Author name: CCAR Staff

KANSAS CITY, Mo. >> Yordano Ventura quit school as a teenager so he could begin working a construction job to help his family make ends meet, laboring day after day in the hot sun of the Dominican Republic. It was a chance tryout with the Kansas City Royals that changed the trajectory of his life. […]

FONTANA >> One motorist was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol in Fontana and 20 drivers were cited for operating a vehicle while unlicensed or with a suspended or revoked license during a checkpoint Saturday night, according to a Fontana Police Department news release. Police set up the DUI/driver’s license checkpoint […]

ROME >> A bus carrying Hungarian school students home from a trip to France slammed into a highway barrier in northern Italy and caught fire, killing at least 16 people, police said Saturday. Thirty-nine people survived, though some were seriously injured. No other vehicles were involved in the crash, and it wasn’t clear why the […]

POMONA >> A 45-year-old man was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash Thursday night in Pomona. The crash occurred about 9:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of South Garey Avenue, just north of Rio Rancho Road, where the man was crossing the street when he was struck by a white van, Lt. Marcus Perez of […]

CLAREMONT >> Two men — one from Pomona, the other from Ontario — were killed in a crash involving a tractor-trailer along the eastbound 10 Freeway near Indian Hill Boulevard Wednesday morning, officials said. Shortly before 4 a.m., a Pomona man was driving a 2015 Kia Optima east at a high rate of speed when […]

POMONA >> The Pomona police officer whose motorcycle collided with an SUV as the officer was on his way to help investigate a fatal crash earlier this month is slowly recovering from his injuries, officials said. “He is improving and all signs are positive,” Sgt. Bert Sanchez said Tuesday about Officer Trevor Stevenson. Around 6:30 […]

UPLAND >> A man killed in a car crash Sunday afternoon on Benson Avenue has been identified as Andrew Medina, 22, of Upland, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner’s website. Shortly after 1 p.m., Upland police officers and paramedics were called to a crash at Benson Avenue and Mountain Shadow Drive where a driver, […]

DIAMOND BAR >> A 21-year-old Diamond Bar man died late Friday in a violent solo-vehicle crash that ripped his car into several pieces, authorities said. Jonathan Peter Strudwick was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which took place about 10:40 p.m. on Grand Avenue near Longview Drive, Los Angeles County Department of Medical […]

LOS ANGELES >> A California Highway Patrol officer who accompanied the woman accused of killing six people in a deadly wrong-way crash in 2014 at the hospital explained in court Friday why he didn’t order a test to measure blood alcohol levels in her first hours at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. Defense attorneys for […]