A mother pled not guilty to manslaughter Wednesday after a 7-year-old girl died from falling out of a car and landing on the 5 Freeway near the Newhall Pass last weekend. Veronda Gladney, 28, from Lancaster, the young girl’s mother, was charged with two felonies and one misdemeanor, and Michael Branch, 39, from Hawthorne, was charged with a single misdemeanor, ...

A Hawthorne man was arrested after a young child was struck and killed in a 5 Freeway fatal crash in Santa Clarita Saturday morning. The child, a female between the ages of 4 and 6 whose name has been withheld by authorities, was found by California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers at around 3:30 a.m. Saturday after being fatally hit by ...