British-born figurative painter and multimedia artist Simon Birch remembers exactly how it felt when he totaled his cherry red Ferrari — on purpose. The vehicle rolled over a number of times and was destroyed, eventually ending up in hundreds of pieces. The flashy sports car was the last material thing Birch owned, and its destruction […]

Stacey Pierce, one of two survivors of last week’s plane crash into a Riverside neighborhood, died Tuesday night, March 7, in a local hospital from complications of her burns, a coroner’s official said. Pierce, 46, of San Jose, suffered third-degree burns – the most serious kind – over 90 percent of her body. Doctors had […]

The injuries that a San Jose woman suffered in last week’s Riverside plane crash were so severe that her legs had to be amputated, and she is not able to breathe or eat on her own, her husband said. But as Stacey Pierce remains hospitalized in critical condition, with her husband and four children staying […]

It was a day that began like so many others. But in the end, it was a day that would forever change the lives of the Duran family of Arleta. On the afternoon of Feb. 19, Sandra Duran, 42 — a mother, daughter and sister — was killed in a violent car crash on a […]

HESPERIA >> The pilot and sole occupant of an ultralight aircraft was killed when it crashed near the Hesperia Airport late Tuesday morning, according to San Bernardino County Fire officials. The crash was reported about 10 a.m. near the airport located on Summit Valley Road south of Ranchero Road. The two-seater hobby aircraft crashed in […]

POMONA >> A man was sentenced Monday to a two-year prison term — then released based on time served — for triggering a deadly 2015 crash in Pomona. Javier Luviano, 24, pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter nearly a year ago. The defendant received credit for 732 days served, two days more than needed to […]

HESPERIA >> The sheriff’s dive team is on standby as the search for the body of 2-year-old Noah Abbott continued Tuesday, five days after the car he was riding in crashed through a fence and into the California Aqueduct in Hesperia. The toddler’s mother, Christina Eileen Estrada, 31, and 3-year-old brother, Jeremiah Abbott, were also […]

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> Deputies are searching for the hit-and-run driver who sheared a fire hydrant early Tuesday morning before abandoning the vehicle a short distance away. San Bernardino County sheriff’s Rancho Cucamonga deputies spotted the gusher near Base Line and Archibald Road just after 2:30 a.m., according to Lt. Frank Montenez. Deputies then found a […]

LOS ANGELES >> A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday declined to throw out blood evidence in the case against a Fontana woman accused of driving drunk and the wrong way on the 60 Freeway and causing a crash that left six people dead. The ruling handed down in a downtown Los Angeles courthouse […]