The Sun (San Bernardino, CA)

School Paper Wins National Award

REDLANDS - It's deadline, and the newspaper staff at Kimberly School faces a dilemma. How should they report on the national award that the 20-student staff at the elementary school just won? A wealth of debate filled the room before one voice rose above the din.

Main Street Murals 'Make History Sing'

BARSTOW - Nineteen volunteer artists, drawn together by their fascination for Southern California's colorful past, have given a piece of downtown Barstow to the public. On a recent Saturday, a mix of teenagers and old-timers wielded brushes to brighten a 30-by-8-foot wall along Main Street, depicting the early railroad routes that brought gold-seekers to the West more than 150 years ago.

On This Date in the Sun: Three Gunmen Carjack Market Owner

On this date in 1998, The Sun reported that three gunmen carjacked a store owner, robbing him of several thousand dollars. Munir J. Jabbar was going to work at Jimmy's Market on Duffy Street in San Bernardino when a car pulled out in front of him while another car rear-ended him.

In Brief 5-08-06

BEAUMONT Condo proposal to be discussed

2nd Fontana Post Office to Open in August

FONTANA - Jim Jones fights freeway traffic for at least 10 minutes to get to the downtown post office. Once he gets there, he waits again - this time behind people instead of cars.

Crime and Public Safety 5-08-06

COLTON Murrieta women ID'd after crash

Yucaipa Retail Plans Near Freeway Advance

YUCAIPA - Plans to usher in a Target supercenter, a Costco and a long-awaited movie theater near Interstate 10 are moving along. The proposed 60-acre shopping center would be nestled at the southeast corner of Live oak Canyon Road and I-10. It is expected to provide a big boost in the city's sales-tax revenue.

Woman Supported Sb Anti-Crime Effort

REDLANDS - More than 1,000 people turned out for the "Walk for Change" on Jan. 14 to honor the life of 11-year-old Mynisha Crenshaw and to confront the violence that has plagued San Bernardino. Paula Rose Fisher-Harvey was one of them, bracing the chill that day to show support for a cause she believed in.

Safety Net Now Ensured

The winds of change are blowing in California, and if you are one of the nearly 3 million California motorists driving without automobile insurance, you better hold on to your hat. A few years back, a young woman ran a red light and smashed into my car. She had small, weeping children by her side and no driver's license. After a frantic phone call, her husband arrived with their insurance information scrawled on a rumpled piece of notebook paper.

Forest Perils Persisting

In the mountains, bark beetles and fire hazards are like death and taxes - they'll always be there. Forestry officials plan to spend millions of dollars this year removing dead trees in an effort to reduce dangers and keep the mountains' ecosystem healthy. Bark beetles, insects that feed off trees, tend to thrive during droughts, and this spring's storms could help prevent some of the bugs from snacking on pines. However, the rains could prove to be a mixed blessing by contributing ...

Police Joining Forces

REDLANDS - It was the sad story of one little girl that has moved police into action that could save others like her. Before the youngster's rescue in February 2005, Redlands police had spent more than a year watching for criminals lurking on the Internet - predators who would make victims of children.

Racers Zip Through Fontana

FONTANA - The top-level mountain-biking course sat high enough in the hills of Southridge that spectators got an eye-level view of birds of prey on Sunday. One at a time, racers launched themselves off a covered platform, much like the time trials in road cycling or in downhill skiing.

Landlords Deal with Costs of Changing Neighborhood

RIALTO - Jose Rodriguez is a self-made success, living a Horatio Alger tale after rising from the depths of poverty in Chihuahua, Mexico, to wealth and power in the United States through real estate. But the rocky road hasn't led to a golden palace.

Animals Steal the Show

VICTORVILLE - Fame and glory (and an Animal Cracker) were as sure as slop when Cunningham the racing pig took an ill-fated short cut. Rather than jump over the second of two hurdles between the start and finish lines, he ducked under the PVC-pipe boundary and darted across the track's infield. He earned immediate disqualification and would have lost even if he'd reached the end first.

Copter Crash Kills Local Soldier

During his family's moments of doubt, Army Sgt. Bryan Allen Brewster always reassured them he would be all right. "Whenever there was a (helicopter) crash, he would call us," said his father, Louis Brewster. "He knew that we would be worried. He always called to tell us he was fine."

County Justice Suffers

When former Deputy Public Defender Daniel J. Mangan III first met his clients at San Bernardino County Superior Court, that is where it often took place: In a small, run-down room on the fourth floor, split by a partition and crammed with five other attorneys and five other defendants. Although the conversations weren't private and the meeting usually no longer than a few minutes, the encounters were and still are a public defender's first and best chance to gain a client's trust, said...

Children's Fund Protects Vulnerable

They are the small and fearful, the community's helpless and most vulnerable. Abused, neglected, abandoned.