SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. — A sightseeing helicopter crashed near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee, killing all five people aboard, officials said. The Bell 206 helicopter crashed Monday around 3:30 p.m. near Sevierville, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said in an email. Officials said the tourist helicopter was destroyed by fire after […]

CHESTER, Pa. >> An Amtrak train struck a piece of construction equipment just south of Philadelphia on Sunday causing a derailment, and some injuries are being reported, according to authorities. Service on the Northeast Corridor between New York and Philadelphia has been suspended. Train 89 was heading from New York to Savannah, Georgie, when it […]

A small plane that made headlines when it landed safely on a Southern California freeway years ago crashed on the same stretch of road, slamming into a car and killing a woman in the vehicle. Five others, including the pilot and his passenger, were injured in the crash on a stretch of Interstate 15 that […]

UPLAND >> Nearly 100 people gathered at the Home Depot parking lot Friday night to remember an Upland woman who was killed in a hit-and-run crash earlier this week. Friends, family and community members organized a candlelight vigil for 47-year-old Kristen Pretzer, a mother, daughter and sister whom relatives described as a fun-loving, intelligent woman. […]

UPLAND >> In 1984, a fresh-faced and smiling Kristen Diane Pretzer was crowned Upland High School’s homecoming queen. The blonde with the sparkling eyes looked like she stepped out of a John Hughes film with an ’80’s look that could have rivaled that of Molly Ringwald. “She was fun and had so many friends,” said […]

LOS ANGELES — For the seventh year, baseball fans will have the option of taking a shuttle bus from Union Station to games at Dodger Stadium, beginning with tonight’s exhibition game against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Meanwhile, fans in the South Bay will be able to catch a shuttle from the Harbor Gateway […]

LA PUENTE >> Deputies believe a 63-year-old driver suffered a fatal heart attack Tuesday before his pickup rear-ended a truck. His 6-year-old and 3-year-old daughters were injured as a result of the collision. Sgt. Mark Stonich of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Industry Station said the older girl sat in the front passenger seat while […]

ROWLAND HEIGHTS >> A San Bernardino woman accused of abandoning a stolen car while high on drugs, allowing it to roll downhill and into opposing traffic in a bizarre Rowland Heights crash captured on a viral dashcam video, is now a fugitive after skipping out on her court date last month, officials said. Jasmin Lacey, […]

SAN BERNARDINO >> The San Bernardino County Coroner’s Office has identified the two men killed in a fiery crash Monday morning in San Bernardino have been. They are Alejandro Peyro, 26, of Colton and Rudy Javier Vargas, 30, of San Bernardino. • Photos: Men identified in San Bernardino double-fatal crash Just before 5 a.m., Peyro […]