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A medical condition may have caused a 51-year-old Highland man to swerve into oncoming traffic early this morning and hit a Redlands couple head-on, killing himself and injuring the other two, police said.

The unnamed man who died was driving a Chrysler 300, heading north on Orange Street about 7 a.m. when he began to swerve in and out of oncoming traffic near Pioneer Avenue, said Redlands police spokesman Carl Baker.

A Honda Passport traveling east on Pioneer had just started to make a right turn onto Orange when the Chrysler struck it. The Chrysler appeared to be going about 50 mph and the Passport about 10 mph., police said.

The unnamed Highland man was taken to a hospital, where he later died. The driver and passenger of the Passport, a 32-year-old Redlands man and his 30-year-old wife, were hospitalized with minor injuries.

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Investigators got their big break this week, arresting 38-year-old Rialto resident John Fredrick Wailer in connection with the burglaries. He has been tied to a dozen burglaries in Highland and Yucaipa. Investigators continue looking into whether Wailer may be tied to other window-smash burglaries in Redlands, San Bernardino and Colton, said Lt. Mike Lenihan of the  Highland sheriff's station.

"I believe Colton is looking at one to three (burglairies)," Lenihan said. He said his team of investigators are still waiting to hear back from the San Bernardino and Redlands police departments regarding several similar burglaries that occurred in their jurisdictions during the same time period.

Between Nov. 17 and Jan. 7, 10 window-smash burglaries occurred in Highland and two in Yucaipa, including the Jade Inn restaurant, It's a Grind coffee shop, Joyce's Cleaners, Surreal Salon, Great Clips for Hair, Albarro's Mexican restaurant, In Style hair salon and Alta Vista cleaners. The In Style salon and Alta Vista cleaners are in Yucaipa and the other businesses are in Highland.

The brazen burglar hit some businesses twice, hurling a large rock or similar object through the window, darting in and taking whatever money was in the cash register. More than $1,400 in cash was taken during the Highland burglaries, authorities said.

The pattern fits the method used in the burglaries in the other cities, Lenihan said.

Video surveillance footage and other evidence gathered during the investigation led to Wailer's arrest.

Wailer has been charged with 10 felony counts of second degree commercial burglary. He pleaded not guilty to the charges during his arraignment Wednesday in San Bernardino Superior Court. He returns to court on Jan. 23 for a pretrial hearing.

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The colorful mass will observe 25 different ethnicities and cultures within the Diocese's 97 parishes and about one million parishioners in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, Diocese spokesman Andres Rivera said.

Among the ethnicities and cultures to be represented during the mass will be the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians in Hemet and Barstow, the Nigerian Igbo and the Vietnamese, Korean, Latino and Irish communities, Rivera said.

 Bishop Gerald R. Barnes and Auxiliary Bishop Rutilio del Riego will be in attendance.

For more than 25 years, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has set aside a week in January for Catholics to reflect on the dignity of migrants and their importance to the church.

"Today, it is more important than ever that our church stand in solidarity with the migrant," Auxiliary Bishop Rutilio del Riego said in a news release. "This mas is our way of celebrating the many positive contributions of the migrant to our society."

A potluck Agape reception will follow the mass in the parish hall.

The church is located at 3680 Arlington Ave., in Riverside.

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