Southern California

YOKOSUKA, Japan >> U.S. and Japanese vessels and aircraft searched Saturday for seven American sailors who were missing after their Navy destroyer collided before dawn with a container ship four times its size off the coast of Japan. The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Yokosuka Naval Base south of Tokyo by […]

POMONA >> A man suffered severe injuries when the car he was driving flipped over in Pomona and crashed into a wall, trapping him, authorities said Friday. The crash was reported at 10:13 p.m. Thursday in the area of McKinley and Towne avenues, according to the Pomona Police Department’s Traffic Services. Los Angeles County Fire […]

NORWALK >> The family of an autistic teenager from Whittier who died when he was left on a sweltering school bus for hours in 2015 has received $23.5 million in a settlement with the company whose employee was convicted in January in the teen’s death. The parents of Hun Joon “Paul” Lee, 19, a student […]

Authorities have identified a young Lawndale woman as one of two passengers killed Saturday when their car was rear-ended on the 210 Freeway in Glendora. Luisa Gonzalez, 19, and Edgar Ramirez, 76, of Riverside died in the three-vehicle wreck, which occurred just before 4 p.m. on the eastbound 210 just west of Sunflower Avenue, according […]

GLENDORA >> A man and woman died in a multi-vehicle wreck on the 210 Freeway in Glendora on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. The deadly crash was reported just before 4 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of the 210 Freeway at Sunflower Avenue, California Highway Patrol Officer Alex Rubio said. Witnesses initially reported the crash involved […]

UPLAND >> An Upland High School senior who died in a traffic crash before completing her coursework will be awarded a diploma, the school’s principal said. Jamaari Adams, 17, died when the car she was driving hit a tree on 16th Street near Quarry Avenue about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, Upland police said. Final exams had […]

YUCAIPA >> A pickup truck veered off Yucaipa Boulevard midday Tuesday, running down several Yucaipa High School students waiting at a bus stop, Cal Fire officials said. Shortly before 12:30 p.m., several people called 911 to report a silver pickup truck hitting five students at a bus stop across from Yucaipa High School, 33000 Yucaipa […]

FONTANA >> A Redlands man is suspected of being under the influence when he drove the wrong way on the 10 Freeway in Fontana and crashed head-on with another car, whose driver was killed. William Courtney Rowe, 30, was driving west in the eastbound lanes just east of Etiwanda Avenue about 3 a.m. Sunday, according […]

BEAUMONT >> The Fontana woman with a warrant out for her arrest in connection with a fatal December hit-and-run in Beaumont was apprehended Monday. Deborah Marie Salazar, 55, was arrested at her home and booked into Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside at 12:40 p.m. Bail was set at $75,000. The warrant was issued May […]