LONDON (AP) — A British driver has survived a major crash in his Ferrari, an hour after he bought it. Local police called it a “miracle escape,” but the car was not so lucky. South Yorkshire Police posted Twitter photos of the smoking, wrecked car, saying it “went airborne (and) burst into flames” beside a […]

A wrong-way freeway crash Thursday morning in Ventura killed one man from Riverside, another man from Santa Paula and a woman from Lake Elsinore, authorities said. The two-car high-speed collision was reported at 12:03 a.m. on the southbound 101 Freeway north of the 126 Freeway, the California Highway Patrol said. Killed in the crash was […]

ONTARIO >> The man killed by a Metrolink train earlier this week in Ontario has been identified as Federico Duran, 40, of Long Beach, San Bernardino County coroner’s officials said. Ontario police said Duran stepped onto the tracks as the train approached, and it appears to have been a suicide. The incident took place Monday […]

Spend much time at the movies? Ever noticed buildings around Pasadena that tugged scenes from “Batman” or Steve Martin’s “Father of the Bride” in your memory? Well, now you’ll know for sure on the Pasadena in the Movies bus tour. Among locations to be included are not only the Castle Green (“The Last Samurai,” 1994’s […]

ONTARIO >> A woman was extricated from her vehicle and hospitalized after she was struck by a drunken driving suspect early Wednesday morning, Ontario police said. The crash took place just before 1:30 a.m. at Fourth Street and San Antonio Avenue, according to Sgt. Jeff Higbee, spokesman for the police department. Alcohol is suspected to […]

HEMET >> A 44-year-old Ontario woman has been identified as the motorist killed in a Thursday traffic collision near Hemet-Ryan Airport, according to a Riverside County Sheriff/Coroner’s news release. Adelina Rodriguez was pronounced dead at 10:10 p.m. Thursday at Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar, hours after the 7:24 p.m. crash on westbound Stetson Avenue […]

FONTANA >> Firefighters are working to free a person from a mangled vehicle who was impaled as a result a violent crash in Fontana Monday, San Bernardino County Fire officials said. The crash was first reported just before 12:30 p.m. in the 9000 block of Oleander Avenue, said Eric Sherwin, spokesman for the fire department. […]

A housekeeper sobbed and shrieked in the background as a driver called 911 last week to report that Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington had hanged himself at his Palos Verdes Estates house, an audio recording released Monday showed. The woman wailed as the unidentified driver told a dispatcher that she had met him outside with […]

An autistic teenager took the bus home Friday morning after authorities issued an Amber Alert saying the car he’d been inside was stolen from outside a Jack in the Box in Paramount, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The boy, 17-year-old Frankie Barboa was in the back seat of a Honda Civic that […]