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Police have arrested a Bell Gardens woman on suspicion of child endangerment in the beating and sexual abuse of her 6-month-old son, who was clinging to life Tuesday after suffering a series of skull fractures, authorities said. Martha Castro, 28, was arrested Sunday night after paramedics responded to a report of an injured child at her boyfriend's home in Ontario. Police describe the boyfriend as a "person of interest" in the investigation but did not release his name.

Los Angeles airport commissioners ruled Wednesday that Los Angeles should continue to operate Ontario's international airport despite a request by Ontario to buy back the facility. "I think they felt the timing was just inappropriate," said Lee Nichols, spokesman for the Los Angeles Department of Airports. "There are a number of significant things coming down the pike."

A fetus was discovered Tuesday in the sewage processing bin of the Inland Empire Utilities Agency regional plant, authorities said. A worker at the plant noticed the fetus and alerted authorities, Ontario Police Det. Diane Galindo said. The plant processes sewage from Ontario, Fontana, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga and other Inland Empire cities. It is possible that the fetus, which was estimated to be in the second or third trimester, was flushed down a toilet, Galindo said.

ONTARIO An Ontario man died after being gored by a bull in a corral at his home, officials said Thursday. Noe Hernandez, 34, was in the corral with the animal Wednesday night when, for an unknown reason, it charged him and gored him in the upper chest, the San Bernardino County coroner's office 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.

The city and environmentalists have settled a nearly 4-year-old lawsuit over the development of 8,200 acres in south Ontario, clearing the way for construction of more than 31,000 houses, duplexes and townhouses on dairy land over the next two decades. The city's population is expected to grow by about 100,000--to 250,000--with the development.

A substitute teacher arrested on suspicion of molesting a 10-year-old girl at an Ontario school told police this week that he had molested 100 to 200 other female elementary school students while teaching in Riverside, San Bernardino and Kern counties during the last three years, authorities said Friday.

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.

Ontario officials have entered into exclusive negotiations with Los Angeles builder J.H. Snyder Co. to lead a $200-million redevelopment of the civic center that would add housing, stores and offices to a 12-block area. The city's redevelopment plan includes 750 lofts, apartments and condominiums; 100,000 square feet of street-level shops and 200,000 square feet of office space and classrooms built in cooperation with the University of La Verne Law School.