The man involved in a deadly car crash that killed an 8-year-old girl in April was under the influence of drugs, according to police.

Louis Bernabei Jr. was arrested Friday after investigators said he was on methadone, and his doctor told him he should not be driving. The crash happened last April on northbound 85 in Cupertino.

Investigators said Bernabei plowed his jeep into an SUV that was pulled to the shoulder lane. The crash killed a little girl inside the SUV.

Bernabei is facing several charges, including murder.

A one-year-old girl is expected to be okay after a large TV dresser fell on her in San Marcos Saturday night, according to San Diego County Sheriff's Department.

The child was immediately rushed to the hospital from her home on Rue De Valle near Bradley Park. Her injuries appeared to be minor, deputies said.

Investigators did immediately disclose how the accident occurred.

The husband of a North County teacher is angry that no arrest has been made more than a month after his wife's death.

Nicole Lynch was killed in front of her 21-year-old daughter Kendall while jogging in Carlsbad, Sunday, Dec. 28.

In an exclusive interview with NBC 7, Lynch's husband Pat said he and his children are having great emotional difficulties struggling with her death, all while to them, the wheels of justice seemed to have ground to a hault.

The driver of the SUV, Joseph Knight, swerved his car into Lynch and her daugther as they jogged along Carlsbad Boulevard, just north of Tamarack Avenue.

“She died at the scene. It was that horrific,” Pat Lynch said.

The police report indicates 52-year-old Knight told investigators he was distracted by his three-year-old daughter who was in the back seat. But to the victim's husband, this doesn't explain why it took Knight nearly 100 feet to stop.

“You look right and swerve right for five feet, this was a couple of hundred feet with somebody impaled on your car,” Pat said.

Knight did not answer his phone when NBC 7 called for his recollection of the accident.

At the time of the collision, Knight had an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court and was driving on a suspended license. Yet he was not arrested.

"The Sheriff's Department doesn't allow us to book certain misdemeanor warrants. That's one of those non-bookable warrants," Carlsbad Police Lt. Mickey Williams told NBC7 over the phone."It was a horrible day for everybody. We have to ask ourselves, 'do we want to take the child out of his father's care and put him in jail that day?' We decided not to."

Pat Lynch still wants answers.

“He's free to keep driving around on a suspended license with no insurance killing other people and nobody here cares,” Lynch said. He added that for the first time, he's feeling helpless without his wife, Nicole.

“Amazing. Married 24 and a half years to my best friend,” Lynch said. "That is why I don't know what to do."

The District attorney told NBC 7 it's waiting for Carlsbad police to complete their investigation.

Police said they are waiting to complete a thorough inspection of the suspect's vehicle, including seeing if there was anything mechanically wrong with the SUV that might have contributed to the accident.

Once an American hero for dominating the iron-man Olympic sport, the decathlon, Bruce Jenner's post-athletic life intertwined with Hollywood after marrying into the Kardashian family. They would eventually star in their own reality show, bringing Jenner back into the spotlight.

1976 — Bruce Jenner set a record in winning the decathlon at the XXI Summer Olympics in Montreal Canada. They were his second Olympic games.

1981 — Jenner joined the cast of TV's "ChiPs" as Officer Steve McLeish, appearing in six episodes, according to IMDB.

1984 — Jenner had nose surgery and a partial face-lift

1991 — Jenner married Kris Kardashian. He became stepfather to Kris' four children: Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob, from Kris's previous marriage to Robert Kardashian.

1995 — Jenner and Kris attended O.J Simpson's double-murder trial. Robert Kardashian was one of Simpson's lawyers.

2007 — "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," the family's breakout reality series following the lives of the Jenner-Kardashian family, premiered in October.

2010 — General Mills unveiled Wheaties boxes that featured Winter Olympic athletes throughout history. Jenner is among the athletes selected.

2013 — Jenner and Kris separated after 22 years of marriage.

2014 — Kris filed for divorce, saying she and Jenner remained friends.

2015 — Jenner was at the wheel of an SUV involved in a fatal four-car crash on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, authorities said.

A newborn baby girl just a few hours old was found alive behind a wall in Lakewood, authorities said.

A homeless Good Samaritan heard noises found the girl, wrapped in a blanket, at 6 a.m. in a grassy area of a shpopping center at Lakewood Boulevard and Hardwick Street, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman.

The man took the infant to a nearby fire station, which was within walking distance. The firefighters took the girl to Long Beach Memorial Hospital to be checked, deputies said.

Deputies were investigating who the baby, which was in stable condition, belongs to.

"Although we are investigating a crime, we are concerned about the mother's health and well being. We urge her to seek follow up treatment from a qualified medical professional," deputies said in a statement.

California has a Safe Haven law, allowing anyone to drop off a newborn baby at designated "safe surrender" sites within 72 hours.

Anyone with information pertaining to the investigation is asked to call 562-623-3500 or 800-222-TIPS.

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A woman wanted on outstanding arrest warrants led authorities on a pursuit that extended over three Southern California counties on Sunday morning, authorities said.

The woman, who had a prior arrest warrant, fled in a black Mustang after a California highway patrolman tried to make a traffic stop at around midnight in San Bernardino County, a CHP spokesman said.

She entered the southbound 605 Freeway, drove through Los Angeles County and into Orange County, where she crashed into a power pole on the freeway near Katella Avenue, officials said.

No one was injured, police said. The woman, about 53 years old, was arrested.

City News Service contributed to this story.

Paparazzi photographers following reality TV star and Olympian Bruce Jenner "were not chasing him" before the deadly chain-reaction crash on Pacific Coast Highway Saturday, officials said.

"He was not trying to elude them or anything. They were not chasing him, they just follow him," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Philip Brooks.

Jenner's car crashed into a stopped-short Lexus on PCH near Corral Canyon Road at about 12:15 p.m. Saturday. The Lexus then veered into traffic and was struck by a Hummer, killing its driver and injuring several others, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

The driver was identified Sunday as a 69-year-old woman, but the LA County Coroner's Coroner has not released her name. The crash is still under investigation.

Photographers were present -- professionally taken photos from the side of PCH showed Jenner's SUV hit a Lexus. 

It's unclear if Jenner was distracted from behind the wheel, deputies said, but he was not speeding away from chasing paparazzi. Jenner passed a field sobriety test.

"He knows, yeah, there's paparazzi with him," Brooks added.

The dangers of paparazzi, who pursue celebrities in order to sell candid photos of them to news tabloids and other media, have been well known since several were implicated in the high-speed car wreck that killed Princess Diana in 1997.

In 2010, California passed a law that imposed harsher penalties on reckless paparazzi actions. It allows jail time for photographers found driving carelessly or blocking sidewalks.

But the footage of the scene appears to be from photographers already in place at PCH -- not pursuing Jenner -- suggesting that these photos, at least, were not the result of reckless paparazzi actions.

Jenner has been in the news lately over speculation about his personal life.

It was unclear if Jenner was on his phone at the time, Sgt. Brooks said.

"Generally in a case like this we'll ask or get a warrant for his cell phone records," he said.

Mark Andrus, the 59-year-old man arrested and later released on suspicion of murder in the grisly case of a dismembered body found in a suitcase in San Francisco, died Saturday, the San Francisco Public Defender's Office confirmed Sunday.

The Public Defender's office said Andrus was rushed to a hospital, where he died.

The San Francisco Police Department would not comment on the death, stating that "Mr. Andrus is a free man," and is "not in police custody."

The San Francisco District Attorney's Office said last week there was insufficient evidence to charge Andrus on suspicion of murder in the case.

Andrus was arrested on Jan. 30 and booked at the San Francisco County Jail. After his release from jail Tuesday, he was escorted by Jeff Adachi, his public defender. Adachi said that since Andrus did not have a place to live, his office would be helping him find a place to stay. "We will help place him in a hotel," Adachi said. "We will assist him with re-entry — he's been in jail three to four days."

Officers detained Andrus last month at the Sala Burton Manor apartment building, located at 430 Turk Street, less than a mile from where the suitcase with a headless human torso was found Police said they received a tip from an anonymous caller reporting that the person of interest in a photo SFPD released Friday was staying at the apartment building.

The suitcase was found on 11th Street near Market, just one block from Twitter's headquarters. Police then made another gruesome discovery shortly after when they uncovered more body parts within a three-block radius.

The San Francisco Chief Medical Examiner's office confirmed the human body parts were those of an unidentified light-skinned male. The medical examiner is still working to identify the victim.

Police and the District Attorney's Office said last week they would continue to investigate the case and work to find information that proves a link between Andrus and the body in the suitcase.

NBC Bay Area's Dave Elkinson, Jean Elle, Mark Matthews and Bay City News contributed to this report.

Lifeguards and firefighters searched Sunday afternoon for an 18-year-old whose friends saw him go under the surface of the ocean amid heavy surf in Laguna Beach, authorities said.

The victim, shirtless and wearing black shorts, was last seen in the water off Thousand Steps Beach about 1:35 p.m., said Capt. Steve Concialdi of the Orange County Fire Authority.

Lifeguards were searching the water in boats as sheriff's and OCFA helicopters searched from the air for the missing teen. Ground-based Laguna Beach and OCFA firefighters also searched for him from the ground, Concialdi said.

A $14 million lotto ticket was sold Saturday, one of three big winners across Southern California on a day where many played the lottery looking to win many millions of dollars, according to the California Lottery.

While no one hit the $380 million jackpot available in Powerball, three tickets were sold that were worth at least $1.3 million, Lottery officials said.

Two players in Los Angeles and Norco came close to splitting the jackpot, matching five of six Powerball numbers. Their tickets, which haven't yet been claimed, have a pre-tax value of $1,333,464.

The next Powerball drawing is Wednesday night. The pot is estimated at $450 million, making it the 5th largest jackpot in U.S. history and the third largest in Powerball history.

Those two winning tickets pale in comparison to the $14 million Super Lotto Plus winner sold Saturday at a Glendale donut shop, according to the lottery. They matched six numbers in the game, making whoever claims the ticket eligible for $9.5 million in a lump-sum payment or the entire amount over 30 years.

The $14 million payout was a boom for the shop that sold the winning ticket, which wins a small bonus payout for itself.

When lottery officials broke the news to Hovik Cholakian, the shop's owner, he screamed with excitement, according to the lottery press release.

“This is my first big win. I’m very excited,” Cholakian told the lottery. “We work very hard, 12-13 hours a day, seven days a week. Having $70,000 (come in) is a lot of money for us!”

Top Powerball Jackpots All Time
$590.5 million: won 5/18/2013 in Florida
$587.5 million: won 11/28/2012 in Missouri, Arizona
$450 millon: next draw Wednesday, Feb. 11.
$448.4 million: won 8/7/2013 in Minnesota, New Jersey
$425.3 million: Won 2/19/2014 in California
(Source: California Lottery)

As if nature hadn't dropped enough snow on New England so far this year, one Boston resident says that a local business is making a difficult winter much worse for her.

Amanda Duquette says that multiple times this season, the owner of South Boston Auto Car & Truck Repair has moved the snow from its lot onto her car, completely burying it.

Living in South Boston, Duquette is used to battling the snow and parking problems. But after leaving her car parked on East 2nd Street before the first storm, she says she returned a few days later to find her car gone.

"You couldn't even see it," she said. "I thought I'd been towed."

Duquette says the car was buried under a snow bank about eight feet high, left there, she says, by the business owner.

She says she has since cleared her car out multiple times, each time returning to find it reburied.

"He shouldn't be able to just do this and have people suffer through it," said Duquette.

Other neighbors say they have also witnessed the business owner repeatedly dumping snow from his property onto city streets, sidewalks and cars.

"Every storm, he does this," said Heather Ward. "It's not anything different."

A video taken by a neighbor purportedly shows someone snowblowing the snow onto the cars and sidewalks. Another video even apparently shows a shoveler moving snow neighbors say the company threw into the street. That shoveler appears to be moving the snow into a shoveled-out parking space.

Initial attempts to reach the business owner were unsuccessful. NECN eventually got in touch with him, and he denies the allegations.

Boston Public Works Commissioner Mike Dennehy says the city is aware of the situation.

"I'm familiar with the address," he said. "It's blatantly being pushed."

Dennehy says code enforcement has visited the business at least twice this winter, each time issuing a $200 fine. But he says, right now, that is the only action they can take.

"Barring parking an officer there and waiting for them to try tomorrow when it happens again, I don't know if there's any recourse that we can do."

Mayor Walsh tells NECN that it is the first station to be made aware that he is looking to address the situation. He says he met with his policy committee this week and is trying to figure out ways to increase those fines.

Court proceedings in the murder trial against former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez have been cancelled Monday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court confirmed Sunday afternoon.

With approximately two feet of snow expected to fall on much of New England, the trial is currently scheduled to resume Tuesday.

Hernandez is charged with the murder of Odin Lloyd back in 2013.

NECN will have more as this story develops.

A 4.9 magnitude earthquake has struck Baja California, according to the United States Geological Survey.

As the investigation into Saturday's fatal four-vehicle crash on Pacific Coast Highway focused in on whether there was any criminal intent, authorities Sunday released the victim's name.

Kim Howe, 69, of Calabasas, died when her Lexus veered or was pushed into oncoming traffic just after noon on Saturday, Feb. 7, in Malibu near Corral Canyon Road, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Philip Brooks said.

The department is investigating the fatal traffic collision, gathering cellphone records and conducting interviews, Brooks said.

Howe rear-ended a Toyota Prius, and was then hit herself by reality TV star Bruce Jenner's SUV after Howe's car hit a Prius, Brooks said. For a reason that's still under investigation, Howe's car was pushed into the southbound lane of PCH, where it was hit by a fast-moving Hummer.

If any of the drivers, including Jenner, are found to have acted with "criminal intent," they could be charged with vehicular manslaughter, according to Brooks.

None of the drivers are being investigated for vehicular manslaughter so far, he said.

Deputies have asked for the drivers to turn over cellphone records to detectives, Brooks said. If they don't comply, they may seek a warrant for the records.

Jenner was cooperative with the investigation, taking and passing a field sobriety test as well as voluntarily giving blood for more testing, deputies have said.

In a statement released Sunday evening, Jenner said: "My heartfelt and deepest sympathies go out to the family and loved ones, and to all of those who were involved or injured in this terrible accident.

"It is a devastating tragedy and I cannot pretend to imagine what this family is going through at this time. I am praying for them. I will continue to cooperate in every way possible."

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High surf, strong rip currents and sneaker waves are expected through Tuesday on southwest California beaches, according to a National Weather Service advisory.

Waves were expected to be up to 8 feet, with some sets reaching 10 feet.

"Well that [5-8 feet] isn't incredibly high, the issue is the rip currents and of course, the sneaker waves," said NBC4 meteorologist Anthony Yanez.

While the storm system known as "Pineapple Express" soaks Northern and Central California, its effects are being felt in SoCal, too.

The severe thunderstorms in Northern and Central California are coming from an area of low pressure, according to Yanez.

This low pressure area is piling up the water along Southern California's west-facing shores. This, in turn, is creating strong rip currents which make for dangerous surfing and swimming conditions.

The surf may have proved deadly Sunday as officials search for an 18-year-old who was knocked off rocks amid heavy surf in Laguna Beach. What began as a massive search has turned into a recovery operation at 1,000 Steps Beach in Orange County, officials told NBC4.

"It is extremely dangerous out there," Yanez said.

This weather pattern is expected to continue through Tuesday.

The Los Angeles Lakers are the worst they've ever been.

In truth, the Lakers--Minneapolis or LA--have never been this bad. In 1957-58, the Minneapolis Lakers won 19 games in a 72-game season, which amounted to a winning percentage of 26.4 percent. With 27 wins in the 2013-14 season, Mike D'Antoni's Lakers won 32.9 percent of their games to claim the qualified title of worst team in Lakers' history since the team moved to LA.

While D'Antoni's Lakers looked like a hopeless mess, Byron Scott's 2014-15 Lakers have been worse. With only 13 wins in 51 games, LA is currently winning only 25.5 percent of its games.

Considering the 2014-15 Lakers have lost 13 of their last 14 games, this team appears intent on claiming the unqualified dubious title of worst Lakers' team ever. The Lakers are awful, and this team winning more than 20 games this season would be an achievement at this point.

Why Are The Lakers So Awful?

Pointing to Kobe Bryant's injury or overuse may be the easiest way to explain the drop in play, but his inability to shoulder the load for the past couple seasons does not alone explain how poor the team has been. Steve Nash's bad contract and waste of a roster spot have particularly hurt the team in the past two seasons, too.

While the team may not publicly admit that Bryant's contract was a mistake, the truth of the matter is that both Bryant and Nash have handicapped the team with bad contracts and minimal playing time due to injuries.

Add in the freaky level of injuries in the 2013-14 season and the broken leg of promising rookie Julius Randle on opening night of the 2014-15 season, and the Lakers can easily point to injuries to help explain why the LA Lakers look like the Washington Generals these days.

Injuries, however, fail to fully capture the true breath of the Lakers' free fall. The failed Chris Paul trade deserves the shortest mention, as the Lakers cannot take blame for the league stepping in and canceling a trade that should have been executed. That happened.

Possibly even more important than the failed trade, the Lakers allowed Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol to walk away without getting anything in return in each of the past two off-seasons. For a team short on assets, the Lakers allowing two of the NBA's best big men to walk for free unlocked the perfect combination of pathetic play.

Trading Howard would have been harder to imagine than trading Gasol, but the thought did come up during a difficult season where Bryant and Howard butted heads. Management should have been in tune with Howard's growing frustrations over the Lakers' offensive system under D'Antoni and understandable favoritism toward Bryant.

Gasol's name became synonymous with trade rumors in his final seasons with the Lakers, and that the Lakers allowed the Spaniard to leave without receiving even a single draft pick is difficult to justify.

With both Howard and Gasol leaving the Lakers asset-less and stuck with a couple of bad contracts, the Lakers' front office latched onto keeping financial flexibility. Financial flexibility became the Lakers' primary asset. Rather than finding and signing players that could help the team for the next two to four seasons, the Lakers brought in players on one-year contracts or claimed players on expiring contracts via trade or waivers: Jeremy Lin; Carlos Boozer and Tarik Black.

When asking why the Lakers are awful, the blame falls primarily on the Lakers' front office. The Lakers' front office made the trade for Nash, gave Bryant his contract, allowed Howard to leave and let Gasol go for free.

What's Next?

The Lakers have hit the bottom.

Nash's contract will expire at season's end, so the Lakers will have even more spending power. Whether they exercise that power to sign middle grade non-superstar players to multiyear deals remains to be seen. The more the Lakers spend on proven talent, the better the Lakers will be in 2015-16.

With Randle expected back fully fit to start the 2015-16 season and LA expected to land a top-five draft pick in 2015, the Lakers should begin to rise once again. With Bryant suffering season ending injuries three seasons in a row, Bryant's swan song could be a farewell tour or his final season could end early due to injury. Either outcome appears equally likely at this junction.

Regardless, the team and the fans have already experienced a couple years without Bryant, and every outing for the soon-to-be 37-year-old is appreciated rather than expected.

The 2015-16 Lakers will be built around youth, not Bryant.

A husband and wife were found stabbed in their home near Koreatown Sunday evening, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

The woman died at the scene near Hobart and Venice boulevards. Upon arrival, officers found the woman with fatal stab wounds blocking the doorway to the house.

The woman's husband was found in the bedroom with stab wounds, and was taken a hospital in critical condition. He was in stable condition after surgery.

It is unclear what led to the stabbing, but a domestic fight wasn't yet ruled out as of Monday morning, the Olympic Division of the LAPD said.

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