A weekend water main break left Raymond Cree Middle School with just one working chiller pump as classrooms filled with students.

Juan A. Leon Cruz was pronounced dead at the scene near Bartlett Avenue. The available account does not state a cause of death.

A vehicle fire on Ben-Mar Drive spread fast, killing a dog and sending one person to the hospital before nine engines beat it back.

Edgar Chavez died at the scene on Big Bear Boulevard after a gray Toyota Tundra fled toward Yucaipa; an alleged hit-and-run driver was taken into custody.

A separate Brooks shoe theft was reported near Ludlow before the Helendale burglary.

Cassidy Kelsay, 41, died after a driver fled the scene on Highway 18 near Rancherias Road. He'd been arrested weeks earlier at a nearby Dollar Tree.

Two people had unknown injuries after their vehicle went off Highway 243 near Mount Edna and caught fire, igniting brush around them.

A Victorville man allegedly opened fire outside Rustic Tavern after other patrons confronted him over the bartender. He's since posted bail.

Abigail Marin, 17, hasn't been seen since Saturday afternoon on Clifton Boulevard. She left home without a cell phone, police say.

A deputy's cruiser burned in a field near High Desert Church while four juveniles fled a burglary chase on foot.

Witnesses chased the fleeing driver to a DD's Discounts lot after he allegedly tried buying a wig with fake cash.

Crews called in a water-dropping helicopter as flames spread fast through dry riverbed brush near Stoddard Wells Road.

William Rodriguez faced a second day of hearings in the 2024 hit-and-run death of Christina Barrington, 60, in Cathedral City.