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Street entertainment and shopping opportunities for the Palm Springs VillageFest will be available an hour earlier beginning Thursday. The Thursday night street festival along Palm Canyon Drive will go into its autumn-winter schedule, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., which will continue until early next summer. According to Palm Springs city spokeswoman Amy Blaisdell, a host […]
The 26-foot-tall Marilyn Monroe statue that formerly called Palm Springs home will permanently return to the desert in February, according to local tourism organization PS Resorts and the owner of the sculpture. “Forever Marilyn” is tentatively planned for installation in the entry courtyard of the Town and Country Center in downtown Palm Springs, according to […]
An investigation was continuing Wednesday to try to determine who fired a bullet that flew into a classroom at Valley View Elementary School in Coachella and lodged in a ceiling, triggering a several- hour campus lockdown and a search of the surrounding neighborhood that failed to turn up a suspect. No one was injured in […]
Jurors deadlocked Monday on whether a 30-year-old former Pizza Hut delivery driver accused of killing a gay co-worker because of the victim’s sexual orientation is mentally competent to stand trial. Jurors spent all of Friday and part of Monday deliberating but were unable to reach a consensus on the mental competency of Miguel Angel Bautista […]
A four-year prison sentence was handed down Friday for a former Palm Springs Power baseball player who was convicted of felony assault with intent to commit rape and misdemeanor sexual battery involving a 20-year-old woman at an Indio house party nearly five years ago. Trent William Pell, who was sentenced by Riverside County Superior Court […]
An armed man who allegedly broke into an Indio home and raped a woman who had a restraining order against him will have to stand trial on multiple felony charges, a judge ruled Friday. Juan Antonio Moreno, 49, is accused of raping the woman, who was previously in a relationship with him, three separate times […]
Jury selection got underway Tuesday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio for the trial of an ex-con who’s been in custody for about four years, accused in a 2015 shooting death and with injuring a police officer. Opening statements are expected Monday in the trial of 37-year-old Cesar Vega Duran, who was arrested in […]
A Riverside jury Tuesday recommended the death penalty for a convicted felon who fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend along Interstate 10 in Whitewater and, four months later, strangled his 82-year-old cellmate at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning. Jurors deliberated just over three days before unanimously recommending that 42-year-old Rigoberto Villanueva of Fontana receive capital punishment […]
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