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The Coachella Music and Arts Festival returns to the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Friday, April17 through Sunday, April 19. Tickets for Coachella 2009 are on sale at Ticketmaster outlets by phone and online at www.ticketmaster.com. The ticket price for all three days is $269. Tickets for single day admission are sold out. For up-to-date

A man suspected in a series of armed robberies at hotels in Riverside County is also a suspect in an attempted bank robbery in Sacramento. Nicolas Corletto, 22, of Oregon was arrested Monday after an Indio Police officer spotted a vehicle described as the vehicle used in the robberies. Corletto was apparently spotted in Jeep

Aaron Layton’s signature is on thousands of lab reports. The Riverside County District Attorney is currently looking into if he falsified these reports. “The employee Layton at Bio-Tox may have some problems in his background related to credibility which immediately bring his work at Bio-Tox into question,” said Chief Assistant District Attorney Sue Steding. Layton

Twelve senior citizens in the Coachella Valley will be honored Thursday for their inspiration on others as part of the 17th Annual Senior Inspiration Awards luncheon. Cathedral City resident Cy Breen is one of this year’s recipients. The 97-year-old is being honored for his fundraising and charity work. For the past three years on his

PALM DESERT – Residents and maintenance crews had their work cut out for them Wednesday, one day after a windstorm howled through the Desert. The sounds of chainsaws echoed along Cook Street in Palm Desert. Maintenance crews from Desert Springs Marriott cleaned up after Mother Nature at the crack of dawn. “I couldn’t believe it,”

Twenty-five to life. That’s the sentence Kevin Brom received for murdering his mother. Brom plead guilty, but he’s still not telling detectives where he hid her body. Even Kevin’s father believes his son deserves the death penalty for murdering Terri Brom. “What went wrong? What went wrong to a decent kid that didn’t do anything.

INDIO – The Desert Stonewall Democrats, which has called for a boycott of four auto dealerships because they claim a co-owner contributed to the campaign on behalf of Proposition 8, expect to conduct a public protest this week, the group’s vice chair said. Leaders of the gay and lesbian group voted 11-2 Saturday to conduct

A handful of Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies carrying pellet handguns and rifles slowly patrol an open area in the campus of La Quinta High School. Mock dispatchers call out the fake emergency: a shooter on campus. From around the corner comes a man wearing a ski-mask, pointing a gun at the deputies. They tell the

LOS ANGELES- Oscar De La Hoya is calling it quits in the ring. Boxing’s most popular fighter announced his decision Tuesday across the street from Staples Center, where a statue of him stands. De La Hoya is retiring four months after he was thoroughly beaten by Manny Pacquiao in his fourth loss in his last

By: Rodney Wardle, News Channel 3 Reporter rwardle@kesq.com PALM SPRINGS – An early start to Easter for this group as they board the Palm Springs Aerial Tram shortly after 5 am. Hundreds made the trip up the mountain for the Tramway’s annual easter sunrise service. Alejandra Ponce de Leon and Hugo Salazar are visiting Palm

You’ve probably never seen anyone this happy getting locked up as these group of Desert Hot Springs kids. The city’s Junior Police Camp gave over a dozen kids a chance to get a close look at what it’s like in law enforcement. it’s the second year for thethree-day program. Kids toured the station. Seven-year-old Hailey

Rick Seidner runs Rick’s Restaurant in Palm Springs. It’s one of the only places in the Desert serving Cuban dishes. But, behind the happy times at this restaurant, Rick bears a painful legacy of his childhood in Havana, Cuba. “Growing up, my dad always told us, ‘Someday, we’re going back to Cuba.’ Unfortunately, that didn’t

News Channel 3, the Desert’s News Leader, was the recipient of three 2009 regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in electronic journalism, it was announced Thursday. MeteorologistPeter Cannella and photojournalist Serkan Stage each wona regional Murrow Award for Feature Reporting and Photojounalism for their work on “Steam Power,” a story on still-running steam locomotives

TRACY – Police say a woman suspected in the death of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu is on suicide watch at a California jail. Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and killing the Tracy child, whose body was found in a suitcase dumped in an irrigation pond. Police say she is refusing

THOUSAND PALMS – A man who pulled a gun on firefighters treating him for a seizure in his mobile home was tracked down and arrested at a local hospital, sheriff’s deputies said. Stanley Dale Pearson, 26, was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and brandishing a firearm, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said. He

RIVERSIDE- A 22-year-old former Riverside resident accused of drunkenly running a red light and causing a crash that killed Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two other people was charged Friday with three counts of second-degree murder. Andrew Thomas Gallo is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Fullerton. Gallo is accused of driving with a blood-alcohol

Millions of out-of-work Americans are looking for a job. Throw on top of that another daunting task: taxes. And it can be downright overwhelming. But any expenses related to finding a job, from mailing your resume to the gas you’ve used to go to an interview, are deductible. And in some cases, so is the

It’s “home sweet home” for a Palm Desert teen who recently came out of a coma and has undergone months of rehabilitation following a car accident back on December 22nd. Karrisa McGinness, 19, was a passenger of an SUV with two other people inside when the one of the vehicle’s tires blew out and rolled