Author name: CCAR Staff

POMONA >> An 88-year-old man died Friday after falling in front of a moving bus, police officials said. Officers responded to reports of a vehicle versus pedestrian traffic collision at Reservoir Street, north of Phillips Boulevard, at about 10 a.m., police officials said in a news release. A transit bus traveling northbound on Reservoir Street […]

LOS ANGELES — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Friday threatened a floor fight over rules and platform planks at the party’s summer convention on Friday, warning the Democratic National Committee not to stack the convention’s standing committees with supporters of Hillary Clinton. The prospect of a procedural wrench thrown into the party’s flagship event […]

TALLADEGA, Ala. >> Brad Keselowski won a demolition derby at Talladega Superspeedway, where multiple wrecks caused two cars to go airborne and led to millions of dollars in damage to race teams. Keselowski’s cruise to the checkered flag was anticlimactic Sunday compared to all the other trouble. “Racing has always been that balance of daredevils […]

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> A 7-year-old girl died Saturday in a two-vehicle crash on the 210 Freeway near Rancho Cucamonga, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner’s office. Rose Robinson, a resident of Victorville, was a passenger in a 2003 Ford Focus that was traveling westbound, just east of Milliken Avenue at about 1 p.m., officials […]

It’s been quite a month for Leah Pritchett, the NHRA Top Fuel driver from Redlands. In that time span, she lost her regular ride in the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series when Bob Vandergriff Racing folded its racing operations after four of 26 national events, and has had two part-time rides, the latest with Don […]

CHINO >> A motorcyclist died after colliding with a vehicle making a left turn Wednesday afternoon. Ryan Colwell, 19, of Ontario was flown to a hospital where he died during surgery, according to a Chino Police Department statement. Just after 3:30 p.m., police were called to the 5900 block of Riverside Drive for a crash […]

UPLAND >> Kassidy Fierro and her family have been through a very emotional past few weeks. On March 13, Fierro welcomed her first child, Ainsley, into the world and while everyone was still giddy with new baby visits and congratulations, they got a cold shot of reality when they learned Fierro’s mother, 47-year-old Kristen Pretzer, […]

A Claremont man was arrested after the CHP says he drunkenly crashed his car in a construction area on I-15 in Corona on Friday, killing a woman and a boy and injuring a second child who were all passengers in his car. The deceased were identified Monday as Ashley Austin, 27, and Christopher Austin, 6, […]

POMONA >> For more than a week, 17-year-old Alan Sanchez, a senior at Ganesha High School, was hospitalized, barely clinging to life following a crash in which he suffered major injuries. Early Monday, Sanchez succumbed to those injuries at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, said his sister Laura Sanchez. In addition to dealing with the […]