PHELAN >> The man killed in a head-on crash over the weekend in Phelan has been identified as 26-year-old Mario Bahena, of Fontana, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner’s website. Just after 5 a.m. Sunday, Bahena was driving a 1997 Mercedes–Benz east on Highway 138 approaching Centola Road when, for unknown reasons, his vehicle […]

KOREATOWN >> The votive candles and roses left at the corner of Vermont Avenue and Olympic Boulevard on Monday offered little comfort or answers for Lester Gomez. His father, Gustavo Green Gomez, 62, stood on this corner in Los Angeles’ Koreatown just two days before. He had been one of 44 people who climbed aboard […]

INDIO >> The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating what may have caused a bus carrying 43 passengers to crash into a big-rig Sunday on the 10 Freeway near Palm Springs, resulting in 13 deaths. During a news conference Monday in Indio, board member Earl Weener would not speculate on what the cause may have […]

Optimistic. Inspiring. A strong woman who overcame obstacles and made sure to teach younger generations to do the same. That’s how relatives described Zoila Margarita Aguilera: an active 72-year-old great-grandmother who was on one of her regular jaunts to a local casino with a good friend and relative, Yolanda Mendoza, when their bus crashed Sunday […]

The charter bus that crashed into a semi-truck Sunday in Palm Springs, killing 13 people, was previously involved in a 2007 crash in Riverside that killed three people and the company that owns it had a history of fines and penalties. • RELATED STORY: 12 of 13 killed in Palm Springs-area bus crash are identified […]

The Riverside County Coroner’s Office said Ana Gomez de Magallon, 71, of Echo Park, was among the dead. Magallon lived in Echo Park with one of her sisters, according to her niece Yajaira Gomez. Originally from El Salvador, Gomez de Magallon was the oldest of five and lived in Los Angeles for much of the […]

PALM SPRINGS >> All 13 people killed in a Palm Springs-area bus crash Sunday have been identified by the Riverside County Coroner’s Office. • Photos: 13 die in Palm Springs bus crash Many of those identified are from Los Angeles and all are 50 or older. They were killed when a westbound bus crashed into […]

CLAREMONT >> A jack-knifed big-rig blocked all lanes of the eastbound 210 Freeway at Towne Avenue in Claremont Monday morning. It’s unclear if anyone was hurt in the solo-vehicle crash or if the rain contributed to the incident. The crash was first reported just after 5 a.m., leading authorities to issue a SigAlert for the […]

PALM SPRINGS >> Thirteen people died and 31 were injured — most of them as they slept — when a tour bus slammed into the back of a semi-truck on the 10 Freeway near Palm Springs before dawn Sunday, the California Highway Patrol said. The Alhambra-based USA Holiday charter bus carrying 44 passengers was returning […]