The City of Palm Springs is responding to concerns about pedestrian safety. After numerous complaints about missing sidewalks and unsafe crosswalks, officials say they’re taking steps to improve the safety of the community.
All workers in health-care facilities across California will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 under a revised order issued today by the state Department of Public Health. The state had previously announced that workers in health-care settings had the option of either being vaccinated or undergoing weekly COVID- 19 testing. The new order […]
A former Shadow Hills High School boys’ basketball coach is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 12 on charges he raped a teenage girl he coached. Ryan Leron Towner, 35, was arrested June 10 stemming from a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation. The alleged conduct occurred between May and July 2018, according to the Riverside County […]
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a man that was found shot to death in Palm Desert late Thursday night. Deputies responded to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon near the intersection of Varner Road and Washington Street. A man was found lying in the road with gunshot wounds. He was […]
A pedestrian was killed by a train today in Indio. The incident was reported at 6:31 a.m. at Avenue 48 and Dillon Road, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. Our crew on scene noticed four Indio Police cars gathered on Indio Boulevard and Avenue 48 near the halted train. Police say the pedestrian, likely […]
A man barricaded himself inside a home in La Quinta this morning, prompting heavy police presence at a gated community near Washington Street. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department told us the incident began around 3 a.m. on the 78500 block of Via Bolero inside the community. The community was shut down for hours as authorities […]
Police in San Jose, California, responded to a shooting near a Valley Transportation Authority light rail maintenance yard on Wednesday morning, the San Jose Police Department said. VTA spokesperson Brandi Childress said there were “reports of an active shooter” at the site and said employees had been evacuated. There were multiple casualties, she said in […]
