Jury selection began Thursday in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation trial against Fox News over the right-wing network’s promotion of debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.
Jury selection is slated to get underway Tuesday for the trial of two convicted felons accused in the robbery-killing of a Riverside convenience store clerk nearly three years ago.
Jury selection got underway Wednesday for the trial of a man accused of gunning down two young women in a car parked in west Riverside. Daniel Garcia, 25, was arrested immediately after the 2018 attack that killed 21-year-old Gabriela Perez of Hemet and 20-year-old Miranda Duran of Riverside. Garcia is charged with two counts of […]
A gang member and three associates were all sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the shooting death of a 22-year-old Indio man in a gang-related drive-by attack stemming from an unspecified dispute at a cemetery. An Indio jury in February convicted Cesar Anthony Monzon, 29, Angel Zacarias Lopez, 31, […]
A man who killed a 74-year-old Palm Springs resident by driving a hatchet into his head eight times was convicted Monday of second-degree murder. Prosecutors had sought a first-degree murder conviction for Jason William Brokken, 52, but jurors found him guilty of the lesser count following two days of deliberation. He is slated to be […]
A man who shot his roommate in the back of the head in the kitchen of their Desert Hot Springs apartment was sentenced to 54 years to life in state prison Friday. Brian Keith Hernandez, 50, was convicted in April of second-degree murder and assault with a gun for the Feb. 28, 2017 shooting of […]
Indio, CA Jury selection is slated to begin tomorrow for the trial of a transient accused of stabbing a homeless woman to death in Palm Springs. Verne Raymond Orlop Jr., 54, is charged with murder and a sentence- enhancing knife-use allegation in the Feb. 21, 2015, death of 48-year-old DeneeSalisbury, whose body was found in a lot […]
Indio, CA A jury was seated today for the trial of a convicted felon accused of killing his 41-year-old girlfriend and dumping the educator’s bodyat an Indio golf course. Michael John Franco, 46, of Indio, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted of killing Jill Grant, a Palm Desert High School math teacher whose […]
