An investigation is underway to determine what caused a US military aircraft to crash in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province Monday, a spokesperson for US Forces in Afghanistan confirmed, adding that there is “no indication” the plane was downed by enemy fire. “A U.S. Bombardier E-11A crashed today in Ghazni province, Afghanistan. While the cause of crash […]
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A team from the National Transportation Safety Board planned to make its way Monday to the hard-to-access hillside in Calabasas to determine why a luxury helicopter crashed in deep fog, killing retired basketball phenom Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and all other seven occupants. Bryant was 41. The crash, in the area of Las […]
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A family member identified the four people that were killed when a plane crashed and caught fire after taking off from Corona Municipal Airport on Wednesday. Eddie Rodriguez of La Mirada told KTLA on Thursday that he lost his brother Danny Rodriguez, sister-in-law Teresa and friend Paula Mitchell in the crash. The plane’s owner, 85-year-old […]
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A 62-year-old Chula Vista man was killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash on Interstate 10 near Cathedral City, the California Highway Patrol reported Tuesday. Dorian Zaentz was driving eastbound on I-10 between Date Palm Drive and North Gene Autry Trail at “a high rate of speed” about 5:40 p.m. Monday when, for reasons still under […]
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Authorities Wednesday announced the arrest of a 24-year-old woman accused of driving drunk and causing a collision that killed another driver more than a year ago in San Jacinto. Angelica Hauste of San Jacinto was charged last August with DUI gross vehicular manslaughter, but her whereabouts were unknown until this week, when deputies served an […]
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An off-duty detective with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was helping a person cross the street Sunday when she was hit by a car and died. Det. Amber Leist, 41, was driving around 11 a.m. PST when she noticed a person fall while crossing the street. Leist got out of her car to help […]
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The US increasingly believes that Iran mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian airliner on Wednesday, according to multiple US officials. The working theory is based on continuing analysis of data from satellites, radar and electronic data collected routinely by US military and intelligence. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he suspected the crash was not due […]
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A 20-year-old woman who killed an Eastvale mother of two and severely injured one of her children in a wreck caused by the defendant’s alcohol and drug impairment was sentenced Monday to nearly eight years in state prison — a punishment that the victim’s family openly denounced as insufficient. Grace Christine Whitman of Rancho Cucamonga […]
