Hesperia News

Four people were arrested Friday in connection to the fatal shooting of Roger Miller in Victorville on Wednesday, San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said.

One of the High Desert parents who used a state law to wrest control of their failing elementary school away from school district hands is alleging that the group that helped organize the effort offered to pay parents to promote the "parent trigger" movement nationwide.

A Hesperia man is in custody and San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials are asking for community assistance in locating three more suspects after the four men broke into a home in the unincorporated area between Hesperia and Phelan on Tuesday evening.

We closed the 2013 Muscle Milk TWMX Race Series SoCal Spring Cup with a full weekend at Competitive Edge in Hesperia, California.

VICTORVILLE A burning vehicle caused a small vegetation fire on Palmdale Road on Thursday afternoon, according to San Bernardino County Fire Department officials.

JOSHUA TREE Before Charles Wayne Persons was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday, he apologized to the families of the three teenage boys who died when his truck slammed into their car earlier this year.

On behalf of all Californians, Governor Brown and First Lady Anne Gust Brown honor Sgt.

The firm that designed Hesperia's new and only movie theater was recognized recently for its work on Cinema West's Civic Plaza 12.

HESPERIA The Automobile Club of Southern California has predicted busy roadways and fewer air travelers for the Memorial Day Weekend, the unofficial start of summer.

Nearly two dozen students of Encore Jr./Sr. High School in Hesperia competed and placed in the National History Day competition.

JOSHUA TREE A relative of one of the Hesperia teens killed in a crash near Johnson Valley is asking friends and family members of the victims to show support Thursday at the sentencing of Charles Wayne Persons.

HESPERIA The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department is investigating a robbery that took place Tuesday morning at the SuperTarget store in Hesperia.

HESPERIA A portion of Westlawn Street was closed down for roughly 2 1/2 hours Sunday evening due to the presence of a potentially live hand grenade, San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said.

APPLE VALLEY Rachel Woods has been driving for more than 50 years. She got her driver's license in Victorville - back when it was a drastically different place.

The penultimate round of the Muscle Milk TWMX So-Cal Spring Cup Race Series is officially in the history books.

HESPERIA Kingston Elementary School's Gifted and Talented Education teacher Mike Apodaca is taking his students on a path to the real world.

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey C. Baker, 29, of Hesperia, Calif., assigned to 766th Ordnance Company, 63rd Ordnance Battalion, 52nd Ordnance Group, Fort Stewart, died May 14, in Sanjaray, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked with an improvised explosive device.

VICTORVILLE High Desert communities have banded together for the world's largest retail trade convention, hoping to bring new business and development to the area.

VICTORVILLE A Hesperia man led deputies on a chase through the side streets of Victorville in a stolen car before fleeing on foot and being apprehended Thursday morning, according to a news release from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

"He was in Iraq and he was scared," Joseph Wiscowiche said. "I told him to stay focused and to remember his training." On Thursday, almost 10 years after the young Marine was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, his parents were given a special handcrafted memorial by a group of former Marines.