Yucca Valley News

SERVICES TOMORROW FOR BURKE LESAGE A Joshua Tree resident and legendary race car driver will be honored at a ceremony Saturday at Desert Christ Park where he had served on the Board of Directors for many years.

BLOOD DRIVE TOMORROW AT STAR STRUCK STUDIO IN YUCCA VALLEY Lifestream will conduct a community blood drive in Yucca Valley tomorrow.

AREA DEMOCRATS MEET SUNDAY Local Democrats will meet this Sunday, Managing Editor Tami Roleff checks what the club will be doing... The Morongo Basin Democratic Club meets from 2 to 4 o'clock this Sunday in the Aztec Mobile Home Park Club House off Church Street in Yucca Valley.

JURY RULES FOR DEATH PENALTY FOR YUCCA MESA MURDERER A jury ruled yesterday that Sherhaun Brown, now 34, should receive the death penalty for raping and slashing the throat of a Yucca Valley woman and killing her mother-in-law in 2007.

MORONGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT GETS GLOOMY BUDGET REPORT, EARLY RETIREMENTS SOUGHT An unusually long meeting of the Morongo Unified School District Board of Education dealt with financial issues and the first three of many site plan reports.

Sherhuan Brown watches jurors and victim family members leave after the jury decided Brown should be sentenced to death Wednesday afternoon in Victorville.

PARADE OF HOME TO FEATURE SIX UNIQUE RESIDENCES Six unique and distinctive residences will be featured in this year's "Parade of Homes" fund-raiser to benefit Reach Out Morongo Basin Z107.7's Managing Editor Tami Roleff takes a peek... Reach Out Morongo Basin has signed up six homes for its annual Parade of Homes, its biggest fundraiser of the ... (more)

PAROLEE ARRESTED AFTER TRYING TO EVADING ARREST A convicted felon was arrested again Monday in Yucca Valley after trying to evade a Sheriff's deputy.

Assemblyman Paul Cook , who currently represents the Morongo Valley and the cities and unincorporated areas bordering the Coachella Valley in the California Legislature, has announced his candidacy for the new 8th Congressional District.

TWO ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES IN YUCCA VALLEY A pedestrian check Saturday night in Yucca Valley resulted in two arrests on drug charges.

AN EDITORIAL COMMENT ABOUT THE YUCCA VALLEY SEWER SYSTEM The State of California has mandated that the Town of Yucca Valley install a sewer system by 2016.

MARIANNA FALOSSI NAMED 2012 MUSS YUCCA VALLEY Marianne Falossi was crowned the 2012 Miss Yucca Valley Saturday night in a pageant that packed the Joshua Springs Thunderdome.

San Bernardino County Supervisor Neil Derry today announced that his campaign has received the endorsement of six respected local elected officials.

A desert preservation group is sponsoring a photography contest limited to images of Black Lava Butte and Flat Top Mesa, two volcanic mesas located northwest of Yucca Valley, as well as the plants and animals that live on them.

MAJOR CUTS AT MORONGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, LAYOFFS, COMBINING SCHOOLS, BUS CUTS Reacting to even more cuts to education from the state, the Morongo Unified School District announced yesterday it was taking severe actions.

AIDE PROGRAM STARTS TUESDAY Tax and financial statements should be arriving in your mailbox any day.

WE MEET MISS YUCCA VALLEY CONTESTANT DANIELLE HARRINGTON The annual Miss Yucca Valley Pageant, organized by the Yucca Valley Noon Rotary Club, is this Saturday night at the Thunder Dome in Yucca Valley.

VICTORVILLE A woman testified Tuesday on how a man devastated her life when he broke into her Yucca Valley house, raped her and killed her mother-in-law. The surviving victim took the stand for the second time in the trial of Sherhaun Brown, whom the Victorville jurors convicted last week of murdering Kristy Vert.

WE MEET MISS YUCCA VALLEY CANDIDATE SARA CRUZ The annual Miss Yucca Valley Pageant, organized by the Yucca Valley Noon Rotary Club, is this Saturday night at the Thunder Dome in Yucca Valley.

Ontario police have arrested two more suspects in the brutal burning death of a woman last October at an apartment complex.