By DARRELL R. SANTSCHI, The Press-Enterprise

One of last three towns with Sunday mail delivery may lose it

LOMA LINDA, Calif. - For 81 years, postal authorities have served Loma Linda, Calif.'s large Seventh-day Adventist population, forgoing Saturday service -- their Sabbath -- and delivering mail on Sundays.

That is about to change.

The 15 mail carriers serving Loma Linda's 8,000 homes will make their final Sunday delivery this weekend. Saturday delivery starts April 23.

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After losing transplanted hand, man wants a new one

Dave Armstrong tries hard to explain what it is like to be right-handed with no right hand.

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California fire blamed on neglected freeway landscaping

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- San Bernardino's top firefighter blamed neglected freeway landscaping for fueling a destructive blaze Monday that burned downtown businesses, stopped trains and sent motorists fleeing from their cars on Interstate 215.

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California woman, 95, finally gets her high school diploma

Neva Powers Mason, born in 1912, grew up in Loma Linda, Calif., played in the local orchestra, married a physician and attended the first-term inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933.She raised four children, two of whom became doctors and another a dentist.With all that, she had one regret: She never got a high school diploma from Loma Linda Academy.

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