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Senator Barbara Boxer arrived at the Riverside County Registrar of Voters Wednesday to grab a ballot. The Rancho Mirage resident says she was planning to vote absentee, but decided to take care of it in-person and talk about the advantages of early voting. “You have lots of time to contemplate who you’re going to vote

President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered executive-branch agencies to extend to employees’ same-sex partners the same benefits provided to their opposite-sex partners, to the extent allowed by law. The move followed up on Obama’s memorandum last year that extended some benefits to same-sex partners of government workers and ordered federal agencies to review additional benefits

A light plane on an emergency landing approach to Gillespie Field clipped trolley power lines and crashed onto a street at the western edge of the East County airport today, coming to rest upside-down with the pilot trapped inside and the severed live electrical wires draped across it. The man flying the Czech Aircraft Works

More than 160 people were arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Riverside County over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, authorities said today. The arrests were made during a three-day drunken driver crackdown conducted by the “Avoid The 30” campaign, which is named for the number of police agencies that operate in the county. Law

A probe into the handling of ex-Riverside police Chief Russ Leach’s drunken driving crash concluded there was no cover-up by officers, but “deficient decisions” resulted in Leach receiving preferential treatment, city officials said today. According to Riverside City Manager Brad Hudson, a 2,500-page internal affairs report on the chief’s DUI crash in a city-owned vehicle

More than 24 hours after an explosion caused a massive power outage in southern Palm Springs, nearly 200 people started Wednesday without power. Southern California Edison says power was finally turned back on at 10:40am. The company says the first response team completed initial repairs from an underground explosion on Tuesday, but the damage is

An independent review has found that state parole agents missed numerous chances to send a convicted child molester back to prison before he raped and killed two teenagers. The report issued Wednesday by the inspector general for the state corrections department examines how agents handled the case of John Gardner. It concluded that they did

A 45-year-old Desert Hot Springs middle school security guard was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of inappropriately touching two female students and telling several others he wanted them to have his baby. Marvin Cash, who worked at Desert Springs Middle School on Two Bunch Palms Trail, was taken into custody at his home in the 65500

A Cathedral City man is hospitalized, and police are looking for the man who shot him. Officers were called to the 68-700 block of Cedar, just north of Dinah Shore, Monday night at 9:30 after neighbors heard gun shots. Police searched the area, and found the man and some bullet shells. They haven’t released the

Mosquitoes infected with West Nile Virus turned up along the Riverside County line, last month, just south of Chino, and just last week along the North Shore area of the Salton Sea. West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control in Ontario says the discoveries make Riverside County the first area in the state to report West

A “massive area” of Palm Springs lost power this morning, according to Southern California Edison. The outage affected 1,300 customers. By 9:55am, power had been restored to 1,123 customers, according to the power company, leaving nearly 200 more waiting. They may have to wait until 12:30am (past midnight). The outage affects the area of Palm

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Ayer lunes a las 10:30 a.m. la polica recibi la llamada de una mujer que dijo sentirse amenazada por su marido ya que tena un arma. Por fortuna la seora y sus hijos lograron salir de la casa ubicada sobre San Gorgonio en Palm Desert escoltados por la polica, mientras que negociaban con Nicholas Weycker

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is scheduled to be on hand today to mark the start of construction on a new air traffic control tower at Palm Springs International Airport. Nearly $14 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds was awarded for the project, which will cost an estimated $24.5 million, according to Lori

La Corte Superior del condado de Riverside anunci que despus del mircoles 16 de Junio ya no se impondrn los descansos obligatorios sin goce de sueldo o furloghs, con esta resolucin las cortes criminales, civiles y de apelaciones ya no tendrn que cerrar un da mensualmente. Esta medida ahorr al condado $94 mdd. Cabe mencionar

The roadways were packed, as travelers passed thru the valley Monday, and tourism was welcomed by businesses throughout the weekend. More than 32 million people hit the road this Memorial Day weekend, which is a five percent increase from last year, according to AAA. Some drivers expected things to slow down significantly the closer they

Three conveniently located Cool Centers for residents in need of temporary relief from the heat will be available in Palm Springs when temperatures reach over 100 degrees. The Cool Centers, coordinated by the City of Palm Springs and the County of Riverside, will be open to the public on a drop-in basis when the Riverside

Ayer lunes alrededor de la 1:20 a.m. la polica de Temecula realizaba su patrullaje de rutina cerca de la I-15 cuando orden a un motociclista a detenerse por una violacin de trnsito, el hombre no hizo caso y se Intern en la autopista alcanzando las 100 mph, iniciando as una persecucin polica hasta que el

El Comit Federal de Salud est considerando realizar una enmienda a una ley para que los homosexuales puedan donar sangre. Defensores de los derechos de los gays consideran discriminatoria esta ley que fue creada en 1997 debido al gran nmero de personas infectadas de VIH y SIDA.

La tormenta tropical Agatha en su paso por Guatemala dej un saldo de 123 muertos, 90 desaparecidos y ms de 155 mil evacuados y adems colaps decenas de puentes provocando el aislamiento de numerosas poblaciones, informaron las autoridades nacionales. “Las lluvias ocasionaron 123 muertos, 90 desaparecidos y ms de 155 mil evacuados pero estos nmeros