to hit the road this week and another 5.8 million will be heading to the airports. Speaking of getaways, the 5 Things team is going
Continue ReadingCNN By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — The Fourth of July is nearly upon us and Americans are eager to get away. According to AAA, more than 61 million are expected to hit the road this week and another 5.8 million will be heading to the airports. Speaking of getaways, the 5 Things team is
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By Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Days after Israel began striking Iran’s nuclear and military sites last month, a US non-profit that has provided Starlink internet service to Iranian citizens asked the State Department to urgently reinstate their funding, according to two sources familiar with the outreach. More than a
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By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Bryan Kohberger appeared expressionless as a judge asked if he murdered four Idaho college students in their off-campus home, answering “yes” to each name called out in the courtroom Wednesday. At a change-of-plea hearing before state district Judge Steven Hippler in Boise, Idaho, the courtroom was packed with family
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – In an effort to expand community access to specialty care services, Desert Healthcare District & Foundation awarded a grant of $236,555 to Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest. The grant primarily will fund 50 percent of the salary of the organization’s first Coachella Valley-based physician. The staff addition is expected
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CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. (KESQ) – Robert Leon Wendler, a Vietnam veteran, is facing trouble in his efforts to attend an Honor Flight to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial or ‘Vietnam Wall’ in September. “When I first came home from Vietnam, we weren’t welcomed home,” Wendler said. “It was a very difficult thing for most of us
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BANNING, Calif. (CNS) – A felon accused of gunning down a 50-year-old man in a drive-by attack on the edge of the Morongo Indian Reservation northeast of Banning was charged on Wednesday with first-degree murder and other offenses. Robert Eugene Leonard, 43, of Beaumont, was arrested over the weekend following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — After two and a half years of desperately searching for answers in the deaths of four Idaho college students, the case reached a bitter resolution as Bryan Kohberger admitted guilt for the first time. Kohberger, seated behind a table in an off-white button-up shirt and patterned tie, responded to
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ)– The Fourth of July is just days away, and several cities around the Coachella Valley, the Hi-Desert, and the mountain areas are gearing up for city-led fireworks displays. Here at News Channel 3, several concerned viewers have sent in e-mails, worried about wildlife, and more specifically the Big Bear Eagles, on
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By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Wednesday continued their push to keep their civil case against the Trump administration alive, requesting to amend the lawsuit to include what they describe as the “torture and mistreatment” he experienced at El Salvador’s notorious mega prison, where he was wrongfully deported and
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WASHINGTON, DC (KESQ) – The deeply divided House is set to take up President Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package after Senate Republicans narrowly approved the measure on Tuesday. The President has been meeting with some House GOP holdouts to attempt to convince them to back his bill before the July 4th deadline. Some
Continue ReadingStory by the Associated Press Gilimanuk, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers were searching Thursday for 30 people who were missing after a ferry sank and four people died the previous night near Indonesia’s resort island of Bali. As of Thursday afternoon, 31 people had been rescued from the ferry’s 53 passengers and 12 crew members, the
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) — The American Reproductive Centers, the fertility clinic targeted in the Palm Springs terrorist attack, are now demolishing their old office and preparing for a new beginning. Dr. Maher Abdallah, the clinic’s founder and chief doctor, says the rebuild will cost $17 million, not including the cost of new equipment. While
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – The Fourth of July is the busiest weekend for lost pets entering shelters, primarily due to the loud noises and flashing lights from fireworks, which can frighten pets and cause them to run away. Many animal shelters and animal control facilities report a 30% to 60% increase in lost pets, according
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CABAZON, Calif. (KESQ) – New technology in the Banning Pass is giving firefighters an advantage to fight wildfires in our region. There are two heli-hydrant systems currently installed and operational in the Cabazon area on both the northern and southern sides of the I-10. The tanks were installed in mid-June. These water tanks allow helicopters
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By Alexandra Skores, Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A skydiving plane with 15 people onboard went off the end of a runway at a New Jersey airport Wednesday evening, resulting in multiple injuries, authorities said. The pilot reported engine trouble as the Cessna 208B ascended before crashing into the woods at Cross Keys Airport, southeast
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — A missing part of a wing from a Delta Air Lines 737 that landed Tuesday night at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, may have fallen on a nearby home’s driveway. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether the several-feet-long piece of metal discovered blocking the drive may be a flap
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YUCCA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – A Yucca Valley High School teacher was arrested Wednesday morning for embezzlement from the school’s Parent Teacher Organization. The Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Department reports that on June 18, a member of the Parent Teacher Organization called law enforcement to report the unauthorized withdrawal of funds from the PTO account. The
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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A member of a chat-based White supremacy group has been charged in an alleged plot to solicit the murder of federal officials – including a senator and federal judge – through an online “kill list” he allegedly helped create. Noah Lamb, 24, was charged in federal court in Northern
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