Oro Grande News

Cox recommended Tuesday night that the council hold off on its vote for another couple of weeks, until staff could meet with representatives from Apple Valley over conflicts indirectly related to the expansion and with San Bernardino County 1st District Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt.

ORO GRANDE If you build it, they will learn. That's the motto of Riverside Preparatory K-12 charter school in Oro Grande, and the driving force behind its sixth-graders' recent construction of an 8-by-8 stepped pyramid to better understand Sumerian civilization.

Two men who face charges in the stabbing death of a man and the wounding of another outside a Highland residence were ordered held over for trial Friday.

A jailed witness and a newly assigned defense lawyer sidetracked a hearing Tuesday for two men accused of fatally shooting a teenager and a 21-year-old man in the desert near Oro Grande in 2007.

ORO GRANDE Superintendent Kim Moore's quest to cultivate a better-trained faculty in the Oro Grande School District has led to the High Desert's first homegrown bachelor's degree program.

One person died and another suffered major injuries last night during a roll-over traffic accident in the desert between Victorville and Barstow, according to San Bernardino County Fire Department dispatchers.

The suspected remains of a missing Barstow mother were uncovered in the desert Thursday after the woman's boyfriend led detectives to a shallow grave near Newberry Springs.

Kevin Hansel, a prominent member of the California Historic Route 66 Association , passed along some Route 66 news in an e-mail. First, the former Iron Hog Saloon in Oro Grande has been converted to Sergino's Family Restaurant.

Nearly 100 members of a local Hispanic gang with ties to the Mexican Mafia were targeted in a two-year investigation that culminated today in a seven city sweep.

A group of about 100 residents gathered on the 8400 block Grove Street Sunday to watch firefighters make a stand against a mile long wall of flames burning its way downhill into their neighborhood.

ORO GRANDE Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Shazet Knowles catches the bus near her apartment complex around 6:15 a.m. She rides it down National Trails Highway, which runs along the railroad tracks on one side and a line of boarded-up businesses and auto parts shops on the other.