Transportation Accidents

MTA bus driver killed in crash 'looked after everyone else first'

2013-06-15 21:47:00

Olivia Gamboa began her route through downtown Los Angeles in the pre-dawn darkness. After 13 years as a bus driver with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, she could have chosen any shift. She opted to drive at 5 a.m., as most of the city slept,...

Man struck twice and killed after accident on 134 Freeway

2013-06-15 12:25:00

A driver who exited his car following a crash on the 134 Freeway in Glendale early Saturday morning was killed after being struck twice by other vehicles, authorities said. The name of the victim has not been released pending notification of next of...

Cause of Chino Airport hangar accident investigated

2013-06-14 11:50:00

Investigators were trying to determine Friday what caused a jet to smash into a hangar at Chino Airport while mechanics were conducting a test on the engine. There were no immediate reports of injuries in the Thursday accident, officials said. The...

Three killed in Pico Rivera crash were heading home from a party

2013-06-14 05:57:00

A violent crash in Pico Rivera that killed three people Thursday night, including two children, appears to have been caused by a driver speeding and steering into oncoming traffic, authorities said. A preliminary investigation shows the northbound...

In Pakistan, attackers bomb women's university bus, hospital

2013-06-15 15:54:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militants laid siege to a hospital and bombed a women's university bus in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta in a wave of violence that killed at least 19 people and underscored the challenge facing new Prime Minister...

Driver was speeding before fatal Pico Rivera crash, police say

2013-06-14 23:58:00

A violent crash in Pico Rivera that killed three people, including two children, Thursday night appears to have been caused by a speeding driver who crossed into oncoming traffic, authorities said. A preliminary investigation shows that the northbound...

Pedestrian struck and killed in North Hollywood; driver in custody

2013-06-11 10:27:00

A driver was in custody Tuesday after his car allegedly struck and killed a man in North Hollywood, police said. The victim, in his 30s, was standing behind a parked van on the 7300 block of Clyborn Avenue about 6 a.m., putting on shoes, when he was...

Suicide bombing outside Afghan Supreme Court kills 17

2013-06-11 10:11:00

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle in front of the Supreme Court in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, several hundred yards from the U.S. Embassy, killing 17 people and wounding 38, police said. The Taliban claimed...

4-year-old boy dies of injuries from bizarre freeway crash

2013-06-12 19:56:00

A 4-year-old boy has died of injuries he suffered in a bizarre traffic incident in San Diego in which his father is now charged with allegedly abandoning the child before police arrived. Valentino Fabiani died of the head and brain injuries that he...

Wounded Santa Monica shooting victim feared gunman would kill her

2013-06-12 17:44:00

It was a “perfect storm” of coincidences that led Debra Fine into a quiet neighborhood in Santa Monica last week at the exact moment a gunman set off on a chaotic rampage. A former Disney executive who had quit her job to spend more time with...

Boy with no seat belt or car seat dies in SUV rollover

2013-06-12 12:12:00

A 5-year-old boy riding in the backseat of an SUV died when it rolled onto its roof, authorities said Wednesday. The boy was not in a car seat and was not wearing a seatbelt, sheriff's officials said. Det. Jeff Perkins of the Los Angeles County...

Afghan bombings kill nine children, 10 others

2013-06-03 07:44:00

KABUL, Afghanistan—Two bomb blasts killed at least 19 people, including nine schoolchildren, in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, as Afghan Taliban militants continued a wave of violence as part of their spring offensive. In one attack, a suicide...

"Intertwined" is an understatement for the two distinct coasters identified as Fire and Ice. The inverted, crafty design hurls the trains toward one another, only to have each curve away upward, avoiding a perceived collision. That earns a universal "Whoa!" from riders.

2013-06-10 00:00:00

Carole Codianni from Naugatuck and Kevin Bleau from Southington were honored, along with Plainville Police Officers Bryan Cybulski and Greg Barrett (seen at right) by the state police during a ceremony at the Connecticut State Police Training Academy in Meriden Monday. On Feb. 1 at 6:30 a.m.

2013-06-03 00:00:00

South Bend Tribune/JAMES BROSHER.A 1929 Ford Tri-Motor plane sits on the tarmac on Monday, June 3, 2013, at the Elkhart Municipal Airport. The EAA purchased the plane in 1973 after it was heavily damaged at an air show in Burlington, Wisc.

2013-06-03 00:00:00