A couple hours into their school day Monday, April 8, Fontana students watched as the bright sunshine that greeted them that morning was muted a bit. Students at Shadow Hills Elementary School in Fontana watch the solar eclipse Monday, April 8, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG) Cristina Reyes, a fifth grade teacher at Shadow Hills Elementary School in Fontana, shows students how to wear solar glasses before the solar eclipse Monday, April 8, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG) The moon’s shadow is cast down from a sunspotter ..read more

The opening of Fontana’s Sammy Hagar-associated concert hall has been set for this summer with the former Van Halen frontman playing the first show. Stage Red — a Sammy Hagar Venue will replace the former Center Stage Theater, which closed in August 2022. Hagar, also known as the Red Rocker, grew up in Fontana. The musician and songwriter was inducted to the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Van Halen in 2007. Originally, the city planned to open the renovated theater in time for Memorial Day 2023. Opening day was pushed back to March 2024 but budget issues again delayed the theater’s d ..read more

San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said Wednesday, April 3, that he does not know yet whether the man who was video recorded repeatedly being kneed in the head by a deputy during an arrest in Hesperia was handcuffed at the time. The use of force occurred on March 26 after 36-year-old Christian Cardenas Alonso from Adelanto was pulled over for a traffic stop. Alonso was identified as a suspect in an armed robbery, the Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. Alonso refused to leave his car and resisted arrest, the department said. He was struck while face-down on the pavement. “We ..read more

A backlog of cases at the state Department of Justice and a delay by San Bernardino County in providing information because of a ransomware attack could combine to make it several months or more before the DOJ completes its report on the shooting of an unarmed teenage girl and her armed father by sheriff’s deputies at the end of a pursuit in Hesperia in September 2022. This screengrab from video released by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Dept. shows Savannah Graziano, 15, buying soda at a convenience store in Kramer Junction before she was killed by gunfire from deputies in Hesperia ..read more

San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus was quick to disclose information after deputies fatally shot an autistic 15-year-old boy armed with a sharp gardening tool in Apple Valley. Within days of the March 9 shooting outside a home, Dicus released portions of the body-worn camera footage and defended his deputies at a news conference. Conversely, in Fontana, more than four months after police shot and killed a man in November while responding to a domestic dispute, the department has stayed mum about the details of the shooting. Fontana police have been equally silent in two of three other ..read more

A Jurupa Valley street was blocked Wednesday night, March 27, while a hazardous-materials team and police dealt with a methamphetamine lab discovered while a search warrant was being served by Fontana police, officials said. Fontana police searched a property in the 4700 block of Bain Street on Wednesday and found the methamphetamine-conversion lab, sheriff’s Sgt. Wenndy Brito-Gonzalez said. At 4:15 p.m., the Sheriff’s Special Investigations Bureau — Narcotics Division was called in to assist with the investigation of the lab, while Bain Street was blocked between Galena and 48th streets. The ..read more

A.B. Miller High School has a new Rebel on campus, designed and chosen by the school community to represent its spirit. The mascot, which underwent a complete rebranding over the past three-plus years, is not one thing or another, the Miller High community says, making it a true rebel. “It is a unique rebel that is unique to our school,” said Joseph Schirmer, assistant principal at Miller in the Fontana Unified School District. The mascot “is much in the rebel spirit of who we are. And we believe that our rebel is whatever you want it to be.” Rebel, the new branded mascot at A.B. Miller Hi ..read more

LONG BEACH — A 23-year-old man already serving prison time in an assault case was booked into Long Beach City Jail on Monday on suspicion of a 2023 killing. According to the Long Beach Police Department, Joseph Ballard of Long Beach was booked on an outstanding murder warrant in connection with the Oct. 22 death of 33-year-old Thomas Ferguson of Fontana, who was shot in 14th Street Park. “Detectives believe Ballard was involved in an altercation with Ferguson that escalated into a shooting,” according to a police statement. “At this time, it is unknown if they previously knew each other.” Mult ..read more

An Oceanside man was struck and killed by a vehicle during a robbery in Fontana last week, with two men later arrested in Banning, authorities said. Around 9 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, 41-year-old Jeremy Ruffin was found severely injured in the parking lot of a Goodwill, at 14405 Baseline Avenue, according to the Fontana Police Department. Ruffin was taken to a hospital where he later died. The investigation found that Ruffin had been the victim of a robbery by two Fontana residents. The suspects were not armed during the robbery, said Fontana Police Sgt. Nathan Weiske. While fleeing, the suspe ..read more

The man who was shot to death by Fontana police inside The Home Depot on Monday, Feb. 26, had brushed off an attempt to incapacitate him with a Taser and charged at officers before they fired, the Police Department said as it provided new details on the confrontation. Police were called to the area of Sierra and Jurupa avenues around 6 p.m. because a man was running in and out of traffic, seemingly attempting to get hit, said Officer Steven Reed, a department spokesman. The man, identified by the San Bernardino County Coroner’s Office as 36-year-old Fontana resident Marcus Allen Camacho, was t ..read more