Apple Valley News

Editor's note: Apple Valley-Rosemount Patch regularly posts selections taken from the Apple Valley Police Department incident reports.

VICTORVILLE As new East Side Victoria gang members emerge and those incarcerated in 2009 are released, gang enforcement officers from across San Bernardino County came to Victorville to serve injunction paperwork against them this weekend.

APPLE VALLEY Rachel Woods has been driving for more than 50 years. She got her driver's license in Victorville - back when it was a drastically different place.

APPLE VALLEY A Southern California advocacy group plans to give High Desert seniors the tools to prevent them from becoming fraud victims.

The Golden State Water Company was approved to increase system rates beginning May 22 by roughly 13 percent, according to GSW Mountain and Desert Region District Manager Perry Dahlstrom.

VICTORVILLE High Desert communities have banded together for the world's largest retail trade convention, hoping to bring new business and development to the area.

A person walks up to the Life Is Good Healing marijuana dispensary in Apple Valley only to find the doors locked after the shop was red-tagged and closed by code enforcements officials on Wednesday.

VICTORVILLE Homeless river dwellers helped put out a small brush fire near the Mojave River on Wednesday afternoon, San Bernardino County Fire Department officials said.

APPLE VALLEY The town of Apple Valley hopes the smell of barbecue will revitalize the struggling Apple Valley Golf Course.

HESPERIA A woman who was killed in a Mother's Day traffic collision was identified Monday as 30-year-old Ruby Angie Bojorquez of Apple Valley.

Dalton has had it rough. In 2008, the Jack Russell terrier mix was found limping in the open desert with a broken leg.

APPLE VALLEY After watching his wife endure one of the most difficult challenges a mother could face, one High Desert husband has a deeper appreciation for his beloved.

APPLE VALLEY On Saturday, Apple Valley sheriff's deputies started their third juvenile gang suppression sweep with a foot pursuit that started at Thunderbird Road in Apple Valley and continued along Kiamicki Road, finally ending at Broken Bow Road.

As Brittney Schwarzenbach was being loaded into an ambulance, fixed to a back board with her neck in a brace, her first concern was with what had happened to her boat.

HESPERIA The driver of a Ford Mustang died after crashing into an SUV in the northbound lanes of Interstate 15 early Sunday morning, according to reports from the California Highway Patrol and the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Corner. At about 3:50 a.m. Sunday, the Mustang driver rear-ended a Cadillac Escalade.

The Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved an approximately 16 percent rate increase for Golden State Water Company customers, which includes the cities of Claremont, Apple Valley, San Dimas and Wrightwood in its Region 3. Exact increased figures for customers in Region 3 were not available Friday because Golden State officials were still ... (more)

APPLE VALLEY An Apple Valley man, on the run for two weeks, was arrested Thursday night on suspicion of child abuse, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff's booking records.

APPLE VALLEY The Mojave Water Agency will hold its next "ABC's of Water" information session on May 28 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Senior water resources technician Matt Howard will speak about water quality standards of public water systems and private wells, according to a Mojave Water Agency news release.

HESPERIA An Apple Valley man was arrested this week on suspicion of stealing an ATM, according to a news release from San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

VICTORVILLE The Campaign for Citizenship will host a Mother's Day Prayer Vigil for Citizenship at 4:30 p.m. Friday outside Rep.