The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif. back issues from June 2007:
I-15 pile-up snarls morning commute
Jun 01, 2007 ... DEVORE - A crash involving about four cars is backing up trafficon the southbound Interstate 15 just north of the Interstate 215split. The 6:38 a.m. crash north of Kenwood Avenue involved a JeepLiberty, whose driver lost control and overturned the vehicle severaltimes, said ...
Warm, breezy weekend ahead
Jun 01, 2007 ... SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY - Beach and swimming pool weather is headedfor San Bernardino County this weekend, with temperatures as high as94 degrees expected on Sunday. The National Weather Service anticipated cooler weather today,ranging from 78 to 88 degrees, but the mercury will ...
AutoZone settles $1.5 million suit
Jun 01, 2007 ... SAN BERNARDINO - An auto parts store accused of charging aboveadvertised prices and improperly disposing of hazardous waste hasagreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a civil suit filed by state andcounty prosecutors. District Attorney's offices in San Bernardino, San Diego, ...
Local campaign chests overflowing
Jun 01, 2007 ... While efforts to curb election fundraising have met with mixedresults in California, the multimillion-dollar race for SanBernardino County assessor last year could, all by itself, make acompelling caseThe normally downscale post became a hot-ticket race when BillPostmus, ...
County would derive no value from shorting land conservation
Jun 01, 2007; ... By Bill Engs Local land conservancies help San Bernardino County to protectscenic, wildlife and recreational lands for public enjoyment andbenefit.Because the San Bernardino National Forest gets the most use ofany public lands in the USA, it needs significant ...
AutoZone to pay $1.5 million to end state, counties' lawsuit
Jun 01, 2007; ... An auto-parts chain accused of charging above-advertised pricesand improperly disposing of hazardous waste has agreed to pay $1.5million to settle a civil suit filed by state and county prosecutors. District attorney's offices in San Bernardino, San Diego, Montereyand San Joaquin ...
Judge declares mistrial
Jun 01, 2007; ... Jurors deadlocked on Friday in the trial of a federal meatinspector accused of murdering his neighbor, even after the judgeallowed attorneys to make a second round of closing arguments in alast-ditch effort to break the impasse. Prosecutors in West Valley Superior Court in Rancho ...
In Brief 6-01-2007
Jun 01, 2007 ... SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Smog-fighting agency to adopt tougher rules The region's smog-fighting agency is expected to adopt a toughplan today for scrubbing the air clean by federal deadlines. If fully implemented as proposed, the plan would cost an estimated$2.3 billion a ...
Missing the home sales mark
Jun 01, 2007; ... ONTARIO - More than 1,000 people came out to the new community ofEdenglen last month to stroll its tree-lined streets and tour thefirst model homes to open within the New Model Colony. But one month after collecting a lengthy interest list andreceiving accolades for the 8,200-acre ...
Crime and Public Safety 6-01-2007
Jun 01, 2007 ... SAN BERNARDINO Officials identify car-crash victim A woman killed in a car crash Wednesday has been identified as 84-year-old Yolanda Browning of San Bernardino, coroner's officialssaid. Browning, who was driving a 2002 Toyota Camry, was broadsided at4:15 p.m. by a ...
City revamps will pave project's way
Jun 01, 2007; ... HIGHLAND - Nearly $38 million in redevelopment bonds will be usedfor citywide street projects and for infrastructure improvements inan area that will become the city's main shopping and entertainmenthub. City officials envision a thriving commercial center nearGreenspot and ...
Officers of the Year
Jun 01, 2007; ... SAN BERNARDINO - The jokes and good-natured ribbing typical of anawards banquet blended with a serious purpose Thursday evening -honoring local law enforcement. "They are more than just uniforms and authority figures. There isa lot they do for the community," said John Nolan, an ...
Pilot died doing what he loved
Jun 01, 2007; ... APPLE VALLEY - On the afternoon of Mother's Day, May 13, Dan H.Morgan III was seeding rice from an agricultural plane in Colusa whenthe tail of the aircraft clipped nearby power lines. The tail broke off and the plane plummeted to the ground where itburst into flames. The ...
Wall in Redlands
Jun 01, 2007; ... REDLANDS - With great reverence and some heavy hearts, visitors onThursday came to see The Moving Wall - the homage to America's wardead killed in Vietnam. A steady stream of people poured into Sylvan Park to view the58,256 names adorned on the sleek black aluminum panels that are ...
Police radio traffic played Deputy gives wrong location three times
Jun 01, 2007; ... SAN BERNARDINO - The former San Bernardino County sheriff's deputyon trial for shooting an unarmed man at the end of a high-speed carchase repeatedly gave his colleagues wrong information about hiswhereabouts, making it difficult for backup officers to find andassist him, according to a ...
Fontana council embraces webcasts
Jun 01, 2007; ... FONTANA - The clock ticked past 11 p.m. It was too late for most residents to stay up, much less watchcity business on cable TV or sit at a City Council meeting that May8. In the past, if you wanted to find out what the city leadersdecided on a particular issue, you'd have ...
Deal preserves possible Barstow gaming
Jun 01, 2007; ... Gambling in Barstow remains a possibility after the governor andtwo tribes hoping to build casinos there agreed Thursday to anextension on their gaming compacts. The deals, drafted in 2005, had been set to expire Thursday, whichwould have thrown the process back to square one ....
Gang getting the boot
Jun 01, 2007; ... VICTORVILLE - All it took was a sheaf of papers to send some ofthe most notorious gangbangers in the High Desert packing. A permanent - read, forever - gang injunction is now in place forEast Side Victoria, a 115-member Latino gang that has been rooted inVictorville for 25 years ....
Cartoonist extols investing in public arts to uplift city
Jun 03, 2007; ... SAN BERNARDINO - Phil Yeh - pronounced Yay - has a lot to say. A breezy chatter rattles over a wide range of subjects, fromdemocracy and world affairs to gun control and educational policy. One word stands out, perhaps because of the frequency of its use. "Insane." ...
SB festival has positive focus
Jun 03, 2007; ... SAN BERNARDINO - A crowd of families relaxing at Perris Hill Parkon a warm Saturday afternoon is part of life in the Inland Empire. But so are bullets, drugs and early death. At the park, children played in bounce houses, a Spanish-speakingman with a raspy voice proclaimed ...
Mountain bridge advances
Jun 03, 2007; ... BIG BEAR LAKE - Plans for design and construction of a new bridgeto this mountain city from Highway 18 have cleared their first hurdlewith the release of an environmental- impact report. The Federal Highway Administration and the U.S. Forest Servicehave teamed with Caltrans to ...
Residents rally for robbery victim
Jun 03, 2007; ... REDLANDS - Authorities called it an act of senseless savageryagainst a helpless man in a wheelchair. Dozens of local residents think those responsible for attacking 29-year-old Steven Kile in his apartment on April 22 should not get offeasy. About 30 people have signed a ...
Ex-POW says honor the troops
Jun 03, 2007; ... Photo Gallery: The Moving Wall REDLANDS - Former prisoner of war John Cavaiani felt morecourageous facing the North Vietnamese Army than he does the VietnamMemorial Wall. It took him seven years to face his biggest fear - seeing thenames of all the comrades who died for ...
Let Tony live - he's worse than we are
Jun 03, 2007; ... Tony lives. Paulie dies. And in a disturbing twist, Meadow pays the ultimate price for herfather's indiscretions. My theory, anyway. As the clock winds down on the second-greatest TV show of all time(sorry Tony, gotta go with Homer Simpson's wise guys in the ...
2 dead in shootout
Jun 03, 2007; ... Photo Gallery: Two Suspects Killed Two of the four men suspected of stealing an arsenal of weaponsfrom a San Bernardino gun shop were shot dead by police Friday duringa shootout that followed a high-speed chase. Four men burst into Turner's Outdoorsman on West Orange Show ...
Raise the Jolly Roger!
Jun 03, 2007; ... Photo Gallery: Pirate Faire FAWNSKIN - Prospectors, lumberjacks and Old West outlaws havetheir place in Bear Valley history, but pirates are still a new sightin the mountains. But the scurvy thieves are popular. "It was spectacular," said Lynda McGinnis, founder of ...
Seven vying for Colton's vacant council seat
Jun 03, 2007; ... COLTON - Voters go the polls Tuesday to elect a candidate to filla vacant seat on the City Council. The District 3 position became vacant in December when KellyChastain, who previously held the seat, was sworn in as mayor. Sevencandidates have qualified to run for the position ....
Public vs. private
Jun 03, 2007 ... Banner Elementary School Principal Gayle Linn of Highland (re: "ABanner year," Voice of the People, June 1) appropriately honored thehard-working students at her school. Kudos to the kids and the staffwho serve them. However, her adulation of Banner's programs andsuccess rate only tells ...
Renovated terminal welcome at SBIA
Jun 03, 2007 ... Passenger airports, even prospective passenger airports, need asuitable terminal. And since that key component has been missing fromSan Bernardino International Airport, airport officials last monthOK'd a $38 million modernization project to help lure airlines, andpassengers ....
Hitting pols where it hurts
Jun 03, 2007 ... The opponents of state legislators' sneaky ballot initiative toloosen up term limits have come up with a novel way to attacklawmakers - through their perks. A coalition led by U.S. Term Limits, a Washington, D.C.-basedgroup, is pushing two ballot measures of its own. One measure ...
Sept. 11 taught as history
Jun 04, 2007; ... RIALTO - Flip to page 863 in "The Americans," the U.S. historytextbook of choice in high schools here, and there it is: a smallsnapshot of New York City's twin towers, dark smoke reaching frominside them into a blue morning sky. Beside the photograph is a two-paragraph explanation ...
What to do when you're pulled over
Jun 04, 2007; ... There's nothing quite like the feelings you experience when you'repulled over for a traffic violation. Your heart starts beating faster, and you can feel the heat ofembarrassment rushing to your face.The flashing lights on the police vehicle behind you draw theattention ...
Helping the smallest victims
Jun 04, 2007; ... Podcast: OneVoice with Cleo Smith Cleo Smith wishes he could help all the pregnant women on SanBernardino's streets who struggle with drug and alcohol abuse. More than anything, he wants to help their babies, the smallestvictims of addiction. Smith is a director of ...
Political Notebook
Jun 04, 2007; ... Patriotic colors San Bernardino County Democrats are trumpeting their continuedefforts to close the registered-voter gap that Republicans haveenjoyed for years. Recently, Blue County, an organization supporting local Democrats,announced that it had turned Victorville ...
Burial today for SB man killed in Iraq
Jun 04, 2007; ... Photo Gallery: US Army Sgt.Clayton Dunn II Memorial SAN BERNARDINO - Family and friends said their goodbyes Sundaynight to Army Sgt. Clayton G. Dunn II during funeral services for thefallen soldier at Preciado Funeral Home. Dunn was killed on May 26 while serving in Iraq. He ...
Baca pushing hard for reform
Jun 04, 2007; ... As the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Rep. JoeBaca finds himself in the middle of the debate to find a compromiseon immigration reform. Baca, D-Rialto, has been one of several leading voices on thetopic, and recently led a meeting of legislators with President ...
Woman killed in train jump
Jun 04, 2007; ... RIALTO - A young woman was killed Sunday afternoon in a UnionPacific railyard in Rialto when she jumped from a slow-moving freighttrain into the path of an oncoming Amtrak train. She was part of a group of a half-dozen transients stowed away ona freight train that was traveling ...
Officers shoot three suspects following high-speed chase
Jun 02, 2007 ... HIGHLAND - A gunfight between officers and four men who robbed aSan Bernardino gun shop Friday night left two suspects dead and twowounded. At 8:40 p.m. four men walked into Turner's Outdoorsman onWest Orange Show Road and held the clerks at gunpoint while theystuffed 75 handguns and ...
Living the dream - on the stage
Jun 02, 2007; ... As a boy, Wayne Scott yearned to be a detective or an FBI agent.He loved mystery, dreamed of adventure. As an adult, he has it all - on stage. Drama, romance, adventure and comedy - he brings season afterseason of musical theater productions to local audiences ....
Summer reading programs all set to sizzle
Jun 02, 2007; ... Summertime and the livin' is - well, maybe not easy - but morelaid back. Summer may be the most fun-filled season, but like with mostthings there are pros and cons. The pros are countless, while thecons, on the other hand, can be condensed into just four categories:heat, bugs, ...
Sex education no longer taboo topic
Jun 02, 2007 ... It's hard to believe, in this day and age, that schools might balkwhen it comes to sex education. But many do. And it's often becausethey think that the parents will object to it. But a new study by the Public Health Institute's Center forResearch on Adolescent Health and ...
Redlands gets extra use from extra eyes
Jun 02, 2007 ... Surveillance cameras in downtown Redlands have raised the specterof Big Brother after they helped alert police late last month to asuspected drunken driver leaving a local bar. The man was arrested after driving erratically once he left theRoyal Falconer British Pub and Restaurant ...
Lottery should benefit students, not Sachs
Jun 02, 2007; ... The old admonition, "When something seems too good to be true, itprobably is," virtually screams from accounts of Gov. ArnoldSchwarzenegger's proposal to "privatize" the California Lottery. (Togive credit where due, it's a Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros.'proposal; the governor is the ...
Favors Carballo
Jun 02, 2007 ... I teach in the Colton Joint Unified School District and am anactive member in the Association of Colton Educators. I am acolleague of Fabian Carballo's, and we have often shared a lunchhour. I find Carballo to be a young, energetic and concerned teacherand citizen. Here is what ...
Pomona's Western University marking 30 years
Jun 02, 2007; ... POMONA - As the Western University of Health Sciences celebratesits 30th anniversary, the downtown medical school is moving forwardwith ambitious expansion plans that will more than double itsenrollment. In 1977, the university was a one-room operation with 36 students.Now, ...
Calimesa OKs plans for 3,683 homes
Jun 02, 2007; ... CALIMESA - The city has taken another step toward getting a lotbigger. Thousands of lots, actually. The gateway to the San Gorgonio Pass and the desert that lies tothe east, Calimesa is home to about 7,400 people. On Thursday, theCity Council approved tentative tract maps ...
Races highlight third day of Fontana Days Festival
Jun 03, 2007; ... FONTANA - In the past 13 years, Judy Reyna has attended theFontana Days Festival three times, two of those times to see herdaughter and stepdaughter march in the parade. On Saturday, she stood on the curb on Sierra Avenue with familymembers to watch her granddaughter march in the ...
Readers speak on who'll R.I.P.
Jun 03, 2007; ... How will it end? Will Tony take two in the head and go out the hard way? Or will he turn tail and run - to Vegas, to the Old Country - orjust plain turn coat and snitch out his crew? The next seven days will tell, beginning with tonight's broadcastof the first of the ...
Coming soon to a theater near you
Jun 03, 2007; ... CLAREMONT - Opening day for the city's highly anticipated LaemmleTheater has tentatively been set for July 27. The five-screen movie theater, which will show mostly foreign andindependent films, is considered the anchor for Claremont's massiveVillage Expansion development project ....
No arrest yet in fatal shooting
Jun 03, 2007; ... RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A man suspected in the shooting death of aFontana resident on Saturday morning has not been arrested becausehis actions might be classified as self-defense, sheriff's deputiessaid. Shots were fired from a Honda Accord about 6 a.m. into a residenceon Stafford ...
Better radiation sensors bound for ports, borders
Jun 03, 2007; ... The federal government will begin installing "new generation"radiation monitors at ports and borders in California and across thecountry later this year in an effort to thwart the potentialsmuggling of nuclear devices into the United States. The stepped-up efforts come as U.S ....
In Brief
Jun 02, 2007; ... REDLANDS Admission at county museum free today The San Bernardino County Museum is open to the public today withno admission charge. Visitors will be able to see special exhibits including "Living onthe Edge: Natural Disasters in San Bernardino County," "Five ...
Prison woes now seen as pertinent
Jun 03, 2007; ... SACRAMENTO - In a reversal, a poll shows Californians nowoverwhelmingly view prison crowding as a crisis big enough to justifythe state's new multibillion-dollar construction program - areflection of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's sway over public opinion. Before the governor's push ...
Crime and Public Safety 6-4-07
Jun 03, 2007; ... BIG RIVER Suspect arrested in shooting at party A heated confrontation ended in gunfire during a party earlyFriday after a 47-year-old Big River man pulled a gun on an Arizonaman. David Earl Frazier was arrested several hours later near his homeabout 70 miles south ...
Police look at gun-theft links
Jun 04, 2007; ... Link: ATF announces $10,000 reward in Riverside firearms theftinvestigation At least one weapon recovered from the scene of a deadly gun-battle between police and heavily armed bandits in Highland on Fridaynight is believed to have been taken from a Riverside gun storeduring a ...
Violent crime on the decline in parts of the IE
Jun 04, 2007; ... SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY -- While violent crime increased nationwidein 2006, it declined in some of the Inland Empire's largest cities,according to statistics released today by the FBI. Law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. had 1.3 percent moreviolent crimes than in 2005. The ...
Hesperia man killed in crash
Jun 04, 2007; ... APPLE VALLEY -- A Hesperia man was killed in a car crash on a dirtroad Sunday. Geoffrey Price, 27, was in the 20800 block of Tussing Ranch Roadat 5:20 a.m. when ...
Man who opened fire on an officer is arrested
Jun 04, 2007; ... POMONA -- A parolee who opened fire on a police officer wascaptured after a four-hour search Sunday, an operation that drewofficers from five law enforcement agencies to a Delaney Streetneighborhood. Police booked Maurice Reeves, 26, of Pomona into jail at thePomona Police ...
Warm today, rain tomorrow
Jun 04, 2007; ... SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY -- After several days of sunny springweather, the Inland Empire may see some rain starting Tuesday night. Temperatures were expected to reach as high as 93 degrees today,but some patchy low clouds and fog will ease into the area byevening, the National ...
High Desert prosecutor promoted
Jun 04, 2007; ... SAN BERNARDINO -- A longtime High Desert prosecutor was tapped tofill a vacancy left by one of the District Attorney's top assistants,who resigned and is moving out of state, officials said Monday. Dennis D. Christy, who has headed up the Desert Division of theDistrict Attorney's ...
Turner's gun bandits ID'd as gang members
Jun 04, 2007; ... SAN BERNARDINO -- Four men who stole 75 firearms at gun-point fromTurner's Outdoorsman here Friday and engaged police in a deadly gunbattle are members or associates of a Pomona gang. The masked men burst into Turner's on West Orange Show Road at8:40 p.m. pointing handguns at the ...
Man shot to death at Colton nightclub
Jun 04, 2007; ... COLTON -- A 23-year-old man was shot to death and another man waswounded inside a crowded Colton nightclub this morning. Daryl Lawrence was shot in the abdomen and later died of hiswounds. Another man was shot in the leg, but was released from thehospital. The shooting took ...
Two sheriff's deputies justified in firing at suspects, DA rules
Jun 04, 2007; ... SAN BERNARDINO -- County prosecutors declined to file chargesagainst peace officers who fired their service weapons in twoseparate incidents, one of which was fatal. Criminal charges will not be filed against sheriff's Deputy PeterGentry who shot and killed Enrique Aguirre during ...
ATF, SBPD a fitting partnership
Jun 04, 2007 ... The San Bernardino gun store robbery that resulted in a high-speed police chase and gunbattle with the suspects on a Highlandstreet Friday night was a frightening ordeal, even as AttorneyGeneral Alberto Gonzales had announced hours earlier that SanBernardino was one of four cities chosen ...
Pharmaceutical grants to doctors proving to be ethical conflict
Jun 04, 2007; ... For every physician, education follows a long and arduous path.Education continues even after graduation from medical school.According to the Accreditation Council for Continuing MedicalEducation (ACCME), postgraduate physician education in America costs$2.25 billion a year. ...