Southern California

POMONA >> At least one person was injured in a single-vehicle crash Friday in Pomona. Pomona police reported the crash around 12:30 a.m. on Holt Avenue, between Clark and Lorrane avenues. A male occupant was treated for injuries but his condition was not immediately reported. A Pomona police officer said the male was conscious and […]

An Arleta man whose fiancee was killed in a car crash last month allegedly by an undocumented immigrant who had been deported five times said he has received words of encouragement from President Donald Trump. Rodrigo Macias appeared on the television news program “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday morning to discuss the death of his […]

MIAMI — Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was the “probable” operator of a speeding boat that crashed into a Miami Beach jetty on Sept. 25, killing the baseball star and two other men, according to a report issued Thursday by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which investigated the accident. The 46-page report included […]

FONTANA >> A man was killed Tuesday after the vehicle he was riding in was sideswiped, sending it into a series of parked cars and fatally injuring him, Fontana police said. Two vehicles were traveling north on Mulberry Avenue, approaching Slover Avenue, according to a police statement, when one of the vehicles sideswiped the other […]

British-born figurative painter and multimedia artist Simon Birch remembers exactly how it felt when he totaled his cherry red Ferrari — on purpose. The vehicle rolled over a number of times and was destroyed, eventually ending up in hundreds of pieces. The flashy sports car was the last material thing Birch owned, and its destruction […]

Stacey Pierce, one of two survivors of last week’s plane crash into a Riverside neighborhood, died Tuesday night, March 7, in a local hospital from complications of her burns, a coroner’s official said. Pierce, 46, of San Jose, suffered third-degree burns – the most serious kind – over 90 percent of her body. Doctors had […]

The injuries that a San Jose woman suffered in last week’s Riverside plane crash were so severe that her legs had to be amputated, and she is not able to breathe or eat on her own, her husband said. But as Stacey Pierce remains hospitalized in critical condition, with her husband and four children staying […]

It was a day that began like so many others. But in the end, it was a day that would forever change the lives of the Duran family of Arleta. On the afternoon of Feb. 19, Sandra Duran, 42 — a mother, daughter and sister — was killed in a violent car crash on a […]

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 […]