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Indio police said Wednesday that an Indio High School student's report of an attempted kidnapping she said happened as she walked to school 'did not occur as originally reported.'
A big rig overturned Wednesday on Highway 74 south of Idyllwild, blocking lanes and hurting the driver, according to the California Highway Patrol and California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
At approximately 8:14 p.m. Wednesday night, Palm Springs police heard several shots fired.
Jury deliberations are due to resume Thursday in the trial of a Desert Hot Springs man accused in a shooting that killed a 17-year-old boy in 1994 and wounded the boy's friend.
A woman police say was killed by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide in Desert Hot Springs was identified Wednesday.
Police and fire crews responded to a two-vehicle collision near the intersection of Farrell and East Palm Canyon drives.
Gasoline prices are slowly dropping after undergoing a two-week spike this month.
A woman killed by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide in Desert Hot Springs was identified today.
Indio police released a sketch Tuesday of a man who they say tried to kidnap a girl near Indio High School and said Wednesday they have new information on the case.
A federal agency's recommendation to drop the legal blood-alcohol level from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent could, if it became law, make it more difficult for law enforcement personnel to detect impaired drivers whose blood-alcohol levels are this low, local law enforcement officials say.
William Dominguez Lopez, a 20- to 30-year-old man believed to live in Cathedral City, is being sought as a potential witness to the 4:30 a.m. crash on East Palm Canyon Drive at Camino Real, police Sgt. Harvey Reed said during a news conference held Tuesday afternoon.
A 2-year-old Thermal boy who died over the weekend was a victim of homicide, investigators said Tuesday.
Jodi Arias, who said after her murder conviction she would prefer death to life imprisonment, stood before jurors Tuesday and pleaded for her life instead, asking them not to punish her family for her actions.
One year after a California Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a man during a confrontation on Interstate 10, the case now sits idle on a desk at the Riverside County District Attorney's Office.
Complaining that Jodi Arias' sensational murder case has become a modern-day 'witch trial,' her lawyers tried to quit in the middle of the death-penalty phase Monday, then said they will call only one witness: Arias.
A Riverside County nurse caught trying to send child pornography to a girl via the Internet was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison.
Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach was almost unanimously rejected by the prosecutors who work under him in a vote taken following a series of closed debates with senior Deputy District Attorney Mike Hestrin, who is challenging him, it was announced Monday.
A Palm Springs man whose truck collided with a compact car, injuring the 73-year-old driver, pleaded guilty Monday to driving under the influence.
A Palm Desert woman was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol Sunday night after hitting a wall in her Pontiac Grand Am while trying to make a turn on Courtside Drive in Palm Desert, police said Monday.
The late-night crash followed two other fatal collisions Sunday.
Public safety-related news and notes from across the Coachella Valley
Three separate crashes Sunday claimed the lives of three Coachella Valley residents.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department on Sunday released the results of two sobriety/driver's license checkpoints in the county.
One person is dead and two people suffered major injuries early Sunday morning in a traffic collision at Highway 74 between El Paseo and Highway 111 in Palm Desert, a Riverside County Sheriff's spokesman said.
A much-needed improvement project is scheduled to begin Monday on one of Cathedral City's busiest and bumpiest streets.
Police arrested a man early Saturday morning on suspicion of driving a stolen vehicle, Sgt. Kelly Fieux said.
Authorities released the name of an Idyllwild rockclimber who died Friday after falling 150 feet.
Craig Marlar — a longtime Coachella Valley businessman who battled over ownership of the fire-ravaged GG's Island — is dead, The Desert Sun learned Friday.
For 4 1/2 months the trial has been about Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander, two attractive young people whose obsessive sexual relationship exploded into murder. One of the lovers is dead, the other may soon be sent to death row.
A rock climber died Friday after falling 150 feet in Idyllwild.
A 57-year-old man accused of exposing himself to a girl in a Jurupa Valley supermarket pleaded not guilty Friday to indecent exposure.
An ex-con accused of fatally beating a homeless man with a rock during a confrontation in a transient camp near Lake Elsinore must stand trial on murder and other charges, a judge ruled Friday.
At 8:42 p.m., firefighters were called to a single-story home in the 78-900 block of Zenith Way, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Criminal charges were filed Friday against a 29-year-old Sun Valley man who allegedly used an electronic skimmer to steal account information from Chase bank customers at a La Quinta branch.
A Blythe man pleaded not guilty by insanity this week to a crime spree in which he allegedly broke into a senior apartment building, started a fire, drove a stolen car into some firefighters and took a victim hostage at gunpoint, using him as a shield.
The former Coachella Valley Unified School District transportation director was sentenced Friday afternoon to nearly seven years in prison for misappropriating and embezzling district funds.
Two people were found dead inside a Desert Hot Springs home early Thursday in what police called a murder-suicide.
As of Friday morning, a fire that scorched more than 40 acres of heavy dried brush near Avenue 54 and Tyler Street in Coachella has been contained, fire officials said.
The woman killed in a crash on Palm Drive Wednesday afternoon has been identified by the coroner's office as 24-year-old Eleuteria Leon-Leon of Desert Hot Springs.
The FBI has agreed to investigate the death of David Silva, a man beaten by Kern County sheriff's deputies while witnesses shot video with cellphones.
An identity theft investigation led to four arrests in Desert Hot Springs Wednesday
Vahe Ruben Yerkanyan, who's accused of using an electronic skimmer to steal key account information from Chase bank customers at a La Quinta branch, is expected in court Friday.
Two children were ejected from an SUV that overturned today near Desert Hot Springs. Their mother died at the scene, according to authorities.
The earthquake that struck Wednesday morning near Cabazon was felt across the Coachella Valley.
The same jury that convicted Jodi Arias of murder one week ago took about three hours Wednesday to determine that the former Palm Desert resident is eligible for the death penalty.
A magnitude-3.2 earthquake struck Wednesday near Cabazon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Drivers typically see the name of a bridge just before crossing it, but on one local structure they're only seeing letters and random messages.
After a nearly six-hour standoff Monday at a La Quinta home, deputies arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of armed robbery.
Authorities have arrested two suspects in an armed robbery at an Indio medical office this afternoon.
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