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PALM SPRINGS – Leo Cardini waits by the phone. He’s waiting for a call from his partner of 34 years. Bill Carroll, 65, has been missing for more than a week. Bill was last seen on the morning of July 14 at the Comfort Inn near Indian and Baristo. Carroll went to the hotel after

The 80-member Assembly and 40-member State Senate is working late Thursday, doing some creative math to close a $26 billion gap. Freshman Assemblyman Manuel Perez spoke to us from Sacramento. “There seems to be a frenzy up here,” says Perez. “A lot of us just got up here late last night, as I did, or

INDIO – Sue Robinson and Bill Neeb are enjoying their golden years together. “I could see some intelligence, some sense of humor, and some depth,” recalls Robinson, of Indio. They met in January after months of dating disasters with incompatible and uninteresting people. For a moment, it seemed as if finding companionship in the Coachella

RIVERSIDE – Over 27,000 inmates would be released under a tentative plan stated in the latest California state budget. Prisoners with 12 months or less on their sentences would serve the remainder of their time on home detention with electronic monitoring. The California Department of Corrections says they won’t release violent prisoners. Others like Riverside

COACHELLA – The news of the night was supposed to be the vote on the 5% utility tax. Instead, it was the bombshell surprise resignation of City Manager Tim Brown.Right before the council was about to debate the utility tax, Brown told the mayor he was going to have surgery on Monday and would not

CATHEDRAL CITY – Two sex offenders who did not register with Cathedral City police were arrested, and authorities were searching for a third violator, police said. Dana Von Partee and Patrick Joseph Carlton were arrested Wednesday by Cathedral City police and a Riverside County sheriff’s task force, said police Lt. Glen Haas. The men were

PALM SPRINGS – As authorities continue to confirm the identities of two men found dead in the mountains near Palm Springs Sunday, a school in Colorado believes one of those men was a university professor. Colorado State University says math professorBob Liebler was hiking the mountains when he separated from his group this past Saturday.

PALM SPRINGS – Palm Springs School District Board Members heard quite an earful at Tuesday’sboard meeting.With state budget cuts expected,the board is probably calling for more layoffs and program cutbacks.The board would look to cut a total of $6 million to $11 millionworth of teacher salaries and programs. The cuts would come after the state

NORTH SHORE – The North Shore Yacht Club is not much to look at these days.The empty shell of a building was once a sportfishing resort. It’s been abandoned since a series of floods in the 1980s. The Riverside County Board of Supervisors asked for the federal stimulus dollars to fix this place up. “We’re

INDIO – A Desert Sands Unified School Districtsprinkler specialistkilled by electrocution in an apparent industrial accident was identified late Mondayas James Jeffredo, 50, of Indio.Jeffredo was killed while working at John Glenn Middle School in Indio earlier in the day. Indio Police say the worker’s body was found between the middle school and Amelia Earhart

CATHEDRAL CITY – “This is as bad as it gets,” said Roy Baufield, a resident of the Royal Palms Mobile Home Park. He and his neighbor, David Agapito, lost power on Sunday. They cooled off at a cooling center set up in the clubhouse at the Royal Palms Mobile Home Park. Park managers gave residents

PALM SPRINGS – Marlen Wears passes out fliers to visitors at Desert Regional Medical Center. The fliers outline why Wears and others nurses with the California Nurses Association are upset. Tenet Healthcare System cut down on their sick leave and paid time off. Wears thinks that’ll lead to nurses working when they’re sick. “Patients are

PALM SPRINGS – When was the last time your child went bananas over fresh fruit? For the kids in the Boys & Girls Club of Palm Springs, “fresh” is the buzzword this summer. “I didn’t really see a dissatisfied customer,” says Lois Bondurich, a part-time nutritionist. “There’s smiles on their faces, and they’re coming back

RIVERSIDE – Robert Gerenrich is unemployed and one of many Valley residents hit hard in these tough times. “I was in the streets and sleeping behind the place where I go pray and they let me sleep on the carpeting behind where I was praying. I had no food, I didn’t have many clothes, they

LA QUINTA – The Valley’s only ice skating rink is shutting down. It’s the beginning of the end for the Ice Garden in La Quinta. The signs at the front door announce it’s closing down Saturday, July 25th. Esther Garcia laces up her granddaughter’s ice skates here for the last time and says, “It’s very

PALM DESERT – Dozens of Coachella Valley residents braved the muggy weather Monday morning in order to get on the bus in Palm Desert. The bus located at the Civic Center park was filled with possible answers to their medication concerns. Known as the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, the program is designed to help residents

MECCA – Three women who went missing Monday while hiking in the hills around Mecca were found about three hours later and transported to a medical center for treatment of heat exhaustion, authorities said. The women were reported missing around 10 a.m. in the Painted Canyon area and were found some three hours later, said

CUDAHY, Wisc. – Police in Wisconsin believe a Twentynine Palms Marine was one of two men who caused massive fire at a meatpacking plant by firing a military flare at it. Cudahy Police announced the Marine, Joshua Popp, 23, and his brother, Kurtis, 25, as suspects in the July 5 fire. Kurtis was arrested this

NEW YORK – Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks’ golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called “the most trusted man in America,” has died. He was 92. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his family by his

PALM DESERT – Summer break shouldn’t cause a break in learning, but every fall teachers spend four tosix weeks re-teaching what students forgot during summer. Some call the educational backslide “summer brain drain.” To avoid it, Kimberly Foli’s son is in theI Can Learn summer tutoring program. “Doing this will prepare him for fourth grade