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If you’re in the market — and, you know, have $24.5 million to spare — you cannot miss  the Casbah Cove. The Palm Desert mansion, tucked inside the prestigious Bighorn Golf Club, is on the market. “Built over the course of four years by talented craftsmen led by one of the most creative design teams, Casbah Cove is unlike anything you have ever seen,” Bighorn writes on its website. The 16,800 square-feet of indoor and outdoor living includes only four bedrooms. But it has two spas (one indoor and one outdoor), eight sculptured fireplaces and three outdoor dining rooms. Don’t miss the hookah room with seating for 20 people, disappearing doors and a 20-foot screen that rises from the ground, according attorney at law to the website. Or the 75-foot lap infinity pool and 40-foot round reverse infinity-edge swimming pool (“for sunning”). And don’t forget to invite me to your house warming party.  
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Palm Desert couple arrested for murder of 8-week-old baby girl

- A 19-year-old Palm Desert woman and her 22-year-old parolee boyfriend are behind bars Thursday, suspected in the killing of the woman's 8-week-old baby girl, authorities said. Related Content Charges filed in killing of 2-year-old Thermal boy Sarah Connor and Joseph Champion were arrested Wednesday, the same day the child succumbed to what investigators say were several traumatic injuries to her body, said Riverside County sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Buompensiero. Both were booked into the Riverside County Jail in Indio, he said. The child was not breathing when deputies responded around 6:15 a.m. Friday to a juvenile medical aid call in the 73000 block of Pinyon Street, Buompensiero said. The baby was first taken to Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage and later transferred to Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda for further treatment, he said. Connor was being held in lieu of $1 million bail and Champion was jailed without bail, according to sheriff's online booking records. Both were due in court in Indio on Friday. Copyright 2013 City News Service.
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Desert dealer goes solar to save

But Paul Thiel studied the economics of solar power for seven years before he took the leap and converted his Palm Springs Motors, a Ford-Lincoln store in Cathedral City, Calif. For a long time, he couldn't make the numbers work. "We started studying it in 2005. The price of the solar system was too high," Thiel says. "It didn't justify to where you could make it pencil, where it would pay off in a reasonable amount of time. The payback would have been 10 to 12 years." Waiting paid off in a big way for Thiel, 61, a South Dakota native who worked for Ford Motor Co.
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PALM DESERT: 2 arrested in beating death of 8-week-old baby

The Desert Sun reports 19-year-old Sarah Connor and 22-year-old Joseph Champion were booked into jail early Thursday, May 30. Sgt. Jeff Buompensiero says police responded to a medical call Friday, May 24, and found the baby girl was not breathing. The baby was taken to two hospitals before she died Wednesday. No charges have been filed against the couple yet. They are due in court Friday.
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Palm Desert DUI checkpoint leads to 13 arrests

- Four motorists were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs during an overnight driver's license/sobriety checkpoint in Palm Desert, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said today. Related Content Drunken driver who fled from CHP sentenced One of those drivers had an active warrant for a previous driving under the influence conviction, according to a department statement. Nine motorists were arrested for driving while unlicensed or on suspended license and five vehicles were towed during the checkpoint on Highway 111, west of Plaza Way that began at 7 p.m. Saturday and ended today at 3 a.m., according to the statement. Copyright 2013 City News Service. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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