Southern California

COLTON >> Police are searching for the man who smashed a motorist’s car window and robbed the victim at gunpoint Friday morning, officials said. The victim was in his car in the 1200 block of Highland Avenue around 6:30 a.m. when a man in his 20s smashed the victim’s window and took several items from […]

RIVERSIDE >> For the second time in six days, a woman reported Thursday that a man crashed into her vehicle on the 215 Freeway in Riverside, then attempted to sexually assault her when she pulled over. Neither woman was sexually assaulted. But both were robbed, Riverside police say. Police can’t say for sure whether the […]

Paterson, New Jersey, has gifted America with the poets Allen Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams (and such other notables as Lou Costello and Fetty Wap). Now there is a movie called “Paterson” about a bus driver in Paterson who’s named, yes, Paterson. It is the loveliest American film of the year. Jim Jarmusch’s latest feature […]

ANAHEIM >> Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, which is based in Anaheim, has apologized for a tweet he sent out on Christmas Day expressing disappointment that a plane crash involving a Russian military jet on its way to Syria didn’t claim more lives. “I’m sad […]

SOCHI, Russia — The Kremlin on Monday played down the possibility that a terror attack might have downed a Syria-bound Russian plane, killing all 92 people on board, as the nation observed a day of mourning for the victims, including most members of a world famous military choir. The Tu-154 owned by the Russian Defense […]

BAKER >> A 70-year-old Chino man has been identified as the person killed in a crash in Baker Wednesday, coroner’s officials said. Richard Newcomer was a passenger in a 2010 Dodge Grand Caravan traveling north on the 15 Freeway when the driver drifted into the slower lane colliding into the back of a slower-moving tractor […]

ONTARIO >> Family and friends are still trying to cope with the sudden and tragic loss of an Ontario Marine who was struck and killed when he stopped to help a fellow motorist following a rollover crash. “It must have been his military instinct,” Mary Jane Medina, the sister of Enrico Rojo’s fiancée, said in […]

LOS ANGELES >> A Northern California man whose wife and two sons were among six people in a van killed in a fiery freeway crash in Gorman is suing the owners of a car and big rig involved in the collision. Wei Xiong Li, 45, of Daly City brought the wrongful death suit Monday in […]

LOMA LINDA >> What was supposed to be the start of one family’s Christmas celebration ended in tragedy early Monday morning when a Marine driving his family to the airport was struck and killed on the 10 Freeway after stopping to help a driver in a rollover crash. “He made the comment to his family […]