San Bernardino County

Fireworks: Friday Calendar's guide to local fireworks displays listed an event in Fontana as being in Riverside County. Fontana is in San Bernardino County.

A city councilman in San Bernardino County was arrested Wednesday for allegedly using his position and influence to benefit a business he operated with his wife, officials said. The arrest warrant for Grand Terrace Councilman Jim Miller was for "conflict of interest," and his bail was set at $25,000, according to a statement from the county district attorney's office. "The allegations are that, over the last two years, Councilman Miller repeatedly voted for city expenditures that benefited a newspaper and printing business operated by Miller and his wife," the statement read.

Former San Bernardino County Assessor Bill Postmus was named Tuesday in a sweeping criminal complaint ranging from drug charges to misappropriation of pub- lic funds. Former county assessor's employee Gregory Scott Eyler also was also charged in the case. Eyler was arrested and is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail, but Postmus was not taken into custody. He will be arraigned Thursday on 11 felony counts, including grand theft . Eyler faces similar charges, none drug-related, however.

San Bernardino County has reached a tentative agreement to pay a U.S. Air Force serviceman $1.5 million after a nationally publicized incident in which a sheriff's deputy shot the man as he sat outside a Corvette that had just been involved in a high-speed chase. The 2006 incident, which occurred in Chino, was videotaped by a citizen and showed former Deputy Ivory Webb shooting then-21-year-old Elio Carrion three times as he appeared to be obeying orders to stand up. Carrion was a passenger in the car. Webb was charged with attempted voluntary manslaughter but acquitted by a jury.

Mortgage delinquencies will continue to rise and set records the rest of this year in California, according to projections to be released today by TransUnion, one of the three big U.S. credit-reporting companies. The good news from TransUnion's number-crunching is that, even in the tarnished Golden State, the trend may finally reverse itself by the middle of next year. Before that can happen, lenders must first work through scads of backed-up problem loans clogging their pipelines, F.J. Guarrera, vice president for banking at the Chicago data analyzer, said in an interview Monday.

The caretaker of a Yucaipa group home was tied up and severely beaten by two juveniles who stole his car and money and led authorities on a high-speed chase before being captured hours later, authorities said Monday. San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies went to a home on 5th Place about 11:45 p.m. Saturday after receiving calls about a fight, according to Arden Wiltshire, a department spokeswoman. Inside they found a 43-year-old man tied up and unconscious in a bedroom closet. The unidentified man had been beaten with a steam iron and a wooden dowel, she said.

A San Bernardino County sheriff's helicopter pilot was recovering from surgery Sunday after being shot twice from the ground by a man fleeing arrest, authorities said. After Deputy Robert Hill was shot in the leg and hip by bullets that pierced the helicopter, he temporarily lost control of the craft, although he and his observer were able to make an emergency landing, said San Bernardino Sheriff's Sgt. Rick Carr.

Plans by Los Angeles County to send trash by train to the High Desert have been derailed, at least for now, by voters in San Bernardino County. Voters said Tuesday that they are not necessarily opposed to huge garbage dumps atop High Desert aquifers. But they specifically rejected Rail-Cycle, a private landfill designed to accommodate much of Southern California's trash for 100 years.

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