San Bernardino County

Key to Election Tables * An asterisk (*) denotes an incumbent candidate; a dagger (**) denotes an appointed incumbent. * A double dagger (***) indicates a race in a district shared by two or more counties. For that reason, individual tables do not reflect the total vote. * Elected candidates and approved measures--or those leading with 99% of precincts reporting--are in bold type. Results are not official and could be affected by absentee ballots.

Your polling place should be printed on your sample ballot. If you need to find out where your polling place is located, or have other general voting questions, call your county registrar at one of the numbers listed below. Another way to find out your polling place is to ask a neighbor. Polling places are marked with flags. * Hours of voting: Statewide hours are 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Best Products will close many of its stores in California, leaving just five locations open.

The identification Saturday of a body found in a San Bernardino County desert grave solved one young boy's disappearance--but left unanswered the year-old mystery of another. Police in Adelanto disclosed that partially buried remains found by hunters a week ago are those of 4-year-old Christopher Joseph Rogers, who disappeared from his San Bernardino home Aug. 17. Investigators had speculated that the body was either Christopher's or that of Jack Phillips, a 9-year-old who vanished Aug.

Inglewood police have arrested a San Bernardino County jail escapee after being called to a hotel to investigate a suspicious person. Anthony Lamont Caldwell, 31, was awaiting trial in the 1993 murder, rape and robbery of a Fontana woman when he and four other inmates escaped through a visiting area window at the San Bernardino Central Detention Center on Aug. 5, the sheriff's office in that county reported.

A day after implicating himself during television interviews, the father of a 3-year-old Maryland boy abandoned in a local shopping mall voluntarily agreed to return to California from Maryland, where he is being held in a county jail. Wolfgang Von Nester Sr., 23, waived extradition Wednesday at a court hearing in Washington County District Court in Hagerstown, Md., saying he wants to return to California to face charges for which he could receive up to six years in prison, authorities said.

On Nov. 12, 1980, Bill Kennedy's ex-wife picked up their son from the baby-sitter's house in Santa Ana and vanished. She had done it before--disappearing with 3-year-old David for weeks at a time. But this time she didn't bring him back. There were no telephone calls. No letters. No clues to her whereabouts.

A state park worker on Tuesday found the body of a missing 4-year-old La Habra girl on the shore of Silverwood Lake, about half a mile from the spot her family's rented boat capsized nine days ago. A maintenance worker spotted Marisol Quezada's body at 5:22 a.m. during a search, and park officials notified her family immediately, said Larry Cermak, the park superintendent.

An investigation into the slaying of a Placentia girl that baffled law enforcement officials for eight years came to an end this week when authorities charged a convicted rapist in connection with her death. Raymond J. Barthlett, 34, was arrested Friday after DNA evidence linked him to the slaying of 14-year-old Wendy Osborn. She was abducted Jan. 20, 1987, while walking to school and was later raped and killed.