Southern California

CHINO HILLS >> An allegedly drunken La Puente woman was arrested after she slammed into a truck head on late Friday night. Elizabeth Muro, 30, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence around 11:30 p.m. Friday and has since been released, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff’s booking records. Muro was driving a […]

SAN BERNARDINO >> A sheriff’s deputy and a Victorville man were recovering Sunday after the patrol car was hit in the side while heading to aid another deputy involved in a foot chase, authorities said. Shortly before 9 a.m. the deputy, whose name wasn’t released, was driving south on Del Rosa Avenue with his overhead […]

SAN DIMAS >> Coroner’s officials Sunday identified a 55-year-old trucker found dead inside a big rig parked along the right shoulder of the 10 Freeway Saturday afternoon. Luis Diaz-Jaramillo of Chula Vista was pronounced dead at the scene after he was discovered unresponsive in his big rig alongside the eastbound 10 Freeway, just west of […]

NICE, France (AP) — Tributes poured in for French driver Jules Bianchi, who died from injuries sustained in a head-on crash during the Japanese Grand Prix last October. The 25-year-old Bianchi died in a hospital in his hometown of Nice, his family said in a statement released early Saturday. Nice was about 30 kilometers (20 […]

Nearly 400,000 California driver’s licenses were issued to undocumented immigrants in the first half of this year as part of a massive effort to allow them to drive legally in the Golden State, officials announced Friday. During the first six months that the Safe Driver and Responsibility Act — or AB 60 — went into […]

SAN DIMAS >> A truck driver died along the 10 Freeway in San Dimas after suffering an apparent medical problem Saturday, officials said. The incident was first reported on the eastbound 10 Freeway, just west of the 57 Freeway, according to California Highway Patrol logs. Paramedics responded to a report of a medical issue when […]

POMONA >> A 68-year-old man died today from injuries he suffered when the vehicle he was driving went over an embankment in Pomona. The crash occurred about 5:20 p.m. on Mission Boulevard east of Phillips Drive, according to Pomona police. Joseph Holbrook of Montclair was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police […]

JOHANNESBURG >> A commuter train crashed into another passenger train during rush hour Friday in South Africa’s largest city injuring more than 300 people, an emergency services spokeswoman said. Nana Radebe, spokeswoman for Johannesburg Emergency Services, said 326 people were rushed to nearby hospitals with minor to serious injuries. No fatalities were reported. “For now […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. >> Federal safety officials on Tuesday urged commercial buses to have more clearly labeled emergency exits and safety briefings similar to those on planes after their investigation of a deadly collision in California in which a tractor-trailer slammed into a bus full of students. Dozens of students struggled to escape the burning, smoke-filled […]