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Riverside County Fair & Nat'l Date Festival Opens This Weekend

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Published Feb. 13, 2010 at 12:22 p.m.

INDIO - The alternative rock band Switchfoot will headline a concert tonight at the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival ...

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'Giant in the valley' dies

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Roy Wilson — the recently retired Riverside County supervisor whose three decades of public service helped shape the Coachella Valley — died Wednesday evening at his Palm Desert home. Wilson, 74, had resigned his position late Friday citing a sudden decline in health ...

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District Attorney's Office Responds to June 2nd KESQ Report

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Published June 18, 2009 at 3:18 p.m.

Earlier this month, we reported on a grand jury report on the Riverside County District Attorney's Office. The public information officer for the D.A.'s office responded to our report, writing our " ... story contained gross inaccuracies, fabrications and neglected facts." ...

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Police: MySpace poser brought girl to Palm Springs for sex

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Published May 12, 2009 at 6:09 p.m.

An Orange County man accused of posing as a 14-year-old girl to get teens to model for photos, then having sex with one of the girls in Palm Springs, is due in a Riverside courtroom tomorrow on kidnapping and other charges ...

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Health officials confirm two valley flu cases

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Published May 5, 2009 at 2:49 a.m.

Riverside County health officials confirmed four suspected swine flu cases on Monday, bringing the total to six. Two of the confirmed cases are from the Coachella Valley ...

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16 tested in Coachella Valley

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Published April 28, 2009 at 3:40 p.m.

The known tally of people tested in the Coachella Valley for swine flu is now 16, and there are still no confirmed cases in Riverside County ...

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Grand jury suggests bug board reforms

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Published April 21, 2009 at 3:06 a.m.

The Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District should update its fiscal policies and hire an outside consultant to look at trustee recruitment, training and management style, the Riverside County grand jury has found ...

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Palm Springs jobless rate at 10.3%

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Published April 18, 2009 at 3:12 a.m.

Riverside County's unemployment rate rose to 13.3 percent in March as double-digit joblessness spread to one more major Coachella Valley city. Palm Springs saw its jobless figure rise from 9.8 percent in February to 10.3 percent last month ...

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Industry survey: Drop in tourism stalls projects as room numbers rise

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Published April 17, 2009 at 2:52 a.m.

The Coachella Valley chalked up high-priced hotel property sales and opened the largest new hotel in Riverside County in 2008, but the timing for new ventures couldn't be worse ...

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