Phelan News

Journalist Janet Phelan regularly reports on conservatorship activities in California.

VICTORVILLE A murder suspect whose mental fitness is in question claims the Holy Spirit told him not to trust his defense attorney, according to testimony.

Johnnie Graham, 31, of Phelan, was killed in a Saturday night traffic collision.

Join Santa for a holiday breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. Dec. 5 at Pinon Mesa Middle School, 9298 Sheep Creek Road in Phelan.

More than 60 percent of California students fall short of fitness standards - and Victor Valley students tend to be less physically fit than the rest of the state, according to data released Monday by the California Department of Education.

APPLE VALLEY It's a high honor, and well worth the wait. It took two years for the citation to find them, but the 1-185th Armored National Guard will receive the Valorous Unit Award in an official ceremony next month.

The new faces coming to the sheriff's Adelanto station aren't new to law enforcement.

VICTORVILLE One person was killed Wednesday night when a vehicle lost control sending it into the path of another oncoming car, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department officials said.

DAGGETT, Calif. a " A California desert highway landmark is history.The central tower for the Solar One and Solar Two demonstration projects was demolished Tuesday.It stood just east of Barstow near Daggett for nearly three decades and was a familiar site for interstate travelers headed for Las Vegas or Needles.It hasn't produced any solar power ...

DAGGETT A myriad of solar power projects are sprouting up all over the Mojave Desert, but on Tuesday one came tumbling down.

Click to enlarge : The new Phelan Bus Loop would circle the firehouse at the northwest corner of Ocean and Phelan Avenues.

PHELAN With traditional home economics classes a thing of the past, it recently dawned on Heritage School teacher Marilyn Houston that her middle schoolers were missing out on learning a lifelong skill: sewing.

PHELAN Todd Anton has been organizing the Tri-Community Veterans Day dinner for 15 years and sometimes he gets a little overwhelmed.

Investigators are looking into the death of an 81-year-old woman found dead outside her Phelan home, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department officials said.

Homicide detectives are investigating the death of an 81-year-old woman whose body was found yesterday outside her Phelan home, according to San Bernardino County coroner's officials.

A county mental health specialist who worked with traumatized children and adults had a prior prison stint and four felony convictions when the Department of Behavioral Health hired her in February 2006.

PHELAN Two years ago Rowena McDermot and her husband brought their Shotokan karate classes from Hesperia to Phelan, in hopes of helping grow a parks and recreation department to serve the unincorporated region.

Johnny Acosta is no stranger to violence. He's been locked up for voluntary manslaughter, attempted rape and assault, among other things.

The Daily RFT rarely breaks into sudden spasms of outrage, but this horrific story out of the Los Angeles today -- and on Veterans Day for Christ's sake -- has us in full-boil rant mode.

As a Marine, Trevor Neiman survived three tours of duty in Iraq, where he patrolled the deadly streets of Fallouja and lost some of his best friends.