A housekeeper sobbed and shrieked in the background as a driver called 911 last week to report that Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington had hanged himself at his Palos Verdes Estates house, an audio recording released Monday showed. The woman wailed as the unidentified driver told a dispatcher that she had met him outside with […]
An autistic teenager took the bus home Friday morning after authorities issued an Amber Alert saying the car he’d been inside was stolen from outside a Jack in the Box in Paramount, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The boy, 17-year-old Frankie Barboa was in the back seat of a Honda Civic that […]
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The pedestrian who was struck and killed by a vehicle Tuesday in Moreno Valley was identified Wednesday, July 19, as an 83-year-old Fontana man. Jose Lopez Delgado was struck at 6:36 a.m. and died at 7:20 a.m., the Riverside County Coroner’s Office said. Lopez Delgado was in a crosswalk at the intersection of Eucalyptus Avenue […]
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Four and a half years to the day after a vehicle collision in Colton that killed two Riverside seventh-graders and a grandmother, the driver was found guilty of three counts of second-degree murder. Michael Dwayne Hughes, 34, of Moreno Valley faces 45 years to life in prison at sentencing, scheduled for October, the San Bernardino […]
DETROIT >> A Tesla driver says his car’s partially self-driving Autopilot system wasn’t responsible for a crash in Minnesota, despite what he initially told investigators. In its police report obtained Monday by The Associated Press, the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office said David Clark, 58, blamed Autopilot for a crash Saturday evening in Hawick, Minnesota. Clark […]
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A woman died early Monday in a single-car crash on the 210 Freeway in Fontana. The woman was driving east at 3:25 a.m. in a 1996 Toyota Camry when the car veered right near the off-ramp to Sierra Avenue, according to a California Highway Patrol news release; officers are still investigating what caused her to […]
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EL MONTE >> A pilot died Friday when his small plane crashed while taking off at the San Gabriel Valley Airport in El Monte. The plane appeared to experience engine problems. “Witnesses said somewhere between 100 feet to 200 feet off the ground, the (engine) noise ceased,” said Patrick Jones, air safety investigator with the […]
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A staff sergeant from Ventura County was among the 16 servicemen identified Friday who died when the U.S. Marine aircraft they were flying in crashed in Mississippi earlier this week. The crash occurred Monday when the plane went down into a soybean field, killing 16 people aboard and spreading debris for miles, the Associated Press […]
A Mira Costa High School graduate who helped lead his Manhattan Beach football team to a championship in 2009 was among the group of elite U.S. Marines killed when their KC-130 Hercules aircraft crashed in western Mississippi this week, family members and friends said Thursday. Sgt. Chad Elliott Jenson, 25, who grew up in Redondo […]
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