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Citing health and safety concerns, the city of Ontario next week will dramatically reduce the size of a homeless encampment known as Tent City by expelling those residents who cannot prove clear ties to the city. Starting Monday, anyone who can't provide documents showing they once lived in Ontario will be given a bus or taxi ride back to where they came from. The homeless will be fitted with color-coded bands around their arms or wrists that will designate their status.

Dozens of Ontario police and code enforcement officers descended upon the homeless encampment known as Tent City early Monday, separating those who could stay from those to be evicted. Large, often confused, crowds formed ragged lines behind police barricades where officers handed out color-coded wristbands. Blue meant they were from Ontario and could remain. Orange indicated they had to provide more proof to avoid ejection, and white meant they had a week to leave.

After months of chaotic growth, the homeless encampment known as Tent City dramatically shrank Monday as Ontario police evicted those who lacked ties to the city. Starting early in the morning, officers moved through dusty lots scattered with flapping tents and piles of old clothes and garbage. In many cases they were too late; the people had already left. "About 90% left on their own," said Det. Jeff Higbee, Ontario police spokesman. "There were no arrests, no altercations, no arguments."

When 34-year-old Ana Maria Garcia went missing last month, the Ontario woman's family immediately suspected her boyfriend was somehow involved, authorities said. There was a trail of blood leading from the couple's bedroom to the living room and, like Garcia, Mario Reyes was nowhere to be found. "We knew right away," said Garcia's brother, Lorenzo Garcia. "Because he never left her alone for a moment. He was very possessive."

Most people don't need an atlas to locate Los Angeles. But they may require a map to pinpoint Palmdale and Ontario. With this in mind, Los Angeles' airport agency plans to link the city's world-famous moniker to airports that it operates in the Antelope Valley and Inland Empire. Officials hope that providing the facilities with a well-known geographic hook will draw travelers from outside the state and help take pressure off aging Los Angeles International Airport.

Three tons of marijuana worth an estimated $20 million on the street was found in a rental truck abandoned on a freeway onramp this week, authorities said Friday. A California Highway Patrol officer discovered the stash when he stopped to check on a truck parked on the Milliken Avenue onramp to the westbound San Bernardino Freeway in Ontario about 9 p.m. Wednesday, said CHP spokesman Sgt. Telfinues Preszler Jr. No one was around, and nothing appeared to be wrong with the vehicle, he said.

It's hard to imagine a metropolis here. Not far from 13 pristine model homes, some with bathrooms the size of studio apartments, cows munch hay near a potholed two-lane road. There's a stench of manure in the air. City planners can see it: a tree-filled city-within-a-city crowded with playgrounds, business parks, lakes and shops, more than 30,000 houses on 8,200 acres of former pastureland.

Police killed a 23-year-old Whittier man Sunday night who they said pointed a gun at an officer chasing him. Police responded to a report of a possible drug transaction about 11 p.m. at the corner of 4th Street and Mountain Avenue, and Christopher Michael Garcia fit the description of a suspect, said Ontario Police Det. Robert Freire. Garcia tried to flee, then reached for a handgun in his waistband, officials said. One officer fired, striking Garcia once, Freire said.

Mary Jane Olhasso was a warehouse warrior. As Ontario's economic development director, Olhasso helped lead the city's efforts to wrest warehouse and distribution projects away from other communities, even appearing in print ads vowing, "We can get you through the process faster" than rival towns. The stakes were high: For two decades, the cargo container propelled an economic boom in Ontario and much of the Inland Empire.

A man suspected of raping and robbing a woman in her Ontario hotel room after posing as a security guard was arrested Thursday night, authorities said Friday. Francisco Santiago Ramos, 31, was arrested at his home in Pomona and charged with rape, robbery and penetration with a foreign object, Ontario Police Sgt. David McBride said. Ramos saw the woman, whom he apparently did not know, in the hotel parking lot on Christmas Eve, police said.