Southern California

WALNUT >> A West Covina man received a 4-year prison sentence on Thursday for fatally striking a Walnut man while driving intoxicated, authorities said. Haissam Massalkhy, 37, pleaded “no contest” in February to a count of vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence for the Feb. 15, 2016, collision at La Puente Road and Barnard Avenue that […]

YUCAIPA >> A Moreno Valley man died more than a week after he crashed his motorcycle in Yucaipa earlier this month, officials said. Matthew R. Nickels, 32, was riding his motorcycle west on Calimesa Boulevard near Oak Glen Road in Yucaipa along with a friend on another motorcycle on the evening of March 13, when […]

SAN BERNARDINO >> The motorcyclist killed in a crash with a tractor trailer in San Bernardino has been identified as Jesse Hibbler, 49, of Colton, according to the San Bernardino County coroner’s website. Hibbler was killed Sunday when he slammed his motorcycle into the back of a tractor-trailer along a San Bernardino highway, California Highway […]

FONTANA >> For 20 years, a retaining wall at the beginning of the backstretch at Auto Club Speedway has protected emergency workers in fire vehicles ready to spring into action if needed. On Sunday, Matt Kenseth slammed into the concrete structure on the drivers side, the result of contact as the NASCAR field exited turn […]

A single-vehicle crash into an electrical pole caused a power outage in Rancho Cucamonga Sunday evening, according to a Rancho Cucamonga police tweet. The outage is located in the vicinity of the crash, which happened on Etiwanda Avenue north of Saddleridge Drive according to the police tweet. The Southern California Edison website indicates the outage […]

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> A woman was on life support Sunday after being critically injured Friday in a traffic accident in Rancho Cucamonga. The crash happened about 3:15 a.m. Friday on the westbound 210 freeway near Archibald Avenue. A passenger, Claudia Flores-Orantes, 20, of Rialto was taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton. She was […]

One person was killed and two people injured on the 210 Freeway in Rancho Cucamonga after a vehicle veered across all lanes of the roadway and crashed into an embankment. Emauri Kahjancye Scott, 21, of San Bernardino, died at the scene of the 3:15 a.m. Friday crash on the 210 Freeway near Archibald Avenue in […]

Just as Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to electrify the personal automobile, his former finance director, Ryan Popple, has set out to do the same to the transit bus. Popple, 39, revamped Proterra, a South Carolina company, focusing it on building electric buses. Sales more than doubled from 2015 to 2016, with expectations of revenues […]

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> Two San Bernardino County deputies on motorcycles crashed into each other, sending both riders to the hospital, officials announced Thursday. “At around 3:45 p.m. Thursday, two Rancho Cucamonga Police Department motor deputies were involved in traffic collision near the intersection of Foothill Boulevard and East Avenue,” sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Jacob Bailey wrote […]