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Cancel any upcoming flights to the moon, because living in Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack home is a great reason to stay on Earth. Named "Villa Maggio," Sinatra's hideaway from Hollywood is on the market for $3.9 million. The Palm Desert, California home was a spot where Sinatra and fellow Rat Pack members Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop would hang out and get some R&R from their fans in a private location.

If you're near Palm Desert, what are you waiting for, get out there and see it!...

Anti-Semitism at Coachella Valley, California taxpayer funded schools is far more pervasive than the “Beat the Jew” game hatched by La Quinta High School kids. The left leaning Desert Sun has dredged up a plethora of other incidents including swastikas on school walls and desks, anti- Semitic jokes and taunts toward Jewish students and worse. A Jewish student at Palm Desert High School spoke anonymously: "• The student said the school ‘has swastikas (drawn) all over our desks … all over campus.’ Some students have the Nazi symbol drawn on their skin, and a group of ‘wannabe skinhead’ students wear...

President Barack Obama said Thursday he’s “amused” by the anti-tax tea party protests that have been taking place around Tax Day. To the great chagrin of the mainstream media, the April 15th Tea Parties went off exactly as anyone with a scintilla of common sense would have predicted: peacefully. Now that we have empirical data on the Tea Party demographics—grownups who believe in working for a living and retirees who have worked for a living—only a complete imbecile would anticipate a violent uprising. What little mischief has been reported thus far was caused, naturally, by liberal party crashers. The much...

Juan Mesa, 28, and Alejandro Moreno, 39, Both Had Criminal Records PALM DESERT Both men who died on "Black Friday" in a shootout inside the Toys "R" Us store on Highway 111 at Fred Waring Drive had criminal records, and one of them is believed to have been a gang member, authorities said Wednesday. Juan Meza, 28, of Cathedral City, had a tattoo that read "VMV," which indicates that he was a member an Indio-area gang called Varrio Mecca Vineyards, Riverside County District Attorney's Office spokesman Michael Jeandron said. Alejandro Moreno, 39, of Desert Hot Springs, was also killed in...

PALM DESERT, Calif. – Two men pulled guns and shot each other to death in a crowded toy store Friday after the women with them erupted into a bloody brawl, witnesses said. Scared shoppers fled but no one else was hurt. The violence erupted on Black Friday, the traditional post-Thanksgiving start of the holiday shopping surge, but authorities indicated the shooting wasn't related to a shopping frenzy. Riverside County sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez said the fight was not over a toy. He said handguns were found by the men's bodies, but he released little other information. He would not answer...

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Funeral plans for President Ford. All times are local: Friday, Dec. 29 — Palm Desert, Calif. 12:20 p.m. President Ford's casket arrives at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Palm Desert, Calif. Mrs. Ford and the family will have a private prayer service. 1:15 p.m. Close friends and guests will arrive at St. Margaret's for private visitation. The Ford family will return to their residence. 4:20 p.m. Public repose begins at St. Margaret's. The church will remain open until 8 a.m. on Saturday.