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A change in food stamp eligibility could negatively affect hundreds—if not thousands—of Morongo Basin residents. As of Wednesday, July 24, the Trump administration is capping the income level of those who are eligible to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Under the old guidelines, California and 39 other states allow a family of four to have an income that is up to double the federal poverty level to receive food stamps; in California, that is $50,208.

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The new federal guidelines would limit the annual income level to $32,640 for a family of four. Under the old guidelines, 11 out of 14 census tracts in the Morongo Basin had median household incomes that qualied families of four for food stamps. Under the new guidelines, only three census tracts—in north Joshua Tree, Wonder Valley, and Landers north into Johnson Valley—have median household incomes that would qualify a family of four for SNAP. Administration ofcials say the change will save the US government $2.5 billion annually. The US annual budget is $4.1 trillion, with a decit of $779 billion.

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Ridgecrest earthquake just a taste of destruction San Andreas could unleash

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Faults crisscross California, producing deadly earthquakes. But whenever the ground shakes, the first thought always turns to the mightiest and most dangerous fault: The San Andreas.

This is the 730-mile monster capable of producing “The Big One,” the fault famous enough to be the main character in a hit disaster movie.

Scientists knew almost immediately that two large quakes that hit near Ridgecrest earlier this month did not come from the San Andreas.

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But ever since, they’ve been studying whether the quakes could cause more seismic activity from other faults — including the San Andreas nearly 100 miles away.

A new calculation conducted in recent weeks at the U.S. Geological Survey shows that there’s an extremely remote chance the San Andreas could be triggered from the Ridgecrest quakes. “It’s slim. But it’s the difference between slim and none,” said USGS seismologist Susan Hough. “I don’t think any earth scientists are going to lose sleep that this will cascade on to the San Andreas.”

But the fault remains a source of constant anxiety, especially when ground moves. Previous quakes on the San Andreas were triggered by earlier nearby temblors. The great magnitude 7.8 quake in 1857 that ruptured 225 miles of the fault between Monterey County to the Cajon Pass in San Bernardino County was preceded by a pair of smaller quakes one and two hours earlier. (Raoul Rañoa / Los Angeles Times)

Earthquakes in Southern California in 1992, 2001, 2009 and 2016 all sparked concerns from scientists they could trigger a major quake on the San Andreas. In some of those cases, officials even issued a public warning of heightened seismic risk. For example, after the twin quakes in Landers and Big Bear in 1992, state officials announced there was a 50% chance of another big temblor in the coming days.

None, however, caused the Big One on the southern San Andreas.

In the case of the recent temblors, the potential for the San Andreas to be triggered by the Ridgecrest quakes seems to be less of a concern, relatively speaking.

“We know that earthquakes can trigger other faults, even hundreds of miles away,” said USGS research geophysicist Morgan Page. “On one hand, the probability may go up. But,” she added, “it’s not a big increase compared to the risk we have year-to-year from the San Andreas, living in California.”

The recent calculation is highly theoretical, and relies on a model known as the Third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, or UCERF3-ETAS, an epidemic-type aftershock sequence model that factors how an earthquake in one location can transfer seismic stress to a nearby fault.

Like anything being researched, it’s possible that this calculation about the San Andreas is wrong. A scenario like the one envisioned in the recent calculation — a Ridgecrest-to-San Andreas situation that spans some 100 miles — has not happened in California’s relatively short modern record.

The southern San Andreas is quite dangerous on its own and can rupture without any nudging from a distant Mojave Desert fault. And it’s accumulating seismic stress so fast that even if it did rupture soon, scientists would probably spend the rest of their careers arguing over whether the July quakes had anything to do with it, said USGS research geologist Kate Scharer.

A big quake on the San Andreas would be devastating. The U.S. Geological Survey published a hypothetical scenario of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault that could kill 1,800 people, injure 5,000, displace some 500,000 to 1 million people from their homes and hobble the region economically for a generation. That quake would send strong shaking into Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Kern and Ventura counties almost simultaneously.

“There’s plenty of accumulated strain there,” Scharer said. “It’s the highest hazard fault, and it was before the [Ridgecrest] earthquake, and it will continue to be after the earthquake.

“It’s been quiet for so long.”

World-famous fault

The San Andreas fault has increasingly captured the imaginations of Californians over the years, likely assisted by the eponymous Hollywood action movie starring Dwayne Johnson in 2015, and its starring role in villain Lex Luthor’s evil scheme in the Superman movie of 1978.

Even when far-off earthquakes occur, the public’s appetite for any information about the San Andreas is insatiable. Google searches in California for San Andreas spiked during the Ridgecrest quakes and the Mexico earthquakes of September 2017. TV news chyrons earlier this month blared with text how the Ridgecrest quakes were not on the San Andreas.

The obsession with the San Andreas is not without reason.

Only three earthquakes in California’s modern record have been as large as magnitude 7.8, and two of them were on the San Andreas — the one in 1906 that destroyed most of San Francisco in shaking and fire, and the Southern California megaquake in 1857, when the region was sparsely populated. A magnitude 7.8 quake produces 45 times more energy than the 1994 magnitude 6.7 Northridge quake.

California’s megafault

Out of the many faults in California, the San Andreas is singularly poised to be the one that unleashes a megaquake in our lifetime.

The San Andreas is the main plate boundary between the mammoth Pacific and North American plates, and is a key dividing line moving southwestern California — encompassing cities like Half Moon Bay, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Anaheim — toward Alaska. The other side, with cities like San Francisco, Sacramento, Fresno and Las Vegas, is moving, relatively speaking, toward where Mexico is today.

The San Andreas is by far the fault accumulating seismic strain the fastest in California, making it among the likeliest to rupture in a big way in the coming decades . And it is the longest fault, making it capable of producing the most powerful earthquakes in the Golden State.

Over the course of centuries, the San Andreas fault moves at a breathtaking speed compared to most California faults — the speed at which fingernails grow, and much faster than most other faults. The seismic strain can be detected by GPS satellites — Mission Viejo in Orange County, on the southwest side of the San Andreas, can be seen scooting every year to the northwest, while Twentynine Palms in the Mojave Desert, on the other side of the fault can be seen moving to the southeast, relatively speaking.

GPS sensors show that Mission Viejo in Orange County and Twentynine Palms in the Mojave Desert are moving away from each other about 1.2 inches annually, relatively speaking, according to UNAVCO, a nonproﬁt university-owned consortium. (National Science Foundation GAGE Facility / UNAVCO)

But along most parts of the San Andreas, the ground is not creeping. It’s stuck for long periods of time, and sooner or later, it needs to move in a huge quake to catch up with the rest of the continental plate. On average, there’s about 12 feet of movement per century along the 730-mile San Andreas fault system between Point Arena in Mendocino County and the Mexican border.

The amount of moved earth in a magnitude 7.8 quake can be eye-popping. In a remote section of Desert Hot Springs near Palm Springs, a couple holding hands across the San Andreas during such a megaquake would suddenly be separated as much as 30 feet, almost the entire length of a city bus, Scharer has said.

A domino scenario But the San Andreas is not the only fault to be worried about.

The Ridgecrest quakes occurred in a vast seismic region called the Eastern California Shear Zone, representing a broad swath of the state that includes Palm Springs and the Owens Valley. (Zach Levitt / Los Angeles Times) Although little known by the public, the zone has been the subject of intense investigation by scientists. It’s home to the only other California quake in the modern record that might’ve been as big as magnitude 7.8 — the Owens Valley quake of 1872, which killed 27 people and destroyed 52 homes.

The Garlock fault is just south of the Ridgecrest quakes, and capable of producing a temblor approaching magnitude 8, directing shaking into Bakersfield and Ventura and Los Angeles counties. (Thomas Suh Lauder / Los Angeles Times) The Garlock fault may be more likely to undergo an earthquake as a result of Ridgecrest quakes, said James Dolan, professor of earth sciences at USC who has spent years studying this region.

The Ridgecrest quakes moved the block of land west of the ruptured fault northwest — away from the Garlock fault. That would have helped unclamp the friction that keeps the Garlock fault still, and makes it easier for it to undergo an earthquake.

No one knows if such an earthquake will actually happen in our lifetime. The Garlock fault can cycle through long periods of hibernation, lasting as long as 3,000 years, Dolan said.

But there are periods in which the Garlock fault is quite active. The last such period was in the centuries around 1500, according to paleoseismic data. And it’s possible that a period of greater earthquake activity began with a quake not very different from July’s Ridgecrest quakes.

It’s plausible that an earthquake on the nearby Panamint Valley fault eventually helped trigger a subsequent earthquake on the Garlock fault. And that, in turn, triggered an earthquake on the San Andreas, according to the study, printed in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth in 2013 and coauthored by Dolan and other scientists at USC, Penn State, Caltech, Utah State and the U.S. Navy.

That sequence of quakes probably didn’t happen within minutes of each other; it may have taken as long as 100 years to complete. But it shows how earthquakes on one fault can lead to a domino effect.

“Every part of the system is mechanically linked with every other part of the system,” Dolan said. “The Garlock acts as a mechanical bridge between the northern Eastern California Shear Zone and the San Andreas.”

Sometimes, it’s smaller but still destructive quakes that are the problem. The magnitude 6.4 Long Beach quake of 1933, the magnitude 6.6 Sylmar quake of 1971 and the magnitude 6.7 Northridge quake of 1994 didn’t occur on the San Andreas, but all caused loss of life.

Triggered quakes

Concern about triggered quakes has undergone closer scrutiny in recent decades.

In 1987, a magnitude 6.2 quake in the Imperial Valley, one of California’s key agricultural areas, near the Mexican border was followed up 11 hours later by a magnitude 6.6 quake with an epicenter 6 miles away from the first. The so-called Superstition Hills quakes damaged irrigation canals.

The 1992 Joshua Tree-Landers-Big Bear sequence of earthquakes over two months — with successive epicenters roughly 20 miles from each other — raised concerns that the San Andreas was next.

Seismologist Lucy Jones, then with the USGS, remembered rigging up a “go-to-war scenario” where, if a magnitude 6.5 or greater quake occurred in a certain place on the San Andreas, it would trigger an automatic response that included call to state officials within 20 minutes and a calling out of the National Guard. The San Andreas didn’t go off resulting from that sequence. A significant aftershock did occur seven years later — the magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine quake — but that occurred in a remote area of desert even farther away from the San Andreas than the biggest quake of 1992.

More recently, seismologists have paid close attention to seismic swarms at the Salton Sea, precariously close to the end of the San Andreas fault. There have been only three times since earthquake sensors were installed there in 1932 that there have been swarms that have particularly concerned seismologists, in 2001, 2009 and 2016. A warning in 2016 led officials to close San Bernardino City Hall for two days, which had already planned to be closed in months because of seismic safety concerns.

It’s clear that some people are now quite afraid of earthquakes — understandable, because we can’t see them coming, which makes them quite scary. But instead of trying to obsess about exactly when and where they’ll come, Jones said, focus on the risk like you would protecting yourself from a car crash: be prepared for a disaster that could strike on any day.

“I don’t deal with the freeways in L.A. by wondering if this day is the day for an accident. The reality is, I don’t know which day it’s going to be,” Jones said, which is the reason why she wears a seat belt anytime she’s in a car.

So do the equivalent for quakes, she said. Get those vulnerable buildings retrofitted. Bolt old homes down to the foundation. Secure furniture and picture frames. And stock up on water and food.

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Among the expenses Eastvale charged to credit cards were a $3,500 reservation for a holiday party for roughly 60 people at Dave & Busters in Ontario, a baby shower and monthly birthday parties, as well as food for scores of working lunches. All told, some critics alleged, the questionable expenses amounted to about $11,000 — all of which taxpayers would foot the bill for.

Before the meeting, Rigby said by phone that he supported the proposal.

He said that “$11,000 on keeping our employees, boosting morale, helping to build teamwork, in my mind is a smart investment.”

Mayor Pro Tem Brandon Plott said at the meeting that the city’s actions made financial sense.

”It costs taxpayers far more money (to replace someone) than $50 on a birthday cake,” he said.

The amount of money spent on hiring and training new employees would amount to many times more than the small line items residents cited, Plott said. The spending is a practical solution to improving employee attrition rates, he said, though the principle of it may be murky to some residents.

“If your argument is ‘you’re wasting taxpayers money,’ you need to have a reality check,” he said. ”If your argument is it’s principle, I can respect that more.”

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During the meeting, several officials justified the proposal. City Treasurer Ernie Reyna said it would

increase transparency by leaving a paper trail for expenses to be tracked instead of purchase orders and cash reimbursements, which can be hard to trace.

Either way, Plott plans for the council to discuss more details as early as September so that residents can help establish guidelines for what spending is — and isn’t — appropriate on city credit cards.

”When we bring this up to an agenda item … come out and discuss it,” Plott said. “But at the end of the day, I trust that our council will make the right decision on these items. But I just want you to have an open mind.”

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Between the two campuses, which are both Montessori schools, there are 600 students — toddlers through high school — on 21 acres with a citrus grove and a farm.

Eight others — residents, parents and school officials — also spoke.

Jenny Davidson, head of Montessori in Redlands, said the initial environmental study did not accurately portray the size of the schools nor how close they would be to the project.

Representatives of the school met with the developers, she said.

“I feel like we have been heard and that they understand a lot of our concerns.”

Davidson said she would like to see the city build

crosswalks, add more signs and modify curbs to slow traffic and “keep families safe.”

Commissioner Joe Richardson said the inaccuracies in the report must be dealt with.

“It’s going to be extremely important that the community really has the buy in with this project,” he said.

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buildings will be about 35 feet tall, and therefore “aren’t going to be as imposing as the Cottage Lane neighborhood thinks.”

Miller, the architect, said features will be added to help people safely cross the street, including decorative paving, clearly marked crosswalks and

flashing beacons.

Since the project was first proposed, the developer has reduced the number of units from 412 to 328.

The project is expected to be back in front of the commission on Sept. 10 before heading to the City Council. No actions were taken Tuesday.

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Club 215, a strip club in Colton off the 215 Freeway, has been open for at least two decades. (Photo by Brian Whitehead, Staff)

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leaders could vote on a new agreement Aug. 20.

Council members Ernest Cisneros, Kenneth Koperski, Jack Woods and Isaac Suchil voted to forward the suggestions to Gibboney.

Mayor Frank Navarro and Councilman Luis Gonzales voted against changing the agreement as presented Tuesday, July 16. Councilman David Toro was absent.

According to the original proposal, Gibboney would pay $70,000 in fees within 90 days of the billboard’s construction. Then, depending which is greater, either $70,000 or 30% of the new business’ annual gross income every year for the life of the initial 10-year agreement.

Suchil, who represents the area, proposed an initial fee of $100,000 and, every year thereafter, either $100,000 or 10% of the business’ annual gross income.

“We’re leaving money on the table” asking for $70,000 in upfront and annual fees, he said. “We owe it to our city and residents to get as much as we can to make this project work and make that existing building sunset finally.”

Also to be considered by Gibboney is the length of the agreement. Recently, the club owner suggested extending the term from 10 years with the option of two five-year renewals to a flat 20 years.

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The announcement made Tuesday by the California Department of Water Resources recommends against swimming and eating fish caught from the lake. Boating is still allowed.

As of Wednesday, blue-green algae congregated mostly along the rocky shoreline portions of the lake. Swimmers and anglers could be seen doing their business despite the posted warning signs.

Exposure to blue-green algae can cause vomiting, diarrhea, mouth ulcers, eye irritation, allergic skin rash and cold- and flu-like symptoms, according to the department statement.

Such algae blooms are common during the summertime, said department spokeswoman Maggie Macias, where “warm water temperatures, nutrients, and calm conditions can contribute to algal blooms.”

“It is unknown when swimming will be allowed,” she said. “Typically, blooms can improve in a few weeks. (The department) will continue to test the water weekly.”

Bloom conditions can change rapidly, Macias added. Wind or water currents can move or concentrate blooms into different areas. The bloom has formed mats, scum or foam at the surface of the lake and along the shoreline. The department has three categories of advisory levels: caution, warning and danger. The advisory levels are determined by the amount of algal toxins in the water.

The presence of any of the three specific toxins can trigger an advisory, Macias said. The Silverwood danger advisory was triggered by microcystins in the water that exceeded the threshold of 20 ug/L. The sample result was 30.8.

In 2017, Silverwood Lake water saw similar restrictions due to a blue-green algae bloom then which began at a warning level yet progressed to a cautionary level due to higher concentrations found of the dangerous cyanobacteria.

The California Department of Water Resources recommends precautions be taken near waters affected by blue-green algae, including keeping your pets away, and not cooking or washing dishes in untreated water from the lake. Additional information can be found on the agency’s website.

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In this Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015 file photo, Slipknot performs during Knotfest at Glen Helen Amphitheater in Devore. Knotfest will return to the venue on Saturday, July 27, 2019. (File photo by David Bauman, The Press-Enterprise/Southern California News Group)

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LOCAL NEWS Judge delivers maximum sentences in the killing of Victorville woman, found in 2018 By Martin Estacio Staff Writer Posted at 12:01 AM VICTORVILLE — Two people received maximum sentences for their roles in the killing of a woman whose remains were found in a trash can partially filled with concrete 18 months after she died.

Superior Court Judge Cara Hutson sentenced Jayson Weiss, 32, and Lori Rector, 58, on Wednesday to 11 years each in state prison for voluntary manslaughter.

Hutson said she was choosing the severe sentence “because this type of crime is so vicious, so disrespectful and completely unacceptable.”

On July 8, 2018, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies discovered the skeletal remains of Judith Venegas, 47, in a trash can partially filled with concrete at a home in the 15000 block of Sitting Bull Street. She was identified 10 days later.

Weiss and Rector were booked and charged with murder that month, along with two others, whose charges were later dropped.

According to court testimony and Venegas’ family members, Venegas had been renting a room at the home where Weiss and Rector lived.

Investigators determined she had been dead at the location since Jan. 2, 2017.

In March, Rector pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and the murder charge was dismissed, according to court records. She testified as a witness for the prosecutor in Weiss’s jury trial.

A jury convicted Weiss of the same lesser offense on June 5. Judge Hutson said the jury “had no choice in this matter because the evidence was gone for them to postulate as to what really happened.” Dr. Brian Hutchins, the forensic pathologist, was unable to determine a cause of death due to the condition of Venegas’ body.

Venegas’ niece, Amber Vega, said investigators were able to pull only a fingerprint off the concrete in which she was entombed.

At Wednesday’s hearing, Deputy District Attorney Ramandeep Johal said Weiss played a major role in Venegas death. Weiss had earlier testified he had intervened in an altercation between Venegas and Rector.

Johal said Weiss held her down, placed his hand over her mouth and “manipulated” her for several minutes in an ongoing struggle. Weiss testified that he tried administering CPR afterwards. Police and emergency services were never called.

Three of Venegas’ daughters and Vega expressed their frustration with the lesser charges and asked that the judge impose the harshest sentence for Weiss and Rector.

“The max for voluntary manslaughter is a slap on the wrist for what they did,” said Venegas’ daughter, Felicia Ornelas. “But if that is all, then they deserve the max.”

Each referred to the defendants as “monsters” and described the experience of losing Venegas under the circumstances in which she died as a “nightmare.”

“They took away a beautiful soul. A mother, a sister, a cousin, an aunt, a grandmother,” said Ashley Ornelas, Venegas’ oldest daughter.

Venegas had three daughters, one son and 11 grandchildren. Her daughter, Alyssa Ornelas, said Venegas treasured being a grandmother.

The daughters told the Daily Press they had been looking for Venegas since they lost contact with her in January 2017.

When they attempted to file a missing persons report, they said law enforcement authorities told them that Venegas was likely an “adult who didn’t want to be found.” Felicia Ornelas said they spent weeks searching the streets to no avail until Sheriff’s officials identified her mother’s body on July 18.

And they disagreed with the explanation that her death had been an accident and that Rector and Weiss concealed the body out of panic.

“No panicked or scared human being who claims this was an accident would put someone’s body in a trash can and cement a human being,” said Felicia Ornelas. “That is pure evil and these monsters have no heart.”

Judge Hutson also seemed to agree with the sisters as she handed down her sentence.

She said one of her reasons for sentencing the two to the maximum was the fact that neither told anyone of the death until Venegas’ remains were discovered.

“Because if there had been true remorse, if this had been a fight gotten out of hand, I can understand the panic. I can understand the hesitation,” Hutson said. “What I can’t understand is keeping a family in the dark for 18 months and throwing somebody in the trash.”

She also said a statement Weiss gave to a probation officer gave her further reason to believe he had no remorse.

Contradicting testimony given during trial, Hutson said Weiss had told the officer that it had been Rector who had actually choked Venegas.

When asked whether the sentences handed down offered any closure to the family, Ashley Ornelas said: “Obviously it’s never going to be enough time for what they did to my mom.

“But if that’s the max, then they need to serve the max, and I’m happy with that, at least.”

The sisters and Vega said they all grieve in their own way for Venegas. Felicia Ornelas said the hope that they’d find her alive lingers.

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TOP STORY Fugitive mom taken back to county jail to face charges for 7-year- old's death

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JOSHUA TREE — After nearly a year on the run, Landers resident Misty Warfox, 36, returned to the Joshua Tree Superior Court last week to face felony child abuse charges.

In July 2018, Misty and husband Paul Warfox were charged with felony child abuse and willful harm or injury resulting in death after Misty’s 7-year-old son, Dylin Biscamp, died from heat stroke. The family was living in a homestead without running water or gas and Paul had taken Dylin and a few of his other stepchildren to search for rewood in the Johnson Valley OHV area.

Holes gaped in the walls. The Warfoxes said Dylin passed out on the trail; court documents said Paul returned the boy to the house and the family took a nap.

Several hours later, as Dylin’s conditioned worsened, the family called a friend to pick them up and take Dylin to the hospital.

“Misty picked him up to put him in the car and he vomited,” Dawson told the Desert Sun. “We poured water on him to wash him off and cool him down. Then about a mile into the drive, he had a seizure.”

They called an ambulance and Biscamp was taken to Hi-Desert Medical Center to be treated for possible heat stroke, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

He was pronounced dead on arrival, and sheriff’s investigators were called to the hospital, where they determined Dylin’s death was a homicide.

Misty and Paul Warfox were arrested, but in a court hearing on Aug. 14, 2018, they were released on their written promise to appear for future court dates. They failed to appear in court for their next scheduled date on Aug. 28 and were deemed fugitives.

Misty was arrested on her outstanding warrant in Azusa on July 14, according to the Azusa Police Department.

Azusa police said she was going by the name of Misty Walker when they found her.

She was transferred to the custody of San Bernardino County the following day and appeared for an arraignment hearing in the Joshua Tree Superior Courthouse on July 15.

At that time, judge Joel Agron deemed her a ight risk and ordered the Sheriff’s Department to hold her on bail of $750,000 in the West Valley Detention Center.

Paul Warfox was also returned to the custody of San Bernardino County after he was arrested for burglary April 21 in Azusa. He received a 180-day jail sentence for burglary and after serving his time, was turned over to San Bernardino County. He is now being held at West Valley Detention Center on $1 million bail. A judge ordered that he cannot be released unless the full cash amount is posted.

Both Paul and Misty have prior convictions under previous names — including a misdemeanor conviction of inhuman corporal punishment in 2016 for Misty Warfox, under the name Misty Biscamp.

Misty was required to attend a 52-week child abuse prevention program and was placed on three years of probation. She was required to complete the child abuse program by November of 2018.

Paul and Misty Warfox will return to the Joshua Tree Superior Courthouse on Aug. 22. 4 suspects go on early-morning crime spree in Redlands, police say – Press Enterprise

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Four people, including two teenagers from San Bernardino, went on a burglary and robbery spree in Redlands early Wednesday, July 24, according to the Redlands Police Department.

The teenagers, boys ages 16 and 17, were caught. Police were still searching for two other accomplices late Wednesday.

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A bunker full of fireworks blows up at Pyro Spectaculars by Souza in Rialto on July 23, 2019. No one was reported injured. (Courtesy of Rialto Fire Department)

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By BRIAN ROKOS | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise  PUBLISHED: July 24, 2019 at 8:02 pm | UPDATED: July 24, 2019 at 10:00 pm

Fireworks in an earthen bunker at Pyro Spectaculars by Souza in Rialto blew up Tuesday night, July 23, but the resulting fire was confined to that bunker and no one was reported injured, the Rialto Fire Department said.

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The explosion was reported about 7:30 p.m. at 2196 N. Locust Ave.

“It looked like a fireworks show,” said Brian Park, the city’s acting fire chief. “There were fireworks going off for the first hour.”

Park explained the bunkers are placed in such a way to prevent one from igniting the others in domino-like fashion. Firefighters from Rialto, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and San Bernardino County Fire Department contained the flames by about 10:30 p.m. Firefighters including hazardous-materials crews were on the scene until about

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Bald eagle Simba took his ﬁrst ﬂight Tuesday morning. (Friends of Big Bear Valley)

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A 14-week-old bald eagle chick whose life at Big Bear Lake has played out on a webcam flew for the first time Tuesday morning.

The chick, named Simba, spread its wings and departed the nest shortly before 6:30 a.m., the U.S. Forest Service said in a news release. The flight was captured by the webcam operated by environmental group Friends of Big Bear Valley.

“You feel like a proud parent: the kid has headed off,” said Robin Eliason, a wildlife biologist for the Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service. “But there are definitely some mixed emotions turning on the camera and there’s nobody there.”

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Young bald eagles generally leave the nest when they’re 10 to 12 weeks old, making this chick “a little bit of a late bloomer,” Eliason said.

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Simba didn’t go far, spending the rest of Tuesday within “squawking distance” of the webcam’s microphone, Friends of Big Bear Valley said in a Facebook post. “We could hear him ‘squeeing’ — he makes a certain ‘squee’ kind of call,” Eliason said. “He’s letting his parents know where he is: ‘I’m hungry. I’m here.’

“I kind of expect that he’ll stay close to his parents for at least a couple months because they’re going to continue to feed him while he’s honing his skills as a hunter,” she continued.

The chick may then move to a different part of the lake or another area in the San Bernardino National Forest or beyond, she said.

Simba is tagged with a leg band to assist biologists in monitoring his movements.

The area around the nest will remain closed until Aug. 1 to avoid disturbing the eagles’ habitat. Off-limit areas include the lower portion of the Grays Peak Trail, the Grout Bay Picnic Area, part of Grays Peak Road and all of what’s known as Lumpy Road.

Simba was one of two bald eagle chicks that hatched in mid-April in the nest on the northern side of Big Bear Lake. The other eaglet, Cookie, died at 6 weeks old of suspected hypothermia after a late-season storm brought freezing rain and snow over Memorial Day weekend.

The eaglets became the subject of internet fame as their births and development were closely monitored through the live-streaming camera. The nest cam was installed about four years ago as part of an effort to engage the public in preserving the ecosystem of the Big Bear Valley, where bald eagles established nesting territory in 2012, Eliason said.

“The fan club that this family of bald eagles has, including some of us, is surprising and exciting,” she said. “It’s been really fun talking to people who are eagle-maniacs and totally glued to their computer monitors or TVs watching these guys.”

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