Ramona News

San Bernardino's Casa Ramona will soon embark on a major expansion of its charter school, including rebuilding most of its headquarters complex, its director said.

They may be necessary, but their effects aren't so pretty. Mandatory water cuts are already turning lawns around town brown.

A Ramona businessman accused of arranging for his house to be burned down by an employee, who died in an explosion at the residence, pleaded not guilty today to second-degree murder and other charges.

Borrego Springs hits 113 degrees in short-lived county heat spell. The first hot spell of the summer began today, driving some inland temperatures into the 90s, but it won't last too long, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.

C.C. Pierce, courtesy USC Libraries Special Collections photo. Lisa Woodard, PhD In the summer of 1875, under orders from the District Court of San Francisco, the sheriff of San Diego County and about 20 armed men evicted the Temecula Indians from their traditional village.

Jazz & Blues Concert Series The Lexus of Valencia Jazz & Blues Concert Series on Town Center Drive at McBean Parkway adjacent to the Hyatt Valencia returns 7 p.m. Fridays through Aug.

A motorist accused of crossing into oncoming traffic on state Route 67 in Ramona and causing a crash that killed a 25-year-old woman pleaded not guilty today to vehicular manslaughter.

Federal, state, and local agencies say they're ready for battle this wildfire season.

Red Cross honors heroes The Red Cross is currently seeking nominations for SCV residents who have taken action in a time of crisis to help others in the past year and consistently show exemplary compassion.

San Diego County officials said more than 150 wildfires in the county were sparked by downed power lines.

A handful of swift thunderstorms rattled parts of San Diego County 's coastline Wednesday morning bringing scattered showers, hail, thunder and lightning.

Mild thunderstorms moved through the San Diego area Wednesday, delivering scattered sprinkles and hail along with some small, lightning-sparked brush fires.

The colt has been placed on a nurse mare and is doing fine. Bred by Mabee and her late husband, John Mabee, Fantastic Look won or placed in 17 of 23 races and earned $681,247 in the Golden Eagle silks.

Supes Get Played As Newsom Runs the Clock The battle to rescue Muni died a quiet death yesterday, as the Board of Supervisors failed to muster the votes to reject an unfair MTA budget.

The Ramona, California resident files his second column of 2009 for SuperbikePlanet.com and fills us in on his Jerez race, the season opening doubleheader.

As a kid I was raised Baptist. At seven, I bought the whole story hook, line and sinker.

After making a TV appearance at some sort of Minnesota State Fair, Eater kicked off a search for famed SF Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer's elusive visage.

Christopher Kloman, 50, and Paul Franklin Claerbout, 60, both of Ramona, were killed May 9 when the Upton Bakeng Duce a ' a small, open-cockpit, single-wing plane sold as a kit a ' fell from the sky south of the San Diego Country Estates.

The American Civil Liberties Union says it may sue the school district for Ramona, Calif., for its reaction to a sixth-grader's report on Harvey Milk.

An irate Ramona resident planted meatballs laced with rat poison in an attempt to poison his neighbor's dogs, according to deputies.