CHINO >> A Chino man allegedly driving while intoxicated struck and injured a pedestrian Friday evening, Chino police officials said. John Colaianni, 67, was arrested and booked on suspicion of driving while impaired causing injury, according to a police news release. The man Colaianni reportedly struck was taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center where his […]

POMONA >> A man died and four other people were injured when a car crossed into opposing traffic and slammed into another vehicle on the 71 Freeway in Pomona late Friday, officials said. The dead man was yet to be identified Saturday, Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner Lt. David Smith said. He was […]

SEATTLE >> Mike Trout emerged from his car accident shaken but seemingly unharmed. “I’m just very fortunate,” Trout said Friday. “It could have been a lot more serious. It’s a scary thing for sure.” Trout’s Mercedes struck another vehicle on the 55 freeway around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, sending a 27-year-old woman to the hospital […]

SANTA ANA — Angels outfielder Mike Trout swerved, but still hit another vehicle that had slowed to a stop on the southbound 55 freeway Wednesday night, and that Chevrolet was pushed into another car, says a California Highway Patrol report released Thursday. Trout’s Mercedes Benz struck the left, rear side of the Chevrolet Sonic on […]

SANTA ANA >> Angels star outfielder Mike Trout was not injured in a car accident on the 55 Freeway Wednesday night. The Orange County Fire Authority responded to a pair of separate but related crashes each involving two vehicles at 8:50 p.m. in the southbound lane of the 55 Freeway at McFadden Avenue, Capt. Larry […]

Thirty years ago today was a Sunday, the heart of the Labor Day weekend, and just as two planes were about to collide a mile and a half above the young city of Cerritos, things in the suburban town were quiet, as you’d expect. That’s how many people described the day up until 11:56 a.m.: […]

Gary Schank was piloting an airliner from San Francisco to Memphis when he received an urgent warning over the cockpit-alert system that his plane was climbing dangerously close to a twin-engine airplane’s altitude. After the system commanded Schank to descend, he guided the plane downward by 500 feet — and a potential midair collision was […]

GLENDORA >> The California Highway Patrol is asking for the public’s help in locating a driver who fled the scene of a fatal crash Monday. The driver of a Toyota Tundra is described as an adult man in his mid-30s, 5 feet 5 inches, 160 pounds and wearing an orange shirt, jeans and work boots, […]

HUNTINGTON BEACH >> A police officer’s badge deflected a bullet heading for his heart in a gun battle during a car chase Friday morning that ended in a fiery crash in the Cajon Pass, officials said. The officer suffered minor cuts from shattered glass, but is now home. The gun-battle car chase started in the […]