Fontana Ca

Southern California Edison on Monday unveiled its newest power plant: 33,700 solar panels atop a warehouse in Fontana that will feed green energy directly into the grid. It's the first piece of what the utility says could become the largest rooftop solar installation in the world, a swath of photovoltaic panels spanning two square miles. The 600,000-square-foot warehouse rooftop, owned by logistics firm ProLogis Inc.

Just a week ago, Fontana was a big winner in the fight for a new bankroll of state highway dollars when the California transportation officials set aside $85.7 million to widen a leg of Interstate 10 that slices through the mushrooming city. But that was before Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, upset that L.A.

A substitute teacher was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a 16-year-old girl, authorities said Thursday. Joseph Scott Pine, 23, was taken into custody Wednesday at his Redlands home after one of the teenager's friends alerted Fontana police to their alleged relationship, officials said. The alleged victim attended classes taught by Pine while he worked for the Fontana Unified School District, Sgt. Douglas Wagner said.

A 21-year-old Fontana woman died early Saturday after her sedan collided with a pickup truck on the 91 Freeway east of Coal Canyon Road. Kristina Nicole Taylor-Ibarra was pronounced dead at Riverside Community Hospital just hours after the accident, which occurred about 9:20 p.m. Friday. No further details were available.

A 40-year-old man of Korean descent shot and killed his young daughter and then himself Saturday at his Fontana home, a tragedy similar to two recent incidents in Los Angeles involving Korean American fathers who police say killed family members. Bong Joo Lee's relatives told police that he had been unemployed for some time and might have racked up as much as $200,000 in gambling debt, said Fontana Police Sgt. William Megenney.

Four schools near Fontana High School went on lockdown Friday after a riot broke out at the high school. Students said the brawl began at lunch after someone pulled a fire alarm, sending hundreds of students into an open quad. Black and Latino students shouted racial slurs at one another and exchanged blows, students said. Officers from city and county agencies -- some in protective helmets wielding beanbag shotguns -- helped school police break up the fights over the course of two hours.

The blowtorch caught everyone by surprise. It glowed blue in the darkened classroom at A.M. Miller High School in Fontana as the man holding it asked, in a slightly unhinged voice: "Why am I using a blowtorch, and who the heck am I?" No one answered. "I am Danny Ruderman," he proclaimed, "and, yes, I am an alumnus of Fontana High School, your archrival." Blowtorch. Archrival. Something unsettling was taking place here. But Ruderman did not flambe any students at Miller that day.

The body of a baby was found near a construction area Saturday morning in Fontana, police said. The baby, which appeared to be a newborn, was found inside a plastic container on the side of the road by a passerby about 9 a.m. near Lime Avenue, between Foothill Boulevard and Miller Avenue, according to police and the San Bernardino County coroner's office. The cause of death was unknown pending an autopsy, said Jennifer Schlotterbeck, a police dispatch supervisor.

Sheriff's officials have arrested two Fontana residents in connection with the death of a 14-month-old child. The child stopped breathing Tuesday night at the Inland Center Mall and died Wednesday afternoon at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Authorities said the baby had several injuries in varied stages of healing. Sheriff's officials arrested Amy Bell, 21, and Joseph Simon, 23, on suspicion of causing the child's injuries.

Ten years ago Virginia Geil lost her heart -- to a garage. Not just any garage -- a corrugated metal monster of a garage. A garage so big it could swallow two other garages, an echoing steel cavern crammed with engines, pumps and a boxy, blue milk truck built like a tank. But the 94-year-old relic that dispensed gas, oil and comfort food to travelers heading to Palm Springs had a date with a bulldozer.