Southern California

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> An Ontario woman died and her passenger was injured in a solo-vehicle crash Monday morning. Shortly after 9 a.m., Nieshia Johnson, 33, was pronounced dead at the scene when the car she was driving struck the center median in the 10800 block of Sixth Street in Rancho Cucamonga, according to a sheriff’s […]

SAN BERNARDINO >> The Redlands woman charged with striking and killing a 3-year-old boy as he crossed a San Bernardino street with his family pleaded not guilty to all charges Tuesday morning in San Bernardino Superior Court. Crystal Marie Fuentes, 34, was charged with murder, driving under the influence and gross vehicular manslaughter Monday in […]

A rally at the federal building in downtown Los Angeles on Monday in response to the city’s massive May Day march descended into a chaotic back-and-forth between Trump supporters and a group of counterprotesters clad in black, with masks and handkerchiefs covering their faces. Several of the pro-Trump activists claimed their opponents, who waved a […]

POMONA >> Pomona police plan to set up a DUI checkpoint somewhere in the city Friday and beef up patrols looking for impaired drivers. The checkpoint — to operate between 9 p.m. Friday and 3 a.m. Saturday — coincides with Cinco de Mayo. While the location of the checkpoint was not included in a Pomona […]

SANTA ANA — An Uber driver has been charged on suspicion of raping a passenger in Santa Ana while she was intoxicated, authorities said Wednesday. Angel Sanchez, 36, of Costa Mesa faces one felony count of rape of an intoxicated victim, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said, and up to eight years in prison […]

ONTARIO >> Ontario police will screen for impaired drivers at a DUI checkpoint someplace in the city between 6 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday, officials announced. While the location is not publicized, locations are selected based on collision statistics and frequency of DUI arrests, officials said in a news release. Officers will be looking […]

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Former “The Bachelor” star Chris Soules was arrested early Tuesday, accused of fleeing the scene of a deadly crash on a highway a few miles from his northern Iowa farm. The Iowa State Patrol reports that a pickup truck rear-ended a tractor in Aurora at around 8:20 p.m., sending both vehicles […]

POMONA >> An Alhambra man was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison for driving drunk, while on probation for DUI, and triggering a crash on the 210 Freeway in Claremont that killed a 27-year-old Las Vegas man. Ryan Munoz, 40, was convicted of second-degree murder Sept. 30 for the June 28, 2014, […]

PASO ROBLES — A Los Angeles man has been identified as the pilot of a replica World War I-era biplane that crashed in a field on California’s central coast The San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s office says Javier Fernando Arango, 54, died when the single-engine, open-cockpit plane went down shortly after takeoff from a private […]