San Bernardino County

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The search for a firefighter reported missing more than a week ago continued through the weekend.

A firefighter has died while fighting the El Dorado Fire, which began during a pyrotechnic smoke device display at a gender reveal party on an extremely warm weekend in San Bernardino County. A cause of death was not immediately available.  The firefighter died Thursday, according to the Forest Service. The firefighter’s identity is being withheld pending notification of family...

A cold case from 1980 revolving around the slaying of an 18-year-old woman was finally solved with the help of DNA technology, nabbing a suspect in Las Vegas, Fontana police said. In 1980, officers discovered the body of Michelle “Missy” Jones in the city of Fontana near Live Oak and Santa Ana avenues. Her body was found with dirt covering…

Evacuations remain in place for thousands of residences due to a fast-moving brush fire that was caused by a smoke machine used for a gender reveal party. The El Dorado Fire was reported Saturday in the 37000 block of Oak Glen Road. It quickly expanded to 800 acres by early afternoon, prompting evacuations for the community of Oak Glen. The fire…

The Apple Fire continued to grow on Monday morning with officials confirming over 26,000 acres have been burned in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

A 31-year-old man was arrested in Loma Linda on suspicion of drugging and raping a minor and deputies believe there may be additional victims, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement released Sunday. Joshua Lewis BLackwell-Tallent, 31, of Loma Linda, was arrested in the 24000 block of University Avenue on Friday, the department said. Deputies found the…

Firefighters battled a fire that destroyed a large warehouse Friday morning near a freeway in Redlands. The fire was reported in the 2200 block of West Lugonia Avenue. Video from the scene showed big rig trailers, including at least one Amazon trailer, on fire.  Firefighters said the building, estimated at about 600,000 square feet, is a distribution center for a…

A fifth-grade teacher employed by the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District was arrested for allegedly distributing child pornography, authorities said Thursday. Steven Pilar, who lives in the San Bernardino County community of Victorville, was taken into custody on Wednesday and booked on suspicion of distribution of child pornography, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Pilar, 43, was…

California corrections officials announced Sunday the first prison inmate death from complications related to COVID-19. The inmate died at a hospital after contracting the coronavirus at the California Institution for Men in San Bernardino County, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement. No further details were released to protect the inmate’s medical privacy, and next...

Closing arguments are scheduled to begin the day after Memorial Day in the case that rattled Southern California residents for years.

A mama bulldog and her six puppies were recovering after firefighters saved them from a burning garage in San Bernardino County early Friday.  The fire erupted Friday at 9:15 a.m. in the 9700 block of Tangelo Ave. in Bloomington. “All I could hear were the puppies crying and the mom barking,” Isaiah Baldonado said.  Baldonado said he and his brother...

At least three people are dead after a woman barricaded herself inside an Ontario house early Saturday morning, authorities said. Ontario Police said they responded to a domestic violence call early Saturday morning and found a man, the woman’s husband, in the doorway of a home on F Street. “The male subject was behind the screen door when they...

Residents grabbed what they could and rushed from their homes overnight when a frightening brush fire fanned by strong winds swept through neighborhoods in San Bernardino.

One person was killed in an 823-acre Calimesa blaze fueled by high winds that is believed to have started when burning trash was dumped in to a field of dry grass, officials said Friday.

One person was killed in an 823-acre Calimesa blaze fueled by high winds that is believed to have started when burning trash was dumped in to a field of dry grass, officials said Friday.

Following the two latest earthquakes that rattled Southern California residents, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a state of emergency in San Bernardino County Saturday morning.

A jury recommended the death penalty Monday for a man found guilty of the murders of a family of four whose bodies he buried in the Mojave desert.

A guilty verdict was handed down Monday in the trial of a Southern California man charged with killing a family of four and burying their bodies in the desert.

A kidnapping theory was suggested Wednesday in the 2010 disappearance of a Southern California family that stumped investigators and riveted San Diegans for years until their bodies were discovered in desert graves.