Author name: CCAR Staff

The Department of Transportation repeatedly issued bus company Scapadas Magicas — involved in the deadly 2013 Yucaipa tour bus crash that killed eight people — and its buses passing grades despite serious deficiencies inspectors found months, possibly years, before the fatal crash, according to a wrongful death and injury lawsuit filed against the federal government. […]

Divers working for several emergency response agencies have expanded their search area off the San Pedro Harbor for any survivors following a mid-air collision involving two light aircraft Friday afternoon. U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Jonathan McCormick said the Federal Aviation Administration has confirmed that a mid-air collision took place near the Point Fermin Lighthouse, and […]

SAN BERNARDINO >> The latest hearing in the criminal case against Norberto Perez, the driver involved in the fatal Yucaipa tour bus crash, has been postponed to Monday. A trial readiness hearing was supposed to be held Friday in San Bernardino Superior Court, but it was delayed until Monday. Perez has been charged with eight […]

WEST COVINA — A rollover crash involving one car on the San Bernardino (10) Freeway in West Covina this morning temporarily shut down three freeway lanes but there were no reports of injuries, the California Highway Patrol reported. The crash took place on the eastbound 10 Freeway at West Covina Parkway around 4:45 a.m., CHP […]

ONTARIO >> Police will be on the lookout for drunken and unlicensed drivers during a checkpoint on Friday night, officials said. The checkpoint will be set up at an undisclosed location between 6 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday, according to an Ontario Police Department news release. Officers will be looking for signs of drug […]

SAN BERNARDINO >> It’s 6:30 a.m. and the rays of the morning’s sunrise have yet to cut through the darkness in San Bernardino. Guadalupe Bravo stirs from sleep, stretching as far as she can before she gently shakes her son, Norberto Perez Jr., awake from his slumber. “Levantate, hijo,” she says. The mother and son, […]

In the three years following the fatal bus crash near Yucaipa, the government agencies that regulate vehicle safety have implemented several policies aimed at improving standards and the process determining when vehicles are too unsafe to be on the road. Immediately following the Feb. 3, 2013, crash that killed eight people, politicians and government officials […]

CLAREMONT >> Claremont police plan a sobriety checkpoint somewhere in the city Friday night to catch impaired drivers. The checkpoint will be set up in an undisclosed location between 7 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday, according to a Claremont Police Department news release. Officers will be looking for signs of drug or alcohol impairment, […]

POMONA >> A bicyclist was injured in a collision with another vehicle tonight in Pomona and taken to County-USC Medical Center. The collision occurred shortly before 8 p.m. at McKinley and Orange Grove avenues, said Lt. Alex Illoraza of the Pomona Police Department. The victim’s condition has not been confirmed.