Southern California

LOS ANGELES >> A California Highway Patrol officer asked medical personnel to draw blood samples of a Fontana woman accused of killing six people in a 2014 wrong-way DUI crash on the 60 Freeway in Diamond Bar after learning she would soon be undergoing surgery, he testified in court Friday. Defense attorneys are trying to […]

WHITTIER >> A school bus driver who left an autistic 19-year-old alone a school bus for about seven hours, resulting in his death from overheating, pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of dependent abuse, authorities said. Armando Abel Ramirez, 37, of Apple Valley, pleaded guilty to a county of felony dependent adult abuse resulting in […]

DIAMOND BAR >> Services have been scheduled for a 33-year-old Baldwin Park man who died last week when the car he was riding in with his wife was rear-ended by a pickup truck on the transition road between the 60 and 57 freeways. Rodolfo “Rudy” Enrique Fuentes III died at the scene of the collision, […]

A Fontana woman will be charged Thursday with felony hit and run and felony driving under the influence of prescription drugs in connection with the Dec. 23 collision that left a pedestrian in grave condition, Beaumont police said. Deborah Marie Salazar, 55, has not yet been arrested, Detective Sgt. Robert Galletta said. But he suggested […]

FONTANA >> Three adults and two children were hospitalized Tuesday afternoon when a car crashed on a 10 Freeway offramp in Fontana, flipped, crashed into another car and burst into flames. California Highway Patrol investigators have not yet determined what caused the Nissan Sentra driven by a San Bernardino woman to collide with the raised […]

MOUNTAIN PASS >> A Las Vegas man and his 2-month-old grandson were killed in a New Year’s Day crash along the 15 Freeway about 16 miles from the state line, according to the San Bernardino County coroner’s website. Abraham Jones, 79, and his grandson, Timol Jenkins Jr., were killed about 5 a.m. Sunday. Jones was […]

Indie film icon Jim Jarmusch has made wry, observational movies about hipster losers (his 1984 breakout “Stranger Than Paradise”), escaped convicts (“Down by Law”), cowboy existentialists (“Dead Man”), existential hit men (“Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai”) and a devoted vampire couple (“Only Lovers Left Alive”). However, the king of low-key cool had never […]

The first thing you ought to know about getting to the 2017 Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game is that they are both being held Monday, the day after New Year’s Day. That’s because the Tournament of Roses made a deal with local churches never to hold the parade or game on a Sunday. So, […]

DIAMOND BAR >> A Baldwin Park man died early Friday after his car was rear-ended by a pickup truck on the 60 Freeway in Diamond Bar, authorities said. The fatal crash was first reported at 5:48 in the carpool lane of the westbound 60 Freeway, just west of Grand Avenue, California Highway Patrol Officer Rodrigo […]