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After sitting vacant for a good two years, the 12,000 square-foot former Kia dealership in Cathedral City has been taken over by the PeroXide hair salon. It doesn’t sound like a good fit, but don’t tell that to co-owner Cary Mann. Despite the tough economy and the desert’s traditionally slow summer months, the salon opened

Martha’s Village and Kitchen is planning summer camp for kids, and they need more donations to make it happen. They’re asking for: sleeping bags, backpacks, flash lights, reusable water bottles, sun screen and lip balm. You can also donate cash for the supplies. The organization said so far, it hasn’t received any donations. They say

It’s already claimed the lives of five infants, and doctors warned Wednesday, that if children aren’t vaccinated, the whooping cough epidemic in California will spread fast. According to the California Department of Public Health, 910 cases of whooping cough have been reported this year, as of June 15, which is a staggering increase from 2009.

A 17-year-old boy accused, along with his younger brother and four other teens, in the slaying of a Desert Hot Springs man during a gang- related fight pleaded not guilty today to a first-degree murder charge. Jonathan Romero is being prosecuted in adult court, along with his 15- year-old brother, Angel David Romero, Ruben Alexander

Eight people suspected of various parole and probation violations were arrested today as part of a citywide sweep in Palm Springs, police reported. The compliance checks began in the morning at 57 locations throughout the city, said Officer Melissa Desmarais, spokeswoman for the Palm Springs Police Department. The sweep was aimed to fight back against

KESQ-TV News Channel 3 swept the May 2010 sweeps, according to figures released today by Nielsen Media Research. ?KESQ is the Desert?s News Leader and the ratings prove it,? said Bob Allen, Executive Vice President and General Manager. News Channel 3 in the Morning with Jeff Stahl and Emilie Voss is the most watched morning

Cal Fire crews have contained a wildfire burning in an area off Highway 60 known as “The Badlands.” It broke out alongside the Moreno Valley Freeway this afternoon, authorities said. The seven-acre blaze was reported around 3 p.m. near the 60 and Gilman Springs Road, just east of Moreno Valley, according to the Riverside County

Desert Hot Springs police say they’re looking for a suspect in an afternoon stabbing. Police responded just before 2pm Thursday at a home along the 13-700 block of Nahum Drive near Two Bunch Palms Trail, said Sgt. Dan Bressler of the Desert Hot Springs Police Department. There, they found a man suffering from an apparent

It’s been a violent month for Coachella Valley teens. On June 5, a 17-year-old was set on fire in Coachella by suspected gang members. Over the weekend, Palm Springs Police arrested another teenager and accused him of hate crimes, and Tuesday, a judge allowed four teenagers accused of stabbing a Desert Hot Springs man to

Part of Highway 111 was closed Thursday morning, south of Mecca after a big rig overturned around midnight spilling produce on the road. All lanes have since re-opened. This happened just north of Mecca Avenue. Both sides of the highway were closed for clean-up, but the southbound lanes re-opened in time for the morning commute.

Four Coachella Valley schools made the final cut in the competition to prove who is the “fittest school of all” in the 2010 Governor’s Challenge Competition. The program, run by Governor Schwarzenegger’s office, is designed to promote increased physical activity and better nutrition among California’s youth, according to their website. Within the program, the Coachella

Desert Hot Springs City Manager Rick Daniels released his findings in a three-page review of the Sea Mountain Inn in Desert Hot Springs. His review was prompted by a News Channel 3 investigation. During our undercover report, an employee by the name of Samantha made it very clear that part of the Spa’s existence was

A source tells The Associated Press that President Barack Obama will name Gen. David Petraeus to succeed Gen. Stanley McChrystal as top war commander in Afghanistan. Watch the speech live on News Channel 3 or streamed live right here on KESQ.com at 10:30am PDT.

The U.S. Census Bureau released its 2009 city population estimates. The numbers are based on the 2000 Census data, and updated by using records; mainly births, deaths and domestic and international migration documents. Cities in the east valley saw the most growth. Indio, Coachella and La Quinta all saw numbers nearly double. Palm Desert, Cathedral

Riverside County County Executive Officer Bill Luna instructed the Registrar of Voters Barbara Dunmore to postpone the certification of the election until all legal options could be considered. The Riverside County Board of Supervisors is considering legal action to prevent 12,500 ballots found after the voting deadline in the June 8 primary from being thrown

Edith Shain, who claimed she was the nurse kissed by a sailor in Times Square in an iconic World War II photo, has died. Her son, Robert, says Shain was 91 when she died Sunday at her Los Angeles home. In August 1945, Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstadt snapped the famous photo of a sailor

All lanes are open to traffic on Interstate 10 after more than 15 hours of clean-up following a big rig accident yesterday afternoon. The truck was carrying 170 gallons of insecticide when it rolled over and spilled on the freeway. It happened about 2:30pm Tuesday near mile marker 99; that’s about 30 minutes east of

The magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck near Calexico on Easter Sunday shifted the Earth’s crust in the area about 31 inches downward and to the south, according to radar images and data collected by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Airborne radar images of the area taken by the JPL-developed Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar

Un reactor nuclear est programado pasar por las carreteras del Valle de Coachella esta noche. Un camin de carga pesada remolcando la cubierta del reactor nuclear de 19 pies de ancho hacia Arizona podria circular por la ciudad de Banning y Palm Spirngs esta noche. Al llegar a nuestra regin, un tramo de la Carretera

The third and final gigantic lid for a nuclear reactor is scheduled to make its way through the Coachella Valley overnight tonight. The 150-ton lid bound for the Palo Verde nuclear plant near Phoenix began its 10-day trek from the Port of Long Beach last Tuesday, said Bigge spokesman Roger Simpson. The load, which is