Past Stories
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
The town of Apple Valley faces a $6.4 million deficit in its Parks and Recreation Department and will have to close its parks unless it pays up by June. That would be bad enough, but three members…
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
The creators of the Ontario Rotary Police Museum admit the 1,000-square-foot space inside the Ontario Police Department is a work in progress—especially the Children’s Interactive Exhibit. By assemb...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Just finished a straightforward but still quite fascinating story by Susan Orlean about Rin Tin Tin—the German Shepherd that is probably the most-famous dog in motion picture history—in last week’s...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
9/07
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
9/08
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
9/09
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
September 10, 2001 is inducted into the Good Old Days Hall of Fame today—its 10-year anniversary, and thus the first da...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31
The Riverside County program that allows criminal offenders and traffic violators to pay their DUI fees and speeding fees at Wal-Mart isn’t just convenient, it’s an opportunity to experience a moment of...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24
Hello again from Lake Elsinore! And hel-LO to the members of Sweet Social Success, the town’s business networking club for female entrepreneurs . . . and they are looking quite . . . female . . .…
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17
Cecile K. Cho, an assistant marketing professor at UC Riverside, is experiencing a high level of satisfaction today. That’s what the research suggests, anyway—her research, by the way. Cho’s latest pa...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10
Full of woe.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11
Judging from the obituary for Shannon Arlene Wallace, which is posted this morning in the Big Bear Grizzly, it wasn’t often easy to watch her 29-year trudge through life,...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3
Sorrow not if, in these days and on this earthly plane, things contrary to your wishes have been ordained and manifested by God, for days of blissful joy, of heavenly delight, are assuredly in store for you....
The Rundown
TUESDAY, JULY 26
In an effort to bring into the open what so often is a secret crime, City of Redlands spokesman Carl Baker announces that there have been at least 20 brass sprinkler head thefts reported in the city…
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
A lawsuit charging harassment and racial discrimination is filed on behalf of Big Bear Middle School student Coral Aviles, who in 2010 wore a T-shirt supporting Mexico’s team in the World Cup soccer tournam...
THE RUNDOWN
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
After a couple weeks of big talking, Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone is downsizing his call for 13 counties to secede from California and create a 51st state—apparently because it has begun to dawn o...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6
It’s been less than three weeks since three Mexican citizens in Rancho Cucamonga were arrested when San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies found them holding three illegal immigrants captive for ransomâ€...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29
The air along the upper western corner of Riverside County feels charged with a nervous flutter of excitement and dread. Like most ingredients in the stew of toxic gases that people here suck into their lungs...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22
There’s a new fence in Hemet, and naturally it’s the talk of the town—confusing some residents, frustrating others, providing much-needed entertainment for still others . . . but, basically, just giving...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15
As always, aficionados of child pornography have placed their orders early for the release of—hahaha—the Big Bear High School yearbook.
THURSDAY, JUNE 16
The Big Bear High School yearbook is released, bu...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8
Seemingly out of the blue comes an announcement from San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Cindy Bachman: Effective today, Nathan Gastineau is no longer an employee of the Sheriff’s Depar...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1
The Norco City Council, a five-member panel of human beings who inexplicably make the big decisions in place called Horsetown USA, today decide by a 4-1 to slash the Fire Department budget by $1 million. Thatâ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25
Wait! Do I detect the scent of a partial solution to Riverside Sheriff’s Department’s $60 million budget gap in the air? Does it seem that Riverside County Supervisors Marion Ashley and Jeff Stone, County ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18
When you’re waiting to see whether or not the world is going to end, it’s difficult to categorize the good news from the bad. For example, word has arrived that Hall & Oates won’t be able to…
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11
The Granny Bandit’s short reign of small-time, strong-armed robbery appears to be over, not to mention something of a misnomer. Four victims since Sunday had reported being robbed at gunpoint by an old lady ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4
OK, this is weird. It took almost 10 years for the United States to get to, shoot and kill Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was gotten to, shot and killed a few days ago during a…
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27
What’s happening to the squirrels in the San Bernardino Mountains? Their population has been noticeably declining for about two years—spreading from the west end of mountain communities into Big Bear Val...
The Rundown
TUESDAY, APRIL 19
Back in the olden (read: insensitive) days before it came to be commonly known as Spring Break, this is the week—the one leading up to Easter—that all children used to be out of school for what was…
The Rundown
TUESDAY, APRIL 12
A week after a group of golfers found a baby great horned owl on the ground by the 15th hole at the Redlands Country Club—and this part is important: did not use their sand wedges to beat…
The Rundown
TUESDAY, APRIL 5
Molly Friga drives to work at Joshua Circle Elementary School in Hesperia. About noontime she assumes an identity the kids call The Lunch Lady, and dishes up whatever’s on the menu in the school cafeteria. Th...
The Rundown
TUESDAY, MARCH 29
Striking a blow for Lindsay Lohan fans, a judge rules that she will not be prosecuted in Riverside County in connection with an alleged tussle she had with an employee of the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho…
The Rundown
TUESDAY, MARCH 22
I guess after the Auto Club Speedway last week announced washed-up/straight-to-DVD (or relegated to the TV ghetto) actor Christian Slater as its grand marshal, it becomes sort of hard to top that. No——wait...
