A man and a woman were taken into custody on I-10 Wednesday afternoon after allegedly pepper-spraying a clerk in a Palm Desert business then stealing a piece of jewelry. At 12:34 p.m., the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department received a report of a robbery at Pawnshield Fine Jewelry and Loan at 74836 Technology Drive in Palm
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A 29-year-old man from the Hemet area is hospitalized after being the victim of a robbery on Christmas morning. “It literally went from opening a present to getting a call, and screaming and nothing. It was like a nightmare almost,” said the victim’s brother, Christopher Valenzuela. Valenzuela recalls the phone call he received from the
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Those who gathered for the annual “state of the college” luncheon Wednesday were the first to learn about plans for a lot just off East Palm Canyon Drive and Margot Murphy Way in Cathedral City. College of the Desert President Dr. Joel Kinnamon discussed the plans for building a training center and classroom space for
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Cal Fire / Riverside County Firefighters rescued a puppy whose head was trapped in a tire outside the Coachella Valley Animal Campus in Thousand Palms Tuesday afternoon. Riverside County Animal Services Officer Jose Cisneros responded to a call in Coachella about a puppy, a three-month-old Australian cattle dog, stuck inside a spare tire. Cisneros tried
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Three key Desert Hot Springs commissions are entirely vacant, and the city is looking to fill their seats in the coming weeks. In a Facebook post Monday, Desert Hot Springs announced that all five seats are open on the Planning Commission, the Public Safety Commission, and the Community and Cultural Affairs Commission. In order to
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La Quinta Police arrested an Indio resident Thomas Prince, 43, the night of January 6, along the 78900 block of Adams Street for driving with a suspended license. Prince was found to be in possession of fentanyl, Xanax, hydrocodone and cocaine with the intent to sell, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. He was
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Deputies arrested three teens in La Quinta and discovered they may have been involved in a previous burglary. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, deputies were called to the 54400 block of Avenida Rubio on Tuesday at around 12:10 p.m. to respond to a report of trespassing. A neighbor told deputies they heard glass
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A previously-deported MS-13 gang member was arrested by El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents over the weekend. At 11:25 p.m., agents patrolling an area 11 miles west of the Calexico West Port of Entry observed a man illegally crossing the U.S./Mexico border, according to the Border Patrol news release, issued Wednesday. The suspect was detained
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Four people were killed today when a single-engine airplane crashed just northeast of Corona Municipal Airport, triggering a fire. The plane crashed shortly after noon while the pilot was trying to take off from the single-runway, non-towered airport. “The unidentified aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances,” Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor told City News Service.’The
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A Thermal man charged with molesting a teenage girl had his bail reduced today from $1 million to $55,000, in the wake of the dismissal of a kidnapping count. The bail reduction approved by Riverside County Superior Court Judge Burke Strunsky came two weeks after another judge ordered 36-year-old Elit Barroso Miranda to stand trial
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The Palm Springs Unified School District’s top student spellers will compete Friday for a spot in the county spelling bee. Forty-two students in grades 4 through 8 are slated to compete in the 43rd annual Spelling Bee of Champions, according to PSUSD spokeswoman Joan Boiko. The winner will advance to represent the district at the
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A professor of ecology and evolutionary biology will be in town Wednesday to discuss large animals and why they matter. James Estes, who teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is known for his research into the “ecosystem-level influences of large predators,” according to the university. He is also known for his studies of
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This week, Uber began testing a new feature at three U.S. airports including the Palm Springs International Airport. In response to California Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), Uber is testing out a new feature where drivers can raise the fare for airport pick-ups. This will make Uber drivers more like independent contractors rather than employees. Though
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A man was arrested Tuesday afternoon by El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents for allegedly attempting to smuggle methamphetamine in his car’s spare tire through the Highway 86 immigration checkpoint near Salton City. At 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, a 35-year-old man, a Lawfully-Admitted Permanent Resident, approached the immigration checkpoint driving a silver Volvo 50. After initial
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Some Indio residents and guests at neighboring motels were back inside Wednesday morning after having to evacuate overnight due to a natural gas leak. Firefighters were called to Highway 111 just west of Madison Street at 12:40 a.m. They evacuated people from several homes, two motels, and a commercial building as a precaution. Approximately 75
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The Desert Hot Springs City Council unanimously approved a pay increase for the mayor and councilmembers, the first increase since 2002. The vote was held during Tuesday evening’s city council meeting. Three residents voiced their opinions on the ordinance during public comment. All were in support of an increase, citing the lack of increase in
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Tuesday morning we stopped at a La Quinta home on Sunbrook Lane looking for Ramona Sykes, the owner of Sunbrook Residential Care, trying to find out if the home had liability insurance. It’s a home where five patients currently live. An employee at the door wouldn’t answer the question. Moments later, News Channel 3 was
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Two parents who are charged with the murder of their baby allegedly stated that their son’s death was God’s will and had plans to flee to Mexico once they made bail, according to court documents acquired by News Channel 3. Last week, Daniel Alvarado Fernandez, 33, and Zue Itzayanna Flores Urias, 26 were arrested on
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A High Desert man is behind bars after allegedly vandalizing a gas station, causing over $10,000 dollars in damages to the business. Tuesday at approximately 12:16 a.m., deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Morongo Basin Station were called to the 76 Gas Station at 61920 Twentynine Palms Highway to look into reports of
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In Tequila, the memory of former Cathedral City Mayor Gregory S. Pettis lives on. In a post on Tuesday, Cathedral City Municipal Government’s Facebook page announced that Tequila, Jalisco, Cathedral City’s Mexican sister city, had dedicated a monument in honor of the late Gregory S. Pettis. The monument’s dedication came on January 18, 2020, one
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