The Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness announced preliminary results of the 2022 Point-in-Time Count showing an 11% decline in Veteran homelessness since early 2020, the last time a full count was conducted. This is the biggest drop in Veteran homelessness in more than five years.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is expanding access to behavioral health care, cancer screening coverage, and dental care.
On November 2, 2022, at 10:10 AM, deputies from the Thermal Station responded to a report of a student in possession of a handgun at a school in the 86100 block of 66th Avenue in Thermal.
Students spent the week of Oct. 17 planning for Noli Indian School’s annual Homecoming Parade, which took place Oct. 20 ahead of the Braves’ football game against Rolling Hills Prep from San Pedro.
On November 3, 2022, at 7:00 AM, members of the Coachella Community Action Team (CCAT), with the assistance of the La Quinta Special Enforcement Team (SET), served a search warrant at a residence located in the 84700 block of Avenue 51 in the city of Coachella.
Mason Drew Kohler, 31, was booked on felony murder, hit-and-run death, and DUI charges, according to the Riverside County jail roster, which lists a Hemet PD arrest at Palm Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue. Hemet police say two pedestrians on an electric scooter were struck there about 6:55 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22; one was pronounced dead. Police have not named the driver, and the decedent's identity remains withheld.
The San Jacinto Planning Commission voted 3-0 Tuesday to recommend two sphere-of-influence annexations to the City Council, including Tentative Tract Map 34271 for 151 single-family lots south of Ramona Expressway. Neither file is a completed annexation.
Shooters Sports Bar & Grill at 121 E. Florida Ave. was approved Sept. 22 to open back to full permit status, and the A placard was re-posted. The county report lists a manual score of 92, with no live or dead cockroach activity observed and a surveillance recheck by Sept. 29.