An elderly man was stabbed in front of a bus stop in San Dimas Wednesday morning, according to officials from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, San Dimas station.

The attack happened at the 600 block of Bonita Avenue near W. Arrow Highway at about 6:50 a.m.

He was airlifted to a nearby hospital for treatment, his condition was unknown.

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Jeff Borland didn’t let his son, Chris, play football until high school growing up in Ohio. He thought youth coaches didn’t know how to teach little boys how to be safe tackling.

So it was with great pride and relief for him and his wife, Zebbie, when their 24-year-old son, the sixth of seven siblings and a promising rookie linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers, announced to the world this week that he was retiring from the sport because he had researched what concussions could do later in life.

“As a parent,” Borland said Tuesday night in a phone interview with NBC Bay Area from Kettering, Ohio, “you’re relieved.”

Relieved, he said, because football usually means “physical punishment,” which takes a toll on the mind and body.

Now, the elder Borland said, his son will be looking at what to do next: "I think there will be more school," he said, without indicating what his son's next career path would be, adding that Chris Borland graduated with a history degree at the University of Wisconsin.

"He did what he had to do, and proved himself successful in the NFL," the elder Borland said. "There were many good lessons learned from playing football - preparation, discipline, team work. The challenge now is to transfer those skills to the next career."

Chris Borland began researching and reading all about concussions and head injuries, and announced his retirement on Monday to ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru. The two Bay Area brothers wrote a book and created a documentary, the “League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth,” that changed the national conversation about head injuries and football.

"I just honestly want to do what's best for my health," Borland told "Outside the Lines." "From what I've researched and what I've experienced, I don't think it's worth the risk."

The decision had nothing to do with his ankle injury and shoulder issues: “I feel largely the same, as sharp as I’ve ever been," he told ESPN. "For me, it’s wanting to be proactive. I’m concerned that if you wait ’til you have symptoms, it’s too late.”

Borland is the most prominent NFL player to leave the game in his prime because of concerns about brain injuries, the brothers noted. More than 70 former players have been diagnosed with progressive neurological disease after their deaths, and numerous studies have shown connections between the repetitive head trauma associated with football, brain damage and issues such as depression and memory loss.

As the regular season approached, Borland’s father, owner of The Borland Group, a financial advisory firm, said his son began starting to think, “What am I going to do with my life?” That led his son to do some “reading and researching,” his dad said.

“He became concerned this could compromise his career after football," Jeff Borland said. "And he didn't want to jeopardize the next one."
 

Two buses and a storage trailer were set on fire and another fire burned a classroom Wednesday morning at a nearby San Bernardino County high school.

The fire appears to be a case of arson, according to the Redlands Fire Department. Students are on spring break this week, according to the Redlands High School website, and no injuries were reported.

The bus yard and storage area fires were reported at about 4 a.m. Firefighters discovered the burning portable classroom after arriving at the storage area in the 800 block of Citrus Avenue.

There were signs of a break-in at the school, according to the fire department.

"Clearly, we're investigating this as arson," said Redlands Fire Chief Jeff Frazier. "We have several leads we're following up on right now."

Call 909-798-7600 to provide information for investigators. No arrests were reported early Wednesday afternoon.

A skydiver died in Perris Wednesday morning from an unknown trauma, according to officials from the Riverside County Fire Department.

The details surrounding his death were unclear other than firefighters responded to a “skydiver down.” Officials were responding to an area along Highway 74 near Richard Street shortly after 9 a.m.

Perris is a popular area for skydivers with one of the largest skydiving centers in the world, Skydive Perris, operating out of the Perris Valley Airport, according to the company's website.

Aerial footage showed several firefighters carrying the man's body draped in an American flag away from the scene.

His parachute was left on the ground where officials collected his belongings and combed through the area.

Calls to the skydiving school were referred to the United States Department of Defense.

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Hampton University squeaked into the NCAA tournament after a first round win against Manhattan. Now the Virginia school is up against undefeated and top-seeded Kentucky – a favorite to take the tournament.

Hampton's head coach isn't counting on divine intervention.

When the coach, Edward Joyner Jr., was asked about his team's odds, he picked up his cell phone and pretended to make a call. He then joked that he had "Jesus on speed dial."

“Hey, Jesus?” Joyner told reporters. “They want to know how much of a mountain and what our odds are. Hello? Hello? I guess he'll get back to me so I'll get back to you."

Hampton is up against tough odds. No team ranked 16 in the tournament has ever won the big dance against a No. 1 seed.

“It’s a heck of a mountain,” Joyner said.

If they win that one game, it'll be an upset of biblical proportions. 

A U.S. Air Force veteran and former airplane mechanic from New Jersey charged with attempting to join the Islamic State group in Syria pleaded not guilty Wednesday to terrorism charges.

A bearded Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, wearing prison-issued khaki pants and a blue short-sleeved shirt, repeated his full name when asked but said nothing else before Judge Nicholas Garaufis in a New York federal courthouse. His attorney, Michael K. Schneider, entered the plea on his behalf. He declined to address reporters after the brief court appearance.

Pugh, 47, of Neptune, was indicted Tuesday on charges of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist group and obstructing justice.

He was stopped at a Turkish airport in January carrying a laptop containing information on Turkey-Syria border crossing points as well as 180 jihadist propaganda videos, including one featuring an Islamic State prisoner beheading, according to an indictment.

In a letter addressed to a woman investigators believe is Pugh's Egyptian wife, Pugh declared: "I will use the talents and skills given to me by Allah to establish and defend the Islamic States," according to court papers.

"There is only two possible outcomes for me," said the letter, which was recovered from his computer. "Victory or martyr."

The computer, as well as thumb drive data-storage devices and other recovered equipment, appeared to have been intentionally destroyed to deny investigators access, the indictment said.

Garaufis scheduled a May 8 status conference to review prosecutors' evidence and discuss any possible plea negotiations. Schneider said in court he would need time for his own forensic expert to review the data seized by federal authorities and to coordinate interviews with potential witnesses in Turkey, Egypt and elsewhere.

Pugh has been living overseas for the past year and a half, most recently in Egypt, the court papers show.

Pugh served in the Air Force from 1986 to 1990 and was trained in installing and maintaining aircraft engines and navigation and weapons systems. The airman first class was first assigned in July 1987 to the Woodbridge Air Base in England and then to the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona in July 1989, the Air Force said. After leaving the air force, he worked as an avionics specialist and mechanic for companies in the Middle East and U.S.

The FBI got a 2001 tip about Pugh from a co-worker at American Airlines who said Pugh expressed sympathy for Osama bin Laden, according to court papers. The airline said he left in early 2000 after a few months at American. In 2002, an associate of Pugh's again told the FBI that Pugh was interested in traveling to Chechnya to wage war, the indictment said.

Pugh was stopped by Turkish authorities on Jan. 10, and returned to the U.S. five days later by way of Egypt. He told investigators he was in Turkey on vacation and to look for a job and had no intention of crossing into Syria, the indictment said.

Starbucks is joining the national conversation about race in the latest sign that corporations are trying to tie their brands to big social issues.

The coffee chain known for its Frappuccinos says it will elaborate on the plans at its annual shareholder meeting Wednesday in Seattle. Already, workers at its U.S. stores have been told to write "Race Together" on cups and the company plans to start publishing "conversation guides" on the topic.

Some customers have already started the conversation at a Southern California Starbucks in Torrance.

"I think it’s hard for people to talk about race in general," Donna Bender said, a Starbucks customer. "You know it brings up a lot of emotional stuff for certain people."

The decision has sparked a backlash on social media, with people saying it's opportunistic for a coffee chain to try and inject itself into such an important issue. But it comes as corporate executives say customers are drawn to companies that project some sort of feel-good image or embrace positions on social causes.

At the annual meeting for Yum Brands Inc., the company that owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, CEO Greg Creed said in December that fast-food chains must to evolve from being perceived as "impersonal and industrial" to being able to "demonstrate that we do care."

Laura Ries, a branding consultant based in Atlanta, said that addressing big important, issues of the day has also become a way for companies to make themselves a part of the conversation. Otherwise, nobody is sitting around on Twitter discussing brands, she said.

Dove soap has generated widespread praise for its campaign celebrating "Real Beauty" by featuring women who don't look like the typical models. Always, which makes products for women, also got praise for an ad that ran during the Super Bowl seeking to empower young girls. But those were messages that had ties to the products.

People, however, don't associate their morning coffee with race.

"There's nothing wrong with talking about race relations," Ries said. "But is it something people naturally associate with Starbucks? It's not."

Some customers agreed with Ries’ comments.

"I think we need to talk about it, but I don’t know if it needs to be talked about on your morning coffee," Bender said.

Inserting itself into national issues is not new territory for Starbucks. In late 2012, the chain asked workers to write "Come together" on cups to send a message to lawmakers about stalled budget negotiations.

And in 2013, the chain placed newspaper ads saying that firearms were not welcome in its cafes after they became the site of gun rallies. But the company stopped short of an outright ban.

CEO Howard Schultz said at the time that Starbucks was neither for nor against guns, underscoring that even a company that wants a voice in national conversations, it must avoid alienating customers, regardless of their political or social views.

Poison centers across the country get more than 1,100 calls a day that relate to children sickened by medicine, according to a new report.

In all, there were 1.3 million poison center calls about children 19 and under in 2013, the report by Safe Kids Worldwide found. The vast majority of those calls, 53 percent, involved 1 and two year-olds and medicine, a number that the organization Safe Kids Worldwide called “alarming” and “most surprising”

Older children are also at risk for unintentional medicine poisoning, the report found, sometimes experiencing far more serious outcomes. Teens 15 to 19 were six times more likely to experience "moderate or major effects" from unintentional ingestion than children 1 to 4 years old.

The report, “Medicine Safety for Children: An In-Depth Look at Calls to Poison Centers,” analyzed data from 547,042 calls made to poison centers across the country in 2013. It found that 81 percent of the children were given the wrong medicine, while the remaining got too much. More than 10,000 emergency room visits are made each year for over-the-counter medicine overdoses by adolescents, the report said.

The most common accidentally ingested items for children under age 4, according to the report, are ibuprofen, multivitamins and diaper care and rash products. Nearly half of the emergency room visits were connected to the consumption of those products, which the report said can fall into kids' hands after being found on the ground, a nightstand or in a purse.

For teens, the top medicine mistakes were related to forgetting to take drug and then doubling up, taking two medicines with the same ingredient and taking the wrong medicine.

Emergency 911 callers reporting Harrison Ford's plane crash earlier this month used tee box locations to help direct responders to the "Star Wars" actor's downed vintage aircraft.

The 911 calls released Tuesday include one caller who told a dispatcher he could see the crumpled Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR after in crash-landed March 5 on the course at Venice's Penmar Golf Club. Other witnesses reported seeing the plane go down just after takeoff southwest of Santa Monica Municipal Airport.

Caller: "A plane went down... on the eighth tee area."

Dispatch: "Excuse me?"

Caller: "It's on the eighth tee area."

Dispatch: "What do you mean? What's that?"

Caller: "A plane came down right on the eighth tee area."

The 911 call from the golf course was one of several alerting dispatchers to the crash.

Details regarding why the single-engine World War II vintage plane lost power after taking off were not included in a preliminary report issued March 10 by the National Transportation Safety Board. The plane struck a tree before slamming into the ground.

A final report could take months to complete.

Ford, 72, suffered non-life threatening injuries. The "Indiana Jones" star received his pilot's license in the 1990s and has made headlines with his flying before, though he had never been significantly injured doing it. In 2001, he rescued a missing Boy Scout with his helicopter. Nearly a year before, he rescued an ailing mountain climber in Jackson, Wyoming.

In 2000 in Lincoln, Nebraska, a gust of wind sent a six-seat plane Ford was piloting off the runway. He and his passenger were not injured.

He has also volunteered his services during forest-fire season, when rescue helicopters are busy fighting fires.

Climate change is at the root of an alarming explanation for why strange animal phenomena like seeing a sea lion cruising on a kayak — or, worse, washing up sick or starved on the beach — are happening with greater frequency.

Experts have cited unusually warm waters in the West Coast as a catalyst for four times as many sea lion pups washing up on the brink of life this year as the mothers have to travel increasing distances to find food for them. 

As many as 1,450 sea lions have washed up on California beaches in 2015 and about half have died naturally or been euthanized, according to the New York Times.

Now some scientists are taking a closer look at rapidly declining oxygen levels in oceans that create dangerous, life-threatening conditions for fish and other creatures that sea lions consume. In California, this has meant a huge free-fall in populations of important bottom feeder fish like viperfish, hatchetfish, dragonfish and lampfish, according to National Geographic.

"I think we are changing the world; I just don't think the responses are going to be as predictable as we think,” Francisco Chavez, senior scientist with California's Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, told the publication. "I think there are a slew of surprises ahead."

A sexual predator who has attacked at least two women is on the loose in North Hills, and police are hoping newly released sketches will help track him down.

The man made his first attack just after midnight on March 8 when a woman was coming home from work to her apartment in the 14700 block of Nordhoff Street, Los Angeles police said Wednesday.

The man grabbed the woman from behind when she bent down to pick up something, wrestled her to the ground and tried to take her clothes off, police said.

But the woman fought back, and the attacker ran away.

About a week later, on March 14, a man threw a woman down as she left her apartment in the 14600 block of Nordhoff Street, police said. She screamed as he sat on top of her and scared him away.

"We suspect this man lives in the neighborhood, perhaps in one of the several apartment complexes along (Nordhoff) Street," Los Angeles Police Lt. Paul Vernon said. "Women can protect themselves better by walking in pairs for now, and until we identify this man."

Police on Wednesday released two sketches they believe are of the same man.

"Stranger attacks like this are rare," Vernon said, adding that women can learn from the victims who fought back.

"Do not ever allow yourself to be taken away," he said. "Fighting back and drawing attention to your plight is usually the best defense, but it’s a personal choice. Rehearsing in your mind such an occurrence and your response will make you more apt to react quickly."

Anyone with information should call Detective Nicole Kittle at 818-838-9975. Anonymous tips can be called into Crimestoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477), or by texting 274637 (C-R-I-M-E-S).

Did you buy a lottery ticket and forget about it? Looks like someone did or they’re just holding on to the bittersweet moments before they claim their $1.9 million Powerball ticket that was purchased two months ago.

The golden ticket was purchased at the Century City 76 gas station at 10389 Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, according to officials from the California State Lottery. The winner has till 5 p.m. on July 16 to claim their prize before it expires, that’s 180 days from the date the winning numbers were drawn or four months from now. 

If a winner doesn’t come forward by the expiration date the unclaimed prize money will go toward California public schools.

Regardless if a winner claims their prize, the retailer will receive a bonus of almost $10,000 for selling the ticket.

The winning numbers on the ticket are 15, 27, 23, 36 and 16, missing only the Powerball number 9.

Winning ticket holders are asked to visit one of the nine Lottery District Offices to claim their prize.

Last week a ticket worth a little more than $1 million expired that was sold in a SoCal market on Sept. 13.

Two months after the brutal kidnapping and death of 3-week-old Eliza Delacruz, officials released sketches of a female and male suspect wanted in connection with her murder.

The Long Beach Police Department was asking for the public’s help to identify the two suspects, one of which is believed to have made contact with the mother of the baby (pictured, right) before the vicious attack.

On Jan. 3, at about 4:15 p.m. a black female, described as in her 40s, heavy set, with long dark curly hair, wearing a pair of dark designer sunglasses and driving a black SUV with dark rims approached Eliza’s mother as she exited a bus near the intersection of Del Amo Boulevard and Long Beach Boulevard, according to officials from the Long Beach Police Department.

Surveillance video shows a black SUV matching the description given by the newborn’s mother trailing a bus at about the same time.

The woman stopped and asked Eliza’s mother about the baby, according to officials from the LBPD. They spoke briefly before her mother continued her walk home.

Less than two hours later, Eliza’s family was violently attacked in their Long Beach home.

A man described as dark-skinned Hispanic or black forced his way in the family’s home in the 100 block of 51st Street, shooting Eliza’s parents and uncle before running off with the baby.

Southern Californians were rattled by the brutal assault and kidnapping of the newborn. A 24-hour manhunt ensued for the baby while her family was treated at a hospital for their injuries.

Eliza’s lifeless body was found over 100 miles south in a dumpster in Imperial Beach by a transient who was looking for cans on Jan. 4.

Based on three surveillance videos from where Eliza’s mother exited the bus, officials believe the SUV is a 2006 to 2011 Range Rover with large black rims. The videos were also forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigations for enhancement.

A $25,000 reward was announced in January for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in Eliza’s death.

Anyone with information is asked to call 562-570-7244.

The death of an infant has sparked an investigation in Lancaster after detectives say the baby was somehow hurt inside the family home.

The 8-month-old boy's mother told authorities that she put the baby in bed after 9 p.m. Tuesday, Los Angeles Sheriff's Lt. Steve Jauch said. The baby boy lived at the home with his 3-year-old sister and four adults, including his mother.

The mother said she "heard a sound" and that the baby fell off the bed, Jauch said.

The infant was taken to the hospital with traumatic brain injuries and died during surgery, officials said.

But detectives say the family's story is "inconsistent" with the infant's injury.

No arrests have been made, but the death is being investigated as suspicious, Jauch said.

It's 'round about now that the thousands upon thousands of people who are planning on attending the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival are saying sentences that begin with the words "a month from today ..."

"A month from today we'll be listening front row for Jack White" or "a month from today we'll be by the motel pool" or "a month from today we'll be looking for meeting each other at whatever outlandish sculpture we pick as our we-got-lost meet point."

People going to Brokechella, however, have a different "month from today" outlook. For sure, the window of time is the same: The in-city cheapo concert festival is on Saturday, April 18, which is the second Saturday of the desert extravaganza it so cheekily hails in its name. Or at least the second half of its name. 

But Brokechella is just fifteen bucks, if you buy your ticket early, and you don't need to find a place to camp around Indio, or an aunt's couch. Your "a month from today ..." is all about keeping cash in the wallet and grooving to good tunes while soaking in the sunshine.

Temperatures, also, may be on the cooler side in downtown LA, it is very likely.

If you think that Brokechella, though, is the only event there ending in -chella, well, au contraire: Puppychella is part of Brokechella, so look for sweet furry friends on the concert grounds (No Kill Los Angeles will be hosting the hound-themed happiness). 

So there's your "a month from today ..." Brokechella people. On April 18 you'll be Metroing it downtown, getting a beer or soda, dancing to tunes, and petting puppies. 

We're not saying you shouldn't see your aunt that night, or ask to crash on her couch, because we know you'd love to see her and she you. We're just saying your springtime concert choices include an in-town happening for not a lot of bucks. Plus puppies.

With a name like O'Hara, what better day to be born than St. Patrick’s Day?

Andrea O'Hara gave birth to twin girls on Tuesday in San Diego after 12 hours of labor. They arrived six minutes apart: Tessa Riley at 3:47 p.m.; McKenzie Faith at 3:53 p.m.

"An Irish family with Irish babies for St. Patrick’s Day, everyone’s just ecstatic," she said.

The twins were born early to their parents' surprise, so unexpected that there is a corned beef thawing in the family's refrigerator.

"They’re twins so our doctor predicted they’d come a couple of weeks early and they came three weeks early," their father, Todd O'Hara, said.

The couple has known each other since the fifth grade, then reconnected at the Rancho Bernardo High School reunion and had been trying to conceive for about five years.

Andrea O'Hara has an older daughter, Leigha, who is 10, and who with her sisters will have no shortage of new cousins. A total of eight additions to the O'Hara family were expected between November and June.

Andrea O'Hara is a contract manager for the San Diego Unified School District. Todd O'Hara works as a project manager for the Lockheed Martin Corp. Both are 36 and live in Rancho Bernardo.

The girls were delivered by Dr. Gary O’Hara, who is no relation to the family, at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital.

In honor of the holiday, Todd O'Hara's family brought a Guinness to the hospital to celebrate.

“We were already so grateful to be having these babies after five years of struggling to conceive,” he said. “And to have it happen on Saint Patrick’s Day – what could be luckier?”

Just to be sure of that luck, he wore a green T-shirt with O'Hara printed on the front for their birth.