FBI: Man fatally shot in Boston bombing probe
Ibragim Todashev, a man being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombing case, was shot to death at his home by an FBI agent Wednesday after turning violent, officials said.
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Ibragim Todashev, a man being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombing case, was shot to death at his home by an FBI agent Wednesday after turning violent, officials said.
Eric Garcetti has won the race to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles, becoming the first Jewish mayor in the city's history.
Indio police released a sketch Tuesday of a man who they say tried to kidnap a girl near Indio High School. Officials said this is the second time in about a week that someone has attempted to snatch a student in this area. However, authorities do not believe the two incidents are connected.
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.
They delivered a 20-foot petition, urging the district to increase compensation, to the school board. They packed the boardroom to capacity, forcing security officers to stop some protesters in the building's lobby.
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.
High school seniors in the Coachella Valley could score a college scholarship — and possibly see their art on a California license plate — as part of a Salton Sea design contest.
Mary Jo Potts and James Selsor were sitting in the backyard of their Palm Springs home Sunday morning when an unexpected guest suddenly appeared near their pool. They aren't the only ones finding stray ducklings in their pools and ponds.
La Quinta City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday to replace the Coachella Canal in SilverRock with a parallel canal just west of the original, after recently selected developer Meriwether Companies indicated it would not assist with funding.
A local developer is offering to replace storm damaged trees at Ruth Hardy Park, create a 'horticulture walk' that celebrates the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and provide energy efficient upgrades to homes it plans to build.
A wildfire burning in Whitewater has been contained after burning 90 acres.
The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.
Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly sidestepped a controversy over the rights of gay spouses.
A 2-year-old Thermal boy who died this past weekend was a victim of homicide, investigators said Tuesday.
According to the staff report, revenue for fiscal year 2013-14 is expected to be $29,261,402, with expenditures at $29,883,735. The excess $622,333 will be covered by an appropriation of $661,936 from fiscal year 2012-13.
The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday.
We have hundreds of photos — and counting — from proms across the Palm Springs area.
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.
Cathedral City High School will dedicate a plaque to the memory of U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Suresh Abayasekara Krause — a 1999 Cathedral City High graduate who was killed in action on Aug. 16, 2012, while flying a combat mission over Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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.
The power of the Annenbergs endures, and next month will draw President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping to Sunnylands for their first presidential meeting.
Historians usually point to President Gerald Ford's controversial decision to pardon President Richard Nixon when they discuss Ford's time in the White House.
The Indio Water Authority has begun delivering water on an emergency basis to a neighborhood of more than 100 homes, Boe Del Heights, after samples taken from a well detected high levels of perchlorate.
Federal regulators have pushed back indefinitely a decision on the proposed restart of the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant in California.
The Desert Sands Unified School District board will vote tonight to spend nearly $130,000 to repair elementary school air conditioners that were struck by copper thieves earlier this month.
As the sun rose over the tornado-shattered community of Moore, the Oklahoma medical examiner's office cut the estimated death toll by more than half. Spokeswoman Amy Elliot said she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the storm.
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.
Ironing out Riverside County's fiscal priorities for 2013-14 is among the leading items on the Board of Supervisors' agenda Tuesday, when Supervisor John Tavaglione is slated to lead a discussion about resolving the county hospital's shortfall and assessing the value of merging agencies.
Cathedral City High School students will participate in a mock funeral for some of their classmates Tuesday.
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
The Riverside County auditor-controller has found the Chiriaco Summit Water District non-compliant with state law — having failed to submit to an audit each of the past nine years — and is asking the state Controller's Office to look into the possibility of fraud, waste or abuse.
Two months after a Mercedes was driven straight into his Postal Annex store, Clint Rodgers considers himself a lucky man. He reopened the store just north of Interstate 10 and east of Washington Street last week to a warm welcome.
Many national parks are finalizing plans to hire fewer temporary employees this summer, close some campgrounds and scale back popular family programs such as ranger-led nature walks and cultural tours because of mandatory budget cuts that took effect March 1.
Three separate crashes Sunday claimed the lives of three Coachella Valley residents.
Artist Bill Anson was pounding away Sunday afternoon on a new sculpture of copper and cedar, while across the lawn at the Sunnylands Center & Gardens, Scott Lauer was busy at his pottery wheel.
The Riverside County Transportation Commission was forced to withhold a payment of more than $800,000 to SunLine Transit Agency last month after the valley bus operator missed a deadline for submitting its annual financial audit.
A top White House adviser insisted Sunday that President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only 'when it came out in the news' while Republicans continued to press the administration for more answers.
Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history.
Under Richard Milanovich, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians evolved from an impoverished people into a political powerhouse.
Boats from Savannah High School in Anaheim and Glendora High School in eastern L.A. County won the 11th annual Solar Cup boat races Sunday near Temecula.
Community-related news and notes from across the Coachella Valley
An equipment failure in an underground vault triggered a predawn power outage Sunday that affected 33 businesses and homes in a three-block area of Rancho Mirage, a spokeswoman said.
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