Desert Hot Springs News

Two gunmen tied up three people in a garage and robbed a home in Desert Hot Springs early this morning, police said.

Jeff Bowman, chair of the Desert Hot Springs Public Safety Commission and co-owner of Living Waters Spa, has announced his bid to run for the Mission Springs Water District Board in November.

A series of armed robberies in Desert Hot Springs, including one that occurred Monday morning, may have been committed by the same people, according to police.

A Banning man was behind bars Monday, suspected of robbing a video store in Desert Hot Springs, police said.

The victim of a fatal traffic accident in Desert Hot Springs was identified Thursday.

Home Depot donated thousands of dollars in equipment and labor this past week to refurbish the community home at Father's Heart Ranch Group Home, a destination near Desert Hot Springs for abused and neglected boys ages 6 to 12 removed from their families by social services.

A representative from the local SunLine Transit Agency will be on hand at the Desert Hot Springs Senior Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 13, with information and applications for the transit agency's half fares and SunDial services.

The family of an 83-year-old Desert Hot Springs woman has yet to be found, nearly a week after the woman was discovered dead near Needles Highway and the Nevada state line in San Bernardino County, a deputy coroner said today.

"He's kind of weird, he's got kind of mental problems," said Pierce Cottingham, the former roommate of a stabbing suspect known only as "Gilbert." We told him that "Gilbert" is a suspect in a stabbing Thursday evening in Desert Hot Springs.

Authorities are looking for family members of an 83-year-old woman whose body was found Monday in a Needles field near her abandoned vehicle.

A woman died Wednesday after her vehicle was hit broadside by a sport utility vehicle between North Palm Springs and Desert Hot Springs.

Two Desert Hot Springs residents, described as the city's main rival drug dealers by federal and local authorities, face life in federal prison following their arrests Tuesday in an a series of raids dubbed "Operation Falling Sun Phase II." Rigoberto Lopez, 22, Miguel Gilbert, 26 and Lopez' girlfriend, Teresa Coronado, 20, were taken into ...

Summer vacation time is here, so don't let a lack of money or time be a reason to dump plans for a needed retreat.

Firefighters say a Desert Hot Springs home is a "total loss" after flames tore through it overnight.

A 150-ton piece of equipment that will cap off a nuclear reactor made its way through Palm Springs early this morning, California Highway Patrol officials said.

He may have new duties, but new Division Fire Chief Dorian J. Cooley is not new to the Coachella Valley.

A man who shot his roommate in the back after the victim ordered him to do the dishes and turn down the air conditioner in the mobile home they shared was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder.

Closing arguments were scheduled to begin Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of murdering his roommate for annoying him.

The Desert Hot Springs City Council on Monday approved a balanced $14 million general fund budget for 2009-2010 that closes a nearly $4 million gap with city employee layoffs, furloughs, benefit cuts and early retirement, among other cost-saving measures.

Two Desert Hot Springs men were in custody Friday on suspicion of robbing a homeowner at gunpoint, but a third suspect remained at large, a sheriff's sergeant said.