The largest gathering in the area appeared to be in Riverside, where a rally took place from noon to 2 p.m. at Riverside City Hall, according to organizers.

The Riverside crowd extended for blocks in the downtown area, with musical performances, cars honking, and hundreds of posters bearing phrases such as “Democracy dies in silence,” “Trump is a plague” and pictures of President Donald Trump reading “iRan Up Gas Prices.”

In Palm Springs, hundreds of protesters gathered with signs reading “Impeach Convict Remove,” “Speak out while you still can” and “Are we great yet because I just feel embarrassed” in front of City Hall.

Thousands of similar gatherings took place on Saturday throughout the country. Organizers were calling for the impeachment and removal of Trump and the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“The president thinks his rule is absolute,” according to the No Kings website. “But in America, we don’t have kings — and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger. `No Kings’ is more than just a slogan; it is the foundation our nation was built upon.”

Additional gatherings throughout the Inland Empire and Coachella Valley took place at:

— Temecula: 10 a.m. to noon at the Duck Pond at Rancho California and Ynez roads;

— Corona: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Corona City Hall, 400 S. Vicentia Ave.;

— Hemet/San Jacinto: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Democracy Center at East Florida Avenue and North Franklin Street;

— Redlands: 10 a.m. to noon at Orange Street and Redlands Boulevard;

— Victorville: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Victorville Park & Ride at Bear Valley and Amargosa roads;

— Beaumont: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Walmart Supercenter, 1540 E. 2nd St.;

— Moreno Valley: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 14177 Frederick St.; and

— Palm Desert: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Monterey Avenue and Highway 111.

A map of all the events can be found at mobilize.us/nokings/map.

As of Saturday afternoon, there were no reports of violence or arrests during the Riverside County protests.

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The session was the first of a quarterly event series targeted at spreading voter rights public information and clarifying details of the county’s voting system.

Members of the county’s voter registration team will be present to answer attendee questions.

“We look forward to continuing to work with the community to strengthen voter participation and ensure that every individual understands their rights and responsibilities as voters,” said City Clerk Brenda Pree in a statement.

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There will also be street closures surrounding a two-day vendor expo starting Friday, according to a statement released by the city Wednesday.

Palm Canyon Drive will be shut down from Baristo Road to Tahquitz Canyon Way from 6 a.m. Friday to 7 p.m. Saturday, officials said. Tahquitz Canyon Way will be closed between Palm Canyon Drive and Indian Canyon Saturday from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Race routes will be marked with cones, and traffic control officers will manage intersections to assist drivers, officials said.

Drivers were urged to exercise caution while traveling through the area or use alternate routes, as delays are expected Saturday along Indian Canyon between Alejo and Ramon roads, Tahquitz Canyon between Palm Canyon and El Cielo, and Mesquite Avenue to the Dinah Shore Bridge.

Residents can find a full map of the closures at www.engagepalmsprings.com.

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But that evaporated in 2022, when Calvert was nearly toppled by a fresh-faced Democratic insurgent.

Will Rollins’ candidacy in California’s 41st District was made viable by redistricting changes the year prior that swapped Republican havens like Temecula and Murrieta for a swath of the Coachella Valley that included overwhelmingly liberal Palm Springs, home to one of the largest concentrations of LGBTQ+ voters in the country.

The 2022 race didn’t draw much attention at first. That quickly changed in the months prior to the election when the former federal prosecutor, now 39, showed he might have an actual shot at unseating the entrenched Republican stalwart. Rollins was briefly ahead on election night, though Calvert ultimately bested him by more than 11,000 votes.

Two years later, Rollins and Calvert are set for a 2024 rematch in what is now one of the most closely-watched races in the country.

The seat will likely play a crucial role in deciding which party dominates the U.S. House of Representatives next year, with partisan control of the House set to be determined by a handful of competitive seats in New York and California.

One story line drew particular attention during the last election, particularly in national media.

In a twist that one advocate described as “poetic justice,” Rollins was a young gay candidate battling an older Republican who had voted against LGBTQ rights in the past in a district that now included Palm Springs, the first city in the nation to elect an all-LGBTQ city council. (Calvert has said his views have since evolved, and the congressman voted in favor of a 2022 bill that affirmed same-sex marriage.)

All of those dynamics remain at play, and the addition of the Coachella Valley is precisely what made the district competitive.

But the Inland Empire suburbs still account for the vast majority of its voters, and it’s there, in the bedroom communities and increasingly diverse cul-de-sacs, that the battle for Calvert’s seat is really being fought.

Both sides say this year’s race will likely be dominated by kitchen-table issues including the daily cost of living, crime and housing, rather than the divisive culture wars that permeate the national political narrative, and that results will come down to what happens in the western Riverside suburbs.

“Corona, Lake Elsinore, Menifee, Eastvale, Canyon Lake, Norco — those are the cities that are going to decide the outcome of this election,” Rollins said, sitting at an oversize table in a Corona fire station. The local firefighters he’d been meeting with had just rushed out on an emergency call and the smell of their chorizo and eggs lingered, along with several hastily abandoned breakfast plates.

Those western Riverside enclaves are also the cities where Rollins is least well-known and Calvert — the son of a former Corona mayor — has long been a fixture.

“That’s why I’m here today in Corona,” Rollins said, noting that he’d been at the Corona Chamber of Commerce earlier that morning and tries to be in his Corona field office five days a week, about an hour-and-a-half commute from his Palm Springs home.

Though he is slightly graying at the temples, the 39-year-old candidate looks disarmingly boyish and could pass at first glance for an eager college student volunteer. Like Calvert, Rollins and his campaign team underscore the importance of turnout in the western part of the district, which has historically been far lower than in the Palm Springs area.

Those familiar with it describe the district as having two distinct hubs: a corner of the Inland Empire, which includes suburbs like Corona and Menifee and accounts for nearly 80% of voters, and a portion of the Coachella Valley, which includes communities like Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert, along with Palm Springs.

“I know this district inside and out, I was born here. I went to school here. I did business here, and have been representing this district,” Calvert said by phone on a recent Friday from his Corona real estate office in a Spanish-style building a stone’s throw from the 91 Freeway.

About 50 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles at the western edge of the Inland Empire, Corona is the biggest city in the district and Calvert’s hometown.

Once dubbed “the lemon capital of the world,” it was a town dominated — and perfumed by — citrus for the better part of a century.

But orchards eventually gave way to new homes, neighborhoods and industry, and the Sunkist plant shut down in the early 1980s — the same decade the Riverside County city’s population began to explode, with aspiring suburbanites from Los Angeles and Orange counties driven inland for their slice of the American dream.

Amid a seemingly intractable state housing crisis, Corona and other inland cities in the district, such as Menifee and Lake Elsinore, have continued to boom. Spacious single-family homes can still be had for a fraction of what they would cost in coastal cities, though emigres to the Inland Empire often face lengthy commutes.

The families who arrived during the first waves of Corona’s population boom leaned more conservative, said Wes Speake, a Corona City Council member and president of the Corona Historic Preservation Society. Registered Democrats now slightly outnumber Republicans in the city, though folks still tend to be more fiscally conservative regardless of party affiliation, Speake said.

Speake — a Republican who has endorsed Calvert — attributes Corona’s shift to the center-left to a number of factors, including an “exponential” increase in diversity over the last two decades, younger and more liberal arrivals from Los Angeles and Orange counties, and Republicans changing their registration to no party preference.

More broadly speaking, the 41st District stands out as a rare piece of truly purple topography in a national landscape dominated by red and blue congressional districts.

Former President Trump won the district by just 1% in 2020, down five points from 2016, according to data from California Target Book. As of late May, Republicans held a razor-thin registration advantage, overtaking registered Democrats by a few thousand voters. But that advantage has see-sawed in the past, with Democrats holding an equally narrow upper hand during the 2022 election. Independents account for roughly 1 in 5 voters.

Trump endorsed Calvert in 2022, and the congressman has endorsed Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Rollins, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the National Security Division at the Department of Justice, has blasted Calvert for his continued support of Trump, even after Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes last month, with Rollins saying on the social media site X that the district deserves “a representative who cares more about the 750,000 of us in Riverside County than one convicted felon in New York.”

It remains unclear how Trump’s guilty verdict might affect Republicans congressional candidates in competitive districts like Calvert’s, or whether the conviction could nudge swing voters away from supporters of the former president.

“Riverside of 2024 is not Riverside of 1994,” said Sky Allen, executive director of Inland Empire United, a progressive political group that has endorsed Rollins. “The community looks different, our needs are different. And also, there’s a lot of people in our community that were never really represented by someone that holds conservative values.“

Allen cited the increased racial and ethnic diversity, more LGBTQ+ and immigrant families and more organizing from nonprofits like hers as factors shaping the district. In coordination with the super PAC Battleground California, Allen’s organization will be administering an independent expenditure in support of Rollins, with the bulk of its efforts concentrated on canvassing in the district.

Calvert and Rollins diverge on a number of pivotal issues. Calvert has said decisions on abortion should be left to the states and has an A+ rating on SBA Pro-Life America’s “National Pro-Life Scorecard,” whereas Rollins has been outspoken on protecting abortion rights and is backed by Planned Parenthood California’s political action committee. Rollins has advocated more gun-safety restrictions, whereas Calvert has voted against more stringent restrictions and received high marks from the National Rifle Assn.

Both candidates have criticized the country’s broken immigration system and advocated securing the country’s borders, but Rollins’ positioning also focuses on creating a path to citizenship for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and other “qualified immigrants.”

Rollins’ unexpectedly narrow loss in 2022 left some prognosticators wondering whether more Democratic Party involvement in 2022 could have flipped the seat blue. Those what-ifs won’t be a question in 2024, regardless of what happens in November.

The Democratic establishment is putting its full backing behind Rollins. He’s one of the top candidates on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “red to blue” list, a program that provides organizational and fundraising support, and he has also been the beneficiary of high-profile fundraising efforts, with Orange County Rep. Katie Porter blasting emails to her supporters on his behalf and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries swinging through Southern California to headline a fundraiser.

The Republican party is putting similar institutional might behind Calvert, with significant investments in the district ranging from field support to TV.

Calvert retains the advantages of incumbency and ample name recognition, but Rollins has been a particularly prolific fundraiser. The Democratic challenger had roughly $500,000 more in his war chest than Calvert as of the end of March, according to federal filings. Money will be critical to either candidate getting their message out, especially with the western portion of the district overlapping with the extremely expensive Los Angeles media market.

“If you’re looking at the trend line, this new district is definitely moving toward Democrats after redistricting,” said Erin Covey, a House analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, citing the addition of Palm Springs and the fact that parts of the historically conservative Inland Empire have also shifted slightly to the left.

Calvert benefited from a newly-drawn Inland Empire district in 1992 when he was first elected to Congress, squeaking by just a few hundred votes. His fate now likely hinges on a narrow margin once again.

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With jurors saying they were hopelessly deadlocked, a mistrial was declared Tuesday in the trial of a Cathedral City man accused of gunning down four people in Palm Springs.

Jurors deliberated over the course of seven days in the trial of Jose Vladimir Larin-Garcia, 22, who is charged with four-counts of first degree murder for the Feb. 3, 2019, deaths of Jacob Montgomery, 19, Juan Duarte Raya, 18, Yuliana Garcia, 17, and Carlos Campos Rivera, 25. The charges include a special circumstance allegation of multiple murders and sentence-enhancing gun and great bodily injury allegations.

On Tuesday morning, the jury notified Riverside County Superior Court Judge Anthony Villalobos that they were unable to reach a verdict. The judge spoke with the panel and gave them additional instructions and asked them to resume deliberations.

But a short time later, the jury reported no progress and indicated they were hopelessly deadlocked. Villalobos dismissed the panel, thanking them for their service. He later scheduled Larin-Garcia for a trial-readiness conference on June 17 to begin the re-trial process.

During two days of closing arguments, Deputy District Attorney Samantha Paixao said three of the shooting victims were found in a Toyota Corolla that crashed at Sunny Dunes and El Placer roads at about 11:40 p.m. the day of the killings, while the fourth victim — Rivera — was located 30 minutes later lying on a street about a half-mile away.

Montgomery, Raya and Garcia were killed inside the car, authorities said. The latter was pregnant. Paixao said Larin-Garcia was inside the Toyota with the three victims, and that Montgomery was planning to make a drug deal. The defendant was in the back seat when he allegedly fatally shot Rivera, who was leaning against the car on Canon Drive, south of Theresa Drive, Paixao said. After the shooting, the driver of the Toyota sped off, but Larin-Garcia allegedly shot the driver as well as the other two occupants, then jumped from the moving car before it crashed into a parked Jeep at Sunny Dunes and El Placer roads, according to the prosecution.

According to Paixao, blood on Larin-Garcia’s shoes and jacket had the DNA of the victims on it, placing him inside the vehicle at the time of the murder. She further argued that bullet casings at the crime scene match those that were found in the defendant’s bedroom and vehicle, further attaching him to the events.

Larin-Garcia’s defense attorney, John Dolan, asserted during his closing argument that the blood splatter identified on Larin-Garcia’s clothing did not prove murder, and there was no search for a gun the prosecution claims he used in the crime, only bullet casings.

An undercover officer who spoke with Larin-Garcia while posing as a jail inmate testified that the defendant admitted fearing that officers had obtained his gun as evidence, though Larin-Garcia never admitted to a specific crime and the gun has never been found. Dolan also pointed to social media posts and messages allegedly made by John Olvera, now 18 but then 15, suggesting they implicate him in the killings.

Dolan pointed to a private conversation between Olvera and a woman, in which Olvera allegedly said, “Jacob thought I was playin’ — he shouldn’t have had a kid female in the car cuz he knew I was gonna get him…” and “I never meant that girl to die…” The message allegedly referred to one of the shooting victims, Jacob Montgomery. Olvera denied any involvement in the killings, saying any posts on Facebook and Instagram suggesting anything to the contrary were unfounded boasts or lyrics by rapper Young Boy.

Paixao also dismissed the messages during closing arguments, saying facts in the case did not align with what Olvera claimed occurred. For instance, Olvera claims he was shot at first when evidence only indicates one firearm was involved.

Dolan claimed that Olvera was an unreliable witness during the trial and that his testimony should not be trusted, only his social media posts taking credit for the homicides. Dolan further argued that police did not properly investigate Olvera when they found the posts, casting reasonable doubt on whether or not his client committed the crime.

He created a scene for the jury in which Olvera was in the middle seat of the car shooting the passengers, and that Larin-Garcia jumped from the vehicle when the killings began. Paixao argued that no evidence was present to suggest a fifth person was in the vehicle, pointing to eyewitness testimony of only four people being present. According to preliminary hearing testimony, Larin-Garcia was found by officers hiding under a pickup just blocks from the scene of the Toyota crash. He was taken to Desert Regional Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries but wasn’t arrested.

The defendant left the hospital after being questioned by Palm Springs police, going to a friend’s house.

Detective Steve Grissom testified that the friend went to the defendant’s mother’s home to retrieve fresh clothing and an ID card for the defendant. Later in the day, the friend also bought bandages for Larin-Garcia, along with a Greyhound bus ticket to Florida under the name” Joseph Browning,” Grissom testified.

At some point that day, Larin-Garcia shaved his head to change his appearance, then the friend drove him to the bus station in Indio, where he was arrested, Grissom testified.

Larin-Garcia remains held without bail at the Benoit Detention Center in Indio.

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“You will learn that Jose Vladimir Larin Garcia is the executioner,” said Samantha Paixao, Deputy District Attorney, Riverside County, addressing the jury in court.

“The executioner” was a phrase Deputy District Attorney Paixao used several times during her opening statement to describe accused killer Jose Larin-Garcia.

“Each victim suffered a gunshot wound to their head…all four were executed,” said Paixao. The prosecution says on the night of the murders; Larin-Garcia was in a car with three of the four victims. Paixao said Yuliana Garcia was driving, Juan Duarte Raya was in the passenger seat and Jacob Montgomery and Larin-Garcia were both in the backseat. She says the four were driving in Duarte Raya’s green Toyota Corolla, and that direct Facebook messages reveal Jacob Montgomery was going to sell drugs to the fourth victim, Carlos Campos Rivera. “These are the last known messages these two engaged in,” said Paixao.

Paixao said when the Corolla approached the agreed upon meeting spot in Palm Springs around 11:30 that night, shots were fired — killing Carlos Campos Rivera. A witness said the Corolla then sped away. The four inside the Corolla were heading down E. Sunny Dunes Rd. when a witness heard additional gunshots. Paixao said it was at that moment that Larin-Garcia shot and killed the other three inside the car.

“They didn’t stand a chance. There was the element of surprise. There was determination and there was an execution that was occurring inside that car,” said Paixao. She says Larin-Garcia jumped out of the moving Corolla before it crashed.

She says police found him hiding under a truck without his shoes, and that a later investigation revealed he had the blood of both Montgomery and Duarte Raya on those shoes.

While no gun was recovered from the scene, the prosecution says investigators found ammunition in Larin-Garcia’s bedroom.

“The ammunition is consistent with the ammunition of the 9 millimeter weapon that was used for all four of the murders,” said Paixao.

Larin-Garcia was taken to Desert Regional Medical Center the night of the murders, where he fled. He was arrested by police at a bus stop in the following days.

In court on Monday, Larin-Garcia appeared calm. He did not turn to face the victims’ families or press that were present.

The defense is expected to deliver their opening statement on Tuesday at 9 a.m. Larin-Garcia could face the death penalty in this case, if convicted. Watch News Channel 3 at 5 and 6 p.m. on Tuesday for the latest developments in court.

ORIGINAL REPORT: Trial begins on Monday for Jose Larin-Garcia, a Cathedral City man facing a possible death sentence for allegedly murdering four people in Palm Springs more than two years ago.

Watch News Channel 3 at 5 & 6 p.m. for a closer look at what happened in court today. You can follow along with the proceedings as News Channel 3’s Madison Weil live tweets from the courtroom.

Four victims, ages 17 to 25, were found shot and killed in Palm Springs just before midnight on February 3rd, 2019.

Three of the victims were found inside a car that crashed at Sunny Dunes and El Placer roads. “I heard this terrible noise about 11:30 at night…it was sort of a crash and a screeching noise,” a neighbor told News Channel 3 at the time.

The fourth victim was discovered in the street a few blocks away. Court documents reveal all four victims were shot twice in the head.

When police arrived at Sunny Dunes and Desert Way, police found Larin-Garcia hiding under a truck. He appeared intoxicated and covered in blood.

“They told him to get up from under the truck and the next thing the ambulance showed up and they were working on the fella. And then they just took him away,” another neighbor told News Channel 3.

We now know Larin-Garcia was taken to Desert Regional Medical Center for treatment. Security footage shows him running away from the property.

Detectives have testified he then went to a friend’s house who he had buy him a one-way bus ticket to Florida using a fake name. Prosecutors say he was preparing to flee – shaving his head and beard to change his appearance. He was arrested waiting at the bus stop.

In 2019, News Channel 3 spoke to family and friends of the victims.

“Right now is the time when we show everyone love and respect because they didn’t deserve this death,” said a family friend of Yuliana Garcia.

Larin-Garcia is charged with four counts of murder. He also faces a special-circumstance allegation of committing multiple murders, opening him to the death penalty if convicted.

Opening statements are expected to begin at 9 a.m. on Monday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio. News Channel 3’s Madison Weil will be covering the case. Watch on Monday at 5 and 6 p.m. for new details on the case.

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“There was a guy in front of her clearly a homeless person gesturing madly and screaming at the guy at the counter … the guy behind the counter said, ‘If you hadn’t have been here I don’t know what would have happened, I don’t know if he would have attacked him or what’.”

She says that’s just the tip of the iceberg, “Across the street from Rite Aid one of my friends got knocked over right after Christmas, her purse got ripped away from her, she hurt her elbow,” says Austin adding that she’s afraid when she goes out to do laundry or walk her dog because of other experiences she’s had doing everyday tasks, “everywhere I look there’s homeless people.”

And she’s not the only one who says they’re scared to bein their own neighborhood.

“I’m real afraid, when you get accosted walking to your car when you don’t give a homeless person money and they followed my all the way to my car … I’m an elder I’m not a young person who can easily run from these people,” said another Palm Springs resident who did not want to be identified adding, “the problem is getting these people off the streets not just into a hotel, but getting them into a treatment center getting them into a mental health facility.”

Christinher, who stays at the Hyatt and is a long time Palm Springs resident says it’s out of control, “We kind of make it convenient for them … we have someone that goes there and they bathe … and they will not stop the person from bathing and washing their clothes … they have someone sleeping inside the ventilation system and … and they’re not doing nothing,” adding it’s dangerous.

Austin says she’s tired of politicians who make promises and then don’t show results, instead of getting better it’s getting worse, “I know they got a bunch of money and I don’t see where it’s done any good.”

The Palm Springs City Manager Justin Clifton says he gets it, “Not only do I manage the city here but I live in the city with my wife and my two young kids so I share some of the concerns both from a humanitarian perspective because these are human beings … and then I also understand that people also want to feel safe their community, and so it’s really a tough issue to navigate … it’s a national issue, it’s worsening nationally, so we are certainly part of those trends, the pandemic did not make things easier in fact it made things harder.”

He says when it comes down to it the solution is housing and they did work hard to secure a $10 million grant last year to build housing and two housing projects have been approved that include health resources but this will not happen overnight.

“It takes time to build them right so they’re still in the early stages of development design and then ultimately construction the remaining funds will be set aside primarily for other long term housing first time solutions that could include other wrap around services,” says Clifton.

He says in addition to that they’re hiring a person to focus on homeless and housing and partnering with non profits like Martha’s Village and Kitchen who are now running a temporary shelter. ”

We’ve actually had a lot of success in partnership with our police officers on the ground identifying some of the people in most dire need services and getting them plugged in and they’re actually finding them housing opportunities”

Martha’s Village and Kitchen president Linda Barrack, who has been working to help the homeless population for decades says it’s easy to point fingers and judge people on the street, “And I walk in everyday to situations with vast numbers of homeless am I afraid no,” she says adding that they’re just people who act out like the rest of the population, and there’s good and bad actors.

She says her non profit has an 85 percent success rate in housing the homeless because the outreach and services they provide work. She says the pandemic and lack of affordable housing have created the perfect storm.

She says the numbers of homeless in the West Valley have increased because in recent years places for them to go have been taken away and cities and residents need to work together to provide services and the not in my back yard mentality has got to go, still she understands the frustration.

“I don’t blame them the planning in earnest has to be accelerated, they need to sit down and design the dream the community needs to be part of the solution nimby is a tough thing to overcome but to overcome it we need a space to provide these services … when the homeless are in shelter the staff knows what they’re doing and where they are without shelter without people knowing what’s going on you have what you have.”

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The first car began its 2½-mile ascent high into the San Jacinto Mountains on Friday morning.

The attraction was shut down in mid-March as part of the restrictions intended to slow the spread of the virus.

Each of the rotating cars can carry 80 passengers but under the reopening rules capacity will be limited to 12 passengers.

Masks are required and the tram cars’ windows will remain open during the ride. The cars will be cleaned between each trip.

Tickets must be purchased online in advance.

The tramway opened in 1963, offering spectacular views of the Southern California mountains and desert. It underwent a major modernization about 20 years ago.

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PALM SPRINGS (CNS) – With blood donations down due to the coronavirus pandemic, a two-day blood drive will begin today at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs.

“We are urging healthy residents to come forward to help make up this deficit by making appointments in the weeks ahead to help maintain an ample supply,” said Don Escalante, a spokesman for Lifestream Blood Bank, which is organizing the drive.

The San Bernardino-based donation service has had to cancel more than 80 mobile blood drives in Southern California planned from mid-March through the end of May, equaling about 5,000 pints of lost blood, he said.

For precautionary reasons, LifeStream is not accepting blood donations from healthcare workers who have cared for confirmed, or presumed, COVID-19 patients in the last 28 days.

Blood collected through donations to LifeStream flows to more than 80 hospitals in Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura and San Diego counties.

The drive at the Desert Regional Medical Center will be held at the hospital’s Jerry Stergios Building at 1150 N. Indian Canyon Drive from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday and noon to 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

For appointments call 800-879-4484, or visit www.LStream.org.

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PALM SPRINGS (CNS) – A temporary ban on all vacation rentals and hotel stays not related to coronavirus response went into effect today in Palm Springs.

“The health and safety of Palm Springs residents is our top priority,” City Manager David Ready said in a statement. “We continue to strongly urge our residents, unless they are an essential worker, to stay home and shelter in place per our emergency declaration mandate.”

The order applies to all temporary lodging including hotels and vacation rentals like Airbnb, unless those rentals are being used for “migration and containment measures related to the spread” of COVID-19, a city statement reads.

City officials urged visitors to cancel all bookings through April 30, although the order will remain in effect until an unspecified future date.

“Visitors currently staying in a vacation rental, homeshare or hotel should return to their home community immediately and shelter in place,” Ready said.

Ready declared a local emergency in Palm Springs due to the pandemic on March 14, which was later ratified by the City Council on March 19.

Rancho Mirage city officials on Monday issued a similar order that also barred temporary rentals, which is set to remain in effect until June 1 unless amended earlier.

As of noon Tuesday, there were 48 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Riverside County, with 25 in the Coachella Valley. Six people have died from complications associated with the disease, all in the Coachella Valley.

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