UPDATE 9/2/2021: SCE says McCall’s meter was replaced after a routine inspection determined it was not communicating. She was advised her usage was estimated and later validated during that period, a spokesman said. There are no widespread issues with meters that need to be replaced, he said, adding McCall’s is an isolated case. Regarding billing
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NEW CASES Over the past 24 hours, Riverside County reported 846 new coronavirus cases. This brings the total number of cases up to 337,921. The case rate per 100K continued to decrease, going from 33.8 on Wednesday to 33.1 on Thursday. The case rate was at 16.9 at the start of August. The county’s positivity
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North Gene Autry Trail was shut down near the Palm Springs Air Museum Thursday morning following a major injury crash. The crash happened on N Gene Autry and Tamarisk Road at around 6:30 a.m. Viewers have called into the News Channel 3 newsroom to report heavy traffic in the area. Police said three people were
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Imperial Irrigation District says power was restored Wednesday night at 11:26 p.m. to another 143 North Shore customers. There are still 412 customers in the area without power after a pair of storms earlier this week knocked down 33 power poles. The storms initially turned the lights off on 1,400 customers. Strong winds also brought
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UPDATE 9:13 a.m. All streets have been opened back up. Detectives remained on the scene to continue investigating the shooting. ORIGINAL STORY: Police were investigating an early morning shooting that left one man injured early Thursday morning in Indio. A large police presence was seen at Oleander Avenue and Cactus Street and focusing their efforts
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The August winner of the One Class At A Time award is Breanna Sewell. She teaches third grade at Cabot Yerxa Elementary School in Desert Hot Springs. Mrs. Sewell nominated herself for the $500 prize to purchase more math manipulatives for her classroom. She said she had been provided with enough manipulatives for students to
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Reports of crimes against children in Riverside County are up tenfold since the beginning of the pandemic according to Wade Walsvick, Supervising Investigator for the Riverside County Child Exploitation Team/RCCET. The Child Exploitation Team is led by the District Attorney’s Office Bureau of Investigation and is tasked with investigating CyberTips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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Update 9:15 pm Power has been restored to 105 customers, the Imperial Irrigation District announced Wednesday night. 555 customers in North Shore remain without power. Restoration Update – North Shore105 customers have been restored, 555 customers remain out. We appreciate your patience.— IID (@IIDatWork) September 2, 2021 Original Story: Imperial Irrigation District crews have been
Continue ReadingA U.S. Marine originally from the Coachella Valley is recovering from injuries sustained in the August 26th Kabul airport attack. Cpl. Salvador Lule, an Indio native, is currently being treated at Walter Reed Hospital on the East Coast, according to the office of Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz. Lule was stationed with his team in Kabul,
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NEW CASES Over the past 24 hours, Riverside County reported 1,202 new coronavirus cases. This brings the total number of cases up to 337,075. The case rate per 100K fell today, going from 35 on Tuesday to 33.8 on Wednesday. The case rate was at 16.9 at the start of August. The county’s positivity rate
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Sunline Transit will return to normal bus operations next week for the first time since it scaled back service more than a year ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statement from the transit company, weekday bus operations will return to their regular schedule beginning Tuesday, offering what the company calls “level 1”
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An 86-year-old man who killed a pedestrian and injured another while driving drunk in Palm Springs has been convicted of murder. Leroy Silva of Palm Springs was also convicted of DUI causing bodily injury, DUI causing bodily injury with a blood-alcohol level of more than 0.08%, two counts of hit-and-run resulting in death or injury
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Desert Arc has been serving the Coachella Valley for decades, and now you can join the team. The nonprofit is looking to fill a variety of full and part time positions at their Palm Desert, Indio, and Yucca Valley locations. Member of the Board of Directors, Brooke Beare, said that at the Indio Recycling Center
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Imperial Irrigation District says it’s “all-hands-on-deck” as the cleanup continues in the east valley after a massive storm cell overnight Monday knocked out the power. Powerful winds took down 33 power poles along a major transmission line, shutting off the lights for 1,400 customers initially. Tuesday, hundreds were still left in the dark when another
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Hospitalizations and ICU data Over the past 24 hours, Riverside County reported 3 additional COVID-related hospitalizations. The county now has a total of 664 hospitalizations. The last time Riverside County this many COVID-related hospitalizations was February 12, 2021. Riverside County now has the second most COVID-related hospitalizations in California, surpassing San Diego County (653). Only
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All I-10 lanes are back open after an hours-long clean-up of 5,000 gallons of fuel that spilled when a fuel tanker rolled over in Banning early Tuesday morning. The highway was shut down multiple times throughout the day for clean-up. The eastbound side was fully shutdown at 12:40 p.m., two lanes were back open by
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Martha’s Village & Kitchen, has been helping in the east valley since 1990, and starting today they are helping in the west valley. Martha’s Village and Kitchen is slowly opening homeless services at the city’s new day-time drop-in access center. “Palm Springs is in need of resources for the homeless population and the city of
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The Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors has called for a special meeting at 4 p.m. to discuss an outage that will leave North Shore residents without power for up to four days. Watch live below: The outage was caused by a storm that struck the east valley Monday night. 33 power poles were destroyed
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A dump truck driver accused of causing a deadly 1,000-acre blaze in Calimesa by intentionally dropping flaming debris from his rig in the middle of a windstorm made his initial court appearance today. Antonio Ornelas Velazquez, 38, of Desert Hot Springs was charged earlier this year with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count
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Tune in as I deliver remarks on ending the war in Afghanistan. https://t.co/G1UGxVpd19— President Biden (@POTUS) August 31, 2021 WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan late Monday, ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a frantic
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