Author name: CCAR Staff

A new law that allows cities, counties and law enforcement agencies to request the California Highway Patrol to inspect more of the tour buses that pass through their territory is receiving scant attention locally and statewide, despite a number of calamitous collisions in recent years. In fact, not one municipality or agency in the state […]

Thursday, March 23 FanFest – 5-9 p.m, O’Reilly Auto Parts Fan Zone Austin Dillon, Darrell Waltrip, Ryan Reed, Matt DiBenedetto Friday, March 24 Walk of Fame Induction – 9:40 a.m. 2016 Auto Club 400 Winner Jimmie Johnson Xfinity Series driver autograph session, 4-4:45 p.m. Fan Zone Main Stage, wristband required Saturday, March 25 Autograph Alley […]

FONTANA >> Police officers arrested a 41-year-old Pomona man on Saturday after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a Fontana home and injured two people, officials say. Kelly Stovall was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence causing injury, a felony, said Fontana police Lt. Gary Aulis. Stovall was booked into West Valley […]

POMONA >> At least one person was injured in a single-vehicle crash Friday in Pomona. Pomona police reported the crash around 12:30 a.m. on Holt Avenue, between Clark and Lorrane avenues. A male occupant was treated for injuries but his condition was not immediately reported. A Pomona police officer said the male was conscious and […]

An Arleta man whose fiancee was killed in a car crash last month allegedly by an undocumented immigrant who had been deported five times said he has received words of encouragement from President Donald Trump. Rodrigo Macias appeared on the television news program “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday morning to discuss the death of his […]

MIAMI — Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was the “probable” operator of a speeding boat that crashed into a Miami Beach jetty on Sept. 25, killing the baseball star and two other men, according to a report issued Thursday by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which investigated the accident. The 46-page report included […]

FONTANA >> A man was killed Tuesday after the vehicle he was riding in was sideswiped, sending it into a series of parked cars and fatally injuring him, Fontana police said. Two vehicles were traveling north on Mulberry Avenue, approaching Slover Avenue, according to a police statement, when one of the vehicles sideswiped the other […]

British-born figurative painter and multimedia artist Simon Birch remembers exactly how it felt when he totaled his cherry red Ferrari — on purpose. The vehicle rolled over a number of times and was destroyed, eventually ending up in hundreds of pieces. The flashy sports car was the last material thing Birch owned, and its destruction […]

Stacey Pierce, one of two survivors of last week’s plane crash into a Riverside neighborhood, died Tuesday night, March 7, in a local hospital from complications of her burns, a coroner’s official said. Pierce, 46, of San Jose, suffered third-degree burns – the most serious kind – over 90 percent of her body. Doctors had […]