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There is no longer any more broadband Internet cable service available for new customers in Mono County, although there are a few options for some customers.

Mono County hopes it won't have to continue to subsidize summer air service that allows Mammoth to have year-round air service.

Los Angeles -- A former volunteer director for the Pasadena organization that puts on the Rose Bowl and the Rose Parade was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of killing a fellow volunteer in 2004.

"My grandfather was quite a character," Tom Bishop began. "He was close to 6 feet, very Irish, very Catholic, cussed a lot, I'm told, and he knew everyone in the local community of Colma and Daly City.

Update 4:55 p.m. Assemblyman Paul Cook, R-Yucca Valley, explained his reasons for abandoning a run for the San Bernardino County supervisor in the Third District, and running for Congress in the new 8th District instead.

Vancouver, B.C.: CMC Metals Ltd. is pleased to announce that the final Plan of Operation was submitted to the Bishop California office of the Bureau of Land Management for review and acceptance January 24th, 2012.

Inyo County Sheriff's deputies arrested a 51-year-old Bishop man last Friday on charges of "lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14.

APPLE VALLEY A man was killed late Sunday night as he was crossing Highway 18 near Bass Hill Road, leading to a large portion of the roadway being shut down for several hours, officials said Monday.

A couple and their adult son were found injured but alive Saturday after they got lost while picking mushrooms and survived six days deep in the Oregon coastal forest, taking shelter part of the time in a hollowed-out tree.

The nightmares for John Williamson and Amy Steinwand will probably never really go away.

A snowshoe hike across Yosemite National Park almost turned tragic last weekend when 46-year-old long-distance walker Colin Skinner found himself high on the Tioga Pass Road with soaking wet boots, wet socks and frostbitten feet.

Voters in Inyo County and the state and nation should begin bracing themselves for another election year.

Residents and community leaders in Lone Pine gathered at Boulder Creek RV Park last week to elect new Chamber of Commerce officers and honor local volunteers.

Keith Caldwell has been named the City of Bishop's newest city administrator. Caldwell will continue as community services director as well.

Two locals, John Williamson and Amy Steinwand, are being honored with awards from the California State Firemen's Association for their heroic acts helping with victims of the multi-fatality vehicle crash on U.S. 395 in August 2010.

A Mam moth Lakes surgeon charged with sex crimes against a 14-year-old Santa Barbara girl killed himself two weeks after he posted bail and was outfitted with a GPS ankle tracking device, his attorney said Wednesday.

Forest Service officials are currently working through a federally mandated Environmental Policy Act review in order to exchange 20.6 acres of land in Mammoth Lakes for 1,715 acres of privately owned land.

Discussions about what to do with some left over money, applying for grants to get more money, a new lawn mower, department head reports, and a story about community cooperation in the face of potential disaster were all in another day's work for the city's elected leader's, the Bishop City Council.

The GPS tracking device was used Tuesday afternoon to find the body of Dr. Andrew Bourne, 46, in the Hot Creek fish hatchery area near Bourne's Mammoth Lakes home, his attorney Ron Bamieh and Mono County sheriff's spokeswoman Jennifer Hansen said.