Author name: CCAR Staff

By Doug Saunders, Staff Writer California Highway Patrol has reported a crash on the eastbound 10 freeway at the northbound 15 freeway connector in Ontario. Shortly after 7:30 a.m. a big rig and a Toyota Prius collided, CHP traffic logs show. Authorities say the big rig fled the scene. No injuries have been reported.

BASSETT >> A collision involving a tractor trailer and a car on the northbound 605 Freeway sent a driver to the hospital on Tuesday. The crash, which occurred north of Valley Boulevard shortly before 8 a.m., shut down two lanes for nearly an hour. The California Highway Patrol didn’t yet have details on the cause […]

MENTONE >> Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 20-year-old Mentone man on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon not a firearm after they say he struck a deputy’s vehicle with his motor bike over the weekend. Family members, however, say it was a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy who caused the crash, pointing to a YouTube […]

PHILADELPHIA >> Amtrak trains began rolling on the busy Northeast Corridor early Monday, the first time in almost a week after a deadly crash in Philadelphia, and officials vowed to have safer trains and tracks while investigators worked to determine the cause of the derailment. Amtrak resumed service along the corridor with a 5:30 a.m. […]

RIVERSIDE >> Authorities say one of the six U.S. Marines aboard a helicopter that crashed during a relief mission in earthquake-hit Nepal was identified as a 30-year-old from Riverside County. A joint military task force said Sunday that Sgt. Eric M. Seaman was one of six U.S. Marines and two Nepalese soldiers who died when […]

INDUSTRY >> Coroner’s officials Sunday released the named of a Baldwin Park man and an Ontario woman who died when the car they were passengers in left the roadway and struck a tree along the 60 Freeway early Saturday. Rafael Flores Reinoso, 49, of Baldwin Park and Michelle Alvarez, 23, of Ontario, died at the […]

KATHMANDU, Nepal >> The bodies of six U.S. Marines and two Nepalese soldiers who were aboard a Marine helicopter that crashed during a relief mission in earthquake-hit Nepal have been identified, officials said Sunday. The wreckage of the UH-1 “Huey” was found Friday following days of intense searching in the mountains northeast of Kathmandu, Nepal’s […]

INDUSTRY >> A Baldwin Park man and an Ontario woman died early Saturday when the car they were passengers in veered off the roadway and struck a tree along the 60 Freeway in an unincorporated county area near Industry, authorities said. Paramedics pronounced the 49-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman dead at the scene, officials […]

POTISKUM, Nigeria >> A teenage suicide bomber blew herself up and killed seven other people Saturday outside a bustling bus station in the northeast Nigerian town of Damaturu, the state medical director said of the latest in a string of attacks this week by Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram extremists. Thirty-three people were seriously injured and […]