Update: 10:00 p.m. Desirae Krawczyk and her partner Alexa Guarachi won in a three-set tie-breaker against Heather Watson and Zheng Saisai. Original Report: Former Palm Desert Aztec and 3-time Grand Slam Champion Desirae Krawczyk is set to play at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells tonight. The doubles tennis star told News Channel 3
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By ADAM BEAMAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians could have higher cellphone bills after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two laws on Friday aimed at giving the state more money to build high-speed internet connections in unserved areas. Check Out: Kids in eastern Coachella Valley are among those bearing the academic brunt of the pandemic
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The BNP Paribas Open is honoring our local heroes that have been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the Coachella Valley. Celebrations this week and the next will focus on military, hospital workers, police officers, teachers, and several others. Organizers of the tennis tournament, which features local star Desirae Krawczyk, say they are
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A 51-year-old Cathedral City resident charged with a trio of attacks on women in Aliso Viejo dating back to January 2020 was extradited from Anchorage, Alaska, and was being booked into Orange County Jail.  Robert Daniel Yucas, an Army veteran and cargo pilot, is suspected of sexually assaulting a woman last month near Pacific Park
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An 86-year-old man convicted of killing one pedestrian and injuring another while driving drunk in Palm Springs was sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison today. On Sept. 1, an Indio jury convicted Palm Springs resident Leroy Silva of murder, DUI causing bodily injury, DUI causing bodily injury with a blood-alcohol level of
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(AP) — California moved Friday to extend the sale of cocktails-to-go and keep alcohol service for outdoor dining at parklets as officials try to help restaurants recover from the coronavirus pandemic. “This is a pathway for these businesses to frankly make up for a lot of the constraints that have been imposed upon them over
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Meteors flung through the lower reaches of space may be visible in remote parts of Riverside County tonight as the “Draconids” meteor shower arrives, providing a spectacular light show in the NorthernHemisphere. According to meteorologists, the Draconids, which are debris shed from the comet 21P Giacobini, provide perhaps the best meteor raining activity for the
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Enjoy the weekend because some changes are arriving Monday that will bring wind and colder temperatures to Coachella Valley. Powerful gusty winds are possible on Monday afternoon. The First Alert Weather Team is going to keep tracking this weather system throughout the weekend. Light rainfall graced the Valley floor this morning (and a few showers
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Palm Desert City Manager Todd Hileman says the city is monitoring “foreclosure proceedings” currently underway at the Westfield Mall. “We have brought a team on onboard to help us monitor the situation, the foreclosure proceedings that are occurring right now,” said Hileman. “We are trying to reach out actively and understand exactly what the plan
Continue Reading(CNN) Andy Murray is back in the “good books” after tracking down the wedding ring he lost when his sneakers went missing earlier this week. The three-time grand slam champion had posted a video to Instagram on Thursday asking for help after his shoes, which had the ring attached, were taken from underneath his car as he
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The Palm Springs Police Department today continued its week-long training against implicit bias. The city announced on Tuesday that all police department employees began their eight-hour daily training in principled policing, procedural justice, and implicit bias. The city defined implicit bias “as the automatic association people make between groups of people and stereotypes about those
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If you weren’t at the BNP Thursday night enjoying some tennis, you might have been in downtown Palm Springs for Villagefest – which is now bigger than it’s been for the last year and a half. And hundreds of people gathered at Civic Center Park in Palm Desert for the long-awaited return of some live
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PALM SPRINGS (CNS) – Palm Springs’ weekly street fair is set to returnto its pre-COVID layout alongside Fall hour scheduling today. This Thursday’s VillageFest will extend from Amado Road to BaristoRoad on Palm Canyon Drive for the first time since its July reopening. The street fair will also begin an hour earlier, at 6 p.m., and rununtil
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Deputies from the Palm Desert Sheriff’s Station will be adding “extra law enforcement staff” at the high school football game this Friday, “to help ensure that the athletes and fans are safe.” Investigators say there are currently no credible threats at this time. The additional security is coming after the investigation of a stabbing at
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With the return of free Fall concerts in the park Thursday, locals can get out to enjoy good music, food, and the company of others. The concerts usually happen every year but was put off like many other events because of the pandemic. Every Thursday in October there will be live music at Palm Desert
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(CNN) It’s safe to say that Andy Murray has had a nightmare while preparing for the BNP Paribas Open tournament in Indian Wells this week — and it has nothing to do with playing tennis. The three-time grand slam champion posted a video to Instagram on Thursday asking for help after losing both his sneakers and, more importantly, his
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Local immigration advocates are bringing their fight to our nation’s capital this week. They’re demanding a permanent fix for DACA recipients, young undocumented immigrants brought to the u-s as children. “We need both parties to work together because both parties need immigrants,” said Luz Gallegos, executive director at the TODEC Legal Center. The push comes
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A high desert couple is working to pick up the pieces after a fire destroyed their business, with losses estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Holly Carlyle and Jeff Burgess are going inch-by-inch through what used to be their antique shop, Desert Curios in Yucca Valley. A fire last Wednesday decimated
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Riverside County is starting a county-wide campaign to reach the Latino community, the Black-African American community as well as Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander residents and frontline workers to take the coronavirus vaccine. “We thought it was important that we have this type of outreach effort to ensure that we do everything possible as a
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Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Assemblymember Chad Mayes’s (I – Rancho Mirage), which would’ve given the Coachella Valley more representation within the Imperial Irrigation District board of directors. “It is valuable to invest the proper resources, time, and stakeholder engagement into studying the complex impacts of the Imperial Irrigation District’s impending electrical service agreement expiration. This
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