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 […]

A woman and man who were killed in a two-vehicle crash northwest of San Jacinto Thursday have been identified, according to coroner’s officials. Tajahnae Jones, 21, and Ronald Filetti, 46, were both pronounced dead on Highway 79 south of Gilman Springs Road, according to a Riverside County Coroner’s release The California Highway Patrol says Jones, […]

A Rialto woman is donating her late husband’s treasured Stephen King books to a Riverside man who lost nearly everything when a plane crashed into his house this week. While she doesn’t know him, Karen (Wolter) Proctor went to Ramona High School with Dave Swinfard and graduated one year later in 1975. Swinfard, 61, lost […]

FULLERTON — They died exactly as they lived — together. On Tuesday night, Oscar Tinoco, 23, volunteered to pick up his 17-year-old stepsister, Valeria Tinoco, from soccer practice near Rosecrans Avenue and Beach Boulevard in La Mirada. That was nothing unusual. The pair was inseparable. Oscar doted on Valeria, taking her to school events, movies […]

CORONA >> A crash involving a motorcycle Thursday morning snarled traffic on the eastbound 91 Freeway near Serfas Club Drive in Corona, leading officials to issue a SigAlert for the area. The crash was first reported before 6 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol incident log. The condition of the rider was not immediately […]

POMONA >> A man was critically injured Wednesday night in a single-vehicle crash in Pomona. Police were called out to the scene of the crash at 3820 W. Valley Blvd. about 8:25 p.m., said Pomona police Lt. Marcus Perez. The driver, who was said to be driving recklessly based on witness statements, clipped the center […]

Clues ranging from the trail of smoke from a small plane as it plunged to earth to the two failed attempts to start its engine before takeoff will be examined as investigators piece together what happened to the twin-engine Cessna 310 that crashed in a Riverside neighborhood this week, experts said Wednesday, March 1. They […]

Lori Scheck’s husband had warned her to prepare herself. “It’s not good,” he told her. Yet when she returned to their Riverside home Tuesday night for the first time since a plane slammed into it, it was a shock. The paint was bubbling. The garage door was melted. The roof and all the rooms were […]

The fire commanders at the scene of the airplane crash Monday in Riverside had to make a decision: Did rescuers have a realistic chance of safely entering the home the plane hit and saving anyone as the flames burned fiercely? Fire Chief Michael Moore said the flames initially were burning on the exterior of the […]