A rollover crash in Phelan left a person dead on Saturday, officials said. The crash was first reported about 11:40 a.m. at Sheep Creek Road, just north of Chevoit Road, according to California Highway Patrol logs. It was initially described as a solo-vehicle rollover, with the vehicle ultimately coming to a rest on its roof. […]
An all-terrain vehicle rider died following a collision with an SUV on Highway 138 near Phelan on Friday afternoon, authorities said. The crash was first reported just before noon along the highway at Rancho Del La Garto, according to California Highway Patrol logs. The rider of a quad motorcycle was rushed to a hospital by […]
A man driving a stolen pickup truck led deputies on a high-speed chase from Phelan to Adelanto before being apprehended earlier this week, officials said. A deputy tried to pull over a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck for traffic violations about 12:30 a.m. Thursday at Colorado and Palmdale roads in Phelan, according to the San Bernardino […]
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan emerged from Tuesday’s bloody GOP primary runoff with a wafer-thin victory, but the dominant forces in the Republican Party who have been gunning for him for more than a year showed no signs of backing away from their all-out effort to put the Legislature’s lower chamber under new management in […]
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, the top electoral target for a far-right faction of Republicans intent on controlling the Legislature, declared victory Tuesday over a well-funded challenger endorsed by Donald Trump and his allies. Phelan defeated former Orange County Republican Party chairman David Covey, who also had the backing of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Attorney […]
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle in Phelan on Thursday night, officials said. The collision was first reported just before 10:40 p.m. at Johnson and Coyote roads, according to California Highway Patrol logs. The involved vehicle remained at the scene, logs show. No further details were available as the investigation remained in […]
Authorities have identified a 43-year-old Phelan man who was struck and killed by a car in a hit-and-run earlier this month. Dustin Robert Odum died following the collision, which took place just after 7 a.m. on May 2 along Johnson Road, between Phelan and Nielsen roads, according to San Bernardino County coroner’s records. He was […]
Richard “Dick” Phelan, a former president of the Cook County Board remembered for championing reproductive rights and abortion services while in office, died peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday in north suburban Lake Forest, his family said in a release. The cause of death was metastatic cancer, his family said. He was 86. Using his […]
House Speaker Dade Phelan was unable to secure his reelection to his Southeast Texas district Tuesday night and will head into a runoff election against a GOP primary challenger backed by former President Donald Trump and Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to unofficial results and both candidates. David Covey, an oil and gas industry consultant and […]
VIDOR — Former Gov. Rick Perry was on the campaign trail stumping with the embattled Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, on Thursday as early voting stretched into its final day. The two have a longstanding relationship that began in the 1990s when Phelan’s family supported Perry’s bid for Texas Agriculture Commissioner as he stumped through […]
The Texas Republican Party on Saturday censured House Speaker Dade Phelan “for lack of fidelity to Republican principles and priorities” in yet another example of intraparty warfare heading into the March primary election in which the embattled leader of the Legislature’s lower chamber is at the center. In a terse news release, the state party said it was […]
Republican Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, taking fire from former President Donald Trump and some high-profile Republicans in the state as he faces a tough primary race, unleashed a direct attack Tuesday on Attorney General Ken Paxton by invoking the extramarital affair that helped trigger last year’s impeachment against the state’s top lawyer. “It pains […]