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San Bernardino County's transportation planning agency is embarking on a stimulus program to help meet area transportation needs.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the recipients of nearly $10 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to launch 11 regional California Green Job Corps pilot programs throughout the state.

Pharaoh's Lost Kingdom lost its conditional-use permit this week over the all-night raves that have scandalized the city with loud music, scantily clad partygoers and drug arrests.

The Planning Commission wasted no time pulling the plug on all activity - raves and otherwise - at Pharaoh's Theme and Water Park Tuesday.

Like grocery store customers, they push shopping carts across the parking lot of a Nevada fireworks store, load their purchases into cars and SUVs, and drive away -- while an undercover investigator watches through binoculars.

Editor's note: Foss Farrar recently returned from a 10-day trip to Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and other countries that, in the 19th century, were part of the former Habsburg Empire.

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A man pulled up to a Los Angeles hospital with a dead Redlands woman in tow Monday and Redlands detectives want to know why.

Police say a San Bernardino County man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after he drove the dead body of his ex-girlfriend to a hospital in Los Angeles , where doctors said the woman had been dead for quite a while.

City staff will present the budget for the 2009-2010 fiscal year on Wednesday. The city's General Fund will start the new fiscal year with a $2.5 million budget gap, according to a city staff report.

A Redlands resident reported seeing a mountain lion in his back yard early this morning, authorities say.

A survey crew on Thursday discovered human remains in the desert near Baker. The crew was working about 8 a.m. east of the 15 Freeway near Rasor Road when they stumbled across the remains, which coroner's officials said belong to an adult man.

An Inland lawmaker's bill that would require anti-entrapment devices on some 80,000 public pools and spas in California cleared its first committee unanimously Monday.

A new federal law that could save lives went into effect in December, but Inland officials don't have the authority to enforce it.

A scraggly outcrop of rocks and Joshua trees alongside Route 15, it has no kitschy landmarks like the 134-foot-tall thermometer that nearby Baker, California, installed in the Mojave Desert, and no casinos like Las Vegas has an hour up the road.

A 14-year-old Big Bear Lake girl is home safe after running away with a boyfriend she met on the Internet, who ended up being a sex offender from Illinois.

City officials have filed a lawsuit against the owners and operators of Pharaoh's Lost Kingdom former amusement park alleging that all-night dance parties at the venue constitute a nuisance under the Drug Abatement Act.

The City Council is taking steps to shut down any activity at Pharaoh's Theme and Water Park's by revoking Aladdin Entertainment Group's conditional use permit.

A group of about 20 volunteers and officers combed the rough Santa Ana River wash Wednesday where the decomposed remains of a woman were found two days earlier.

"It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government." - Thomas Paine Professional Courtesy What would happen if you were arrested for drunk driving? What if you were arrested for DUI after crashing your car - twice the same day ? A long stretch in the local jail? Not if you're a prosecutor Baker, CA.