Yermo News

After nearly 20 years of doubting the story behind her father's death, Sherry Stracner called the San Bernardino County sheriff's cold case team.

BARSTOW More than 200 students in the Barstow Unified School District, along with family members and anyone else labeled in high-risk groups got vaccinated for the H1N1 influenza Tuesday.

Ed Hackbarth, co-owner of Schlotzsky's sandwich shop in La Quinta - and founder of Del Taco - has been involved in the food services industry since 1954 when he became manager of Taco Tia, a taco stand in Barstow.

A Costa Mesa man died after the off-road vehicle he was riding in rolled over Saturday afternoon in an open desert area northeast of Barstow, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner.

A 26-year-old Costa Mesa man was killed during a weekend off-road accident at Calico Dry Lake in the Barstow-area town of Yermo, according to San Bernardino County coroner's officials.

YERMO The case involving a local Muslim leader killed in a Yermo house fire still hasn't produced any suspects and investigators are now shelving the case, according to officials from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

Working with students on a science project. NSBA The Orange County Department of Education announced 9 elementary schools across the county exited Program Improvement.

Eight people in Newberry Springs and Yermo were arrested last weekend during a compliance sweep, officials said.

BARSTOW After unforeseen expenses and dwindling funds depleted its savings account, Desert Manna Ministries entered into a professional services agreement with the City of Barstow for $17,000. But as part of the agreement, the shelter will no longer accept parolees and mentally ill clients who aren't from the Barstow area.

Officials from Silver Valley Unified School District have reported that three students attending schools at Fort Irwin have the district's first confirmed cases of the H1N1 influenza virus, or swine flu.

In this photo, my two children and my husband and I were camping overnight at the Calico Ghost Town campgrounds [in Yermo, California] where we were staying in a little cabin.

A motorist who stopped to help two men in dress pants jump start a pickup truck was robbed of his wallet, jewelry and telephone at knifepoint early today, police said.

YERMO For Matthew Breeden, getting back into the swing of school is just one of many adjustments the 13-year-old has to make this year.

Though a little behind schedule, the Paradise Performing Arts Center is going forward with its Patron Plan mailer.

Cathedral City police were looking Thursday for two male suspects believed to have held up a man at knife point.

Michael Sullivan and his son, Michael , soon to be an eighth-grader at Yermo School, filled out paperwork and talked to Lisa Grijalva, district psychologist, on the first day of new student enrollment for the Silver Valley Unified School District on Tuesday.

BARSTOW Despite an overall flagging economy, business is booming at the Marine Corps Logistics Base - so much so that officials say they are looking to immediately hire between 400 to 600 workers.

Reporting from Yermo -- Hadie Mohd last saw his father as he headed out to the family's vacated home to paint over anti-Arab and white supremacist graffiti scrawled across the walls inside.

A parked car was struck by a single round about 10:30 p.m. Monday in the 31-200 block of Avenida Del Yermo in Cathedral City in a drive-by shooting, police said.

A 51-year-old Victorville man died of burns and smoke inhalation before fire fighters found his body in a burned out home in Barstow-area community of Yermo, autopsy results show.