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Dollar General to open 2 stores in Victorville

2/5/2012 6:45 PM

VICTORVILLE • Dollar General is scheduled to open two stores in Victorville, and the Tennessee-based discount retailer will hold a local hiring event on Feb. 13. One of the stores will open early April at 14532 Seventh Street, Dollar General.....Read More

State has Yucca Loma Bridge on shaky ground

2/5/2012 5:26 PM

APPLE VALLEY • Construction of the Yucca Loma Bridge is teetering on a state decision over how to unwind California’s defunct redevelopment agencies. If the state chooses to void certain tax exempt bonds, town officials said it could possibly.....Read More

Hesperia looks to loosen up party ordinance

2/5/2012 5:00 PM

HESPERIA • Residents who step over the line once every few years might be getting a little more slack from the city of Hesperia. At Tuesday's meeting, the Hesperia City Council will hear a proposal to relax provisions in the 2008 Police Party.....Read More

'Cash for Grass' program cultivating more desert landscaping

2/5/2012 4:01 PM

APPLE VALLEY • Around this time last year, Ilene and Cliff Bandringa decided they no longer wanted a yard full of grass in front of their Spring Valley Lake home. With no dogs or children at the house, the couple thought their 2,400-square-foot,.....Read More

Inland California to lose clout in Congress

2/5/2012 2:00 PM

WASHINGTON • California will lose a measure of clout in Congress after November's election no matter which party best exploits the state's freshly redistricted regions and election rules. Six California representatives — with a combined 133 years.....Read More

Prep Wrestling: Sultana qualifies 13 to CIF

2/5/2012 1:13 AM

APPLE VALLEY • With five state-ranked wrestlers, the 113-pound weight class will arguably be the toughest at the CIF-Southern Section Individual Eastern Division Championships on Feb. 17-18 at Oak Hills.Apple Valley’s Robert Romo and Sultana’s.....Read More

Prep Wrestling: Victor Valley wins 11 DSL titles

2/5/2012 1:05 AM

VICTORVILLE • The Victor Valley wrestling team steamrolled its Desert Sky League opponents all season, outscoring them by a combined mark of 287-9 in dual meets en route to a second straight league championship. The Jackrabbits punctuated a.....Read More

A.V. man found dead in alleyway

2/5/2012 12:50 AM

FROM STAFF REPORTSAPPLE VALLEY • Authorities are searching for the family of an Apple Valley man who died in an Apple Valley alley, San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner’s officials said Saturday.The man was identified as 60-year-old Thomas Edgar.....Read More

126,000 California jobs at risk amid defense cuts

2/4/2012 5:00 PM

WASHINGTON • Nearly 126,000 California jobs are at stake if defense spending shrinks by $1 trillion over the next decade as anticipated by the Pentagon, according to an economic analysis by the Aerospace Industries Association. Though California is.....Read More

Lewis, Calvert urge intervention to save Ontario Airport

2/4/2012 4:00 PM

WASHINGTON • Warning that LA/Ontario International Airport is on a "downward spiral toward failure," Congressmen Jerry Lewis and Ken Calvert urged federal and Los Angeles officials to focus more attention on reviving the struggling operation. The.....Read More