My memory of lessons in school about the Great Depression goes something like this: “It began in 1929 when everyone lost their money in the stock market, the banks closed and everyone got food in bread lines until World War II.” Most of what I really learned as a youth about the Depression came from […]

TEMPE, Ariz. — Jon Wilhite was always a baseball kid. He grew up in Manhattan Beach in the 1980s playing catcher. Mike Scioscia was his favorite player, naturally. Eventually Wilhite became a star at Mira Costa High School and a valuable player off the bench for some powerful Cal State Fullerton teams from 2005-07. The […]

Martin Truex Jr., driver of the Furniture Row Racing Chevorlet, shares his thoughts through the NASCAR weekend at Auto Club Speedway. If someone had told me after our final practice on Saturday that we would finish eighth, I would have said we’ll take it and let’s go home. • DRIVER DIARY: Martin Truex Jr. not […]

FONTANA >> Brian Vickers is out of a race car for at least three months. The 31-year-old NASCAR Sprint Cup driver will be on blood-thinning medicine until then after suffering small blood clots on Thursday during his flight to Southern California. He said he had pain level of “10” during the flight. He went to […]

OXNARD — A truck driver mistakenly turned onto the tracks of a commuter rail line and went about 80 feet before getting stuck, federal accident investigators wrote Thursday in their initial findings about a deadly train collision last month outside Los Angeles. The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report reiterates much of what investigators discussed […]

Martin Truex Jr., driver of the Furniture Row Racing Chevorlet, shares his thoughts through the NASCAR weekend at Auto Club Speedway Our single-car Furniture Row Racing team comes to Southern California on a high note. We have posted four straight top-eight finishes and are ranked third in the Sprint Cup driver point standings. No question, […]

FONTANA >> Authorities released on Thursday the name of the woman killed in a chain reaction seven car pile-up on the eastbound 10 Freeway a day earlier. Ivette Celia Delgado Arauz, 32 of Rancho Cucamonga, was pronounced dead after a tow truck traveling at an unsafe speed rear-ended her Honda Fit, a sub-compact car, about […]

DETROIT >> Honda is adding nearly 105,000 vehicles to its growing U.S. recall of driver’s side air bag inflators that can explode with too much force. The added vehicles include nearly 89,000 Pilot SUVs from the 2008 model year, as well as about 11,000 Civics from 2004 and another 5,000 Accords from the 2001 model […]

ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST >> A coroner’s official on Wednesday identified the motorcyclist killed in a head-on collision in the Angeles National Forest over the weekend. Craig Harvey, chief of investigations and operations for the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner, said Matthew Buckley, 35, of Moreno Valley died of multiple blunt traumatic injuries. He said […]