Palm Springs News

Water Issues Continue at Indio Mobile Home Park

KESQ - Wed Aug 20

A mobile home park in Indio has been without safe drinking water for two months.

Deadly Highway Crash

KESQ-TV Palm Desert - Wed Aug 20

A woman was injured today when she drove her SUV off the winding Pines to Palms Highway above Palm Desert, and she is going to be arrested for alleged drunken driving, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher ...

States throw out costly electronic voting machines

Sentinel Plus - Tue Aug 19

The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing ...

Fire Alert and Road Closure

Lake Elsinore Valley News - Tue Aug 19

Monday, August 18th, 2008. Issue 34, Volume 12. Highway 79 South has been closed from Pauba Road to Sage Road until 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, due to a 75-acre fire near Vail Lake.

Many groups recruit Latinos to vote

Daily Bulletin - Mon Aug 18

With less than three months before the election, area Latino activists are ramping up efforts to register the state's fastest- growing bloc of potential voters.

Crime and Public Safety

Daily Bulletin - Mon Aug 18

Hundreds of cars were screened and seven people arrested during a DUI/driver's license checkpoint Saturday night and early Sunday morning.

Taggers can be ordered to remove graffiti, keep area clean for a year.

The Press-Enterprise - Sun Aug 17

The cost of getting caught doing graffiti is going up next year. Anyone convicted of vandalism for graffiti causing $400 or more in damage will have to clean up the property and keep it tidy for up to a year ...

Immigrants' rights protesters march on City Hall

North County Times - Sun Aug 17

A vocal yet peaceful group of 50 to 60 Latino residents protested Friday a crackdown by the U.S. Border Patrol on day laborers in the Lake Elsinore area.

Valley Gas Prices Continue to Drop

970 & 1140 K-News - Sat Aug 16

Submitted by knews on Sat, 08/16/2008 - 10:27. The average price of a gallon on self-serve regular pas in the Inland Empire dropped for the 40th consecutive day Saturday, having fallen 59.8 cents since hitting ...

Aggressive Voter Registration Investigated By D.A. and Secretary of State

CBS 2 - Sat Aug 16

After receiving a number of complaints About possible voter registration fraud allegedly taking place at local shopping centers, KPSP Local 2 reporter and legal analyst David Wohl went to a local Wal-Mart, to ...