Author name: CCAR Staff

SANTA ANA — An Uber driver has been charged on suspicion of raping a passenger in Santa Ana while she was intoxicated, authorities said Wednesday. Angel Sanchez, 36, of Costa Mesa faces one felony count of rape of an intoxicated victim, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said, and up to eight years in prison […]

ONTARIO >> Ontario police will screen for impaired drivers at a DUI checkpoint someplace in the city between 6 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday, officials announced. While the location is not publicized, locations are selected based on collision statistics and frequency of DUI arrests, officials said in a news release. Officers will be looking […]

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Former “The Bachelor” star Chris Soules was arrested early Tuesday, accused of fleeing the scene of a deadly crash on a highway a few miles from his northern Iowa farm. The Iowa State Patrol reports that a pickup truck rear-ended a tractor in Aurora at around 8:20 p.m., sending both vehicles […]

POMONA >> An Alhambra man was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison for driving drunk, while on probation for DUI, and triggering a crash on the 210 Freeway in Claremont that killed a 27-year-old Las Vegas man. Ryan Munoz, 40, was convicted of second-degree murder Sept. 30 for the June 28, 2014, […]

PASO ROBLES — A Los Angeles man has been identified as the pilot of a replica World War I-era biplane that crashed in a field on California’s central coast The San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s office says Javier Fernando Arango, 54, died when the single-engine, open-cockpit plane went down shortly after takeoff from a private […]

Instead of celebrating his 19th birthday by enjoying music at Coachella, Teddy Schaffer will be spending this weekend — and many more to come — in a hospital bed recovering from a serious car crash. Schaffer, a 2016 graduate of Riverside’s King High School, was returning from snowboarding in Big Bear about 5:15 p.m. Sunday, […]

FONTANA >> A man was seriously hurt when he was struck by a vehicle late Wednesday night in Fontana, according to initial police reports. The crash was first reported around 11:45 p.m. in the 9200 block of Sierra Avenue. The man was taken to the hospital and is listed in serious condition, officials said Thursday. […]

WALNUT >> A sheriff’s vehicle was involved in a three-vehicle collision in Walnut today, but no one was seriously injured. The crash was reported about 4:50 p.m. at the intersection of Valley Boulevard and Lemon Avenue, authorities said. A deputy was on westbound Valley Boulevard stopped to make a left turn onto southbound Lemon Avenue […]

GLENDORA >> Coroner’s officials have the man fatally struck by an alleged DUI, hit-and-run driver from Claremont while working under the hood of a car last week. Brian Pasley, 58, of Glendora succumbed to his injuries at a hospital shortly after the 10:10 a.m. April 13 crash along Grand Avenue, just north of Arrow Highway, […]