Southern California

SEATTLE >> A 16-year-old girl survived a small-plane crash in the rugged mountains of north-central Washington state and then hiked through thick forest to reach safety in what one official called “a miracle.” But searchers still were looking for the wreckage and the teen’s two step-grandparents who also were aboard. There was no official word […]

SAN DIMAS >> A local Formula Drift driver is asking the public’s help to recover a two-car trailer that was stolen from his shop in San Dimas on Sunday. Justin Pawlak said the approximately $6,000 trailer was taken sometime after 3 p.m. Sunday. He discovered the theft Monday morning. “It’s the trailer we use to […]

Authorities are searching for a driver who drove off after striking and killing a woman in Lytle Creek. Jennifer Stoops, a 35-year-old transient, was found lying on the northbound shoulder of Lytle Creek Road, north of Glen Helen Road, in Lytle Creek on Friday night, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner’s Office. Paramedics took […]

LE HAVRE, France >> Tour de France leader Tony Martin had to pull out of the race after breaking his collarbone in a crash that he caused late in Thursday’s sixth stage. The crash also dragged down defending champion Vincenzo Nibali and fellow Tour contender Nairo Quintana, but they escaped with cuts and bruises. A […]

AMIENS, France — Andre Greipel won a rain-drenched fifth stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish on Wednesday, while fellow German Tony Martin kept the yellow jersey and the main Tour contenders stayed safe as others tumbled around them. Greipel attacked some 100 meters from the line and held on to beat […]

HUY, Belgium — Spanish veteran Joaquim Rodriguez won the crash-marred third stage of the Tour de France on Monday, with British rider Chris Froome finishing second to take the race leader’s yellow jersey. The crash happened with a little under 37 miles remaining, forcing the stage to be neutralized and then stopped altogether shortly after […]

SAN BERNARDINO >> Maurice Glover was reading a book while sitting near the back of a Greyhound when the bus started bouncing and passengers flew past him in the aisle. Another passenger, a man in his 20s, had yanked the steering wheel from the driver, forcing the bus into a ditch on the north side […]

LA VERNE >> Road rage on the 210 Freeway led to a fistfight and a three-car collision in La Verne on Tuesday, authorities said. Police received a call of a fistfight at Foothill Boulevard and Wheeler Avenue around 10:20 a.m., police Lt. Thomas Frayeh said. A couple minutes later, police received a call of a […]

Three people were injured when a automobile fleeing Ontario police crashed into several cars at a Rancho Cucamonga intersection, police said. Rancho deputies closed sections of Foothill Boulevard and Hermosa Avenue as the station’s Major Accident Investigation Team responded to the crash site, according to Teresa McMahon, a spokeswoman for the Rancho Cucamonga sheriff’s station. […]