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A new baby monitoring system is now being used at San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital in Banning. It’s designed to prevent a “code pink” — or an infant abduction. “In the news recently there’s been a lot of infant abductions and we knew we needed to upgrade our system and this one came highly recommended,” said

The Salton Sea Authority says it has a way to fix the smell flowing into the Coachella Valley. The problem is finding away to fund it, and the answer may lie with the energy industry. Right now the Salton Sea is evaporating at an astounding rate. J. Andrew Schlange, the interim general manager for the

Gearing up for practice in Coachella, players from the Little Arabs Football League need more than just pads and helmets before hitting the field at Bagdouma Park. They need bug spray. “You scratch them, like really hard, until they turn into a cut and then you spray, and it burns,” said a player. Returning from

Cancer treatment wouldn’t be possible for hundreds of people in the Coachella Valley without the assistance of a local organization. Cancer not only takes a toll on your health, the emotional and financial tolls can be tremendous as well. That’s where a local agency steps in. “I figured I’d been given a death sentence.” That’s

Police were seeking two men who robbed a Circle K convenience store at gunpoint today, the third holdup at a Cathedral City business since early Wednesday. Thursday’s robbery was reported at 3:25 a.m. at the Circle K at 37040 Cathedral Canyon Drive. An employee said two men, both wearing bandannas over their faces, came in

Three separate brush fires in Beaumont Thursday collectively scorched roughly four acres and left two firefighters injured before crews got them under control. Two small wildfires in the Lamb Canyon area were knocked down beforenoon, burning about an acre, while another brusher reported around 11:50 a.m. along state Route 79 and Gilman Springs Road scorched

Fantasy Springs Resort Casino will host a blood drive tomorrow to support the Community Blood Bank of Rancho Mirage, a casino spokeswoman said today. The blood drive will be held in the Special Events Center at Fantasy Springs, 84-245 Indio Springs Parkway, from 1 to 6 p.m. The Community Blood Bank provides blood to all

Jury deliberations will continue Friday morning in the trial of two Northern California men accused in the financially motivated killing of a Palm Springs Retiree. The jury went home late Thursday afternoon without reaching a verdict. Kaushal Niroula, 31, and Daniel Carlos Garcia, 30, are charged with 10 felony counts, including murder and conspiracy, in

If you’re 60 or older, there’s a vaccine you might want to ask your doctor about. That’s just one thing local doctors are talking about when looking at “What’s Going Around” the area where you live. Dr. Randolph Gibbs says he’s seeing an increase in rota virus in children. Symptoms include diarrhea, fever and sporadic

It was a hero’s welcome for a decorated Cathedral City soldier who was killed 60 years ago. The remains of U.S. Army Master Sgt. Clifford L. Ryan were flown to California early Thursday and were driven from Los Angeles International Airport to Wiefel Mortuary in Palm Springs, escorted by motorcycles supplied by the Patriot Guard

Hoy a las 3:25 a.m. dos sujetos entaron a la tienda de autoservicio Circle K que se ubica en el 37040 Cathedral Canyon Drive en Cathedral City y a punta de psitola le exigieron al empleado que les entregara el dinero de la caja registradora. Los dos hombres cubran sus caras con pauelos y utilizaban

Police were seeking two men who robbed a Circle K convenience store at gunpoint today, the third holdup at a Cathedral City business since early Wednesday. Today’s robbery was reported at 3:25 a.m. at the Circle K at 37040 Cathedral Canyon Drive. An employee said two men, both wearing bandanas over their faces, came in

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the Inland Empire rose one-tenth of a cent today to $4.147, its second slight rise since an 11-day streak of increases ended Tuesday, when the price remained unchanged. The average price in Riverside and San Bernardino counties is 1.7 cents more than a week

Two new human cases of West Nile virus were reported in San Bernardino county Wednesday. The latest reports bring the county’s total to three this year, and just a day after a second human case of the virus was reported in neighboring Riverside county. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the number of

Joe Di Rienzo recently finished remodeling his home at the Tramview Mobile Home Park in Cathderal City. It’s an investment he’s spent the past few years molding. However, in the past week it’s taken almost as much time and money just to spray away the remains of a muddy mess. “It’s kind of a pile

A student at Mountain View Middle School fought off a man who apparently tried to kidnap her while walking home from school last Friday. The man tried to grab the student by the arm, but she kicked him and managed to get away. It happened near 12th Street and Beaumont Avenue. The suspect is described

A Cathedral City man pleaded guilty today to sexually assaulting four teenage girls, one of whom he lured to his apartment by posing as a teenage boy on social networking websites.Jeffrey Thomas Sackman, 45, pleaded guilty to nine felony counts, including oral copulation with a person under 16, sexual penetration with a foreign object and

Traffic came to a crawl on Interstate Ten just West of the Highway 62 interchange late Wednesday afternoon. At 3:45pm CHP says a driver of a white van entered I-10 from Highway 62 going at a high rate of speed and made an unsafe lane change. The driver then hit an over-sized big rig, pulling

The LGBT Community Center of the Desert, is working with the Palm Springs Unified School District, to bring anti-bullying and suicide prevention workshops, to high school classrooms, all in an effort to save young lives. John O’Connor, Executive Director of The Center says, “It’s a dangerous world out there and because of the epidemic of

A federal crackdown on marijuana growing in seven western states has uprooted more than 1 million plants, about two-thirds of which were found on public land. The U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento says the pot found on public lands was worth nearly $1.5 billion. The agency released total figures for the July and August raids