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Cougars run all over Silverado
VICTORVILLE • During the preseason Silverado head coach Carl Posey said that while his team was talented, it was overwhelming young and inexperienced.Well, on Friday night against Rancho Cucamonga, the Hawks were rudely awakened to what its like...

Woman sentenced to one year in jail for stealing child
VICTORVILLE • A Los Angeles woman who was arrested two months ago for kidnapping a 7-year-old Victorville girl and holding her for ransom was sentenced Friday to a year in jail.Monica Stephens, 35, pleaded guilty in July to stealing a child....

Biz Briefs 09-04-10
American Security names Russ as senior vice presidentAPPLE VALLEY • Paul Russ has joined American Security Bank as senior vice president and regional manager of its High Desert offices, Michael Helmuth, executive vice president and chief banking...

Photo essay: tattoos
Alicia Shelton tattooed a portrait of her grandmother, but she will continue the tattoo through several sittings to add a foreground and backgroud. It may be months before its completed, with several hours per sitting.To see more High Desert...

Free school-based asthma services expand to High Desert
A mobile asthma and allergy program run by Arrowhead Regional Medical Center will be expanding to High Desert preschools starting in October, thanks to a $372,000 grant awarded by the First 5 San Bernardino children services commission.ARMC’s...

Adelanto officials search for armed tire shop robbers
ADELANTO • Investigators are searching for four people who held up a tire shop and made off with cash, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Adelanto station officials said Friday.The foursome of two females and two males entered the tire shop in the...

Home channels the style of greeting card artist Mary Englebreit
It’s not as if Kathy Curtis was always a devotee of greeting card artist Mary Englebreit. Curtis loved color, particularly the prima ry hues. It was a friend who suggested she take a look at the licensed Englebreit products to get more décor...

Burger King sells for $3.26 billion
CHICAGO • Burger King’s new ruler could help its empire expand.Burger King Holdings Inc. sealed a deal Thursday to sell itself for $3.26 billion to 3G Capital, an investment firm with strong ties to Latin America. The fast-food chain’s...

A bad case of sunburn
As anyone who followed the ObamaCare debacle through the Congress recalls, the most truthful statement about the whole mess came from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who argued in her support for passage that, “We have to pass (the bill) to find out...

Letters to the Editor 09-03-10
The money trailI recently responded to a chain e-mail that advocated voting all incumbents out, by stating they would only be replaced with likeminded persons and that this was treating the symptom, and not the cause.The fundamental motivation for...

Ne-Yo on T.I.: 'He makes a lot of poor decisions'
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ne-Yo says T.I. has had many chances — and it's time he gets his act together.Ne-Yo told the Associated Press the fellow performer makes a lot of poor decisions when it comes to the people that he surrounds himself with.T.I.,...

Funk band War tells PepsiCo they're not friends
NEW YORK (AP) — Members of the original funk band War say they can't be friends with PepsiCo.They're suing the soft drink maker for more than $10 million, saying it did not negotiate with them to use their song "Why Can't We Be Friends?" in a new...

Brooks & Dunn end 20-year career at Nashville show
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The first song Brooks & Dunn ever sang together has become their last.The country music duo closed out a 20-year career at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Thursday night with their 1991 debut single, "Brand New Man,"...

Oil platform explodes off Louisiana coast; crew saved
NEW ORLEANS, LA. • An oil platform exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. All 13 crew members were rescued from the water in protective “Gumby suits.”...

Week 0 Football Scores: Apple Valley knocks off Barstow
NOTE: Look for quarterly updates from most games.Apple Valley 24, Barstow 7, finalBurroughs 36, Hesperia, 3, finalRancho Cucamonga 42, Silverado 7, finalEastside 22, Granite Hills 19, finalSerrano 35, Paraclete 14, finalCitrus Valley 51, Silver...

Junior College Football preview: Victor Valley College, fresh meat
Scan through the list of players on Victor Valley College’s 2010 football roster and one fact about this year’s squad overshadows all other roster trends.Out of a 95-man roster, only 14 are sophomores. That’s not just young. That’s...

Mavs exact revenge on Quakes
RANCHO CUCAMONGA • The Mavericks got their revenge for a sloppy loss the day before against the Quakes.High Desert won Thursday 4-3 and by doing so took the season series against the Quakes.The Mavericks (35-31) lost an 8-2 lead Wednesday night...

GOP pushes for no-tax budget
VICTORVILLE • Despite a lot of theatrics and little progress in Sacramento this week, two Victor Valley state representatives say they’re confident that the GOP will succeed in negotiating a no-tax budget by the end of the month.“I truly...

DUI checkpoints planned Friday, Saturday
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officials will be setting up three sobriety checkpoints in Victorville, Hesperia and Apple Valley this weekend.Victorville officials will hold their checkpoint Friday from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. and both Hesperia and...

Police arrest four on counterfeiting charges
BARSTOW • Barstow police arrested four people suspected of passing counterfeit money at the Tanger Outlet Center on Wednesday afternoon.Police began to receive reports of suspected counterfeit money from several stores at the outlet mall shortly...

Foundation fires back in water rights suit
APPLE VALLEY • Confident in its case, the High Desert Community Foundation is asking a judge to preempt a scheduled jury trial and end a nearly two-year battle over $3.8 million in water rights tied to Apple Valley Country Club.If that request...

AT&T activates new tower in Adelanto
ADELANTO • AT&T activated a new wireless communications tower in Adelanto on Thursday to help improve its network in the Victor Valley, company officials said.The tower is near Cambridge and Palm streets, near the junction of Highway 395 and...

Samaritan killer sentenced to 40 years to life in prison
VICTORVILLE • A 24-year-old man extradited from Mexico was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison Thursday for murdering an Apple Valley good Samaritan.Joaquin Escobar, formerly of Victorville, was convicted of second-degree murder of Richard...

Parents arrested for torturing their 3-year-old daughter
VICTORVILLE • After a month-long investigation, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Victorville station authorities arrested a couple for abusing and starving their 3-year-old daughter, officials said Thursday.The toddler was described as looking...

Woman robbed at gunpoint in her driveway
HESPERIA • As a woman was returning home from a night out, two men jumped out, put a gun to her head and robbed her early Thursday morning, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Hesperia station officials said.Deputies are still searching for the...