Oro Grande News

One person died and another suffered major injuries last night during a roll-over traffic accident in the desert between Victorville and Barstow, according to San Bernardino County Fire Department dispatchers.

The suspected remains of a missing Barstow mother were uncovered in the desert Thursday after the woman's boyfriend led detectives to a shallow grave near Newberry Springs.

Kevin Hansel, a prominent member of the California Historic Route 66 Association , passed along some Route 66 news in an e-mail. First, the former Iron Hog Saloon in Oro Grande has been converted to Sergino's Family Restaurant.

Nearly 100 members of a local Hispanic gang with ties to the Mexican Mafia were targeted in a two-year investigation that culminated today in a seven city sweep.

A group of about 100 residents gathered on the 8400 block Grove Street Sunday to watch firefighters make a stand against a mile long wall of flames burning its way downhill into their neighborhood.

ORO GRANDE Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Shazet Knowles catches the bus near her apartment complex around 6:15 a.m. She rides it down National Trails Highway, which runs along the railroad tracks on one side and a line of boarded-up businesses and auto parts shops on the other.

ORO GRANDE Up to 130 workers are being called back this week at the TXI Riverside Cement plant after a nearly 60-day furlough, according to company spokesman Frank Sheetz.

ORO GRANDE An owner who bailed on an $8,000 gas bill and is nowhere to be found could force a dozen tenants onto the street because their homes have become unlivable.

SAN BERNARDINO In about two weeks some of San Bernardino County's unincorporated areas around the Victor Valley will see their water and sewer fees jump slightly.

A skateboarder on his way to school is dead, after a traffic collision on Monday.

BARSTOW Judge Cheryl Kersey ruled Thursday that Silver Lakes resident Jeami Chiapulis, 37, will stand trial for the murder of an apparent girlfriend, Barstow resident Leisa Hurst.

One of the most visible gauges of the quality of a university's robotics program is how it finishes in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's self-driving car races .

ORO GRANDE The owner of O.K. Corral Ostrich Farm said he has tested positive for arsenic poisoning and that all of his ostrich chicks died this season, after water on his property showed a concentration of the toxin 800 percent higher than allowed by federal guidelines.

More than 25 percent of San Bernardino County public high-school students are likely to drop out over four years, according to new figures from the California Department of Education.

More than 25 percent of San Bernardino County public high school students are likely to drop out over four years, according to figures released this week by the California Department of Education.