Southern California

President Donald Trump’s order Wednesday targeting so-called sanctuary cities and seeking to compel local law enforcement to assist federal immigration agencies in deporting undocumented residents sets his administration on a collision course with California that has unpredictable and potentially far-reaching consequences. The order seeks to cut off federal grants to jurisdictions that restrict cooperation with […]

PASADENA — The California Highway Patrol says boxing great Oscar De La Hoya has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Officer Stephan Brandt says De La Hoya’s Land Rover was pulled over for speeding in Pasadena shortly before 2 a.m. Wednesday. Brandt says the officer smelled a strong odor of alcohol coming from the […]

PASADENA >> The California Highway Patrol arrested former boxer Oscar De La Hoya for allegedly driving drunk after they pulled over his Land Rover in Pasadena early Wednesday morning. De La Hoya smelled of alcohol and failed field sobriety tests, according to a statement from the CHP. The incident started on Del Mar Boulevard, west […]

POMONA >> The coroner’s office has publicly identified the 24-year-old driver killed in a crash into a telephone pole in Pomona as Richard Tafolla of Pomona. The crash occurred about 3:20 p.m. Sunday near the intersection of Reservoir and Philadelphia streets, according to Pomona police. Responding officers found the driver suffering from major injuries and […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. >> Yordano Ventura quit school as a teenager so he could begin working a construction job to help his family make ends meet, laboring day after day in the hot sun of the Dominican Republic. It was a chance tryout with the Kansas City Royals that changed the trajectory of his life. […]

FONTANA >> One motorist was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol in Fontana and 20 drivers were cited for operating a vehicle while unlicensed or with a suspended or revoked license during a checkpoint Saturday night, according to a Fontana Police Department news release. Police set up the DUI/driver’s license checkpoint […]

ROME >> A bus carrying Hungarian school students home from a trip to France slammed into a highway barrier in northern Italy and caught fire, killing at least 16 people, police said Saturday. Thirty-nine people survived, though some were seriously injured. No other vehicles were involved in the crash, and it wasn’t clear why the […]

POMONA >> A 45-year-old man was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash Thursday night in Pomona. The crash occurred about 9:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of South Garey Avenue, just north of Rio Rancho Road, where the man was crossing the street when he was struck by a white van, Lt. Marcus Perez of […]

CLAREMONT >> Two men — one from Pomona, the other from Ontario — were killed in a crash involving a tractor-trailer along the eastbound 10 Freeway near Indian Hill Boulevard Wednesday morning, officials said. Shortly before 4 a.m., a Pomona man was driving a 2015 Kia Optima east at a high rate of speed when […]