Baker News

The first step in verifying a petition for an anti-Walmart initiative is about half complete, and it's clear that voters will see it on a ballot in 2010 if the City Council doesn't approve it outright.

Members of the Contemporary Club held their Harvest Day Luncheon in October. Maggie Holt-Smith and her committee decorated the tables in a festive fall and Halloween motif, and Shelly Skinner catered the luncheon.

Police investigating a burglary in progress shot and wounded a suspect early Saturday morning.

The driver of a box truck died on the 15 Freeway this morning after slamming into the back of a tractor trailer in Baker.

Prosecutors filed a murder charge Wednesday against a 30-year-old Angelus Oaks man accused of gunning down a 60-year-old maid Monday at a Seventh-day Adventist camp.

George William Beattie in the 1890s. George William Beattie was "an uncommon man," according to his daughter-in-law Kay.

Two brothers have been arrested for allegedly beating their elderly mother into unconsciousness and stealing her credit cards.

Throughout her more than six decades of life, Claremore resident Sue Ingle has overcome adversity time and time again.

Blame it on Sam Marber. I have had a fascination with trains since I was a small boy growing up in a very tiny Las Vegas, a town that traced its roots to the need for a place to provide water for the trains moving from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles.

A UCLA student works on a project during the largest one-day volunteer campaign any school has ever done.

Officials say a brush fire scorched 17 acres of brush and damaged some structures in Redlands in San Bernardino County.

Traffic on the Ventura Freeway near Balboa Boulevard in Encino on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009.

Charles Edward Baker, born Jan. 23, 1945, passed away Sept. 10 in Phoenix, Ariz.

The city has renewed its animal shelter services contract with the San Bernardino City Animal Shelter, but at more than double the price of previous years.

Mobile strip shows, women flashing their breasts and drunken guys riding nude on motorcycles isn't what the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had in mind when it envisioned "multiple uses" for public land.

Sony's decision this week to sell its flat panel television factory in Tijuana to a Taiwan-based manufacturing conglomerate shows how TV makers are looking for new ways to compete as prices continue to plunge.

Model and actor Jamie Dornan says he has a great relationship with the creatives at Calvin Klein because they don't try to change him Photo: © Getty Images The star shot the ad campaign for the new fragrance, ckfree, in a dry bed lake in California We're big fans here at hellomagazine.com of model and actor Jamie Dornan, the laidback and ...

San Diego's unpredictable ocean fishing season continued this weekend with the reappearance of albacore within a one-day range offshore.

When many think of the California Highway Patrol they usually think of either Officers Francis 'Ponch' Poncherello and Jon Baker from CHiPs or maybe the familiar black and white cruiser.

Planning a road trip to Las Vegas in the next 10 weeks? Try to avoid morning travel on Tuesdays or Thursdays, as the north and southbound I-15 freeway will close for as long as two hours at a time.