As investigators continue work to determine a motive, the community is facing a long road to recovery, especially the elderly. But Riverside County and other organizations across the desert are hoping to make that recovery a bit easier for this vulnerable community.
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The $25 million for federal research into gun violence that’s included in the massive spending bill agreed to on Capitol Hill represents the first time in over two decades that Congress has allocated funding for the issue. The House will vote Tuesday on the $1.4 trillion spending deal that includes $12.5 million for the Centers for Disease […]
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One of President Donald Trump’s appointees to the federal bench issued a controversial opinion this week with a startling opening line that amounted to a ringing endorsement of law enforcement and a dire warning to its critics. “If we want to stop mass shootings, we should stop punishing police officers who put their lives on the line […]
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Recent images and sounds of gunfire across the country show the danger police officers face everyday: people armed with weapons of war. Palm Springs Police Chief Bryan Reyes lost two of his own who were responding to a call for service at a home in 2016. The gunman used a semi automatic rifle with armor […]
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The nation is still in shock of the recent mass shootings that happened just a little over a week ago and now, the Coachella Valley school districts are doing something to potentially prevent another. As it stands, teachers and faculty across the valley want to do more. More to help students cope with what’s going […]
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They are the forgotten victims. Survivors of mass shootings. “I don’t know if I’ll ever forget,” says Patricia Caster from Indio. They walk around with invisible wounds that are opened up every time there’s another shooting. “My stomach dropped, my heart started beating way faster, it started bringing everything back from almost two years ago […]
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At least 49 people were killed in mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers on what the prime minister called “one of New Zealand’s darkest days.” One man was arrested and charged with murder in what appeared to be a carefully planned racist attack, and the deadliest in modern New Zealand […]
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Wednesday night’s shooting in Thousand Oaks marks the 307th mass shooting incident in 2018. That number is 39 incidents shy of the record-breaking numbers from 2017. Mass shootings in 2018 map here. Former FBI agent and war veteran Clint Van Zandt weighed in on the tragedy in an interview with NBC Palm Springs: Will this […]
