Southern California

Name: John Force Title: NHRA Driver Age: 65 A drag racing icon, Force’s excitable attitude is as combustible as the 7,000-horsepower funny cars he has driven to a record 16 championships. Reiterating that retirement is not in his vocabulary as recently as February, the Yorba Linda resident plans to add to the 141 national event […]

A Pasadena police officer was injured Monday afternoon when he was knocked off his motorcycle in Upland on the 210 Freeway just east of Euclid Avenue. The Pasadena motor officer was taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center by way of helicopter, according to a news release from Pasadena Police Department. There was no indication of […]

SAN DIMAS >> Marcus Colasuonno, a San Dimas High School junior, shook his girlfriend Hannah Doonan and pleaded for her to wake up, then shouted at best buddy Jacob Castillo to “stop fooling around.” But Jake, ejected from the back seat he shared with his now “unconscious” prom date Shelbie Moore, just moaned and didn’t […]

A woman died Saturday night after her vehicle ran off the roadway and down a steep embankment. Colton police officers were dispatched about 6:09 p.m. to Barton Road, near Hill Top Drive, for a single vehicle collision, according to a Colton Police news release. A 2007 Hyundai Elantra had run off the roadway and rolled […]

NEEDLES >> A tour bus traveling from Laughlin, Nevada, to Ventura caught fire here Sunday afternoon, forcing all 52 passengers to evacuate. The bus driver said he heard what sounded like a rear tire exploding and pulled the bus to the side of the road about 1 p.m., according to Dean Dickover, a San Bernardino […]

LONG BEACH >> On the 15th of 24 Pirelli World Challenge laps, Olivier Beretta was passed for the lead by Johnny O’Connell and Kevin Estrel fior the lead going into the fourth turn. However, by the time Beretta exited the right-handed turn, he was back in the lead and headed to his third win of […]

POMONA >> Three people were killed within a span of six hours, two in a traffic accident and the other in a house fire. The two people in the traffic accident died after the vehicle they were traveling in struck a tree about 4:10 a.m. Saturday. The driver, a 19-year-old Ontario man, and the passenger, […]

SAN DIEGO — A father who walked away from his fatally wounded 4-year-son after a car wreck has been sentenced to four years in prison. Angelo Fabiani was sentenced Friday for hit-and-run driving after leaving his son at the accident scene in 2013 and walking nearly 18 miles to his home in Imperial Beach. The […]

ONTARIO >> A 63-year-old motorist from Laguna Hills was killed in a two-vehicle crash near Ontario, the Riverside County Coroner’s Office said today. The crash was on the northbound Ontario (15) Freeway, approaching the Pomona (60) Freeway interchange, at about 9:40 a.m. Friday, according to the Riverside County Coroner’s Office. The crash involved a white […]