Southern California

Transit leaders dream of more than $1 billion in federal taxpayer money flowing into Los Angeles before the prospective 2024 Olympic Games and of local voters approving the fourth transit sales tax increase since 1980. But would the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority be ready to spend the cash? One bus station at Union Station […]

TRIKALA, Greece >> There’ll be no arguing with the driver on this bus: the rides are free and there’s no driver anyway. Trikala, a rural town in northern Greece, has been chosen to test a driverless bus in real traffic conditions for the first time, part of a European project to revolutionize mass transport and […]

SAN BERNARDINO >> Police are still searching for the driver of a truck that a Westminister woman was allegedly chasing when she lost control of her vehicle Monday night, sending it flipping and skidding into a building, killing her. “We would like to talk to him about what happened,” said Detective Devin Peck with the […]

POMONA >> Rain may have contributed to a FedEx truck crashing into the center divider of the 60 Freeway on Monday morning in Pomona, completely shutting down the westbound lanes as well as one lane on the eastbound side and sending debris across both sides. Officials say it was raining around 1:45 a.m. when the […]

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas >> The Department of Defense has identified the six American airmen killed when a U.S. Air Force military transport plane crashed in eastern Afghanistan. The airmen were identified Saturday as: Capt. Jonathan Golden, 33, of Camarillo, California; Capt. Jordan Pierson, 28, of Abilene, Texas; Staff Sgt. Ryan Hammond, 26, of […]

DIAMOND BAR — A motorcyclist died Friday morning on the eastbound 60 Freeway when he hit a curb and was thrown off the motorcycle. Two eastbound lanes were closed due to the 5:27 a.m. fatal crash which occurred near the Diamond Bar Boulevard. The California Highway Patrol described the rider as a 49-year-old Hacienda Heights […]

POMONA >> Members of the Pomona Police Department are in the area of Fairplex and Arroyo conducting a search for the driver of a car that officers had been pursuing. Police tried to stop the driver for a Vehicle Code violation in the southern end of the city, said police Lt. Christian Hsu. Instead of […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Former UFC champion Jon “Bones” Jones pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge stemming from a hit-and-run crash in Albuquerque that injured a pregnant woman, saying he took full responsibility for what the judge called a “stupid decision” in the moments following the accident. Jones’ plea to a charge of leaving the scene […]