School shooting that injured four students now believed unintentional, police say; 12-year-old girl is booked A 12-year-old girl was booked on suspicion of negligent discharge of a firearm Thursday after a shooting at Sal Castro Middle School left four students injured, authorities said. Los Angeles police do not believe that […]
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California Girl’s Escape From ‘Human Depravity’ Led to Rescue of 12 Siblings She had been physically tortured — chained and deprived of sleep. And she had been psychologically tortured, too — apple pies and unopened toys left out in the open that she and her 12 brothers and sisters were […]
California mudslides: Rescuers race against time to find 17 missing people Rescuers are racing to find 17 people who are still missing after mudslides slammed into wealthy areas of California, destroying an estimated 100 homes. More than 500 firefighters are involved in the search – but conditions are perilous, with […]
Mudslides Strike Southern California, Leaving at Least 13 Dead First came the fires. Now come the floods. Heavy rains lashed the hillsides of Santa Barbara County on Tuesday, sending one boy hurtling hundreds of yards in a torrent of mud before he was rescued from under a freeway overpass. His […]
San Diego County sees slowdown in Hepatitis A cases San Diego County is seeing a slowdown in the number of cases of Hepatitis A from an average of 84 per week this summer to only two in the first three weeks of December. The county’s public health officer, Dr. Wilma […]
California, Washington, NY take steps after net neutrality vote The Federal Communications Commission may have voted to roll back net neutrality rules, but some state lawmakers and attorneys general say they’ll battle the feds to make sure online traffic is treated equally. Politicians from California, Washington and New York said […]
Illegal cooking fire caused devastating Skirball Fire in Southern Calif., officials say Illegal cooking fire caused devastating Skirball Fire in Southern Calif., officials say:- The devastating blaze that broke out in the densely-populated Sepulveda Pass area last week was caused by a cooking fire, authorities announced Tuesday. The Los Angeles […]
Escaped psychiatric patient from Hawaii captured in California An “extremely dangerous” psychiatric patient and alleged killer who escaped in Hawaii was captured in northern California today, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said. Randall Saito, who was committed to the Hawaii State Hospital on Oahu in 1981 after being acquitted […]
Magnitude 4.7 earthquake rattles Northern California A magnitude 4.7 earthquake that struck Monterey County late Monday morning was felt in parts of northern California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. CBS San Francisco reports the earthquake struck at 11:31 a.m. about 22 miles east of Salinas and 14 miles northeast […]
Eight arrested in protests as Milo Yiannopoulos speaks at Cal State Fullerton Eight arrested in protests as Milo Yiannopoulos speaks at Cal State Fullerton:- At least eight people were arrested at Cal State Fullerton on Tuesday night during small but tense protests as conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos spoke, blasting what […]
