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@ChadPergram 1) Fox is told there are more conversations this week among Washington security officials if there were to be a trucker convoy descend on Washington, DC and specifically the US Capitol, ala the protests in Ottawa 2) That said, Fox is told there is some disagreement about how to approach a potential trucker convoy in Washington, DC. Fox is told the Secret Service would like Capitol officials to again put up the fence which encircled the Capitol grounds after the riot last year 3) Such a plan could include closing off the immediate environs of the Capitol complex and...

Grandstanding Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly wants to close a 200-resident veterans nursing home in a budget-cutting measure while at the same time enthusiastically handing out about $75 million in direct cash benefits to illegal aliens living in the state. In an extreme example of questionable priorities to say the least, Newsom, a far-left Democrat who is enabled by a Democrat-controlled legislature, targeted the Veterans Home of California-Barstow for closure to save $2.6 million (or perhaps less) as the formerly Golden State faces a corona-virus-induced budget crisis. For Democrats, illegal immigrants are among their primary constituencies.....................

Deputies responded to the scene of the shooting near Stoddard Wells Off-Highway Vehicle area near Barstow, about 1:17 a.m., according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. They found a 48-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the upper body, who was flown to a hospital by helicopter for medical treatment. Ismael Tamayo, a 44-year-old LAPD officer and Ontario resident, has since been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, according to sheriff’s officials and county booking records. Sheriff’s officials previously described the suspect as Ishmail Tamayo. The circumstances that led to the shooting are still under investigation, sheriff’s officials said....

October 3, 2004 How the White House Embraced Disputed Iraqi Arms IntelligenceBy DAVID BARSTOW, WILLIAM J. BROAD and JEFF GERTH his article was reported by David Barstow, William J. Broad and Jeff Gerth, and was written by Mr. Barstow. In 2002, at a crucial juncture on the path to war, senior members of the Bush administration gave a series of speeches and interviews in which they asserted that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear weapons program. In a speech to veterans that August, Vice President Dick Cheney said Mr. Hussein could have an atomic bomb "fairly soon." The next month,...

‘Unarmed’ black man killed in Walmart parking lot by police officers firing 'dozens of bullets' into packed carPolice have shot and killed a 26-year-old black man in a packed car outside of a Walmart in what his family say was an overly aggressive police response that led to an unnecessary death. Police in Barstow, California killed Diante Yarber, a father of three, earlier this month after attempting to stop the vehicle he was in. A report from Barstow police says that Mr Yarber was “wanted for questioning” in a stolen vehicle case, and that he struck two patrol cars before...

BARSTOW, Calif. (AP) — A box van packed with fireworks exploded and burned to the ground on a Southern California freeway Thursday, clogging the main road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas at the beginning of the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The Chevrolet van caught fire shortly before 1:30 p.m. Thursday on southbound Interstate 15 near the Nevada border, briefly closing southbound lanes for nearly an hour and backing up traffic several miles into Nevada, said California Highway Patrol Officer Ryan Camara. No one was injured.

LAS VEGAS—Former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks has been arrested in California on charges including resisting arrest and throwing objects, just hours after he became the first lawmaker ever expelled from the Nevada Legislature. Jail records show Barstow police arrested Brooks, 41, at about 7 p.m. Thursday on Interstate 15 at Stoddard Wells. "We had started to discuss possible next steps," Mitchell Posin, Brooks' attorney, told The Associated Press Friday. "Next thing I know, I heard about this." Posin said he had no details about the arrest, or about why Brooks was on the interstate in Barstow. Records show the North...

<p>LAS VEGAS – Former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks was arrested near Barstow after a high-speed chase, hours after being expelled from the Legislature because he was “potentially dangerous.”</p> <p>Brooks, 41, was arrested about 7 p.m. Thursday on Interstate 15 at Stoddard Wells Road, officials said. He was being held in the San Bernardino County Jail in Rancho Cucamonga on $100,000 bail, jail officials told the Los Angeles Times.</p>

BARSTOW [California] • Three people were stabbed after two parolees allegedly tried to steal a Barstow homeowner's decorative fountain from his front yard. Officers responded to the 600 block of Francis Drive around 1:47 a.m. Friday, according to a Barstow Police report. Police were told that two men — identified by police as Barstow residents Harry Carrillo, Jr., 28, and Eric Begay, 25 — had knocked on the victim’s door and asked for someone who did not live at the address, according to the report. Carrillo and Begay then allegedly took a decorative fountain valued between $200 and $300 from...

WHEN New York Times "investigative reporter" David Barstow was in kindergarten, a young Army officer lay in a hospital bed recovering from one of the three grievous wounds he would suffer in the course of four combat tours in our nation's service. Barstow never felt compelled to serve his country in any capacity. Instead, he dedicated his life to that godlike calling, journalism, in which those who never actually do anything are empowered to attack those who get things done. That wounded officer, Barry McCaffrey, would rise from his hospital bed and, despite losing most of the use of one...

November 27, 2007 - 5:17PM Cards for troops program to stop in Barstow By AARON AUPPERLEE, city editor BARSTOW — A cross-country trek collecting cards to send to troops who will be overseas for the holidays will stop in Barstow on Wednesday afternoon. The Honoring Heroes at the Holidays Tour, sponsored by Move America Forward, a pro-troop organization, will pull its flag-painted tour bus into the Barstow Outlets at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Catherine Moy, the executive director of the group, said the group will set up places for people to make cards and collect cards. The group will then...

BARSTOW — Max West was in a U.S. Army’s Reconnaissance platoon during World War II when his company met with the Russians in Austria 10 days before the end of the war. He later was drafted in the Korean War and served for a year. On Friday, West went along with 134 residents of the Veterans Home in Barstow to meet and shake hands with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. “We were all high after he left, including the staff,’ ” West, 84, said. “The nurses were down there with their cameras. We had a lot of fun.’’ West enjoyed the governor’s...

MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE BARSTOW, Calif. (March 16, 2006) -- Service members and employees of Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow judged some exceptional science projects for the Barstow Unified School District Science Fair March 9 at Barstow Community College's gymnasium. The fair is an annual event that is participated in by students who attend all schools within the Barstow area, said Danielle King, Barstow district science fair coordinator. Following the judging at the district fair, the students who received a gold ranking for their outstanding scientific intelligence are able to participate in the regional science fair, said King. Not all...

MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE BARSTOW, Calif. (January 19, 2006) -- "We were looking for weapons caches, improvised explosive devices and mines. That was our primary job," said Sgt. Neil Fucci, MCLB Barstow dog handler. Fucci and his Belgian Malinois, Rambo spent the majority of last year deployed to Iraq. While most Marines would try to avoid IEDs and mines, Fucci and Rambo, were searching specifically for them. In April 2005, Fucci and Rambo deployed from MCLB Barstow and arrived in Al-Asad, Iraq in mid-May. Forward Operating Base Camp Gannon in Husaybah, a town that sits very near the Iraqi and...

MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE BARSTOW, Calif. (Oct. 6, 2005) -- In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina federal, state and local agencies dispatched teams of personnel to provide much needed assistance to the thousands of evacuees who were forced to leave the cities along the Gulf Coast to include New Orleans, which was nearly destroyed. Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29 as a high Category 4 hurricane and by all accounts, it has been considered the most destructive hurricane ever. Joining in to provide much-needed assistance to evacuees were MCLB Barstow civilian employees, Gary Heidorn, supervisor of the PAXMAN Shop at...

BARSTOW, Calif. (AP) - An 11-year-old attacked her baby sitter with a machete during a struggle that included attempts by the girl to grab a baseball bat, a shovel and a BB gun, investigators said. The girl fled on a bicycle after the attack but was arrested about an hour later and booked for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon, said Sgt. Doug Hubbard, of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. The 34-year-old sitter telephoned deputies after fending off the Tuesday attack and locking herself and the girl's 12-year-old sister in the bathroom of the Mojave Desert home, Hubbard...

"How the White House Used Disputed Arms Intelligence" NYT 10/3/04

FSD Barstow 'gets some' NBC trainingSubmitted by: MCLB BarstowStory Identification Number: 2004227145518Story by Lance Cpl. Andy J. Hurt MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE BARSTOW, Calif.(Feb. 26, 2004) -- It may seem that without "operational" units, albeit infantry or artillery, MCLB Barstow doesn't see much action. Marines from MCLB's Fleet Support Division are changing that. At about 7 a.m. Feb. 13, 13 motivated leathernecks at the MCLB Barstow Yermo Annex gathered in the brisk morning breeze at Building 551 in little more than "green on green." Some Marines wore beanies. Staff Sgt. Travis Snyder, maintenance chief with Fleet Support Division, began...

BARSTOW, Calif. - A plan is in the works to build the West's largest cow town, a nearly 2,000-acre gated community in the Mojave Desert where 600 dairy farmers and their families would live alongside about 90,000 cattle. The plan being pursued by two successful California businessmen aims to reduce agricultural pollution in the town by turning manure into clean, renewable energy to run the cow complex, with some left over for sale to the electricity grid serving Southern California. Estimated cost of the project is $1 billion. "We're talking cow condos, a complete gated community, sharing all sorts of...