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Police are investigating an early-morning crash in Palm Springs that killed a bicyclist. Authorities said a car hit the bicyclist at about 6:30 a.m. on Palm Canyon Drive near Overture Drive. The rider of the bicycle died at the scene. The victims name has not been released. Police said the driver of the vehicle pulled

A two week crackdown in Riverside County has netted more than 365 DUI arrests, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Desert law enforcement officers will be out in force to track down drunk drivers to start the Labor Day weekend. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is sponsoring a nationwide campaign to catch impaired

A man who served as a Cathedral City police officer for 13 years is under investigation for the deadly shooting of a Spokane, Wash., nursery while on duty there. Investigators said Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Hirzel was responding to a prowling report in Spokane Valley and parked his patrol car in the parking lot

A helicopter has gone down on a busy California highway in Salinas, sending its pilot to the hospital and snarling traffic. The California Highway Patrol says the helicopter landed upside-down onto Highway 101 shortly after 6 a.m. The crash happened near Salinas Municipal Airport. CHP spokeswoman Officer A. Paulson says the pilot was able to

Ontario police have killed a man they say tried to ram a police vehicle and pointed an assault pistol at officers. Thirty-seven-year-old Jason Marcellus Martin of Desert Hot Springs died at a hospital. No officers were hurt. Sgt. David McBride says a report of a man with a gun sent officers to an apartment Wednesday

A motorcyclist is in critical condition after an overnight crash in Cathedral City. It happened around 1:45 a.m. on Varner Road and Mountain View in Cathedral City. A passing motorist saw the motorcyclist on the ground. When police got there he was unresponsive, but he had no visible injuries. That led police to think it

Cal Fire and Riverside County firefighters contained all three wildfire burning in the Cherry Valley and Beaumont area. The main fire had burned 93 acres by 4:30 p.m., according to Riverside County Fire Department’s Cheri Patterson. It was located near the intersection of West Oak Valley Parkway and Palmer Avenue in Beaumont. Firefighters had it

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Calling the Friday the 13th killing of an Apple Valley man “senseless,” an Indio judge today sentenced a Palm Springs man to 15 years to life in prison. Dale Farquhar, 48, was convicted in June of the Nov. 13 slaying of 57- year-old Larry Roger Fisk, who was shot after he followed Farquhar’s girlfriend to

A northern California police officer injured in the line of duty got some help from the Palm Springs police department. The department held a blood drive Thursday for Fremont police Officer Todd Young. Young and another officer were in plainclothes when they tried to serve an arrest warrant on 20-year-old Andrew Barrientos on Friday in

Students at James Workman Middle School call her “Miss Crossing Guard Lady,” and she’s a very busy one. She directs traffic in front of the school all by herself. Sally Descanso, whose daughter attends sixth grade, tries to explain why traffic near the school is horrendous. “Oh, maybe it’s just the first day of school,”

Cal Fire and Riverside County fire crews contained a vegetation fire along Highway 86 and Dillon Road in Coachella on Friday afternoon. The fire broke out at 3:02 p.m., according to Cheri Patterson with the Riverside County Fire Department. Fire crews report one acre burned, but the fire created a lot of smoke that drivers

In Palm Springs, 437 customers, including a portion of downtown, lost electrical power for about an hour on Thursday evening. All of the vendors at Village Fest were without power, prompting concerns that the event might be shut down for the evening. Power was restored before that needed to happen. The outage began about 5:05

Campgrounds are expected to be packed for the last holiday of the summer. Thousands of people will fill up campgrounds around the San Bernardino National Forest. While campers get tents ready and break out the fishing poles — the U.S. Forest Service firefighters will be busy trying to keep everyone safe. “The main focus is

A Coachella Valley teen pleaded guilty to felony vandalism and a hate crime Monday. He admitted to spray-painting anti-gay slurs on several homes along Via Escuela in Palms Springs in late June. The defendant was a 15-year-old Hispanic male who lives just across the street from one of his victims. He was sentenced to and

Police investigated a report that a man was forced by two gunmen to get out of one vehicle and into another in Cathedral City today. Authorities received a report about the matter at 2:06 p.m., said Sgt. Corwin de Veas of the Cathedral City Police Department. A woman told police that sometime between 10:30 a.m.

A psychologist was appointed today to examine a Bermuda Dunes man accused of fatally shooting his wife of 38 years during an argument. Garey Lee Smith, 55, faces 50 years in prison if convicted of killing his spouse, Sandra, just before midnight Aug. 22 at their home in the 41000 block of Trinity Circle. At

The California Department of Education released preliminary figures this week of how much money each school district will get from a federal jobs bill signed by President Oabama. Obama signed the measure into law just hours after the House passed it in a special one-day session during what would normally be the lawmakers’ summer break

On Wednesday night, NewsChannel 3 learned that the Discovery Channel gunman James Lee has family here in the desert. KESQ spoke with his brother Aaron who lives in Indio. He told us that he hasn’t had contact with his brother in ten years. Police said James Lee went into the Discovery Channel building on Wednesday

Classic Yellow Cab is closing its doors after less than a year. That means Peter Kurzon will be looking for a new job soon. “At my age and this economy I’m getting the stenciled sign probably go stand of Ramon,” said Kurzon. He’s one of 50 Classic Yellow Cab’s drivers who’s job will get hacked