Southern California

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Police in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam detained the driver of a van with Spanish license plates and a number of gas tanks inside after a concert by an American rock band was cancelled Wednesday night following a threat, the city’s mayor said.

Omnitrans bus riders can now use their smartphones to pay to board using a free app called Token Transit.

A commuter train crashed into a parked train at a suburban Philadelphia terminal early Tuesday morning, injuring dozens of passengers and the train’s operator, a transit spokeswoman said.

SINGAPORE >> Ten U.S. sailors are missing after a collision between the USS John S. McCain and a tanker early Monday east of Singapore, the second accident involving a ship from the Navy’s 7th Fleet in the Pacific in two months. The Navy said five sailors were hurt in the collision between the guided-missile destroyer […]

UPLAND >> A probationer punched and tried to gouge the eyes of an Upland police officer who had pulled him over Saturday night, causing injuries that sent the officer to the hospital, authorities say. Two officers pulled over 22-year-old Cody Tyler Duke in the 1500 block of North Benson Avenue just before 6 p.m. for […]

DIAMOND BAR >> Four people were injured Friday, two critically, when a motorcycle that had been chased by the California Highway Patrol collided head-on with a car while going the west on the eastbound 60 Freeway in Diamond Bar, authorities said. The motorcycle was being pursued for speeding around 1 a.m. on the northbound 57 […]

A crash involving seven vehicles — one of them a big rig — triggered a SigAlert for the eastbound 10 Freeway near the 57 Freeway on Thursday evening, Aug. 17, the California Highway Patrol said. The Nos. 1 and 2 lanes were expected to be blocked for at least 30 minutes, the CHP website said […]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A man accused of ramming his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia was denied bond Monday after the public defender’s office said it couldn’t represent him and the judge was forced to find a local attorney to fill in. James Alex Fields Jr. was not […]

INDUSTRY — The coroner’s office today released the name of a pedestrian struck and killed by at least one vehicle during a six-vehicle pre-dawn crash on the 605 Freeway in Industry. He was Juan Hernandez, 20, of Pomona, coroner’s Lt. Larry Dietz reported. It was not clear in California Highway Patrol reports why the man […]