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A Palm Desert non-profit will hold its 7th annualJuneteenth celebration in La Quinta next month to raise money for its foster care program. The Family Health & Support Network’s Juneteenth in the Coachella Valley is scheduled for June 14 at La Quinta Resort and commemorates the emancipation of slaves in Texas and the United States

Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist Charles Krauthammer will speak in Indian Wells as part of next year’s Desert Town Hall speakers series, it was announced Friday. Krauthammer, a Washington Post columnist, Fox News commentator, author and physician, will speak March 25, 2015 at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa, according to series spokeswoman Chris Martello. Krauthammer’s

Firefighters are investigating an overnight fire in Thousand Palms. Crews responded to the 32200 block of Wells Fargo Road at 11:13 Thursday night. When they arrived they found smoke pouring from a mobile home. Firefighters contained the flames after about a half hour. No one was inside the home at the time of the fire

An explosion at an explosives plant sounds like a dog-bites-dog story, but this one had people alarmed. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that Alpha Explosives regularly tests its products at its Southern California facility, but the company set off a bigger-than-usual blast on Thursday. Corona Fire Department spokeswoman Lynn Mata said the explosion just outside city

Police say a student who shouted “Get out!” over the public address system at a Southern California school was just worried a teacher was coming, and not trying to make others think they were in danger. Fontana police said Thursday that no students at Heritage Intermediate School will face charges over the May 2 incident.

We are learning the Marriott Fairfield Inn in Palm Desert is salvageable after that four-alarm fire nearly two weeks ago. A clean up company, American Technologies, is working around the clock to get the hotel ready to be rebuilt, but there is still a lot of work to be done. On April 28th, the Fairfield

A program called Get on the Bus helped more than three dozen children visit their moms at a California prison before Mother’s Day on Sunday. The nonprofit arranges for inmates’ children to visit their parents in California prisons around Mother’s and Father’s days. The organization says more than half wouldn’t see their incarcerated parent without

The Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians is building a new housing community in Palm Springs. Members of the tribe and other city leaders broke ground for the new facility on Thursday. The Vallera Palm Springs housing community will house 52 single-family homes on Tribal trust land within the reservation. It’s located at the corner

Electric automaker Tesla Motors will open its first sales and service center in the Coachella Valley today. The grand opening of Tesla Palm Springs is at 10 a.m. at 68080 Perez Road in Cathedral City — the former site of a Hyundai dealership in the Cathedral City Auto Center. The facility is the only Tesla

Adam Santana is an English teacher with the Coachella Valley Unified School District. But he fears it won’t be for long. He’s one of 54 teachers who got a pink slip in March, but still doesn’t have a straight answer about why. “I was under the impression at the beginning we were losing our jobs

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department took a big step towards the LGBT community on Thursday. The state’s second largest sheriff’s department announced the addition of a policy addressing how the jail and corrections department interacts with the transgender community. It’s estimated that there’s 6,000-9,000 people in Riverside county who identify themselves as transgender. It’s a

The Westfield shopping center along Highway 111 in Palm Desert is expanding. The clothing store H&M opened its doors to customers for the first time Thursday afternoon to hundreds of shoppers who waited in line for hours. “This is the best thing that’s ever happened this store,” said shopper Lorna Adama of Palm Desert “Yeah,

A majestic destination up on a mountain, the only 5-star hotel in the valley, or more simply put – the Ritz-Carlton Rancho Mirage. “We’ve hired 300 ladies and gentleman. We are in the midst of training them, people in from around the world helping so the energy — when you open a hotel there is

The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office has decided to file charges against the man who crashed at a Palm Desert elementary school, injuring a student last October. Malcolm Patterson, 83, seriously injured 10-year-old Adrian Grajeda in the crash at Lincoln Elementary School. Adrian was playing on a soccer field when Patterson’s car crashed through the

El gobierno federal sigue recibiendo denuncias “preocupantes” de que Distritos Escolares estn poniendo obstculos a la inscripcin de nios que estn sin permiso en Estados Unidos, asi lo dio a conocer hoy jueves el secretario de justicia Eric Holder. El Departamento de Justicia y el de educacin emitieron nuevas normas recordando a las escuelas y

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has a new nose to help point them in the right direction and sniff out the bad guys. The department introduced an 11-week-old Bloodhound named ‘Windy’ as the newest member of a well-established canine team. Officials said the canine team has helped locate and identify hundreds of people throughout Riverside

Border Patrol agents took a 33 year old gang member into custody after he attempted to enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico. According to the release, Napier Valdez-Brito was arrested about 22 miles west of downtown Calexico. He was taken to the El Centro Border Patrol Station where he admitted to being an active member

Residents of Hemet are being warned not to give tap water to infants or pregnant women because of high nitrate levels found in city wells. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports the city temporarily shut down two of its six water wells on Wednesday after tests showed nitrate levels of 47 milligrams per liter. That’s slightly above

The Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians will honor police and firefighters today. The annual Palm Springs Police and Fire Appreciation Luncheon will be held at 11:30 a.m. at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with CBS Local 2’s Patrick Evans serving as host. The achievements of the Palm