19 September 2008, 5:58 pm
Less than five minutes into Lisa Poston's shift, the San Diego code-enforcement officer spotted a scraggly man on a bicycle that had been modified to carry garbage cans. Poston pulled her unmarked car next to him and politely explained that he was ...... read more
19 September 2008, 7:42 am
A freight train engineer says he saw an Oxnard man place his head on the tracks moments before the train ran over him. The 37-year-old man, whose name is being withheld, was killed shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday in Ventura. Police Lt. Mark Stadler ...... read more
15 September 2008, 5:56 pm
Several of the state's top amateur boxers tuned up for the Police Athletic League (P.A.L.) Nationals in Oxnard, Calif., later this month with bouts on Saturday night at the Foley's Domination Boxing Show in Ogden. Here are the winners: Laketown's ...... read more
13 September 2008, 11:46 am
Rescuers have worked into the night in California on the United States' west coast after a head-on crash between two trains killed at least 12 people. More than 130 people were injured when a Metrolink commuter train, en route from Los Angeles' Union ...... read more
13 September 2008, 4:00 am
Sep 13th, 2008 | LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles fire officials say at least 12 people have been killed in the collision of a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train in the San Fernando Valley. Dr. Marc Eckstein, the fire department's medical ...... read more
11 September 2008, 5:53 pm
Sep 12th, 2008 | LOS ANGELES -- A commuter train carrying 222 people collided head-on with a freight train during the Friday afternoon rush, killing at least 10 people, injuring more than 100 and trapping an unknown number of others in a passenger ...... read more