Southern California

UPLAND >> Upland detectives are searching for the driver who struck and killed a former Upland High School homecoming queen last week and fled the scene. Kristen Diane Pretzer, 47, was found March 30 on the sidewalk in the 200 block of South Mountain Avenue just after 2 a.m., according to Upland police officials. Her […]

LOS ANGELES — A jury today cleared Caltrans of any wrongdoing in a 2012 freeway crash in West Covina that left a 5-year-old boy a quadriplegic and seriously injured his sister, who were riding in a minivan that was pierced by a guardrail after a tire blowout. The Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated for […]

SAN BERNARDINO >> A child was injured in a solo vehicle crash Wednesday morning in the northbound lanes of the 215 Freeway near Fifth Street. The rollover crash was first reported just before 6:30 a.m., according to California Highway Patrol dispatch. A caller told the CHP dispatch center that a person may have been ejected […]

SAN BERNARDINO >> An Ontario father is behind bars after he was arrested for allegedly driving while intoxicated with his 5-year-old son in the car, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officials said Tuesday. Francisco Zepeda, 34, was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence and child endangerment late Monday night, and his son was placed […]

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. — A sightseeing helicopter crashed near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee, killing all five people aboard, officials said. The Bell 206 helicopter crashed Monday around 3:30 p.m. near Sevierville, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said in an email. Officials said the tourist helicopter was destroyed by fire after […]

CHESTER, Pa. >> An Amtrak train struck a piece of construction equipment just south of Philadelphia on Sunday causing a derailment, and some injuries are being reported, according to authorities. Service on the Northeast Corridor between New York and Philadelphia has been suspended. Train 89 was heading from New York to Savannah, Georgie, when it […]

A small plane that made headlines when it landed safely on a Southern California freeway years ago crashed on the same stretch of road, slamming into a car and killing a woman in the vehicle. Five others, including the pilot and his passenger, were injured in the crash on a stretch of Interstate 15 that […]

UPLAND >> Nearly 100 people gathered at the Home Depot parking lot Friday night to remember an Upland woman who was killed in a hit-and-run crash earlier this week. Friends, family and community members organized a candlelight vigil for 47-year-old Kristen Pretzer, a mother, daughter and sister whom relatives described as a fun-loving, intelligent woman. […]

UPLAND >> In 1984, a fresh-faced and smiling Kristen Diane Pretzer was crowned Upland High School’s homecoming queen. The blonde with the sparkling eyes looked like she stepped out of a John Hughes film with an ’80’s look that could have rivaled that of Molly Ringwald. “She was fun and had so many friends,” said […]