Barstow News

Monday Regional Spelling Bee finals to be held The final regional spelling bee will take place Monday at 6 p.m. at Barstow First Baptist Church, 1320 Barstow Road.

A man suspected of raping a woman inside a French Valley home Saturday morning led officers on a more than 100-mile pursuit from Temecula, through Wildomar and Lake Elsinore, to Barstow before his arrest, according to a sheriff's department spokesman.

BARSTOW Eunice Vargas, community liasion for Desert Sanctuary, which provides support services to victims of domestic violence, showed a photograph of pop singer Rhianna's bruised face at Barstow Junior High School Jan.

Gus Bahena, public affairs officer for Fort Irwin and the National Training Center, was our intrepid guide as we trucked toward the live-fire training area, where soldiers trained on a realistic battlefield.

Even going pedal-to-the-metal, it's nearly three hours from the San Bernardino Valley to the distant Mojave Desert town.

Deputies arrested a man early Saturday morning saying he led them on a high-speed freeway pursuit to Barstow after he allegedly raped a woman.

As a United States Marine, I proudly defended our country in the Persian Gulf War.

Hernandez previously ran for City Council in 2008 and 2010. In 2008, she lost by 11 votes to Willie Hailey Sr.

PANORAMA RANCH FACILITY IN JOSHUA TREE TO CLOSE TEMPORARILY Panorama Ranch, an institution in the Morongo Basin for 40 years, announced yesterday that it is temporarily closing its substance abuse facility in Joshua Tree and is moving its residents to its larger facility in Barstow.

BARSTOW A former Barstow man was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday for the death of a comrade who was shot and killed during a failed robbery attempt in 2009.

Barstow High School Wind Ensemble musicians Brandy McCurdy, Kaylin Smith, Bionte Slowtalker, and Teren Hedberg, practice the song "Waterman Junction" during class Wednesday.

Mark Dvorak, operations superintendent for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Works Solid Waste Management Division, talks to Burrtec employee Thomas Burkhart at the Barstow Landfill.

Randi Elder, a project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District's Fort Irwin Office, , briefs potential offerors about the Fort Irwin Replacement Hospital during a site visit.

The 48-year-old Barstow native said he views himself as a cheerleader to raise the self-esteem of the city.

The three new "accelerographs" collect data about how buildings respond to shaking ground and transmit it to agency headquarters in Sacramento.

VICTORVILLE The City Council is expected to take positions Tuesday night on a potential class action lawsuit stemming from its red light cameras and on whether LA-Ontario International Airport should move to local control.

Harpole came to Barstow in 1983 when the United States Army stationed him at Ft.

A former three-term mayor of Twentynine Palms has entered the race to unseat County Supervisor Neil Derry in the June elections.

BARSTOW Mayor Joe Gomez is giving Barstow a run for its money as he plans Barstow's very first mud run to raise money for children and veterans.

Federal investigators are trying to figure out what caused a plane to crash Sunday afternoon on the south side of a canal near Barstow and Garfield.