Southern California

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> The recent chilly and rainy weather may have helped prevent a tragedy when a suspected drunken driver crashed into the empty outdoor patio of the recently-opened Rock & Brews restaurant late Sunday night. Most patrons were inside when the crash took place around 10 p.m. Sunday, and according to San Bernardino County […]

GLENDORA >> An elderly Alta Loma man died Thursday morning following an apparently minor three-vehicle crash on the 210 Freeway, authorities said. The man’s identity was not available pending positive identification and notification of family members, Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner officials said. California Highway Patrol officials initially described the victim as a […]

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> More than a year after a suspected drunken driver slammed into a patrol vehicle, killing a San Bernardino police officer, the 28-year-old driver has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced next month, records show. Archie Green III of Fontana was initially charged with gross vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of […]

CAJON PASS >> A Rancho Cucamonga man was identified as the person killed in a crash in the Cajon Pass over the weekend. Don Van Nguyen, 38, was traveling south of the 15 Freeway south of Oak Hill Road when his car became disabled, according to a California Highway Patrol news release. Nguyen’s 2002 Honda […]

ONTARIO >> Police are looking for the driver of a vehicle involved in a Thursday night hit-and-run collision with a pedestrian, according to an Ontario police news release. The victim, a 55-year-old woman, was flown by helicopter to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, the news release states. The incident happened 6:07 p.m. in the […]

LOS ANGELES >> A Fontana woman accused of drunken driving in a February 2014 wrong-way crash that left six people dead was under sedation and wasn’t being prepared to go into surgery when an emergency room physician drew a blood sample, he testified in court Wednesday. Dr. Christopher Coyne, an emergency room physician at Los […]

A former parole agent was sentenced to 90 days in jail Monday for embezzling funds from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation so he could buy prescription drugs from a parolee. Scott Patric Keblis, 50, of Chino pleaded guilty to one felony count of embezzlement by a public employee and one misdemeanor count of […]

Mike Swords of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator purposefully stepped in front of the self-driving mini-bus doing circles around an empty parking lot in the rain. Quickly sensing the pedestrian, the on-board cameras relayed a signal to the autonomous vehicle’s computer, which told its brakes to engage. The bus stopped immediately and no one was […]

SANTA ANA >> Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman was sentenced to three years of probation on Monday for misdemeanor charges stemming from going the wrong way onto the I-5 freeway in Santa Ana and, authorities said, prompting a crash. On July 20 at about 12:30 a.m., Rodman drove an SUV onto an exit ramp for a […]