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Medical marijuana advocates could have some influential new allies. The American Medical Association is now interested in researching the medical potential of cannabis sativa and wants the feds to relax anti-marijuana laws, which would open the door to clinical studies.

America's pastime could become a thing of the past in one town. More than $20,000 was stolen from the Bloomington Little League and now big bills could end up benching all of the teams for good.

An illegal vendor sweep in Fontana, Bloomington and Rialto conducted by San Bernardino County agencies brought to light many violations.

Chaffey College has named a successor to longtime athletic director Bob Olivera, and it's a person familiar with the inner workings of the school.

Fontana police said they pulled a motorist over Saturday and discovered a cache of stolen items in his car that he'd just taken during a home burglary.

Freeway shoulders along Interstate 10 in the East Valley are in appalling condition.

In a heavy hit to a major Mexican drug cartel trafficking drugs through the Inland Empire, authorities said they arrested 25 La Familia members and seized 156 pounds of methamphetamine in a raid on Wednesday.

Jan Werner, the operator of a Bloomington medical marijuana collective, said the U.S. Department of Justice's directive not to prosecute cases in which medicinal cannabis is used in compliance with state laws "gives us a little sigh of relief." "That has been a hairy thing hanging over our heads," Werner, of the Inland Empire Patient Group, said.

Until last week, Whitney Serrano, a first-year student at Summit High School in Fontana, was dreaming about going to college to study veterinary medicine.

The Nobel Prize in Economics was given to two people this morning: Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson.

San Bernardino City Councilman Chas Kelley is unambiguous about his opposition to allowing medical marijuana to be distributed in his city.

Two witnesses to a Bloomington shooting death took the witness stand Tuesday in the first day of testimony in the accused man's murder trial.

A Superior Court judge has denied a motion to dismiss the charges against two businessmen who are accused of attempting to bribe a county supervisor's chief of staff in 2007.

A man who stole liquor from a convenience market was arrested Sunday evening after a witness gave San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies a description of his car.

A jury was seated Wednesday to hear the murder case of a Bloomington man accused of shooting and killing a Rialto man in 2003.

A 44-year-old woman died Sunday following a crash on Interstate 10 in Bloomington, authorities said.

A Bloomington parolee could go on trial next week in the death 41-year-old Donald Ray Marshall, who was shot and later lit afire in a grassy field more than six years ago.

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a 3,600 square foot skate park expansion at Kessler Park that will include a six-foot high half pipe, new bank ramps, grind rails, new quarter pipes and multiple stair features.

My daughter, Sofia, recently began second grade. And with the start of a new school year comes plenty of new stuff.

By From staff reports Originally published 04:49 p.m., September 8, 2009 Updated 04:49 p.m., September 8, 2009 Authorities today identified two people injured in a solo vehicle crash in Ventura on Labor Day.