Inland Valley

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 […]

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 […]