An irrigation pipe broke on the campus at Saul Martinez Elementary School in Mecca Tuesday morning, forcing several classes to move to other rooms in the building, according to Coachella Valley Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Gandera. “The main water line to the school is not damaged,” Dr. Gandera wrote in an email to
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A big rig hauling cargo on a flatbed crashed off the side of Interstate 10 in Palm Desert Tuesday morning. Responding CAL FIRE crews were able to mitigate a minor fuel leak caused by the crash. The incident was reported at 9:42 a.m., according to CHP. The driver of the big rig, the sole occupant
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A collision on State Highway 62 brought traffic to a crawl between Desert Hot Springs and Morongo Valley Tuesday morning. The head-on wreck was reported at 7:29 a.m. but involved only minor injuries. Traffic on Highway 62 was backed up in both directions on the Morongo grade and past the town of Morongo for more
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The City of Palm Desert is being considered for a full-fledged Cal State University campus. A team of consultants has been hired by the system, to analyze potential locations where a possible university can fit. Other locations include Chula Vista, Stockton, Concord and San Mateo County. The Coachella Valley Economic Partnership is one of the
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The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department – La Quinta Station issued a warning to residents to be watchful of rental fraud following a number of recent cases in the city. According to the Sheriff’s Department, in a rental fraud case, a suspect duplicates a listing online as a rental property. “When someone is interested in a
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The Desert Arts Festival is usually held on several different weekends, bringing in about over 10,000 to Frances Stevens Park near downtown Palm Springs, but that may change in the near future. The city denied the festival’s permits for March said it has outgrown its location. Local artists and some local businesses who depend on
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All eyes were glued to television screens on Monday watching the Kobe Bryant memorial service. News Channel 3 spoke with some Kobe fans at local sports bars and casinos and even some fans watching the memorial while getting their haircut. Everyone was very emotional remembering the NBA legend and his daughter Gianna. “He touched a
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Proposition 13, put on the ballot by the California Assembly, would authorize the state to borrow $15 billion to spend on the state’s public schools. According to the Voter Information Guide, the interest on the bond measure would total $11 billion, for a total taxpayer-funded spending package of $26 billion. The money raised would go
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A convicted felon who gunned down a 21-year-old Beaumont woman during a botched kidnapping was sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole. A Banning jury in December deliberated less than a day before finding 34-year-old Samuel Jesus Acosta guilty of the 2017 slaying of Jasmine Zuniga. Jurors convicted Acosta of
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A 25-year-old man who broke into a Desert Hot Springs home and raped a woman, then fled to Alaska, was sentenced today to 10 years in state prison. Gary Lane Franklin II remained on the lam for nearly two months after the Aug. 14, 2018, attack. He was arrested in Anchorage on Oct. 6 of
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There have been at least 29 million cases of the flu in the United States and 16 thousand people have been killed so far this season. Of those killed, 105 were children. This is the highest since the flu pandemic in 2009. We spoke to Steve Hermann with Desert Regional Medical Center who is a
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The Riverside County District Attorney will seek the death penalty in the trial of a man accused of gunning down four people in Palm Springs in February 2019. Cathedral City resident Jose Larin-Garcia was arrested at the Greyhound bus station in Indio on February 4, one day after the killings. Jacob Montgomery, 19, Juan Duarte
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The Palm Springs Police Department has released the results of its weekend DUI checkpoint. During the inspection period, which took place on the 1100 block of East Tahquitz Canyon between 9:45 p.m. and 2:00 a.m., 285 vehicles were checked and one driver was arrested for allegedly operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol. Two
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Jury deliberations began today in the trial of two suspected gang members charged in a string of shootings and assaults in Indio. Christian Yanez, 23, and Joel Vargas III, 24, allegedly targeted and attacked several male victims, including some juveniles, to advance the reputation of their criminal street gang in three separate crimes that occurred
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On Friday at around 2:34 a.m., deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department – Morongo Basin Station responded to reports of a burglary in progress at La Casita Restaurant in Yucca Valley. According to deputies, restaurant staff were cleaning up after closing. At some point, Erick Ramirez-Ortega, 18, of La Quinta broke into the
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Amid tears, laughs and cheers, memories flowed through Staples Center today as the NBA, the city and the world bade a formal farewell to Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, one month after the helicopter crash that claimed their lives. Walking onto a stage adorned with thousands of roses, Bryant’s wife,Vanessa, made her first public appearance
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Next school year, Desert Sands Unified School District schools will be starting a few days earlier. According to DSUSD public information officer Mary Perry, the district’s board voted to set the school start date for August 19. Earlier this month, parents expressed frustration with a proposed start date which was even earlier, August 13. According
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Highway construction along Interstate 10 between Beaumont and Cabazon resumed today, and Caltrans advised motorists to be prepared for traffic delays during the nighttime and early morning hours this week. The I-10 Pavement Rehabilitation Project, dubbed the I-10 Tune-Up, is a three-phase project spanning nearly 20 miles from Pennsylvania Avenue in Beaumont to the Highway
Continue Reading Thousands of people lined up today to enter the official memorial ceremony for former Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, which is set to begin at 10 a.m. at Staples Center “I think this will bring closure to a lot of people in Los Angeles,” one fan said as he waited
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