A July 4 fireworks explosion at ground level in a residential neighborhood in Chino killed a 23-year-old woman and sent two other adults to the hospital with what were described as “severe” injuries. A child, who was nearby but at a slightly greater distance from the explosion when the detonation occurred, was also transported to a local hospital for evaluation and has since been released to a parent.
On Saturday, July 4, 2026, at approximately 8:30 p.m., Chino police and fire department personnel responded to a reported vehicle fire in the 5600 block of D Street.
Upon arrival, public safety employees discovered that an explosion had occurred and several people had been injured. First aid was rendered to multiple victims. As a result of the explosion, a nearby vehicle also became engulfed in flames.
Based on the preliminary investigation by the Ontario Fire Department’s bomb squad, it appears a large quantity of fireworks ignited, causing the explosion.
The Chino Police Department’s investigation resulted in Derion Tradon James Jr., a 28-year-old Hesperia resident, being detained at the scene and later being booked at the West Valley Detention Center for Penal Code section 192(b), involuntary manslaughter. James was released from custody on July 6, upon posting $50,000 bail. The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office is evaluating the matter for the applicability of criminal charges against him.
The Los Angeles County Office of the Medical Examiner, which is conducting the death investigation, identified Leslie Viguerias Bustos of Hesperia, a 23-year-old Hispanic female, as the deceased. Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Emily Lo gave “blast injuries” as the cause of death and the manner of death as an “accident.”

SECOND AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIV SB 2614066,
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: ROMAN BISHOP HILL filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: ROMAN BISHOP HILL to ROMAN BISHOP EPPS
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 07/27/2026, Time: 08:30 AM, Department: S31
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District-Civil Division, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the  San Bernardino County Sentinel once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 06/12/2026
Judge of the Superior Court: JOSEPH T. ORTIZ
Erika Hernandez, Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on June 19 & 26 and July 3 & 10, 2026

FBN20260004086
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
ALLIED TOWING [and] ALLIED HEAVY DUTY TOWING 1335 W RIALTO AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410: ALLIED TOWING, LLC SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410
Business Mailing Address: 1335 W RIALTO AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered with the State of California under the number 201917010092
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: July 19, 2024.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ JOSE RODARTE, Managing Member
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/04/2026
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy K9232
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on May 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2026. Corrected on June 19 & 26 and July 3 & 10, 2026.

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Ontario City Councilman Alan Wapner is on the brink of being overtaken by events following his decision last year, 31 years after he was first elected to the city council, to run for mayor.
There were two primary factors and several smaller considerations in Wapner opting to seek the mayoralty at this juncture. One was his sense that upon turning 70 this year, the sands in the top half of his political career hourglass are nearly depleted and he has already waited far too long in claiming the mayoral title which he believes is rightly his. The second major factor was his belief that his relative strength vis-à-vis Paul Leon, who has monopolized the mayor’s post at this point for 21 years, has grown to the point that he can exploit what he takes to be the incumbent’s current, ongoing and long-dormant weaknesses.
Foremost in Wapner’s panoply is his readiness, or the readiness of his supporters, to revive a womanizing scandal that in the early going of Leon’s run as mayor crippled but did not topple him. Wapner now stands ready, with the funding and resolve, to vector attention to that now obscure matter in a way that will make it impossible for Ontario’s voters to not know about that nadir in Leon’s tenure as the city’s leader.
Unbeknownst to Wapner and his circle of supporters, however, is that the below-the-belt tactic he is set to utilize in vanquishing his rival is about to be turned on him, and in a way he will be unable to deflect, given that his own improper behavior involved an underage girl whose care and protection had been entrusted to him.
Over the last two decades, Leon and Wapner have stood at the apex of the Ontario community, both politically and in a larger social context. Because of Ontario’s position as the wealthiest of San Bernardino County’s municipalities, both elected officials have taken on an even larger significance as pillars of the Inland Empire. Continue reading →

The San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health is paying just under a quarter of a million dollars per year to have a limited subset of county residents receive electroconvulsive therapy.
Somewhere on the order of seven to eleven of what are deemed psychiatric patients within the county are subjected to the controversial process, which is intended to assist them in recovery from cases of severe mental illness, on an annual basis. While the sessions are represented as being therapeutic in nature, they have also been utilized as a form of punishment or means of behavior modification in circumscribed cases.
At the time the county entered into an arrangement with the Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center for the provision of electroshock therapy, former San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health Director Georgina Yoshioka described the treatment in question as involving vectoring electrical charges into the brains of subjects, resulting in “a brief painless seizure which causes changes in brain chemistry that can quickly reverse symptoms of certain severe mental health conditions, such as depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder, which have not responded to reasonable pharmacological treatment. It is an evidence-based, safe and effective alternative that may provide relief.”
According to literature put out by the American Psychiatric Association, electroconvulsive therapy, also referred to by its acronym ECT, is a psychiatric treatment consisting of passing an electrical current through the brain for the purpose of causing a generalized seizure. Electroconvulsive therapy has been used as an intervention for mental disorders when other treatments are inadequate. Conditions responsive to electroconvulsive therapy include major depressive disorder, mania, and catatonia, according to the association.
Modern electroconvulsive therapy, having evolved from earlier seizure-inducing treatments, advanced in the 1930s into a formal procedure with the development of equipment designed to deliver electrical currents to the brain using either unilateral or bilateral electrodes positioned on the scalp to stimulate one or two of the brain’s hemispheres. Electroconvulsive therapy became widely used in the 1940s, 1950s and into the 1960s. Its use declined by the 1970s in reaction to negative publicity, untoward side effects, misuse extending into abuse and safety concerns. Continue reading →

The Morongo Unified School District, like 76 percent of the school districts throughout California, has experienced declining enrollment in the last several years. Moreover, the drop-off in the number of students throughout the Morongo Basin has been more pronounced than in virtually every other part of the state and appears very likely to persist.
Throughout California in the 2014-15 school year, there were 6,163,001 students from kindergarten to the 12th Grade in all of California. In the 2025-26 school year, as a consequence of declining birth rates, that number had dropped to 5,731,260, a diminution of 7.533 percent.
Meanwhile in the Morongo Valley Unified School District, enrollment has receded from 9,700 students in 2006 to right around 7,300 students at present, a whopping 24.7 percent.
Despite the Morongo Unified School District being San Bernardino County’s largest such jurisdiction geographically at 1,342.44 square miles, there are 17 other school districts in the county with a more substantial student enrollment.
With 11 elementary schools, two middle schools and three high schools, the number of students in the district had climbed to 8,005 at the beginning of the 2020–2021 school year, when in-class instruction had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decline in students attending district school has remained constant since. Prognostication suggests that by 2031, the number of students in the district will have attrited to approximately 6,821. Continue reading →

In one fell swoop, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved contracts worth $90 million to cover work and supplies to be provided over the next four-and-a-half years to the county’s public works division.
In approving the disbursement of the funds, the board, acting as both the the governing body of San Bernardino County and as the governing body of the San Bernardino County Flood Control District, approved contracts of $10 million each with with Yucaipa-based Alexander Lawrence Bohanek doing business as A.B. Landscape; San Bernardino-based Bridgewater Equipment, Inc.; Chino-based California Arbor Care, Inc; Rancho Cucamonga-based Connected Enterprises Group, Inc. doing business as Galloway Boys Trucking; Victorville-based CornerStoneCC doing business as Cornerstone Construction Company; Adelanto-based MWC Group, Inc.; City of Industry-based Quinn Rental Services; Seven Hills, Ohio-based SCA of CA, LLC; and Lancaster-based Spadaro Enterprises, Inc.
The nine vendors were contracted to provide “on-call public works maintenance services.”
Work being contracted for includes chip seal material testing, concrete and concrete-repair work, debris control, erosion and sediment control, electrical services, fence installation and repair, guardrail installation and repair, hazardous waste removal, pavement maintenance and repair, snow removal and snow plowing, street sweeping, traffic control and flagging, traffic striping and weed abatement. Continue reading →

Yermo, which throughout most of the 20th Century was an independent and flourishing community in San Bernardino County’s vast desert outback, over the last several months has made preparations toward surrendering a key element of that independence. Further anticipated administrative action later this and next year will likely result in all aspects of the Yermo community’s public safety operations residing in the hands of county officials in San Bernardino.
Situated at a division point of the old Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad which was later absorbed by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Yermo was founded in 1902. A post office was established there in 1905. During the decade from 1910-to-1920, as the federal government was attempting to establish what was referred to as the all-weather Auto Trails System in the Southwest, the Arrowhead Trail, running from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, was routed through Yermo. In the 1920s, the Arrowhead Trail would be rechristened U.S. Route 91. It was as a major stop along Route 91 that Yermo came to full fruition as a community.
In its heyday, Yermo featured 27 gas stations, most of which employed mechanics, a machine shop capable of fabricating a host of auto parts, a hardware store, four real estate offices, seven restaurants, two grocery stores, a hardware store, seven bars/taverns, three motels, a thrift store, roadside camping sites and two parks. Continue reading →

Almost six years after Victorville’s voters by a very narrow margin passed a measure to impose on themselves an additional one-cent-per dollar sales tax burden, three of the five members of the Victorville City Council on June 16 indicated their willingness to ask for another cent in sales tax to be borne by the city’s consumers every time they make a dollar’s worth of purchases.
A bare majority vote of the council – 60 percent – was not able, however, to put the measure before the voters in November. A request of the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters Office to place the proposed tax ballot measure before Victorville’s 70,572 registered voters needed to be approved by a supermajority of the council, meaning four of its five members.
In 2020, public safety advocates, in particular supporters of the sheriff’s department, which serves as the contract law enforcement agency/police department for the City of Victorville, proposed a sales tax override, the proceeds from which would be used to beef up the city’s contract with the sheriff’s department to include putting more deputies on the city’s streets.
It is a peculiarity of the California Government Code, the California Tax Code and the California Elections Code that tax measures involving a tax proposed to be used for a specific purpose must be passed by a two-thirds margin, i.e., a 66.67% supermajority. General tax measures in which there is no commitment as to how the tax proceeds are to be spent need obtain a mere majority of the vote, i.e., 50.01 percent, to pass. Continue reading →

SUMMONS – (FAMILY LAW)
NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): WILLIAM DAVID BLACKWELL
YOU HAVE BEEN SUED.
Read the information below and on the next page. Lo han demandado. Lea la informacion a continuacion y en la pagina siguiente.
PETITIONER’S NAME IS (Nombre del demandante): ANGELA McKINNEY
CASE NUMBER FAMSB2507678
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (Form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.cagov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citacion y Peticion para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o liamada telefonica o una audiencia de la corte no basta para protegerio. Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiemp, la corte puede dar ordenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de heco, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte tambien le puede ordenar que pague manutencion, y honorarios y costos legales. Para asesoramiento legal, pongase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener informacion para encontrar un abogado en el Contro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lahelpca.org) o poniendose en contacto con el colegio de abodgados de su condado.
NOTICE – Restraining orders on page 2: These restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement office who has received or seen a copy of them.
AVISO – Las ordenes de restriction se encuentran en la pagina 2 : Las ordenes de restriccion estan en vigencia en cuanto a ambos conyuges o miembros de la pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la peticion, se emita un fallo o la corte de otras ordenes. Cualquier agencia del orden publico que haya rocibido o visto una copia de estas ordenes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California.
FEE WAIVER : If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.
Exencion de cuotas : Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario un formulario de execion de cuotas. La corte puede ordenar que ested pague, ya sea en parte o por completo, las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentos a peticion de usted o de la otra parte.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirrecion de la corte son):
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
351 N ARROWHEAD AVE
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415
The name, address and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, direccion y numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demendante si no tiene abogado, son):
ANGELA McKINNEY, In Pro Per
18268 LAPIS LN
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407
(213) 610-0903 360-9821
Filed: NOVEMBER 12, 2025 by Christa Martin Del-Campo, Deputy clerk (Asistente) for Clerk of the Court (Secretario)
Published in The San Bernardino County Sentinel on June 12, 19, 26 and July 3, 2026.

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